Capturing Jupiter and Saturn from my backyard: start to finish
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- Here is a video showing the process of capturing images of Jupiter and Saturn from start to finish. I use my Celestron c9.25 telescope and zwo asi 462mc planetary camera on an AVX mount to capture these images. I had really great seeing for capturing these images, and it serves as a good example of what you can do with relatively inexpensive planetary gear. The water bottle counterweights are also out in full force. I show how the capturing process works, as well as the stacking process with autostakkert and winjupos, along with some wavelets in registax/pixinsight. I hope Y'all enjoy!
If you are watching this video and want to know what is a good telescope to get for shooting the planets starting out, here is what I recommend to you:
Celestron 8SE: bit.ly/3M88Kjv
ZWO ADC: bit.ly/3DpmrsZ
TPO Barlow: bit.ly/3CggBY4
Visual back: bit.ly/3L648Lb
ASI 462MC: bit.ly/3xi5U6A
This setup will allow you to take some really great planetary and lunar images for about $1,800. 
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These mosquitos only think with their proboscis. Literally sickening
I'm blown away by the quality of the final images. Just, wow.
You kill me. Dealing with water weight...LOL.
Great video. My jaw dropped when I saw my favorite plant: Saturn. One minor correction is that when you double the focal length with the tele-converter/Barlow, you are left with 1/4 of the light, so you are losing way more than half. But like you said, "the planets are bright" and as your results show, you don't need the extra light. Very well done. I'm blown away. Thanks for the video!
This is super super super super super super super duper (I cannot stress enough) immaculate!
amazing seeing and great work!
Thank you for your taking the time to explain everything you have a new subscriber.
Hi Bray, great video from my beginners point of view. Good clear skies are a must but here in the UK its been cloudy nearly every night since last March. I envy your location, nice work..
Very good results! Texas skies provide good results.
Loved the video
Hey thanks for sharing this and especially for the collimation part, I have a C9.25 (not the edgeHD one) and I'm going to try jupiter and mars soon. Hopefully the skies will clear soon. Wow!! The seeing is excellent there!
Amazing.
Thank you!
Hi Bray great video many thanks, hope you can make a video of your editing process seems amazing too
Great video Bray. What kind of polar alignment do you perform during set up?
Cool Saturn images too. Do you think you can detect the spokes in the rings?
Interestig video thanks. Your final image of Jupiter looks great. The Saturn images shows a lot of rings, but, in my humble oppinion, looks a bit oversharpened.
This is the first time I'm watching your you tube video. Though I'm not from science background space science always fascinated me. Waiting for more videos from you. Regards from India. 💐
Thanks for watching!
great shots... can you share your Pix deconvolution icons or settings?
That’s fact
I was in florida observing saturn the view made me buy the same scope I tried in Florida but with the same scope I never got the same view in Wisconsin ever .
It’s all about dark sky’s, I live in north west Canada, almost zero light pollution
oh man I wish very good quality telescope
Using water for counterweights, genius!
imho weavelet sharpening in registax is superior to deconvolution. it produces WAY less artifacts, has better control over noise and can peel out more detail!
do you also do polar align with that camera? I havethat same EdgeHD with the 585mc and it's very challenging doing PA cause it doesn't find many stars...
I love looking at these planets, our solar system is so amazing.
I have a question for you, i just saw another capture of saturn and the angle is different, how is this possible and wouldnt we all get the same view from anywhere on our small planet?
Good video and great images, but I feel like you are hiding all the good stuff. I know everyone's setups are different, but it would have been nice to see your capture settings for Saturn for those shooting with similar rigs. And then when you went to PI instead of Registax like everyone else after AS3, I was excited to learn exactly how to use PI instead of Regi, but the details were sparse then the video sped up and you went into Regi and did something then AS3 popped up again. not sure what you did there, and all of a sudden we were in WinJupos. Your process between AS3 and WinJupos is very intriguing, and your capture settings for Saturn pique one's curiosity; care to help a brother out? I would love to learn those aspects from you. Thanks - "Dustin Gazz"
Very nice mate, you did an extremely good job for someone stepping out of their comfort zone. I'd hate to think what a video of me doing DSO work would look like Hahaha.👍
Hahaha thanks man. Every time I edit planetary I have no idea if I’m doing it right but it comes out okay sometimes
@@astrofalls If you ever have anything you think i may be able to help with be sure to send a DM on twitter. I'd be happy to have a look and offer my thoughts. All the best
Awesome. Ha!
Dude I’m so jealous. From Boston, Jupiter looks like it’s under water.
Same it’s been that way for most of my life from Phoenix. Always soupy in the heat
It's because space is an illusion and there are waters above the Firmament. All of the wandering stars (planets) are resonating in water. Your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. Your mind is because of our Heliocentrism & big bang programming/indoctrination.
@@astrofalls No. You're viewing the luminaries in water dude. It'll click one day....space is a lie.
Read Genesis in the Holy Bible fellas!
Thanks for capturing me
Wow amazing job. If you don’t mind me asking what computer are u using
Honestly dont know the model. Its some acer gaming laptop I got because it has lots of usb3 ports
Good to include a clip of the live feed while recording.
Even on youtube it is possible to see details in the rings, which are not in the final image.
In earlier versions of the software, it was possible to manually select a part of a planet to refer the quality of the frames to keep.
For example I did this with Io on Jupiter.
A perfect disc with shading in a 16cm dall kirkham.
What recent software is doing is averaging details, it doesn't know what a NASA reference looks like.
Damian Peach looks at all his sub frames I suggest. He has gone to a lot of trouble to get a few minutes of video.
If you did that with your data I bet there is a sharper final image to be obtained.
Mask frames for each sharpest area of detail and manually stack in photoshop?
As two other commenters asked, how did you polar align? Or did you not? Thanks.
Great video Bray. It just earned you a new sub ! ;-) You have an open invitation in Moab Utah where I live to do some shooting under Bortal 1- 2 sky's and no mosquitos either ! LOL... Anyhow I'm 62 and retired and after a 10 year space of time I'm getting back into this hobby again. (There goes the wallet😅) I have to say the changes in tech since I was doing this back in 2014 are flat out amazing.. I guess you could say I got bit by the bug again, just not a mosquito, haha. All the best from Moab ! Cheers...
Hello, you brought Saturn into view manually without polar and start-aligning your scope?
WHAT IN TARNATION IS THAT COUNTERWEIGHT??? that is so cool lmao
So they moved Texas to the Alantic ocean 😂 Good progress keep working at it!
I see that you are having those double edges and shadows in the stacked Saturn image, the problem is AutoAlign in FireCapture, next time switch it off and you will get a much better stacked image like day/night difference.
Please help me how to capture the best way and how do I buy the software
I bet using the H2O bottles as a counterweight dampens the mount some.
Would you mind putting your raw data up on a google drive for others to try processing? a 3 minute capture of Saturn and Jupiter. I live in Toronto, and I could never in my life get seeing like that. At my latitude I'm looking through 2.0 atmospheres at all times when capturing planets, its hell on the seeing.
though your end results are great, I always prefer an animation over a derotated stack!.. Animations make it even more tangible, and derotating always gives strange artefacts.
Its almost like the plants illuminate. They are all full
waterbottle technique
"I didn't want to spend $70 on a counter weight." While standing behind a setup over 2K
are u in texas ?
You have Kerbal Space Program? Wow
Bray sure loves to say…Texas…Mute Time!
I thought Texas would be full of some kind of gunpowder fog
I need to come to Texas for star party and get the same view
Did they retire the 462MC? There is only the 462MM left... ah I see the 662MC is its successor.
JUPITER AND SATURN
The edge of the Jupiter photo is too bright, because of this Jupiter looks somewhat flat.
You can also see parallel ring artifacts near the edge.
The last time I processed a picture of jupiter I think I used a "deringing" option to reduce the ring artifacts near the edge.
yeah, but for me that deringing option is always too strong, unfortunately. I just hold back on the sharpening.
Do you want to sell that Celestron 9 and a quarter
Honestly maybe, I’ve partially hacksawed the focuser knob under the rubber if that is okay with you. Been considering getting a c11
Those mosquitoes were awfully into u and ur equipment 😂
so, let me get this straight: you had $5000 for that beautiful beast (it's portable only if you say so.....), but you didn't have $70 for the counterweights? :) lol.. nice images, though. clear skies! :)
As somebody who isnt in this community, I just want to be honest here and say that the processed photos to me look way worse than the blurry images taken directly from the telescope. Again I dont do astrophotography or even have a telescope so I guess anyone could just tell me to shut up bc I dont know anything but to me having an untouched blurry image of saturn that visible is far more impressive than editing it and making it look like something you would post on Instagram. Im not trying to hate or anything here Im just explaining what I see as an outsider. I understand that it makes the atmospheres of the planets more visible but it also makes the images look ai generated or over sharpened and blown out. If anyone can tell me why this is actually done other than to show more detail I would appreciate the insight.
Edit: After finishing the video I do gotta say though that the images of the moon are outstanding and inspiring.
462 Mc is cheap camera I’m surprised for the quality you made of it
I wonder if my 585 Mc would do anything similar quality by your equipment and location
So is the seeing good in Texas?🤣
Dust off your telescope my friend!
Nice pictures - just moved from Houston so I feel you on the mosquitos!
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this clown works for the controllers he will never focus in properly so u can see what they really look like !!! no telescope will turn wandering stars into cartoon ball planets
Lol
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