Since my fast scope suffers from significant chromatic aberration I tried shooting with a yellow filter to cut out the extremes. I put the camera in mono mode. Unfortunately, the filter plus the bayer matrix on the camera slowed things down quite a bit. I did get sharper stars and more contrast, but it took…

It was too windy to bring out the big scope, so I put my tiny fast apo on the mount and just picked some interesting targets. Quality is mixed, the scope is awful at focusing blue, and I applied a wonky flat at some point, but they’re still fun results to look at.

Last night I tried out the used 114/900mm reflector I fixed up a while ago. It’s got some astigmatism still, but I’m pretty happy with this result. Next time I may try using calibration frames.

It was a windy night and clouds were due to come in so I just spent some time on a few targets with my smallest scope.

I’m getting better at imaging Jupiter and processing the data. In this image there’s even a bit of detail visible on Ganymede! Using a NASA map confirms that there’s a matching large albedo feature in the same location.

Lots of new targets today, plus revisited a few. Got a much better image of the Crab nebula than my old ones.