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Alexandru Barbovschi
Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
07/24/2021
02:00 am

Equipment Details:

Sky-Watcher Star-Adventurer
Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED (72/420mm)
ZWO EFW
Baader LRGB filter set
Barlow 3x
ZWO ASI174mm / ASI120MM-S

Post-processing Details:

Cropped and centered using PIPP
Stacked using cvAstroAlign
Sharpened using RegiStax
Tweaked using RawTherapee
LRGB assembled using ImageMagick and GIMP
Final tweaking using RawTherapee

Image Details:

Atmospheric seeing is crucial in obtaining good results. That evening we got temperature below 20 and steady air, allowing me to obtain great recordings of the two planets! With such a small telescope (72mm aperture) it's incredible to get such fine details. I tried both of my planetary astrocameras. ASI174MM has bigger pixels (5.86um), which is why the scale is smaller compared to ASI120MM-S which has got smaller pixels (3.75um). But the fidelity with the first camera is higher and it was easier to process. Check it out on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2mewxbf