14 February 2002

First attempt at the Sun. Thousand Oaks filter on 8" SCT with f6.3 focal reducer, Webcam and 30mm eyepiece using eyepiece projection. 5fps, 1/1000 second, 10% gain, best 20 from 300 frames stacked. Indoor white balance used.

Sunspot regions 9824 & 9825 Feb 14 2002. Webcam at prime focus of 8"SCT (with Thousand Oaks solar filter) using f6.3 focal reducer. 5fps 1/1000 second 10% gain. Auto white colour balance used but this resulted in a greyscale appearance - colour balance restore in paintshop pro - single frame only.

Saturn 14 Feb 2002, Toucam Pro at prime focus of 8"SCT f10 with 2x barlow, Video captured with QCfocus at 5fps, 50 sharpest frames selected and summed with AstroVideo, Default unsharp mask 5 with AstroStack, contrast stretch & gamma correction in PaintshopPro.

Jupiter 14 Feb 2002 showing Io - GRS was not in view at the time, Toucam Pro at prime focus of 8"SCT f10 with 2x barlow, Video captured with QCfocus at 5fps, 50 sharpest frames selected and summed with Astrovideo, Default unsharp mask 7 and default deconvolution LR 1 with AstroStack.