Jupiter and Saturn with the ED80sf – August 9, 2021

Clouds. Week after week! At the beginning of August i had to try Jupiter and Saturn at the same day. Even with bad seeing conditions.

Astrofoto: Jupiter und Saturn, aufgenommen am 9. August 2021
▼ ED80sf | EOS M100(a) ’21   © 2021 Thomas Hanrath – Alle Rechte vorbehalten / All rights reserved

The Clear Sky Session

Astrophoto Saturn Jupiter Clear Sky 19.
July and August 2021 were two month with nights full of clouds.
Jupiter close to opposition and a 1st time test on my APO with ocularprojection at only 600mm with a 6mm ocular.

Jupiter

SOL Jupiter V1.0.1
▼ Vixen ED80sf | Canon EOS M100 ’21
 
© 2021 · Thomas Hanrath · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · no edits · no commercial use

Saturn

SOL Saturn V1.0.1
▼ Vixen ED80sf | Canon EOS M100 ’21
 
© 2021 · Thomas Hanrath · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · no edits · no commercial use

Apparent Dimension of Jupiter

Jupiter (August 8th 2020) with a distance of about 603.193.000 km to earth with an apparent size of about 48,9 arc seconds.

Lessons learned

I had major concerns about getting the planet into telescope with an 6mm lens.

I started without the ocular projection and made use of platesolving as i always do. 1st on a star cluster close to Polaris and 2nd on the object itself.

After that i changed to ocular projection and centered manually on Jupiter and Saturn in EKOS.

Technical overview of Astrophoto Saturn Jupiter Clear Sky 19

TelescopeVIXEN ED80sf
Focal Length600mm
Aperture ratio7.5
Erecting Lense–
Filter–
MountSkywatcher HEQ-5
Goto-ControlEKOS
Mount ControlINDI
Guiding Scope Focal Length–
Guiding Camera Chip–
Resolution of the Guiding Cam–
Guiding Software–
Dithering–
CameraCANON EOS M100(a)
Method Okularprojektion (6mm)
Camera angle0°
Camera ControlEKOS, INDI, Gphoto2
Photography Date 08.08.2021
Moonnot relevant
Exposure-Time Lights AVI 10.000 Frames
Sensitivityauto
Calibrationframes
Post Processing Date14.05.2021
Stacking, IntegrationPIPP, AutoStackert
Post Processing SoftwareAffinity Photo
Image EditingAffinity Photo
Capture PlaceKoblenz, Germany
LightpollutionBortle 5
Scattered lightstrong

Session details

TelescopeVIXEN ED80sf
Effective focal length600 mm
CameraCanon EOS M100(a)
MountSkywatcher HEQ5 Pro
Date of capture2021-08-09
Frames used2.000 of 10.000
Calibration frames–
SensitivityISO 800
Capture setupCamera intern
Processing date2021-08-09
Software stackAffinity Photo
LocationKoblenz, Rheinland
Focal ratiof/7,5
Image scale1,28 ″/px
Field of view128,0 × 85,3 ′

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