Titan transit in a sucker hole, wall of clouds!

This was the best I could do in wayyyy less than average seeing and very poor transparency!

 

 

Keen eyed among you might see the starcrossed collimation in the lower left, I'm not convinced my astig is gone and that a new spider en-route might solve this conundrum!

 

Saturn with Titan transit animation

Previous seasons - Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog: Saturn - all Mike's active years (astromaphilli14.blogspot.com)

Rest of this seasons’ albums will be placed here:

2024

• Imgur - https://imgur.com/a/BtRPDvO 

• Google Photos - https://photos.app.goo.gl/hABBNtPAfVwgB45V8

M27 Dumbbell

M27 Dumbbell

Akule CCD Equipment H/W

* Type: Custom Home Built Newtonian (https://astromikephillips.wixsite.com/home/mikesastronomyequipment)

* Aperture: 35.6cm (14")

* Focal Ratio: f/4.5 + 5x TeleVue Powermate at 0.078"/px | 9,109mm EFL

* Primary Mirror: Carl Zambuto 14" f/4.5

* Mount: iOptron CEM-120

* Imaging Camera: SBIG STF-8300M (monochrome)

** Pixel scale:1.34 arcsec/pixel

* Color Filter Wheel: Starlight Xpress 7 Position 1.25" Carousel for Starlight Xpress USB Filter Wheel

* Filters: Baader Planetarium LRGB Telescope Filter Set, Baader H-Alpha 7nm Narrowband Filter

* Guiding: Teleskop-Service TS9-OAG off axis guider

* Guide Camera: ZWO ASI-290M

Akule CCD Processing S/W

* OS: Lenovo T470s - Win10

* Acquisition: NINA Advanced Sequence

** Exposures:

L= 9 x 5m   | R= 3 x 5m

G=  2 x 5m   | B=   3 x 5m

Total = 85min

     1h : 25m

* Processing: DeepSkyStacker -> PhotoShop -> Gimp