Another video treat! As are others, I’m thoroughly enjoying your enthusiasm with the new rig. Your stuff is always a treat so it’s nice to get more! Bravo!
Currently my biggest telescope is a Questar 3.5 so I’ve learned to be a big fan of Jupiter. Looking forward to more from you and your massive aperture.
Woah its really cool seeing Jupiter's Moons as discs with surface mottling! Please make lots of videos on the C14, it's a real treat. Thank you, and wishing you and your family a merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Christmas is a pagan tradition. Jesus wanted us to celebrate the "Passover", but people celebrate Christmas instead. The Passover, through which we can get eternal life, was abolished by the devil. The devil abolished the Passover and the Sabbath, cunningly changed it to Christmas and Sunday worship. If someone wishes you a "Merry Christmas", unfortunately, they are cursing you unknowingly. "There is no word 'Christmas' in the Bible. The Bible has no record of Jesus' birthday. Jesus' disciples never celebrated Christmas." 🎄= 🚫
Maybe 18 years ago, out in the desert south of Phoenix at a star party the gang (well, mainly me) woke up and found Jupiter straight up. In the 16" dob and the 11" NexStar Jupiter was showing detail I've never seen before or since. Totally spoiled me right there.
Awesome to see you having fun with the C14! I learned planetary before DSO imaging. Of all phases of astrophotography, I love acquisition the most. Though spellbinding, DSO imaging feels like an immense patience game, scooping up all that dim light with long exposures, and if it goes smoothly, one is either very tranquil or sleeps through much of it. Planetary, which requires a last phase of visual centering and focusing, waiting for peak altitude and seeing and maxing out the FPS, feels more like a hunt. One has to be there and active for all of it to get the capture. In either case, it’s amazing we can even do these things. Look forward to future C14 adventures. Cheers!
It's great to see an experienced astrophotographer work through a new system (planetary) because I can use your learnings right along side my own. Keep up the great progress!
I have a C11 nexstar. At 69, it is all that I can handle mounting. I would have gotten a C14, but reality sets in, and I am satisfied with it. Have it mounted in a homemade dome. Good views of the planets and DSO's. Holds collimation well. Merry Christmas to you and your family
Love love love it! As mentioned in the comments of your earlier videos on your EHD14, I had also within the last year bought a used EDH14 but without a mount that could manage it reliably. Well about the time you posted your first video I also had taken receipt of an Astro-Physics Mach2GTO that I have been on the waiting list for 2 years for. Necessary components required! Now because of this fortuitous timing on my part, any time I find myself racking my brain on some particular detail and scouring the forums, then you pop up with on the next video you put out and answer my question ( as I am basically just following you along). All that said please don't spare any details, they are nuggets of gold! As a side note, and something more detail than most will care about, I have found that as often as I have been collimating with this thing, I have really come to dislike "Bob's knobs" as they don't seem accurate enough. I have instead gone with a hex head bolt and teflon washer on my collimation screws and I love it! Visualizing 1/8 of a rotation is so much easier to see with a hex wrench than it is to "feel" with the knob. Lastly, on my wish-list of DoD videos would be to see you use "metaguide" to collimate with. I feel like I'm getting great results with a star collimation but have heard that the metaguide collimation can really nail the detail. As of now I haven't had a lot of success with it seeing the "airy disk" even when I think my collimation is nailed. Anyway... Thanks again for dragging me along!
My friend, the late HJP Douglas Arnold of Space Frontiers Ltd & Sol Invictus was a professional photographer and astro imager with his Astrophysics 7" f9 Starfire refractor. He wrote books on astro photography and he explained as does Ed Ting, that it takes hard work and years to master imaging and that is certainly true given the complexity of what you demonstrated in your podcast with Jupiter, so that is why I'm a visual observer only however, I have such great respect and admiration for people like yourself and others who manage to capture and process those fabulous images if the night sky.
Seeing is key with the planets! Probably my best shot of Jupiter is a single image taken "on the fly" with my 6'' SE while preparing to point at something else. But it was one of those gorgeous nights when it is so easy because everything just worked out, seeing was unbelievable 🤩!
As a Chilean, I have to say that was an outrageous video: a bottle of wine with a twist-off cap instead of a cork, Cabernet Sauvignon in Australia when everyone expects a Syrah... but Jupiter looked great, though!
@@DylanODonnell Great taste, my friend! A toast to an incredible Jupiter image with your Celestron 14-what a perfect pairing of fine wine and celestial wonders!
Nice work! Weather and seeing here have been rubbish, my one C14 excursion at Jupiter opposition was pretty terrible (and freezing cold). Glad you're getting some great results! Happy Holidays all!
Bloody awesome mate hmmm I think I'm gonna have to sell some body parts for a C14, hope you all have a great Christmas & look forward to catching up with more of your content in the new year.
Oh wow that Moon surface detail!!?? Incredible!! Dylan I'm currently saving for an 11" SCT but in my heart I know I will never be truly satisfied until I own the 14" version! ( or will I be?? I've seen a now discontinued Meade 16" SCT! 🤩 LOL that aperture fever is contagious mate! 😂 ) Love your enthusiasm for your new 'scope, it's always super exciting when we get a new piece of gear, especially a new 'scope! And as always thank you for the awesome content my friend! Wes, Liverpool, England.
The 11 is great too and honestly I could’ve pushed it harder for planets. I definitely did some of my best work on the 11! Thanks for all your support Wes!
@@DylanODonnell Aww thanks for the encouragement/advice Dylan! I can't wait to get the 11" early next year! And you most certainly did produce some gorgous results with your 11"! 😊👍
I'm in the same boat Dylan. Back in August I found a used C14 and I've been working on planetary since. Seeing is everything in this game and most of the time it is crap here in Wisconsin. I look forward to watching your journey.
I have been doing plantery, on and off, for the last 10 years (limited by financial constraints - 11inch is the best I can afford). It's often a grind process but rewarding if conditions are right; telescope temperature equilibrium (the hardest to get right, but most important), collimation, image train, and of course atmosphere stabilisationm, seeing and transparency, (this is very frustrating in our part of the world). Chris Go lives near the equator, so little to no jet stream and, of course, less atmosphere to penetrate (insert innuendo 😂) However, the benefits of planetary is light pollution interfears very little with imaging because of the short exposures required. Post processing is a very individualistic process, take the same data and i bet each person you give it to will produce different results. Same as DSO, i suppose. Great to see you dipped your toe into plantery, look forward to seeing more on what you produce
Hi Dylan. I'm so pleased that I subscribe to your podcast because it allows me to see what I can not do, "astro-photography with a very big telescope". I have been subscribed to Damien Peaches podcast for a while however, your images are still nonetheless, very impressive and painfully beautiful. I'm more a visual observer and I have an Altair Astro 102mm f11 Starwave refractor and a Istar 150mm f8 R35 refractor and two very old Prinz Astral refractor telescopes that are 44 and 50 years old. Keep up the great work. Kind regards. Wayne Scott from England 🇬🇧 UK.
Stoked you are getting into planets with your kit / process, for me, I really like visuals observing them, If I can only get my 18" obsession on a tracking mount....
I vote Dec 22nd. Thank you for sharing all the work it take to produce a picture. It scares me from going down the astrophotography route so I'll sticking to visual.
Nice video Dylan and perfect timing. I'm taking delivery of my Skymax 127 mak scope tomorrow followed soon after by a 2x focal extender. I’ve decided to have a go at planetary after spending the last 3 years in DSO territory. Of course I wont be able to compete with your rig, but I'm looking forward to the challenge.
Sitting in windy, rainy Seattle (on the longest night of the year), thoroughly enjoying your latest video (as well as, by coincidence, a tumbler of a quite tasty Washington state Cab), I raise my glass in the general direction of Australia. Cheers, mate!
Really appreciated this. I recently got an EdgeHD8" that I have been trying planetary imaging on and the first few nights just trying to get the planets in the FOV was a pain. I had a spare 200mm guide scope and an ASI120mm-s laying around and set it up last night and once I got the scope aligned with the guide scope I was able to get the target on sensor every time. Also appreciate the tip on the NINA plugin. Now I'm sure you are aware of this, but in the off chance you aren't, SharpCap has a "live stacking" feature for planets which seems to do a great job and I don't have to mess about with post stacking or even much post processing. Obviously, take that with a grain of salt as I am new to planetary imaging (been doing DSO for about 5 years now) so it isn't taking much to impress me at the moment. Anyway, cheers and please let us know any other tips and tricks that us n00bs can use.
I’m not even going to try and make some lame joke such as “He plugs Shiraz and chugs Cab” or something That’s just objectively a beautiful image. Well done!
Well done possum, awesome setup you have now, the dome, the scope, the automation process, one can only follow your progress with admiration and eagerly await your next upload... I remember seeing Jupiter live through my LS"6 and a simple meade LPG colour camera for the first time back in 2015... I had no idea how to really use the fire capture software back then, but there's just something mesmerising about seeing the plants and their moons live on screen.... The 10inch LX850 f8 ota arrived this week... In the words of the film JAWS "your gonna need a bigger boat"... I'm gonna need a bigger mount,,,, so now to slowly build a new setup over 2025... 😊 Happy Christmas Mr D & Family... May the star God's now forgive you for all those 14 inches before marriage 😂😅😂😊
...but that was a Cabernet Sauvignon! That was a brilliant video. I started with planetary astrophotography (ETX-90 from a London balcony, so kind of an easy choice over DSO), but struggled to get back into it, but the NINA plugin, FireCapture, tracking and the way you stacked got me all excited about planetary imaging again. I'll have to read the manual to my ADC, dust off the old QHY5III485 and hook up the C9.25. I'd also like to add that the New Zealand Syrah is not to be scoffed at either. I know the Central Otago Pino Noir is all the rave, but I'd say a Hawke's Bay Syrah beats it most days.
Your getting some great results Dylan!. The planetary stuff is a whole different ball game right. I would recommend giving Sharpcap's Planetary tracking/stacking/enhancement feature a go. Its very good. And fast!. If nothing else you can use it for checking seeing without diving in and out of other programs.
I love how different planetary is from deep sky. Same sky, totally different equipment, software, techniques, level of effort. I got Venus and Saturn last night and while they aren't good, its still so cool to see. Thanks for taking the time and effort to bring us along on your journey with the c14
Awesome work, love the video and the results! Does the C14 come with 5/5 seeing out of the box or is that available as a separate purchase? 😊 Question on the focus points per filter: how does it deal with focuser backlash? Does firecapture have overshoot backlash? Or does it rely on absolute focuser backlash set in the ASCOM driver (which would be annoying)?
Hey Cuiv! Since swapping to the esatto so the focuser is in the image train I think backlash is effectively zero. That’s what I set it to in NINA when I did DSO and it worked a treat!
@DylanODonnell oooooh right I had forgotten! Esatto for the win! I was thinking of people using an EAF (gasp!) on the main focusing knob (ugh!) with mirror flop and shift (barf!)
@@CuivTheLazyGeek yeh that’s why this auto guide and auto run for me is a game changer .. set the focus points per filter .. hit go… walk away! Used to be a fight with the EAF!
Some pretty amazing images with that giant mutherscope! ya know it’s actually pretty darn cool when you use your eye to watch a transit happen in real time, try it one day.
Thank you! While a 2D stacked photo of Jupiter is nice to frame on your wall, some of us prefer the spirtual connection you get viewing photons real time via a glass lens. Next, try shooting The Trapezium Cluster of stars A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H1, H2, and I?
Nice video, and good results...maybe someday I also need a massive scope I have seen many people use some one shot color cams to do planetary nowadays, they have gotten so good that noise isnt really a problem anymore, maybe that could make processing much more enjoyable and easy? Particularily one of the best planetary imagers I have seen on discord uses a OSC cam, so I think it is worth it to investigate a bit
Just fascinating new ground covered every video. Its quite daunting to for total novices such as myself to even begin to comprehend. I mean, OK, I'm no novice to technology, but total novice to all the intricate details of telescopes and getting them "just right". I think thats why I opted word "astrophlebotomy", was trying to create a mental metaphor, even if it wasnt a good one ---- a blood draw at clinic where kids just cant sit still in the chair. Aperture could be varying needle widths. Exposure could be how long to keep taking the blood. Angle of attack and looking for "hard to locate veins" like finding a star in a haystack dusty nebula...
I prefer Chateau Wuga Wuga over the Shiraz. The bottle neck is nicely formed, suitable for hand-to-hand combat, and the wine itself really opens up the sluices at both ends.
Amazing!!! I know it would be a pain in the ass, but a comparison video done with a color camera would be nice. Who knows, you might convince some of us one shot color apes to switch and generate some hightpoint link sales ;)
Lovely shot Dylan. Scope looks like its really delivering. I've just about given up on getting anything good this entire season in Melbourne....seeing has been consistently rubbish at best. No wonder the Great Melbourne Telescope fell into disuse back in the day.......
Try an ASI678 one shot colour camera, the tiny pixels are giving me good results even though I've only got a C8, an atmospheric dispersion corrector can help too, but it would require you to be more hands on through the night
Excellent video. I appreciated getting a sense of your workflow. Your enthusiasm is evident, so have fun with it! Off topic: what do you usually play in response to 1 d4?
Merry Christmas mate. How are you handling that East coast jet stream? I think Damien and Chris use cold packs to help bring down the temperature of the tube quicker from memory. Congrats on the 14" it's a bloody beast. I don't envy your mount.
@@DylanODonnell I'm sure I remember a BBC interview with Damien where he talks about ice or cold packs on his scope. I'm not really doing any astro stuff anymore and haven't for near 3 years now - more into bird photography. It's too much of a p.i.t.a to set up the scope every night, then tear it down etc. No chance of a observatory for a variety of reasons, and my house block is really BAD in terms of seeing the sky. 2 bright street lights directly to the South (for a small 50m long cul de sac). Ipswich council screwing crap up. I asked for a review and was told that the lumens were acceptable range and pedestrians were more important than me wanting to view the night sky to the South. Even the bright stars of crux are basically invisible. I wonder how they'd feel if I refused to pay my land rates...
Doing planetary with a mono cam and filters- is a difficulty level I haven't tried yet. It's like when osc imaging stuff on my poor seeing - light polluted sky wasn't masochistic enough, there is another level to it I have yet to explore. 😄
Thanks! The AP stack bit doesn’t really take any time at all. A few seconds. It’s analysing the 2gb 16bit file over the network that is the biggest bottleneck.
@ the other issue I’ve found, when using too many APs, is a mosaic effect - like AS ‘clips’ a portion of a frame out. When using wavelets, the surrounding box of the clip is IMMEDIATELY apparent. It’s an effect that happens regularly to me on stacked lunar landscapes, but also occasionally on planets if my AP points are too small. On my CPC1100 and ASI678 camera, I’ve pretty much settled on an AP size of 72px with a target of between 35 and 45 points. With a C14, YMMV.
Our little house in Spain is great for clear skies but council put up lots of high intensity(energy saving!!!) street lights .On the plus side red wine at 14.5 % is 8 euros for 5 litres..
I'm using One-Shot colour, so maybe this won't work for mono, but - why not do the focusing on a star? Much more controllable surely? It works for me anyway. All the best!
Hello Dylan, Thank you and bravo for this tutorial, it's always good to understand ALL the steps! I've started planetary, well, lunar (but I'm also interested in big planets), because until now I've only done deep sky. For this use (on top of my refractors dedicated to deep sky and my RC8), I have an AZ EQ6, a Mak 180, and a 200mm focal length Svbony guide scope fitted with an ASI 220MM, I've struggled to get the same field of view, it's not perfect but I'm not far off. On the other hand, I didn't understand in the video what you use to Goto and target Jupiter on top of the camera dedicated to imaging Jupiter with FireCapture? With NINA and the Mak, I can't do the polar alignement and therefore use TPPA (it even fails with 30sec exposure), is this necessary, or do you point the planets directly with the object you're looking for in NINA? Obviously, I'm stuck for this step when I want to do lunar so i "manually" move the Mak as I coudln't figure out how to do that otherwise withot prcise goto as with deep sky imaging... Thanks for your advice, and if you could do a little focus on this “targeting” with such even higher focal lengths as on your C14, that would be great! I'm using NINA, FireCapture, but I just need to master this targeting step to get started! Philippe
Hi Philippe! Good news.. I recently did a video on this! th-cam.com/video/anDF_39fA_4/w-d-xo.html .. the only thing I don't do in the video is plate solve in NINA with the finder scope, but once it was setup, that was an easy next step :) The problem of course, is that you have to keep the digital finder scope 100% locked down .. if you bump it.. it won't be aligned.
For DSO stuff I'm a bit more pedantic .. but for lunar, solar and planetary it literally doesn't make a scrap of difference. If I lived in the city I'd be a planetary photographer full time! When I do DSO stuff, I turn off al the house lights near the obs :)
Great to see your son looking so happy and healthy!
Another video treat! As are others, I’m thoroughly enjoying your enthusiasm with the new rig. Your stuff is always a treat so it’s nice to get more! Bravo!
Thanks! Still just having a lot of fun! My asteroid impact detection stats are definitely going up this season too :)
Currently my biggest telescope is a Questar 3.5 so I’ve learned to be a big fan of Jupiter. Looking forward to more from you and your massive aperture.
Woah its really cool seeing Jupiter's Moons as discs with surface mottling! Please make lots of videos on the C14, it's a real treat. Thank you, and wishing you and your family a merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Thanks! And Merry Christmas :)
Hey Dylan. Love watching your journey with the 14”. Wishing you and the family a Happy Christmas 🙂
Thx .. merry Christmas buddy !
Merry X-Mas, too! 🎉@@DylanODonnell
Christmas is a pagan tradition. Jesus wanted us to celebrate the "Passover", but people celebrate Christmas instead. The Passover, through which we can get eternal life, was abolished by the devil. The devil abolished the Passover and the Sabbath, cunningly changed it to Christmas and Sunday worship. If someone wishes you a "Merry Christmas", unfortunately, they are cursing you unknowingly.
"There is no word 'Christmas' in the Bible.
The Bible has no record of Jesus' birthday.
Jesus' disciples never celebrated Christmas."
🎄= 🚫
Maybe 18 years ago, out in the desert south of Phoenix at a star party the gang (well, mainly me) woke up and found Jupiter straight up. In the 16" dob and the 11" NexStar Jupiter was showing detail I've never seen before or since. Totally spoiled me right there.
Awesome to see you having fun with the C14! I learned planetary before DSO imaging. Of all phases of astrophotography, I love acquisition the most. Though spellbinding, DSO imaging feels like an immense patience game, scooping up all that dim light with long exposures, and if it goes smoothly, one is either very tranquil or sleeps through much of it. Planetary, which requires a last phase of visual centering and focusing, waiting for peak altitude and seeing and maxing out the FPS, feels more like a hunt. One has to be there and active for all of it to get the capture. In either case, it’s amazing we can even do these things. Look forward to future C14 adventures. Cheers!
You bet Shiraz that Dylan loves Jupiter the most!
Happy to see you diving into a new aspect of AP... looking forward to the progress and beautiful images.
Thanks mate !
It's great to see an experienced astrophotographer work through a new system (planetary) because I can use your learnings right along side my own.
Keep up the great progress!
Thanks for the update! Heading in the right direction for sure. Can't wait for more of your work!
Fantastic man, these are looking really good!
Fun, educational and informative, thank you Dr Dylan and Merry Christmas to all
I have a C11 nexstar. At 69, it is all that I can handle mounting. I would have gotten a C14, but reality sets in, and I am satisfied with it. Have it mounted in a homemade dome. Good views of the planets and DSO's. Holds collimation well. Merry Christmas to you and your family
Love love love it! As mentioned in the comments of your earlier videos on your EHD14, I had also within the last year bought a used EDH14 but without a mount that could manage it reliably. Well about the time you posted your first video I also had taken receipt of an Astro-Physics Mach2GTO that I have been on the waiting list for 2 years for. Necessary components required! Now because of this fortuitous timing on my part, any time I find myself racking my brain on some particular detail and scouring the forums, then you pop up with on the next video you put out and answer my question ( as I am basically just following you along). All that said please don't spare any details, they are nuggets of gold!
As a side note, and something more detail than most will care about, I have found that as often as I have been collimating with this thing, I have really come to dislike "Bob's knobs" as they don't seem accurate enough. I have instead gone with a hex head bolt and teflon washer on my collimation screws and I love it! Visualizing 1/8 of a rotation is so much easier to see with a hex wrench than it is to "feel" with the knob. Lastly, on my wish-list of DoD videos would be to see you use "metaguide" to collimate with. I feel like I'm getting great results with a star collimation but have heard that the metaguide collimation can really nail the detail. As of now I haven't had a lot of success with it seeing the "airy disk" even when I think my collimation is nailed. Anyway... Thanks again for dragging me along!
Very awesome, Dylan! Great vid:)
Thx Tammy!
That 14 is awesome. Great work mate. 😃👍🍷
Cheers man ! 🍻
Great images. Ahhhh a C14 ....... one day 🤞
Awesome result, mate!
Happy holidays and healthy new year, Dylan & entourage! :)
Fantastic image of Jupiter!
My friend, the late HJP Douglas Arnold of Space Frontiers Ltd & Sol Invictus was a professional photographer and astro imager with his Astrophysics 7" f9 Starfire refractor. He wrote books on astro photography and he explained as does Ed Ting, that it takes hard work and years to master imaging and that is certainly true given the complexity of what you demonstrated in your podcast with Jupiter, so that is why I'm a visual observer only however, I have such great respect and admiration for people like yourself and others who manage to capture and process those fabulous images if the night sky.
Seeing is key with the planets! Probably my best shot of Jupiter is a single image taken "on the fly" with my 6'' SE while preparing to point at something else. But it was one of those gorgeous nights when it is so easy because everything just worked out, seeing was unbelievable 🤩!
Merry Christmas Dylan !
p.s. that telescope looks HUGE, oh those hot summers i hope you are coping. Wow, jaw dropped when you explained how much work to "go to a planet".
Thanks for watching !
Super video 🎉
The surface detail on the moon was a treat
As a Chilean, I have to say that was an outrageous video: a bottle of wine with a twist-off cap instead of a cork, Cabernet Sauvignon in Australia when everyone expects a Syrah... but Jupiter looked great, though!
Haha I am fond of a Carménère also.
@@DylanODonnell Great taste, my friend! A toast to an incredible Jupiter image with your Celestron 14-what a perfect pairing of fine wine and celestial wonders!
Excellent stuff Dylan!
Great results on all the images.
Thank you!
Great stuff mate! Keep up the amazing work!
That dome is super cool
Nice work! Weather and seeing here have been rubbish, my one C14 excursion at Jupiter opposition was pretty terrible (and freezing cold). Glad you're getting some great results! Happy Holidays all!
Bloody awesome mate hmmm I think I'm gonna have to sell some body parts for a C14, hope you all have a great Christmas & look forward to catching up with more of your content in the new year.
Very nice! In case we don't hear of you anymore this year: merry christmas, happy newyear and clear skies to you and the family Dylan!
Merry Christmas to you also!
Great video my friend!!! Merry Christmas
A big telescope for a big planet! Great results.
Thanks !
Awesome - I'd love to see more on the workflow/processing with the Registax alternatives once you figure out what works best for you.
Thx! Yes there might be something as I dog deeper.
DIG!
Soon your name will be up there with Peach and Go! Keep at it mate.
Oh wow that Moon surface detail!!?? Incredible!! Dylan I'm currently saving for an 11" SCT but in my heart I know I will never be truly satisfied until I own the 14" version! ( or will I be?? I've seen a now discontinued Meade 16" SCT! 🤩 LOL that aperture fever is contagious mate! 😂 )
Love your enthusiasm for your new 'scope, it's always super exciting when we get a new piece of gear, especially a new 'scope! And as always thank you for the awesome content my friend!
Wes, Liverpool, England.
The 11 is great too and honestly I could’ve pushed it harder for planets. I definitely did some of my best work on the 11! Thanks for all your support Wes!
@@DylanODonnell Aww thanks for the encouragement/advice Dylan! I can't wait to get the 11" early next year! And you most certainly did produce some gorgous results with your 11"! 😊👍
I'm in the same boat Dylan. Back in August I found a used C14 and I've been working on planetary since. Seeing is everything in this game and most of the time it is crap here in Wisconsin. I look forward to watching your journey.
Bella toma y procesado de Júpiter amigo saludos desde comayagua Honduras
I have been doing plantery, on and off, for the last 10 years (limited by financial constraints - 11inch is the best I can afford). It's often a grind process but rewarding if conditions are right; telescope temperature equilibrium (the hardest to get right, but most important), collimation, image train, and of course atmosphere stabilisationm, seeing and transparency, (this is very frustrating in our part of the world). Chris Go lives near the equator, so little to no jet stream and, of course, less atmosphere to penetrate (insert innuendo 😂) However, the benefits of planetary is light pollution interfears very little with imaging because of the short exposures required. Post processing is a very individualistic process, take the same data and i bet each person you give it to will produce different results. Same as DSO, i suppose. Great to see you dipped your toe into plantery, look forward to seeing more on what you produce
Shiraz is the ideal varietal for making Hungarian goulash, but a Belgian Ale is superior for planetary imaging. Good job !
I'm a white person myself. I don't mind a good sav blanc myself, which is Australia's other national drink
Those images look amazing! Well done!
Thanks !
Hi Dylan. I'm so pleased that I subscribe to your podcast because it allows me to see what I can not do, "astro-photography with a very big telescope". I have been subscribed to Damien Peaches podcast for a while however, your images are still nonetheless, very impressive and painfully beautiful. I'm more a visual observer and I have an Altair Astro 102mm f11 Starwave refractor and a Istar 150mm f8 R35 refractor and two very old Prinz Astral refractor telescopes that are 44 and 50 years old.
Keep up the great work. Kind regards.
Wayne Scott from England 🇬🇧 UK.
Stoked you are getting into planets with your kit / process, for me, I really like visuals observing them, If I can only get my 18" obsession on a tracking mount....
I vote Dec 22nd. Thank you for sharing all the work it take to produce a picture. It scares me from going down the astrophotography route so I'll sticking to visual.
Thank you Dylan for the educational video. I happen to use a skywatcher 180 maksutov and the images of the Celestron are amazing.
Hey thanks !
Nice video Dylan and perfect timing. I'm taking delivery of my Skymax 127 mak scope tomorrow followed soon after by a 2x focal extender. I’ve decided to have a go at planetary after spending the last 3 years in DSO territory. Of course I wont be able to compete with your rig, but I'm looking forward to the challenge.
Congrats! Honestly knowing what I know now I reckon I could've done better work with the C11 even.
Beautiful!
Sitting in windy, rainy Seattle (on the longest night of the year), thoroughly enjoying your latest video (as well as, by coincidence, a tumbler of a quite tasty Washington state Cab), I raise my glass in the general direction of Australia. Cheers, mate!
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@@DylanODonnell Cheers guys! Another sad rainy Seattle here. I'm starting to feel that my telescope hates me, it's been so long we've been out.
Rainy seattle here 🫡 god damn clouds for weeks
Really appreciated this. I recently got an EdgeHD8" that I have been trying planetary imaging on and the first few nights just trying to get the planets in the FOV was a pain. I had a spare 200mm guide scope and an ASI120mm-s laying around and set it up last night and once I got the scope aligned with the guide scope I was able to get the target on sensor every time. Also appreciate the tip on the NINA plugin. Now I'm sure you are aware of this, but in the off chance you aren't, SharpCap has a "live stacking" feature for planets which seems to do a great job and I don't have to mess about with post stacking or even much post processing. Obviously, take that with a grain of salt as I am new to planetary imaging (been doing DSO for about 5 years now) so it isn't taking much to impress me at the moment. Anyway, cheers and please let us know any other tips and tricks that us n00bs can use.
I’m not even going to try and make some lame joke such as “He plugs Shiraz and chugs Cab” or something
That’s just objectively a beautiful image.
Well done!
Awesome image Dylan. Merry Christmas
Thanks Craig! 🍻
WELDONE MATE!
YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND.
I APPRECIATE YOUR EXTRAORDINARY IMAGES OF JUPITER!
MANY BLESSINGS,
A. SORAYA
🔮🍹🔭🎁✨🎄🎅❄️🌎
Thank you!
😊
Damn those images are fantastic. Details on moons of Jove..awesome. ❤
Thanks !
Hell yeah right before sleep some star stuff
Sleep well :)
Hold on, hold on... that's no Shiraz! But it is a nice shot of Ganymede, so congrats for that.
Well done possum, awesome setup you have now, the dome, the scope, the automation process, one can only follow your progress with admiration and eagerly await your next upload... I remember seeing Jupiter live through my LS"6 and a simple meade LPG colour camera for the first time back in 2015... I had no idea how to really use the fire capture software back then, but there's just something mesmerising about seeing the plants and their moons live on screen....
The 10inch LX850 f8 ota arrived this week... In the words of the film JAWS "your gonna need a bigger boat"... I'm gonna need a bigger mount,,,, so now to slowly build a new setup over 2025... 😊 Happy Christmas Mr D & Family... May the star God's now forgive you for all those 14 inches before marriage 😂😅😂😊
Haha thanks Jez! Good luck with your 2025 goals!
Well done mate, your kicking goals.
Damo
Cheers man!
4:23 is the best part!
"with a glass of Shiraz cos it's out national wine" ... goes out an buys a Cabernet .... sigh
great images, what an awesome scope.
I told YOU to go get a shiraz 😂
@@DylanODonnell I was instantly queued on the same observation as @Rostol, but I see now you are just working your export business - all is forgiven.
Great video Dylan. I believe Damian Peach used to put damp beer towels over his tube to cool it down. Jus' saying...
Nice :)
...but that was a Cabernet Sauvignon!
That was a brilliant video. I started with planetary astrophotography (ETX-90 from a London balcony, so kind of an easy choice over DSO), but struggled to get back into it, but the NINA plugin, FireCapture, tracking and the way you stacked got me all excited about planetary imaging again. I'll have to read the manual to my ADC, dust off the old QHY5III485 and hook up the C9.25.
I'd also like to add that the New Zealand Syrah is not to be scoffed at either.
I know the Central Otago Pino Noir is all the rave, but I'd say a Hawke's Bay Syrah beats it most days.
Your getting some great results Dylan!. The planetary stuff is a whole different ball game right. I would recommend giving Sharpcap's Planetary tracking/stacking/enhancement feature a go.
Its very good. And fast!. If nothing else you can use it for checking seeing without diving in and out of other programs.
I will definitely give it a spin thx :)
I love how different planetary is from deep sky. Same sky, totally different equipment, software, techniques, level of effort. I got Venus and Saturn last night and while they aren't good, its still so cool to see. Thanks for taking the time and effort to bring us along on your journey with the c14
So true !
Awesome work, love the video and the results!
Does the C14 come with 5/5 seeing out of the box or is that available as a separate purchase? 😊
Question on the focus points per filter: how does it deal with focuser backlash? Does firecapture have overshoot backlash? Or does it rely on absolute focuser backlash set in the ASCOM driver (which would be annoying)?
Hey Cuiv! Since swapping to the esatto so the focuser is in the image train I think backlash is effectively zero. That’s what I set it to in NINA when I did DSO and it worked a treat!
@DylanODonnell oooooh right I had forgotten! Esatto for the win! I was thinking of people using an EAF (gasp!) on the main focusing knob (ugh!) with mirror flop and shift (barf!)
@@CuivTheLazyGeek yeh that’s why this auto guide and auto run for me is a game changer .. set the focus points per filter .. hit go… walk away! Used to be a fight with the EAF!
@@DylanODonnell for real, the results are insane, you make me want to spend on a C11 (because C14 is for insane people :) )
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Hello from France 👋
We can't do better than that visually with such a diameter??? 😳😳 Good work.
Astronomy juice. Yay!
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Some pretty amazing images with that giant mutherscope! ya know it’s actually pretty darn cool when you use your eye to watch a transit happen in real time, try it one day.
But then I’d need to put an eyepiece on. Hehe
@ Try it! not like your nads will drop off, you may enjoy it.
No Barlow! Love it, thanks.
Fully native! No underpants !
Thank you! While a 2D stacked photo of Jupiter is nice to frame on your wall, some of us prefer the spirtual connection you get viewing photons real time via a glass lens. Next, try shooting The Trapezium Cluster of stars A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H1, H2, and I?
How about a 3D stereogram animation?
Props 👏
Nice video, and good results...maybe someday I also need a massive scope
I have seen many people use some one shot color cams to do planetary nowadays, they have gotten so good that noise isnt really a problem anymore, maybe that could make processing much more enjoyable and easy?
Particularily one of the best planetary imagers I have seen on discord uses a OSC cam, so I think it is worth it to investigate a bit
Yeh it’s certainly easier with OSC!
Picture looked great. Did you do any time-lapse of Jupiter rotating?
Just fascinating new ground covered every video. Its quite daunting to for total novices such as myself to even begin to comprehend. I mean, OK, I'm no novice to technology, but total novice to all the intricate details of telescopes and getting them "just right". I think thats why I opted word "astrophlebotomy", was trying to create a mental metaphor, even if it wasnt a good one ---- a blood draw at clinic where kids just cant sit still in the chair. Aperture could be varying needle widths. Exposure could be how long to keep taking the blood. Angle of attack and looking for "hard to locate veins" like finding a star in a haystack dusty nebula...
Hah I like it !
I prefer Chateau Wuga Wuga over the Shiraz. The bottle neck is nicely formed, suitable for hand-to-hand combat, and the wine itself really opens up the sluices at both ends.
Awesome, the wine I mean, Jupiter looks ok to 😉
Hehe
Amazing!!! I know it would be a pain in the ass, but a comparison video done with a color camera would be nice. Who knows, you might convince some of us one shot color apes to switch and generate some hightpoint link sales ;)
Mars is out there as well. Might as well include it as well
Lovely shot Dylan. Scope looks like its really delivering. I've just about given up on getting anything good this entire season in Melbourne....seeing has been consistently rubbish at best. No wonder the Great Melbourne Telescope fell into disuse back in the day.......
nice work...haven't seen a star here in Michigan for 2 months.
Heh it’s been bad here too!
Try an ASI678 one shot colour camera, the tiny pixels are giving me good results even though I've only got a C8, an atmospheric dispersion corrector can help too, but it would require you to be more hands on through the night
Yeh an ADC would be essential .. my seeing is so poor I tend to use R or G as lum though to get a better result.
Excellent video. I appreciated getting a sense of your workflow. Your enthusiasm is evident, so have fun with it! Off topic: what do you usually play in response to 1 d4?
Thanks! Good question.. I dabbled in Caro but I alternate to Sicilian sometimes and I don’t truly understand either !
Merry Christmas mate. How are you handling that East coast jet stream? I think Damien and Chris use cold packs to help bring down the temperature of the tube quicker from memory. Congrats on the 14" it's a bloody beast. I don't envy your mount.
Yeh some nights are terrible! The jet stream moves off sometimes tho. I should try ice!
@@DylanODonnell I'm sure I remember a BBC interview with Damien where he talks about ice or cold packs on his scope. I'm not really doing any astro stuff anymore and haven't for near 3 years now - more into bird photography. It's too much of a p.i.t.a to set up the scope every night, then tear it down etc. No chance of a observatory for a variety of reasons, and my house block is really BAD in terms of seeing the sky. 2 bright street lights directly to the South (for a small 50m long cul de sac). Ipswich council screwing crap up. I asked for a review and was told that the lumens were acceptable range and pedestrians were more important than me wanting to view the night sky to the South. Even the bright stars of crux are basically invisible. I wonder how they'd feel if I refused to pay my land rates...
Striving.
Super!
Planetary is easy. Capturing the ISS is the real deal. :)
Have you given Sharpcap's planetary wavelet sharpening a try yet? I've used it on the moon and it looks great. I don't have a scope for planetary atm.
Looking great! Curious how much work it would be to make a color animation with a mono camera.
It’s a bit time consuming .. but possible ! And the results are amazing.
Doing planetary with a mono cam and filters- is a difficulty level I haven't tried yet.
It's like when osc imaging stuff on my poor seeing - light polluted sky wasn't masochistic enough, there is another level to it I have yet to explore. 😄
Hehe I find it easier with mono. The edges and clarity is just so much better in the pure red channel.
Dylan, in AutoStakkert, you really don’t need more than about 40 alignment points. Your processing will speed up markedly.
Thanks! The AP stack bit doesn’t really take any time at all. A few seconds. It’s analysing the 2gb 16bit file over the network that is the biggest bottleneck.
@ the other issue I’ve found, when using too many APs, is a mosaic effect - like AS ‘clips’ a portion of a frame out. When using wavelets, the surrounding box of the clip is IMMEDIATELY apparent.
It’s an effect that happens regularly to me on stacked lunar landscapes, but also occasionally on planets if my AP points are too small.
On my CPC1100 and ASI678 camera, I’ve pretty much settled on an AP size of 72px with a target of between 35 and 45 points.
With a C14, YMMV.
Outstanding results, and interesting to follow your process. I will steal as much as I can. Please stop sleeping and crank out some more videos quick!
Wow 👍
Our little house in Spain is great for clear skies but council put up lots of high intensity(energy saving!!!) street lights .On the plus side red wine at 14.5 % is 8 euros for 5 litres..
the good thing is that light pollution doesn't really make a difference for planetary :)
I'm using One-Shot colour, so maybe this won't work for mono, but - why not do the focusing on a star? Much more controllable surely? It works for me anyway. All the best!
It's actually Saturn. My telescope is a 3.5 incher.
Nice Jupiter.
Everything is beautiful.
How about deep sky mosaics? Just imagine the details you can get with this beast.
Hah true !
oww yeah,thats how big scopes performance..lovely. happy christmas all !!!
Merry Christmas !
Hello Dylan,
Thank you and bravo for this tutorial, it's always good to understand ALL the steps!
I've started planetary, well, lunar (but I'm also interested in big planets), because until now I've only done deep sky.
For this use (on top of my refractors dedicated to deep sky and my RC8), I have an AZ EQ6, a Mak 180, and a 200mm focal length Svbony guide scope fitted with an ASI 220MM, I've struggled to get the same field of view, it's not perfect but I'm not far off.
On the other hand, I didn't understand in the video what you use to Goto and target Jupiter on top of the camera dedicated to imaging Jupiter with FireCapture?
With NINA and the Mak, I can't do the polar alignement and therefore use TPPA (it even fails with 30sec exposure), is this necessary, or do you point the planets directly with the object you're looking for in NINA?
Obviously, I'm stuck for this step when I want to do lunar so i "manually" move the Mak as I coudln't figure out how to do that otherwise withot prcise goto as with deep sky imaging...
Thanks for your advice, and if you could do a little focus on this “targeting” with such even higher focal lengths as on your C14, that would be great!
I'm using NINA, FireCapture, but I just need to master this targeting step to get started!
Philippe
Hi Philippe! Good news.. I recently did a video on this! th-cam.com/video/anDF_39fA_4/w-d-xo.html .. the only thing I don't do in the video is plate solve in NINA with the finder scope, but once it was setup, that was an easy next step :) The problem of course, is that you have to keep the digital finder scope 100% locked down .. if you bump it.. it won't be aligned.
Shiraz, yes please....but, but you grabbed the cab sauv? Helps focus the red channel better?
Both faves .. and Merlot !
during your time-lapse I noticed the light bleed thru on the dome, ever thought about flocking the inside of the observatory?
For DSO stuff I'm a bit more pedantic .. but for lunar, solar and planetary it literally doesn't make a scrap of difference. If I lived in the city I'd be a planetary photographer full time! When I do DSO stuff, I turn off al the house lights near the obs :)