Jupiter & Saturn

A week of beautiful weather encouraged me to get back out and image some planets.  Saturn is busy chasing Jupiter across the sky at sundown and neither disappointed on the two clear nights we had this week.  You might notice the small spheres at about 7 o'clock on Jupiter.  That's the moon Ganymede just finishing it's transit of the surface.  

Photo Details - Jupiter

July 24, 2019

Orion 8" Astrograph on VX Mount

NexImage10 Camera

Image Acquisition iCap2.4

Y800 Codec
Image Stacking in AutoStakkert
Wavelet Filtering in Registax
Final Adjustments in Photoshop

Photo Details - Saturn

July 26, 2019

Orion 8" Astrograph on VX Mount

NexImage10 Camera

Image Acquisition iCap2.4

Y800 Codec
Image Stacking in AutoStakkert
Wavelet Filtering in Registax
Final Adjustments in Photoshop

Weather & Nightscapes

 

And so begins my new interest in photographing weather and nightscapes.  We had a week of gorgeous skies in Wisconsin at Castle Rock Lake followed by a beautiful night here in the south.  This kind of photography poses its own unique challenges, but sure is fun!   

Photo Details

First 8 photos above taken at Castle Rock Lake with and iPhone.
Postprocessing in Photoshop

Bottom Photo
Nikon D3100
Postprocessing in Photoshop