Saturn & Jupiter with bad 'seeing'

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Captured 24th November 2023 with a 97% waxing moon located close to Jupiter. Saturn was heading towards the murky skies above Manchester. The planet disks were very unstable and with a 2X Barlow looked like they were being beaten with a hammer. The poor atmospheric conditions I later tracked down to winds coming down the east of the UK from the North and also winds from the west. Of course I am located in the middle of this - 2 weather fronts meeting above me on the only clear night for weeks.

I posted these results in the belief that there are things to be learnt from poor results.

Equipment: Celestron AVX mount, Celestron C8 SCT scope, JMI Motorised focuser, UV/IR cut filter, ZWO ASI120MC camera and Skyris 618m CCD camera.
Software: SharpCap 4, Autostakkert!3, Registax6, SER Player

Saturn @ 70fps with the ASI120MC

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Jupiter @ 170fps with the ASI120MC

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Jupiter @ 120fps with the Skyris 618m

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Autostakkert processing for Jupiter with the Skyris 618m. Note that the 2 moons only became visible after stacking with AS!3 and sharpening + brightening in Registax. The AS!3 Quality Graph (green line) shows that 75% of the frames were at 50% or better quality (relative to the first frame) indicating that the mono camera did handle the turbulent atmospheric conditions better than the colour camera.

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This is the capture in progress of Jupiter using the ASI120MC @ 170fps. To achieve 170fps, the capture area was reduced to 320x240 and the gain increased to 90%. This allowed the exposure to be reduced to 1.43ms and achieve a decent log histogram for planetary capture.

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I have a ZWO ADC on its way which should be interesting.

Dave