My "OMG I GOT A NEW CAMERA" catchup!

Going from the old SBIG8300 to the IMX455 Zeus camera or really just getting a new camera  forced me to rethink how long I sit on old stacks before calling them done or ready to publish.  Here's a grand total of 38 new images, some recent, some as old as 2014+ when the camera was new.  Mostly B&W and some small at 2x2 binned in the 8300.  Enjoy!

Congrats, you made it to the end!  Hopefully more and better quality coming with the new camera, which was your favorite?  Come drop a line on my site - https://astromikephillips.wixsite.com/home

Growing catalog of  Galaxies are here:

    Google Photos = https://photos.app.goo.gl/rW21YSiQb7yGnBzd6

    Imgur - https://imgur.com/a/LbziC

Other deep sky objects: https://astromikephillips.wixsite.com/home/deepskyobjects

Mike P in NC

Finally got average seeing, AND and Io transit, AND on a non work night!

I have been under 1/5 and 2/5 seeing forecasts for so long I was excited to see 3/5 on the forecast, especially with clear skies AND on a Friday WITH an Io Transit. 

The seeing was in an out of avg with some real moments of almost good, so I gave it a 3+/5

I gave the night a good solid 50x RGB runs and kept the best 8.

Deroated and composited. 

My winter galactic fun

 I always love the longer winter nights, they're cold and there's tons of my favorite DSO to observe.  Galaxies to me are all so unique and far away!

Here's NGC2336, with specs: Dist:90–100 MLY, Size:7.1′×3.9′, Mag:10.3 V, Type:SAB(r)bc (barred spiral)

NGC 3359-2026-01--19-20-21-L

 I need a new camera, my SBIG8300M is dying and causing issues staying connected all night and now that it's 14years old I'm looking for a good full frame mono and an upgrade to my 1.25" LRGB filters!  I'm open to recos, TIA!

I also need to rework my processing routine, I didn't include here but used Deepskystacker

M109 in my home built 14" with SBIG8300m

I really am ready for a full frame upgrade, but have been trying to hone my DSO skills with NINA and my OAG, which makes finding a guide star hard, but that's a topic for another day.  

I was quite pleased with how this came out with a 1:1 ratio of Lum and R, G and B

3rd Interstellar comet - 3I/Atlas

 I  stayed up really late to get this as I am not ready to set alarms for MPC/Comet/Deep sky... no reason other than I get to stay up late!

Any way, I snuck in some color and included the Tycho Tracker measurements too!

Thanks and enjoy!

Arp 285 (an interacting pair), and Arp 1

 I've been using AI to gather the infoblocks in my images and found quite a lot of inconsistencies with these, but the contrast in morphology in this single frame is amazing, I love the barred spiral near the face on spiral!  It's like finding sea shells in the sky!!!

More galatic fun! A 3 for...

 

NGC 2841 (Flocculent spiral) - Dist:46.0 MLY, Size:8.1′×3.5′, Mag:10.1, Type:SAa

One of the things I love to see the results of but don't actually like doing is putting in all the little fast facts and menuing.  I started working heavily with AI for work and home.  I decided it was time to automate this as well.  AI is quite good at researching the info on the blog title, scripting no so much so.  Between the object specs and exposure automation, I hope to burn down a LOT of DSO work I've been holding out on.  Lots in the past 2 years, such as this cool subject, NGC2841, but some going back to 2015 such as NGC210 (Incorrectly shot as NGC248 11 years ago).

ENJOY!

Growing catalog of  Galaxies are here:

    Google Photos = https://photos.app.goo.gl/rW21YSiQb7yGnBzd6

    Imgur - https://imgur.com/a/LbziC 

Saturn animation with subtle cloud details

I spent a long time learning wavesharp2 and am loving it.  It's quite flexible and the animations are superior to those I have been making with ImageMagick® (From <https://imagemagick.org/> ), which is scriptable and using my planetary automation techniques, so is wavesharp2 using AutoHotkey (From <https://www.autohotkey.com/> ).  I've not done it yet, but it's detailed here for AstraImage et al - https://astromaphilli14.blogspot.com/2023/12/overview-of-fully-automated-planetary.html 

Here's the recent bout of good but not great seeing and since I stayed up late instead of waking up early I got over 1hr of time on Saturn and I feel the animation is great, but the mirror needs cleaning and the skies could be steadier. 

Animations

…and in red…

Thanks for looking!