Planetary Imaging

[novel ginkgo]

being a pedophile is gonna haunt you for the rest of your life

[copper gazelle]

Im telling you right now, you are going way too far. This is the definition of bullying

[novel ginkgo]

own up

[somber stratus]

Yeah can we stay on topic. The court case is irrelevant to Astro

[winter moat]

He has no brain

[high hull]

should we talk about astro we can get to the other parts another day

[uncut glade]

One more for the road

[high hull]

i dont think that convo is going anywhere tbh

[copper gazelle]

You realize that's defamation right. You can't openly say this

[hasty hull]

Is this you

[novel ginkgo]

you gonna threaten to sue me too lol?

[copper gazelle]

Listen, by how you are all bullying this type of response is literally OK. Dno't blame me for fighting back against idiots

[wild rose]

holy shit, to the d peach 💀

[rich seal]

The big peach

[echo lion]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM4z4WT6izM

[wild rose]

can i get in on this legal action?

[uncut glade]

Before or after another gofundme

[novel ginkgo]

i don’t even live in the same country as you

[copper gazelle]

Keep posting fake content

[terse night]

Hilarious

[uncut glade]

Like your images?

[copper gazelle]

You guys realize this is actual bullying

[wild rose]

https://tenor.com/view/skill-issue-the-finals-skill-issue-gif-9109889277599560089

[copper gazelle]

Not even joking im going to have you banned

[flint siren]

Just like we care

[copper gazelle]

Not even right

Quit it

[wild rose]

is your daddy the owner of discord or what

[candid flare]

Oh no! The consequences of my own actions!!

[uncut glade]

Grown ass man being bullied by an aussie teen, a borderline unemployed 21 year old student, and like 5 furries

[high hull]

meow :3

[uncut glade]

Okay try

[wild rose]

hey wtf

[copper gazelle]

And just like that you guys don't care about planets. The shift in bullying is WILD

Grow up

[hasty hull]

Bigger fish to fry

[lean hearth]

Do you do deep space ?

[copper gazelle]

I told you to grow TF up

[uncut glade]

Also why are you racist I feel like we didn't address this properly in the moment

[copper gazelle]

This isn't a debate

Grow up

[wild rose]

pedophilia is just a little bit distracting

[uncut glade]

6 furries* mb

[copper gazelle]

Fair warning all of your posts are being reported

You are clearly in the wrong

you were asked to stop

[lean hearth]

Do you do only planetary or dso as well

[terse night]

I do care about planets, did someone here image Nibiru? I'm trying to prove my conspiracy, thanks

[copper gazelle]

I want to get into DSO more I think it would be fun.

[weary dagger]

Nah I think ChatGPT is still too obvious on DSO. Even for him.

[copper gazelle]

Stop promoting fake screenshots dude.,

[uncut glade]

Why are you racist on top of all this I feel like you gotta pick a skill tree and spec into it

[copper gazelle]

How am I racist

[ebon sage]

Brother

[somber stratus]

Wowzers.

[lean hearth]

Didnt you say the n word like 30 mins ago

[uncut glade]

YEP!

I linked the message too!

[weary dagger]

Court stenographer please read back the remark- oh wait. Sorry that probably struck a little too close to home for you.

[lean hearth]

I dont think thats a good look

[wild rose]

https://tenor.com/view/sussy-baka-otter-cute-gif-21790486

[copper gazelle]

You guys need to stop posting fake screenshots past haters and trolls made up. This is not how you should be doing this. Its clearly bullying. do you not understand the trauma of that?

[ebon sage]

[candid flare]

You are a pale dude.

[echo lion]

yes racial slurs are generally racist

[winter moat]

https://tenor.com/view/gunshot-gun-bullet-gun-fire-slow-motion-gif-1350622951632937821

[wild rose]

https://tenor.com/view/ha-gif-6088229384777056318

[copper gazelle]

THAT is a slur

Grow a pair

[ebon sage]

Ain't no way

[echo lion]

are you black?

[wild rose]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-gangster-spongebob-spon-bob-gangsta-gif-20217418

[copper gazelle]

You softies are crazy

[uncut glade]

Here is his approximate skin tone

[terse night]

Peculiar

[uncut glade]

actual screenshot

[teal sandal]

Hey that’s my gif

[copper gazelle]

Im Native American I can have the N pass.

[proven swan]

he says after crying about being bullied for the past 3 hours

[echo lion]

but what if hes transracial

[copper gazelle]

My people in my tribe can have the N pass. I am Native American Chumash.

[candid flare]

You blocked me on instagram

[winter moat]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-s-patrick-patrick-star-bottle-dumb-gif-1741625486363070335

[copper gazelle]

You blocked me first unless you're some other rando

[uncut glade]

You blocked me first

[copper gazelle]

Way too white.

[candid flare]

Youre missing out on hi res non ai generated Carina NGC3722 images

[candid flare]

You blocked me first

[uncut glade]

You uhhhh, you looking at the court documents

[terse night]

"hi res" 🥀

[copper gazelle]

Alright its quieted down i nbeed to scroll up and see what I missed on topic.

[candid flare]

I try

[flint siren]

Do you realize you're a genuine low cow ? @copper gazelle

[uncut glade]

chromedome

That boy got an f/2 mirror up there

Thing's got enhanced IR reflectivity

[copper gazelle]

I am a legend thats all I care about it.

[hasty hull]

Do you have any live view or stack of this absolute banger of an image

[flint siren]

For sure

[candid flare]

Legend of being eith kids

[uncut glade]

Will anyone grieve you?

[wild rose]

https://imgur.com/xVafiMl

[copper gazelle]

quit the pedo talk its getting old.

[winter moat]

https://tenor.com/view/lion-sigma-alpha-how-bro-felt-after-saying-that-sigma-lion-gif-13957304746104521882

[uncut glade]

Unlike the people you date

[candid flare]

Ok pedo

[rich seal]

What do you know about getting old

[flint siren]

Legendary low cow

[copper gazelle]

The jokes aren't even funny they are just sad

[wild rose]

beat me to it

[copper gazelle]

You think Pedophila is a joke is just crazy to see..

[uncut glade]

I'm tweaking off that CVS adderall and 600mg of cafeine I got my tongue out typing like the symbiote taking over my body

[copper gazelle]

do you take that serious?

Show me a photo of a planet or something.

[winter moat]

Pedofelie is your life

[fathom wing]

Mods, maybe just ban this pedo racist guy

[somber stratus]

I have already said we should stay on topic. I don’t think the personal life should be brought up.

However, I must say having seen various (real) screenshots from you Brian, threatening and outright insulting other imagers in DM for simply questioning your processing makes this whole “I’m being bullied” argument outrageously ironic.

Those are my 2 cents and can I say once again to everyone we should get back on topic.

[candid flare]

This is a real jupiter

[high hull]

martin whats ur review

[high hull]

i agree

[uncut glade]

fair

[hasty hull]

^

[uncut glade]

not enough ai

[copper gazelle]

I am aware that I lost my temper and I apolgized.

[uncut glade]

WHy don't you steal one of Tom's images

[terse night]

Literally chat gpt image bro, quit

[rich seal]

U da real Jupiter Brian 😋

[candid flare]

Unblock everyone you've blocked and apologise to them for your behaviour.

[wild rose]

giant n gassy?

[flint siren]

Mods clean this up already 🥀

[rich seal]

bro giving ideas

[high hull]

mods hunt us for sport

[copper gazelle]

I didn't block anyone other than one person who asked for it on insta. Are you him?

[ebon rampart]

What did I just read

[copper gazelle]

I dont block people.

[candid flare]

You blocked me.

[lean hearth]

Accept me

[copper gazelle]

Are you that one guy who asked for it? Cause thats the only one I remember

[candid flare]

No

[copper gazelle]

Can you tell me your username

[uncut glade]

@nova geyser Hey check out this message

[flint siren]

Do it

[high hull]

[wild rose]

saw his status pop up like a summoning

[copper gazelle]

Just so Ben knows, thats not a bad message at all. I am being accused of being racist when I am not

[nova geyser]

Shows over folks

[hasty hull]

https://tenor.com/view/speed-ishowspeed-speed-stream-ishowspeed-stream-speed-nod-gif-1082323842437565509

[winter moat]

Hmmmm

[copper gazelle]

Can we talk planets or not.

[echo lion]

"not racist" hmmmm

[high hull]

farewell mr martin

[candid flare]

Last

[wild rose]

https://tenor.com/view/ryabn-gosling-gif-12898397456889528384

[somber stratus]

Thank you master.

[astral wigeon]

i'm very surprised it took this long

[candid flare]

HES GONE WHOOOOOO

[high hull]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1167199155324715008/1322796742692831332/5starJuggler.gif

[ebon rampart]

They’re gone stop littering the channel for planetary astronomy now 😭

[terse night]

It's cause we are in the depths of hell where moderation is rare

[open horizon]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/732339394014347385/891770004633169960/image0.gif

[astral wigeon]

the depths of the depths that are astrobiscuit

[main flume]

I think a lot of niche community drama led to this moment and the mods let it play out

[thick heron]

Dropping this in while I can.

[teal sandal]

I guess the globgalab has some creepy secrets.

[terse night]

Well, change of topic. @flint siren how do you collimate your C8? (I believe that's what you are using)

[candid flare]

Ok now I can acc setup imaging for tonight

[flint siren]

Using stars, with the shape of the airy disk.

[somber stratus]

It was useful from a standpoint of finding out his excuses on the stolen imagery, so that’s nice.

[high hull]

ok r/ap goblins go home

[flint siren]

I can explain more if needed, once i'm home.

[thick heron]

When are you formally looping in Salvatore?

[candid flare]

Also shoutout to @nova geyser for not instantly shutting this thing down immediately when he found this and let it go on

[somber stratus]

Well, Damian and I were going to email today and ask to stay annoymous but looks like that last part is out the window

[uncut glade]

This was great. 8 months have been building to this. My apologies if I went overboard, now that he's gone.
On topic again, Jupiter was pretty tonight. Always interesting how the moon's positions change the diffraction pattern when looking at it naked eye. Kinda an odd effect

[thick heron]

I'm sure he'll love to hear about all this.

[uncut glade]

I've got a few screen recordings if at all useful lol. Fascinating character. The human experience is so wide.

[terse night]

That would be nice. I do use the star shapes but I've seen a lot of different methods as well

[uncut glade]

It did feel a little like summoning mahoraga I'm ngl it felt cool https://tenor.com/view/megumi-fushiguro-ten-shadows-cursed-tecnhique-innate-summon-gif-7314075061044604464

[candid flare]

Nice sun

[uncut glade]

orb

[rain mauve]

It was yesterday data, but I only have time to process it today XD, this was taken with 3 inch telescope and dslr, I can't do mosaic lol, somehow when I stitch it to the ICE, dunno what image did the software produce XD, this is my second attempt of capturing the sun, any feedback appreciated!

[fierce rune]

Sorry still not against our TOS

[lyric bough]

i missed so much lore

[signal holly]

black hole sun

black hole mun

[untold spear]

Imaging Jupiter rn

[quick cairn]

Well that was wild

[untold spear]

What is this diddy blud doing on biscuit server

[fathom wing]

is blud epstein?

[elder venture]

https://tenor.com/view/what-happened-chaos-gif-14104955

What the FLIP happened

[lean island]

Shit can I get a TL;DR

[candid flare]

I don't think we even have one for this

[teal sandal]

im just remembering all of this over and over again and this situation is so stupid

[teal sandal]

considering he was a very popular minecraft youtuber before... But okay, its in the past now. Lets talk real planets now

[grave mountain]

INSANE

[somber stratus]

Don't think I'll ever know a more remarkable personality in my lifetime.

[graceful creek]

||ngl i bypassed this logic by being attracted to older ppl (happened gradually since 17 ish) but not flirting with adults

so i immediately started liking 20~30s ppl when i turned adult||

spoilered cos astromerwan didn't wanted to know this

[grave mountain]

i didnt want to know that

[high hull]

i did

[graceful creek]

venus

[winter moat]

Nice

[graceful creek]

edited so u can see it

[untold spear]

Awww man I wish I could join ragebaiting him

[quick cairn]

Well, I’m not getting that 30 mins of reading back

[untold spear]

Ngl this might not happen if he purely do imaging on its own and not stealing other people's images

[graceful creek]

what the frick happened

[untold spear]

A conversation that'll become history of planetary imaging

[novel ginkgo]

big news for the drama farming channels documenting this lolcow

[graceful creek]

btw what even is a lolcow

[untold spear]

Literally me

[novel ginkgo]

bad people whose lives are made worse by internet hawks to generate views and 'lols'

[graceful creek]

is elon musk a lolcow

[novel ginkgo]

depends who you ask

[graceful creek]

i think we should make elon's lives worse

[novel ginkgo]

agreed, i think an important part of the definition is that they become zoo animals, trapped in a transparent enclosure for onlookers amusement

[graceful creek]

i see

since elon still has power, its not exactly a zoo right?

also whos christan?

[novel ginkgo]

like i don't think there's been a day of chris chan's life that hasn't been archived and documented

[novel ginkgo]

we are the zoo animals for billionaires to marvel at

chris chan is an internet enigma for all the wrong reasons, which i don't even know a fraction of (and i never want to lol), because the lore for this one random person goes so deep for whatever reason

slowwwwwwwwwmooooooooooodddeeeeeeeeeeee

[graceful creek]

also ima post more planet pics (earth)

btw @novel ginkgo i think everyone has deep lore, including you

its just not documented so nobody knows, not even you

[quick cairn]

😭

[graceful creek]

lets be real

earth is planet

i imaged earth on earth and its lame
nasa imaged mars on mars and its pog

unfair imo

[quick cairn]

🤣

[graceful creek]

fr

[quick cairn]

Has begun

[teal sandal]

how reliable are flextube dobs when it comes to collimation?

[livid sierra]

I would say just about as reliable as you'd expect any other Newt to be.

[olive saddle]

This event was an unpredictably hilarious and horrifying rollercoaster to read in the morning, thank you everyone.

Here's my stitched image I took of the moon and Venus from 2024(?) I think, to stay on topic. I am reminded of how bad my processing skills were lol

[coarse aspen]

What the hell happened here

[rain mauve]

This looks cool!!!

[quick cairn]

Moon and Venus BABAHAHA

[quick cairn]

It’s the user not the scope, with scopes a few thousand or more

[teal sandal]

was just thinking of the reliability of the extension mechanism

[olive saddle]

Dude, EVERYTHING happened. This is wild

[low oar]

I did that once

[somber stratus]

As far as composites go, that's pretty cold. Minus the glare and it'll be even better.

[graceful creek]

dont talk to me or my son ever again type image

[low oar]

Thanks, I did this about a year ago now

[olive saddle]

Agreed with Tom, though personally if it were me I'd leave some space between the sides of the visible portion of the moon and the edges of the image, so there aren't any eye-drawing tangents that distract from the main focus of the image. Gives the image a more floaty and natural vibe(?)

[fathom wing]

I think it's a very long story

[low oar]

Definitely this is an old image too, thanks though

[quick cairn]

little attempt on what tom did but didnt work because of seeing differences so same processing does this, also 10" apeture might not be enough for hour and 10 mins

[somber stratus]

You really need IR to see GRS rotation. OSC works for spotting the blue festoons moving in the EZ

[peak bobcat]

Just to be clear @somber stratus you have contacted Salvatore about BM and he is not going to take any action??

[grave mountain]

yup

[peak bobcat]

Are you opposed to the sharing of that blink comparison a bit wider? On other platforms? (Without your name attached or Damian’s)

[somber stratus]

Not particularly, mainly due to the personal threats I’ve received. Others have access to it.

[quick cairn]

Is your first name Jim?

[peak bobcat]

No, Craig… clue is in the handle!

[shy jolt]

guys why there are like 600 more messages when i was not there for like 12 hours

[winter moat]

A lot Happend

[peak bobcat]

It’s worth going back and catching up

[low oar]

I was here and missed it lol

[quick cairn]

My bad, a member of my astronomy club takes Jupiter photos like yours and it named Jim Craig so was asking

[teal sandal]

Why did I even leave this comment?

[thick heron]

Strong processing verified. 🦾

[teal sandal]

I love how you put a robot hand emoji instead of a human one

[teal sandal]

Read from the second picture

He didn’t know what derotation was a few days ago

[low oar]

I was just about to showcase this part lol

I’m gonna try and edit one of my images following this workflow and see what I get 🤷‍♂️

[quick cairn]

Again, just give us raw data that’s all it would take

[low oar]

I don’t want to get involved lol I just want to try the processing style lol

[woven kite]

unless if theres built in ai in the sharpening tool i wont buy it

[quick cairn]

He used smart sharpen, my screen shot

[low oar]

I mean “smart sharpen” isn’t really ai

[hasty hull]

What even is it

[low oar]

It’s just a sharpening tool in photoshop

Nothing really smart about it, and you can’t like add detail by using it, only bad texture, nothing you can’t get from registax

[silent mesa]

Is anyone here from england

[low oar]

Ok, I have absolutely no bread in any basket or opinions on certain individuals on how they process their images, to each is their own, and I plan to just image the planets how I enjoy imaging them 🫡

In this video you see my best image of Jupiter I have ever taken at the start, something im proud of, now I emailed the raw stacks to Mr. Brian because the way he processed his imaged caught my eye as you would assume, and I have him 24 raw stacks of my data that I used to create that image of Jupiter as my own, he processed it in his own way that is very interesting i have to say 🧐

The data seems to appear like mine and have noise like a normal astro image of a planet should, but with detail that he was able to extract that I didn't know was there, it may be there, or it may not be there, I am not to say 🤷‍♂️

In Mr. Brian's image, there do seem to be some difference like the scale of the image, and the angle (warp maybe?) of the planet. Compared to my stacks, which in my edit stay the same, as well as some small details that were added, not because they were very faint, but I didn't seem to notice anything in said locations at all for my image 🤷‍♂️

Again, very interesting that he was able to pull supposed detail from my stacks. If his methods are legit, I find it quite interesting and possibly something to look into as a community, but for now, I will just keep imagining my own way and let others do their thing 👌

No hate to anyone, this individual seems to love the hobby and knows more than I do, but for now, I hope you enjoy the quick comparison 👍

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/190XHic8O2Hd6KTh9yLmqmM5BZydt-c95?usp=sharing

here is the data in question from Feb 16th^

[thick heron]

Those GRS swirls appearing out of nowhere tell me everything I need to know about the process, along with numerous other features popping in or out of existence all around the planet between the two versions.

While I don't consider the processing great, it's really not the biggest fish to fry as of recently.

[low oar]

What do you mean? Have I missed something?

[novel ginkgo]

there’s about 3000 messages for you to catch up on

[rain mauve]

The smart sharpen kinda ruin your image tbh...

[thick heron]

One of his recent images was impossible for him to capture. The cloud features match perfectly with what European & African imagers captured one rotation earlier.

[low oar]

Yikes

[thick heron]

#1019937457095065731 message

[novel ginkgo]

tldr: this person has harassed, threatened lawsuits, doxxed, stole data, made racist remarks, and been really weird to female members of the community

plus a couple days ago we found out this person is also a known pedophile who goes by the name “futuristichub”, he has a history of this sort of stuff

[low oar]

Oooo yikes bro

Well it seems all that escalated quickly

[thick heron]

Tom and Damian Peach are much more vague about it publicly on social media than here on Discord. There's good reasons for it.

[low oar]

yea ive seen sprinkles of their comments on facebook and such

[high hull]

that storm completely changes shape in the brian edit

[low oar]

I feel a lot of things completely changed shape

[quick cairn]

Yep

[candid flare]

He didn't know Jupiter's storm move btw

[unique furnace]

For planetary what would be better

w/ 2x Barlow, 533mc pro.

6” skywatcher heritage 150p (dob w/horrible focuser) or a GSO RC6….

[marsh elbow]

533mc pro is not for planetary

Get the uranus c or the mars c ii if your tighter on the budget. Also RCs are not for planetary, there for dso and just get a 8 inch dob at this point.

[somber stratus]

Feb 16th is completely and utterly irrelevant. March 19th is the offending image that has allegedly (most definitely) been stolen.

I would be very interested to see a similar comparison for then. I personally have compared Mr. Martin’s image from March 19th to other US observers and the clouds move significantly.

[somber stratus]

Him showing he can apply some processing is completely irrelevant and doesn’t tackle the stolen data on one of his specific images. Doesn’t matter how real or fake the other ones are.

[unique furnace]

No

I want to use what I can before buying more stuff.

I have an sv305 pro planetary cam as well

[quick cairn]

For sure, I was just sharing things he has said

[peak bobcat]

His awards on Astrobin have all been removed

[candid flare]

https://app.astrobin.com/forum/topic/226846/astrobin/astrobins-stance-on-ai-and-image-authenticity-in-astrophotography

[somber stratus]

Eh, I would’ve handled it differently, but it’s a step in the right direction. Especially the comments on improving the award selection process in planetary imaging.

[peak bobcat]

Exactly, it’s a step in the right direction and a small win at least. Sal understands that if Astrobin becomes awash with fake crap it becomes worthless

[peak bobcat]

That part about award selection is key. In order to award expert planetary images you need expert planetary judges, which up to now I believe they didn’t have

[somber stratus]

Nope. And it's not the first time of asking I can tell you that. Ethan and I have been advocating it for years, well before this whole episode.

[vague nexus]

no, I don't believe we do have any. And any chance we had at having them might be gone now....

but you are very much on track and I've tried advocating for planetary folks on staff. I don't blame our team for this, they wouldn't know. That's why I actually think Sal's new feature might be fairly helpful in the short term.

[rain mauve]

We have the same cam planetary cam xD

[unique furnace]

It’s a piece of shit

[rain mauve]

Nope I'm happy with it

[unique furnace]

I used it as a guide cam and it didnt work properly. Would constantly disconnect. Luckily itll be fine for planetary

[quick cairn]

@sharp ridge your data

hey tom, how did you center the eye?

[flint siren]

With photoshop

[sharp ridge]

Idk if i see any rotation/movement there

[somber stratus]

what time period is this over? Doesn't look long enough of a time gap, and it's poorly aligned, as you've already alluded to.

[low oar]

^

[sharp ridge]

iirc its an hour

[quick cairn]

I’d have to go back on the pc and check I think about an hour

[low oar]

good seeing tonight

[candid flare]

love how this channel still has a 1 minute slow mode

[high hull]

thats the classic astrobiscuit mods moment wym, the slowmode length corresponds to how bad the event was, not if the thing is actually over

[olive saddle]

Ah well, if enough people bring it up then perhaps they'll change it back

[low oar]

coming soon!

[winter moat]

Very nice

[peak bobcat]

Looks good

[low oar]

Thanks seeing was pretty decent

[low oar]

i got some crazy lunar data too

[winter moat]

Dang this Looks noice

[low oar]

thanks, i got some others too

[winter moat]

can i edit the Data ?
Doesn't have to be now

[low oar]

sure you want the raw ser file or a 5% stack?

[winter moat]

Stack

[low oar]

alright

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HDDc1KvEl8szfqJcNnFwUnv9Bb8b-oWV?usp=sharing

i have a lot more i havent added yet though

[winter moat]

Are they pre-sharpened ?

[low oar]

No

[winter moat]

https://tenor.com/view/horrified-funny-face-dang-ice-cube-gif-12839544880309883282

[low oar]

lol

only mistake i made was usuing my color camera instead of mono, they would have been better lol

[winter moat]

yea

here quick edit on my phone

[low oar]

Neatttt

[flint siren]

They absolutely are pre-sharpened

[low oar]

They aren’t 😂

Oh wait I may have attached the wrong files 😂

Ok there, now the raw files from autostakkert are in there lol

[winter moat]

Great Picture

[low oar]

Thanks

[winter moat]

I like the framing

[low oar]

Same! Thanks, it’s kinda hard to find a position that looks good when the moon is so far away lol

[unique furnace]

how

[low oar]

?

[unique furnace]

how do I do this

[low oar]

Get a big scope

[unique furnace]

how big. I got a 2 6”. Can I add them together for a 12”

I’m kidding, but seriously like how much big mirror

[low oar]

Uh, no

[low oar]

Preferably anything 8 and above, 8 is like the minimum in my opinion, I use an 11 inch

[unique furnace]

what can I get with a 6”

[low oar]

I mean you can get results, just something like this, hold on lemme find it

Something along the lines of this, I got this with a 6 inch on like an average night

[proper girder]

testetste

one two one two

[unique furnace]

Any Saturn?

Should I use my RC6 or 6” dob. I hate untracked stuff and can only mount the rc6

[low oar]

Naw I don’t

I got slowmode removed for us!

[winter moat]

Nice thanks mate

[winter moat]

Here's Saturn with my 4.3" CCT

my cct has 43% Secondary mirror obstruction

[shy jolt]

check channel AstroRve on youtube he does untracked stuff with a 6"

and he did a lot of planetary

https://discord.com/channels/794642864218439681/1459547855269396786

this is his for example

[shy jolt]

this makes me want to do lunar very badly

sad that i can t

[woven kite]

would you guys recommend p1 filters

[low oar]

Why

[candid flare]

They're fine

[quick cairn]

Hey Tom, do you think you’ve reached near limit with Mars or can you do better? Mars is a planet I haven’t gotten the chance to image with a good scope, only my first refractor. Your pinned instagram post is good but what are the star goals you have for mars?

[hasty hull]

These were with my untracked 6” dob in 2023

[unique furnace]

How hard was ISS?

[low oar]

Woah! That’s very impressive dude

[hasty hull]

Not too bad, this was at native 1200mm. I used a 610nm filter to brighten up the Solar Arrays, and this was an overhead pass with good seeing

[unique furnace]

I need to get it before they deorbit it

[hasty hull]

Definitely just give it a try anytime you’re out with your scope and notice a pass coming up

Even if you don’t nail it on the first try you’ll know what to expect for the next one

[unique furnace]

I haven’t setup my dob in years

lol

[hasty hull]

Ah

It yearns for exercise

[unique furnace]

Im curious if I should try my rc6 which I do use (now I do)

Yall in here say the RC6 isn’t for planetary, but like. Why not

[hasty hull]

Uhh what is the FL

[unique furnace]

1337mm

F/9

[hasty hull]

yeah that should be just fine

Put a 2x or 3x Barlow on and you’ll be set, given you have decent seeing and imaging train

[unique furnace]

I think I did the math, and a 2x Barlow is actually perfect with my 533 and rc6 for planetary

[hasty hull]

6” of aperture is definitely underrated, obviously the bigger the better but people shouldn’t sleep on 6” scopes for planetary

[olive saddle]

Absolutely. If my 4.5" StarBlast can see decent detail on Jupiter, one can imagine a 6" would provide even more detail, let alone an 8" or larger

6" telescopes used to be, comparably, really big too

Like, to the point people would drive long distances if they heard someone had a nice 6" Newtonian

not even necessarily to look through it, just looking at it

[low oar]

Famous Landmarks

March 26th 2026

C11 - 2x Barlow - UV/IR cut filter - Uranus C

[unique furnace]

feedback please 🙁

[shy jolt]

my dob is getting upgraded with onstep

[shy jolt]

ok thats really great

[somber stratus]

That particular image you reference is not at the limit.

There was a single stack much later in the apparition, I believe April 27th. That was diffraction limited, but Mars was at 5” by then.

Stack and a single 7 millisecond exposure.

[teal sandal]

Mars has a vibe when it’s not at a full phase

[rain mauve]

The scope I'm using is long refractor 3 inch

DC compression sucks

[ruby compass]

jupiter with io ganymede and io shade transit!

also why is ganymede so dark 😭

[hasty hull]

Wavelets could just be a bit harsh

Sometimes happens, just eats away at some darker details

[ruby compass]

alr ye

also got these.

amalthea

[flint siren]

What's the timestamp here ?

[sterile marsh]

260m wide Hill in copernicus

[sterile marsh]

Hi yoship

[unique furnace]

how do i make my moon like that

[quick cairn]

Woahhh

[rain mauve]

i composite it in photoshop

[low oar]

Photoshop

[unique furnace]

thats not very specific guys 😭

[digital steppe]

all your missing is pluto lol

[rain mauve]

Try search in YT:"how to make hdr moon" There are plenty tutorial there, you can follow along!

[low oar]

Yea it takes time to learn and you don’t wanna just copy people, make it your own art

[grave mountain]

https://klipy.com/gifs/cat-eyes-R1X

[velvet island]

https://tenor.com/view/flashbang-gif-22572243

[elder heath]

Dude it's like somebody just dropped a nuke on my screen

[elder heath]

How did you get such defined photos with a 6"

Saturn is perpetually too bright and tiny to see any real stuff through there, same with Jupiter

[shy jolt]

this was my question for Callisto!

[ruby compass]

calisto is really dim tho

[low oar]

Most of them get dark or change color when in front of the disk I’ve noticed

[thick heron]

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231218.html

[low oar]

Stupid brains

[flint siren]

Wavelets also act a bit in this.

[quick cairn]

Crazy

[quick cairn]

May I remind you. This is Pluto from Hubble

[digital steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/very-nice-wow-sarcastic-face-whatever-gif-14364504

[hasty hull]

I’m curious what the original data looks like

Without the upscaled pixels

[hasty hull]

I was out basically every clear night that year. Caught every planet in good seeing at least a couple times, so I ended up with a very nice collection

And was doing it a lot then so my processing and acquisition wasn’t as rusty as it is now, hoping this year I can get some great stuff with the 12”

[flint siren]

It's right above the spherical projections.

[olive saddle]

honestly the fact that Hubble could resolve Pluto as a disc at all, and not just a singular pixel is awesome

it's like, the same resolution as Jupiter's Galilean moons taken with a decently average planetary AP rig

makes me wonder how Pluto would look to JWST, if it's even able to point at and track Pluto

probably not good (atleast compared to what New Horizons saw) but it might look interesting or unique

[quick cairn]

single

[quick cairn]

single

[silent mesa]

Do you need to derotate lunar data or just use a single stack

[quick cairn]

No…

[silent mesa]

K

[woven kite]

asi662mc first light

[quick cairn]

not bad

[woven kite]

sharpcap was absolutely a mind blower

[quick cairn]

Yeah?

I also use sharp cap

I think fire capture is better tho

[woven kite]

fire capture has live stacking too?

oh it does uhh

i havent done any research on firecapture

[candid flare]

why would you want livestacking on firecapture

[woven kite]

another batch. this one was a little underexposed

windy tonight

i bought uv ir and 685nm filter from p1 thats coming next week

[quick cairn]

give this a process

[winter moat]

Here is my quick attempt

[rain mauve]

Very nice pic

[quick cairn]

Honestly 6/10 seeing

Not very good

[velvet island]

The moon is tidally locked to us

[sterile marsh]

A 260m wide Hill I resolved on copernicus

[low oar]

1.5 mile tall and 16 mile wide mountain in a frozen lava lake

[olive saddle]

what happened here, how did you get double craters lol

what did you do to it

[quick cairn]

Stacking was weird

[grave mountain]

might be me but it looks really denoised compared to your other images

[quick cairn]

Derotated and bad seeing

[sterile marsh]

Mine is in copernicus

[ruby compass]

Are we gonna ignore how compernicus got cloned?😭

[quick cairn]

Thank Tom! My guy knows how to process woah!

[low oar]

I’ll try in a bit

[woven kite]

outstanding data. just some simple curves cause my registax cannot handle it

it takes 5 seconds to see changes lol

[quick cairn]

Fantastic!

Yes seeing was very nice last night.

For the moon-

As you can see either I suck at process g or the seeing was bad but probably both

[low oar]

I feel like I focus so much on seeing for the planets that even having not the best seeing works so good on the moon compared to the planets

They are so friggen small

[quick cairn]

Right

I totally know how you feel

[low oar]

I would have left some more noise but that’s just me

I’m about to edit that thing you sent too

[quick cairn]

Oh I should note, this moon data was using a Astronomik pro planet 642nm pass filter and 1.33ms subs

About 12% of 5,000

[quick cairn]

I can always do it again but I try not to process bad seeing like crazy

Single subs

[low oar]

Looks pretty good to me?

[white prawn]

Where's the bad seeing? I can't see how you get that detail on a single sub and cry about bad seeing.

[low oar]

What I’m saying

Can you put all of your stacks into a folder for me to derotate please

[quick cairn]

Sure

[low oar]

Thx

And attach the moon I wanna sharpen too if ya don’t mind

[quick cairn]

those 2 were the best stacks of the night

[low oar]

Ping me when you get the folder 👍

[quick cairn]

like 2 mins

[quick cairn]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PJSalUnzHvVysU4VpYqijRkcT2zTPFHw?usp=sharing

@low oar

[low oar]

W

[quick cairn]

yuh

[low oar]

Gime like 10-20 min

[quick cairn]

the jupiter w moon stacks gonna have worse snr because i did 1:15 vids for those at 100fps, and once the moon went behind i did 2 mins so

[low oar]

Seems like you have a lot of data in the moon stack

Personally I would have stacked a lesser percentage is seems

But that’s just me

[quick cairn]

12% of 5,000 frames?

[low oar]

Ye I usually run 5-10%

And I even have less than 5k frames too

Depending on the roi

[quick cairn]

Interesting

[low oar]

Sadly most of my moon files are like

Less than 4gb cuz that’s the max amount my sd card can transfer to my windows laptop 😂

[quick cairn]

damn haha

you should get an SSD

[low oar]

Ye lol

[quick cairn]

i have a 2tb SSD

[low oar]

Yea I need that bruh

How much are they

[quick cairn]

ill show you the one i got

[low oar]

Alr

[quick cairn]

like 200$ after tax

not terrible, can capture over a gb per second

thats a 1 tb wait

[low oar]

What percent was your jup again?

[quick cairn]

33%

[low oar]

Dang

[quick cairn]

why

[low oar]

Again, just me, I usually run 10-20

Keep that noise up in there

[quick cairn]

I mean if you can get better snr then you should

[low oar]

I’m usually doing 10%

[quick cairn]

thats strange to be honest

[low oar]

Regardless 10-20

[quick cairn]

But everyone is different

Ive been taught that 30% is middle ground for bad or good seeing

[low oar]

Ye

🤷‍♂️

[quick cairn]

There is no reason to want more noise yk 🤷‍♀️

[low oar]

Well

Yea

It will just get derotated out

So I like the noise, cuz that’s detail, and it will get easily derotated out with 3 or more stacks

That’s why my stacks are mad noisy

Cuz they come together very smoothly

[quick cairn]

I understand what youre saying, but signal = detail

if the conditions can handle it, higher percents will give you snr

but maybe you dont get good seeing much idk i dont either

[low oar]

Yea, I guess I prefer the noise and sharp frames over potential blurred signal tbh

🤷‍♂️

Who knows lol

[quick cairn]

Would have to ask someone with more experience

This is a wavelet single 95% stack

Its all about seeing really

[low oar]

Wild

You said after the moon disappeared you did 2 minute videos?

[quick cairn]

yeah

because moon will move faster than planets rotation

[low oar]

Ye true

I personally never go over a minute for jup

[quick cairn]

all depends

it makes sense since you like noise

more frames = better snr tho

[quick cairn]

same sharpen 95% with worse seeing

[low oar]

Interesting

I ain’t got a clue lol

[quick cairn]

whatever works for you haha

[low oar]

Idk much about the technicality

lol

[quick cairn]

Nice

[low oar]

🤷‍♂️

@quick cairn

[digital steppe]

do a 3percent stack

or do really short exposures

[quick cairn]

bro what?

snr would be terrible

try this data

[somber stratus]

95 is also very extreme though.

almost defeats the point of lucky imaging

[rain mauve]

me with bad seeing/good seeing: "frick it, we ball, going 100 percent stacks"

[somber stratus]

Top 30% vs bottom 30%

[digital steppe]

idgaf, you want sharpness

[quick cairn]

I was more of proving a point but I agree yes

In bad seeing I do 20-25%, good seeing 30-40ish and amazing seeing I stack 50~ but it really depends

My go to amount is 33%

[digital steppe]

When I did lucky with my trapezium I used 20 percent and 150ms subs

[quick cairn]

That’s deep sky dawg

It also depends on how many subs you have

For Jupiter I have roughly 8-10,000 per video

[rain mauve]

The right one was noisy, what causes that?
They had same 30 percent stack???

[flint siren]

Best 30% vs Worst 30% of a same dataset

[rain mauve]

How do you know it's best and it's worst?

[flint siren]

it's... written...

[rain mauve]

I.... Still don't get it

[low oar]

I think your stacking more images than you think, so the reason I keep it low is cuz I’m already stacking hundreds of frames and I want those faint details to be noise so they get derotated into detail

Again

Just how I do it

[rain mauve]

Right one was 100 percent stack
The left one definitely lower than 100 percent isn't it?

[flint siren]

From a same video, the first image is the stack of the 30% best images of the dataset. The second is the 30% worst images. If this is your quality graph, then here's what represent those two stack rates.

[low oar]

^

[flint siren]

The first one is not 100%, it's the best 30% of the video.

[rain mauve]

Wait... So you can choose which dataset it's the best in as3! ?

I didn't know that

[flint siren]

No, the software only allows you to stack the x% best percentage of the video.

[somber stratus]

you have to do some manipulations in PIPP to get the bottom x%.

[flint siren]

They probably had to export all the frame with quality sorted and then stacked the 30% worst of images.

[somber stratus]

ye

[flint siren]

[somber stratus]

The file name says 100% because the video that AS3 was fed, was a cropped version of the quality-sorted vid. Not that it's important how to do it.

Was just showing how lucky imaging works and comparing the sharpest 30% of frames vs the worst 30% of frames in the same original capture video.

SNR is the same for both. The perceived noise on the left is better due to increased contrast that seeing provides. The total integration time is identical.

[rain mauve]

alright i got the perfect example of this, i have a bad seeing over here, by doing the lucky imaging here, how do i know which one is the best and the worst

what i see right now the 40-45 percent of the bottom is quite good? so i just put the frame percentage to stack to 40?

im sorry guys, just wanna understand what i dont

[rain mauve]

i see now....

[rain mauve]

alright thanks

[rain mauve]

ahhhh so the pipp is the thing for sorting

i see now

[quick cairn]

I’ve been told that you want to go for 3 to 4000 frames. In good seeing

[low oar]

Idk I mean try it out sometime though

Try stacking only the best of the best

Not the best of the best and then the second best that follow that lol

Might help idk

[quick cairn]

I have tried many different ways. But I keep my raw videos so I’ll look into it.

[low oar]

Alright nice

Cuz for me like I said

Keeping that noisy detail high in the stacks

And stacking less frames which result in only the good ones

[quick cairn]

I get what you’re saying, however, that is your best day ever. I feel it is more seeing dependent than the percent you

[low oar]

Allows you derotate a lot more finer details rather then them getting smudged due to iffy frames

[low oar]

Well I do that workflow regardless

[quick cairn]

Right

[low oar]

Even under bad conditions

Could be worth a try

[quick cairn]

For sure

[quick cairn]

To be clear, noise in itself is not GOOD, but in bad or mid seeing noisy details help, my point is in good seeing you don’t need to have noisy detail because you just have detail

[low oar]

For the big stuff, but there’s always smaller storms and smaller strands you can pick up on jup

[quick cairn]

It depends on your aperture as well

[quick cairn]

See you have to be carful with low SNR, something you see as a storm could just be random noise on that small of levels

[low oar]

Well that’s why you derotate

You essentially get a noiseless image straight from winjupos

[quick cairn]

I think we both may be a little confused, Ethan, Ken, Tom. Any consensus?

I was under the impression derotation helps edges and SNR

[flint siren]

It does, that's the whole point...

Edges are helped somewhat because it kind off removes edge rind over long integrations, and SNR is literally why you do it in the first place.

[quick cairn]

Right

[flint siren]

The question is maybe poorly asked.

[quick cairn]

Well I don’t really know what the argument is, it’s about percents for stacking I guess

My point is it’s seeing dependent

[flint siren]

Yeah but for every type of seeing you'll have a above average amount of frame that you want to stack..

[sharp ridge]

Snr definitely, edges imo its worse with winjupos without blending or burn/dodge. But with LSW yes it does improve edges as well

[flint siren]

With consistent seeing that amount grows

[quick cairn]

That’s what I’m saying

My understanding is, correct me if I’m wrong, but Kenny is saying he believes that stacking lower percents like 10% is better in good seeing

[flint siren]

That's why there's no perfectly optimal percentage of frame for all dataset

[quick cairn]

Right

[flint siren]

It's not better, you just loose SNR.

With better seeing you stack more %s.

[quick cairn]

I believe that, in good seeing stacking higher percents for better SNR

[flint siren]

That's the whole point.

[quick cairn]

Right

Which is why I’m confused

[flint siren]

No need to be a belief, that's the very point of good seeing.

[quick cairn]

I know that, ultimately I’m saying i “believe” so that it does not sound like I know everything

[flint siren]

Along with maybe sharper frames on average, the real deal is consistency.

[sharp ridge]

It comes to what percentage is diffraction limited/sharp enough. If seeing is bad then only 10% is good enough, but if seeing is good, 30% is of similar sharpness. This means better snr. Realistically, if seeing is bad you might have to stack 1% to get the same sharpness but you stack more for snr but worse sharpness as compromise

[quick cairn]

Maybe that’s what I was trying to say then. And Kenny misunderstood, but yes this is how it works from my understanding

[olive saddle]

The human eye is really good at resolving details in things that we're familiar with, brain sort of fills in details when the eyes can't see something perfectly. It's why the moon looks oddly better in real time than it does in photo, because our eyes kind of "live-stack" as we look at something, even if only for a little bit.

Planets are just too small and unfamiliar, and they're too affected by seeing conditions for your eyes to do that pseudo live-stacking. Unless however, you have an absolutely gargantuan telescope with smooth tracking, and can get stupidly high magnification on the planets, under fantastic seeing conditions. Then your eyes and brain start doing that weird thing, and the view suddenly feels sharper than it's supposed to be.

[sharp ridge]

This effect also occurs with animations

[olive saddle]

yeah!

[quick cairn]

Precisely

[flint siren]

[quick cairn]

I think Kenny is missing the idea that you don’t have to derotate for good SNR alone if you have very good consistent seeing. Yes derotation is good because it helps edges, but you can get the same result without doing it in terms of sharpness and SNR

[low oar]

Tbh I’m probably missing a lot lol

[quick cairn]

No hate just sharing experiences

[low oar]

Deff

I’m admitting it though haha idk much about the technical stuff

[quick cairn]

Me neither !

[flint siren]

Regulus coming out of occultation.

[quick cairn]

Cool

[flint siren]

Mono IR850 luminance with ASI183MM Pro, RGB colors with Uranus-C. Seeing was absolute garbage.

[low oar]

Noice

[velvet island]

Looks a a bit like old video games’ rendering

[silent mesa]

1 hour rotation

[quick cairn]

Awesome seeing

[low oar]

I wish I was able to finish this mosaic, ran out of storage for the night 😢

[native plume]

damn how many gbs?

[low oar]

uhh 18 panels at 2.4 gb a panel maybe

2.25 actually

i need a ssd or something so i can record more data

[rain mauve]

Today sun, have to manually stitch them. _.

ICE doesn't wanna stitch them apparently

[quick cairn]

Hey tom, what wavelet settings would you use on astrosurface to derotate this data?

For batch wavelets

I have 27 stacks

[quick cairn]

derotated

[flint siren]

🥀

[rain mauve]

todays jupiter

through 3 inch telescope

[quick cairn]

Nice bro

[rain mauve]

thankss

[polar forge]

How'd you make a video like that? You set it to make 10 seconds of video every 1 minute or ?

[low oar]

What?

[polar forge]

Like a GIF where Jupiter rotates 🙂

[low oar]

I just import my stacks into CapCut and set their duration to like 0.2 seconds per image

[polar forge]

Alright. And how many stacks do you make?

[low oar]

Idk how ever many you take

[polar forge]

I mean i can get a good amount. Got the Eq6R in that case. Say i make a "stack " every 3 minutes? Stack is equal to 30 second video. Would that work?

[low oar]

Well for Jupiter you want to take 1 minute videos back to back to back

[polar forge]

Gotcha. So around 120 videos of 1 minute... i hope i have enough storage for 2 hour rotation.

[low oar]

I mean 120 is a lot

It all just depends

If you want 2 hours do a video every 5 minutes

But if you want a smooth and short animation do 30 1 minute videos

It all just depends what you want

[polar forge]

thanks kenny

[low oar]

Yep

[quick cairn]

Can I get everyone’s advice for settings for my Uranus-c for ISS. I also have nir filter to help seeing. Let me know.

10” skywatcher

[woven kite]

type of seeing that happens during one in a few years events (or its cloudy)

mars occultation

[flint siren]

That's very real actually, 2024 Saturn's occultation was just as shit.

[hasty hull]

I was lucky enough to catch one in 2025 and a near one in 2022

[main flume]

Did a bit of processing on an old moon image this how it turned

[quick cairn]

@livid sierra @thick heron, Tom, any advice for a 10” F/5 for the ISS? I’m at 1200mm, exposure and gain? With Uranus C?

[thick heron]

I’ve imaged the ISS once ever.

[low oar]

I’m orange now

[thick heron]

Hi Orange! 👋

[fading plume]

@low oar @quick cairn welcome to nerd club

[digital steppe]

can a guy like me get iy

[fading plume]

You spend too much time in general

[digital steppe]

yea, but when I do that, I talk mostly about astro

I have highly refined my skills, pushed the limits of untracked

got 15+ mag targets and 6 stars in trapezium untracked

[fading plume]

I’ll consider it

[digital steppe]

thanks

i check back in in a few hours to see if a decision has been made

[graceful creek]

⁶🤷‍♂️⁷

[quick cairn]

Thanks man!

[quick cairn]

Update, I captured the ISS.

[rain mauve]

Brown dwarf wow xD

[quick cairn]

First time ever imaging the ISS

Hand tracked

[hasty hull]

Solid

[quick cairn]

Should I have used NIR?

[hasty hull]

Very easy to underestimate how bright it can be, I almost always end up with some overexposed pixels

[hasty hull]

Generally the solar arrays will be brighter relatively so it would help

That way all of the station will be of a similar brightness

[quick cairn]

I have 685nm pass, 642nm pass, and 850nn pass

however i will need to increase exposer so less frames

I used 0.5 ms exosure and auto gain for this one, and UV/IR cut

got about 300 frames, AS4 works but its all so bright it doesnt really do anything

[hasty hull]

I usually go for about 0.25ms or so

[quick cairn]

May you share your photos? whats your aperture

[hasty hull]

Though I do image at 4500mm

[quick cairn]

I assume you track it

[hasty hull]

12” manual tracking

[quick cairn]

Sick man

at 4500mm?

[hasty hull]

Thank you bro

Yeah

[quick cairn]

What is your method

[hasty hull]

I have a 5x (I think) finderscope that’s pretty accurately aligned, just a matter of being able to smoothly slew the scope around following it’s pace

A telrad is better for the ISS though

[quick cairn]

thats exactly what i do

[hasty hull]

It’s been like a year and a half since I’ve had a solid attempt at the ISS but I know I don’t end up having thattt many usable frames

I take all of the frames PIPP detects with the iss, and export them as tiffs, and hand select the frames that are sharp and the ISS doesn’t change much between to stack

[quick cairn]

I have absolutley no idea how to process this stuff

or how to spell

[hasty hull]

Probably not too much more to get out of that, looks really nice though for a first attempt

[quick cairn]

thanks

it happens more often than i give it credit for

need to get out there more

[hasty hull]

Same I’ve been slacking, now I wanna try a flyover lol

[quick cairn]

single stack from a few mins after

[hasty hull]

No Iss flyovers coming up but do have a few Tiangong opportunities soon which is always interesting

[quick cairn]

Ive never seen tiangong

[hasty hull]

It is a little smaller angularly but imaging it works exactly the same

Maybe a little dimmer

[quick cairn]

cool!

[hasty hull]

This was with my 6” at 1200mm, I haven’t done it with the 12 yet

[quick cairn]

yeah my 10" is F/5 and 1200mm

[woven kite]

nice

tiangong is underrated

theres only a handful of images on astrobin

[quick cairn]

I know duif has some

[dark cargo]

I think part of the reason for that is due to it's lower orbital inclination of ~40 degrees, so most of europe and a decent chunk of the US is too high to get a good pass of it.

[woven kite]

this makes sense

whole uk not getting anything

[dark cargo]

Just

[quick cairn]

not bad

Is anyone good at masking?

[somber stratus]

what classes as "good at masking"

[quick cairn]

I'm not entirley sure, I see people process the moon and shadow seperate from the rest of the planet, thats what I mean.

[somber stratus]

Yeah pretty standard if you derotate. Need to fix the artifacts.

[sharp ridge]

LSW

[somber stratus]

shoosh you.

also why is my name pink

[sharp ridge]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/782381925036851230/904600936255729704/thonksun.gif

[quick cairn]

Indeed. I have photoshop. Any YouTube videos you recommend over others? For this type of stuff I feel like it’s so niche

[quick cairn]

I havent tried LS4 much but it didnt do very well for me.

I think you can be more precise with winjupos

[shy jolt]

its april fools

i was really happy that i thought i got meganerd somehow

[flint siren]

Can i get to keep the meganerd ?

[low oar]

Anyone here know if they are able to image the orion capsule from their location?

[quick cairn]

Capsule?

[thick heron]

Would love to try, but.

[low oar]

Did I say something wrong?

[quick cairn]

No I just don’t know what that is

[low oar]

Nooo, I haven’t done any calculations yet but there’s a chance I might be able to

[quick cairn]

It’s not the nebula right

[low oar]

The capsule taking people to the moon

[quick cairn]

ohhhhh

Shit yeah that’s tough

How on earth would you track it

[low oar]

all depends on location

And it’s moving slow and it’s far from earth so it wouldn’t be like the iss

[quick cairn]

DAMNIT BRO I’m backpacking all weekend starting Thursday

[ruby compass]

what kind of april fools prank is this bro 😭 🙏

aint complaining tho

[low oar]

Were you using the script from that guy on YT

[thick heron]

What script from what guy on YT?

So no, but now I have to know.

[low oar]

Idk some dude made a script for Stellarium

[quick cairn]

That’s cool

[grave mountain]

Enjoy, it’ll be the only time

[ruby compass]

Real

[high hull]

imaging the iss and screwing up the exposure is a canon event

[polar forge]

Probably not since i’m in the netherlands.

[olive saddle]

gleegle! bab tok uron blotebab eselith blet tobfur droka galdeb tregto bonx Planetary Imaging dulktho, hask tok frubse blet halla geb worron bersta dallan blet deek tok "Earth" swao buntle, ghant tok mingala prote eeb ablok sleyu vonta.

Aciston: 8.5 mitnues

Derig: 300uu t/5 "Newtonian" teosop deek la "Player One" ingami macerna

Boloot 4, treken belu swao huidok dersa "Valles Marineris" trok, telpon tok blet halla.

grobfalta!

[shy jolt]

tf is that languageg

[polar forge]

Lets hope something decent comes out of it

[quick cairn]

Can I give you advice

Film at 10ms frames, make the ROI much smaller than that unless you want moons, and click on tools above you and click histogram and box in Jupiter and increase gain only until it’s between 80-90%

Also output ser files

I promise you’ll get better images like that

[winter moat]

Niice

[woven kite]

good composition coming tonight

[quick cairn]

yeah

[quick cairn]

https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/nasas-artemis-ii-crew-launches-to-the-moon-official-broadcast/#fullscreen-player

[quick cairn]

Can yall give this moon data a go, its really good

[main flume]

what are you doing in space get off there blud

Nah but really it's so awesome it could pass for an image from space

[main flume]

For anyone who doesn't want to spend time converting here is the image in png

[quick cairn]

Uhm

You dont process in png form....

[main flume]

ik

[quick cairn]

png's are compressed

[main flume]

it's just for people who just want to see it but not process it

[main flume]

Now that is fire

[quick cairn]

Some people could do better

[main flume]

There's always someone who'll do better

and that's exactly why you don't compare yourself to others

compare yourself to your past

[quick cairn]

good point

[main flume]

and you're going to see how much you improved

See this?

THIS, was my first picture of jupiter

And this is what it's looking like now

Now, if you compare it to this, you're obviously going to say mine is wors

That's exactly the reason you don't compare yourself to the ones who are better

if just makes you look bad

[quick cairn]

My first photos of Jupiter

[main flume]

and if you compare yourself to the ones who are worse, that just builds ego

[main flume]

That was the day you became addicted

[quick cairn]

Me now

[main flume]

Bro actually lives in mars 😭

[main flume]

That is certainly some improvement

[quick cairn]

lil bit

long way to go though

[main flume]

It clearly is

Tiny question what telescope aperture did you use for your first image

[quick cairn]

10"

250p skywatcher, that was yesterday evening actually

[main flume]

I meant these

[quick cairn]

Someday I wanna get here

[quick cairn]

ohhh, Celestron starsense 80 AZ

[main flume]

So 80mm?

[quick cairn]

yes very bad shitty made refractor

[main flume]

And now you got 10 inches (or 250mm)

[quick cairn]

This was the best I got out of the 80mm

[main flume]

For 80mm it's certainly impressive

[quick cairn]

Its something

[main flume]

kinda looks like the ones i took

[quick cairn]

My next purchase will be a 16 or 20

[main flume]

i've actually been using the same telescope for a year and a half

a 130mm newton

[quick cairn]

which is that?

awesome

5 inch

[main flume]

yeah

actually it took me just 3 months to go from that shitty image to my current level

That ccd really helped a lot

[quick cairn]

that was about the same time span for me until i got my 6"

[main flume]

Prob astronomy one of the few areas where you can buy skill

[quick cairn]

cant buy processing

[main flume]

Some processing programs are paid

(some)

but the free ones beat them

[quick cairn]

This was the best photos I got out of the 6”

[main flume]

I can see it was the same night

[quick cairn]

Pixinsite better for dso but yeah

[quick cairn]

Same data yeah

Got the ISS for the first time yesterday

[main flume]

From what i've investigated next saturn opposition will be enough to see the cassini division so i'll try to catch ut

[main flume]

Can see the solar pannels

[quick cairn]

yeah was way over exposed

[main flume]

i think i accidentally captured it yesterday but i wasn't recording

[quick cairn]

crazy

[main flume]

i was just watching beutelguese and saw 2 satellites pass before seeing a massive bright one

and when i checked the iss had just passed near orion

[quick cairn]

maybe starlink

maybe that was it then

[main flume]

could be

[low oar]

Quick image of the full moon tonight

[main flume]

seems like it's near the horizon

looks very yellow

[low oar]

Ye it just rose

[main flume]

it just rose where i live too

[low oar]

Nice

[main flume]

in 5 days there'll be people there

not the surface

but there

[low oar]

Wild

[quick cairn]

wanna try some data

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Z6tyuZWqvdF6hxZeVM-VvX3JwKMVucvS?usp=drive_link