Simple planetary imaging start - capture and processing basics 

I like your clear and concise videos.

Wow, you’re doing super work for your local seeing conditions. I’m impressed with what a positive difference the ADC makes. I like how you say for viewers to test - so many variables. CS!

Thank you, that was really helpful. I'm just along the coast in Southampton and the seeing on average is poor. Especially over the last 9 months. Here's hoping the new season of planetary is better.

Another great instructional video. You explanations are perfect for people like me who learn better by knowing the background thinking and decision making that you use in your processing method. I recently got my first larger aperture telescope and chose the Celestron CPC after watching your videos. It just seemed like the right choice. I'm definitely happy with it. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for this, very useful. We have the same problems as I'm in Southampton!

Very awesome video, Ivana - Thank you so much for sharing it 🥰

love the 45 sec Myth ! good job, dont know till you try... im gonna sell my ASI120MC and look at the 662/585MC . looking forward to your next planet imaging. keep up the good work. cheers.

Great tutorial! Thanks!

You make some of the best instructional videos. Hopefully you are still planning on coming for the eclipse, I look forward to seeing your pictures. As for your weather challenges I live in the Seattle area and I feel your pain!

I'm not a planetary imager, but did find this a very interesting watch none the less. I live about three hundred or so miles further north from Brighton and the seeing is pretty awful here too, but the worst thing by far is the almost constantly cloudy skies at night. Since last September I've been averaging two clear nights a month when I have been able to capture any worthwhile data and even then it's usually only two or three hours worth a night. Nice final images by the way, hope the weather and seeing are better for you this coming season.

Nice advice Cellist. We live right next to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado USA. So I often have upper air turbulence to deal with. This year I will try a camera with larger pixels to see if that helps with focus.

Thanks for the tips, your planetary images are awesome 👌 saw you at the show but didn't get to say hello. All the best Astro grandad

I agree with all the camera models it's quite dizzying. Lots of good tips here and yes it's a fine line between overdoing an image. BTW I also found the Dyadic mode in Registax can work well. Cheers 👍

Amazing video - I found this really useful, thank you

Great video and nice final image. I gave up on planetary imaging years ago due to our terrible seeing conditions (I'm up on the north east coast of Scotland), but am starting to take an interest again to make use of my CPC1100 that I haven't used for at least 10 years. Still hoping to have a go at the ISS as well after watching your videos but that's going to be an even bigger challenge given my latitude.

Fantastic video Ivana, thanks for sharing your processes, definitely some great learning points 👌.

Excellent video, and I really like your advice to be empirical about things. Just see what works well and what doesn’t. And for the many Mac users who need to go Windows for planetary, to keep the costs down, consider the reconditioned market. Two years ago on Amazon we found a reconditioned Dell Latitude with an i7 processor, 16GB of ram, and 512 solid state memory for just under $400. I ran it with Sharpcap and for processing PIPP, AutoStakkert, and Registax. Then over to my Mac for Photoshop. As I mentioned in a comment to your setup video, I’m going to try planetary with my ASIAIR+ and AM5-being empirical-but maybe it will work. If it doesn’t, I’ll likely use my Dell and Sharpcap again. By the way, you didn’t mention PIPP. It is often recommended although hard to find online these days, but I can’t see the advantage of using it in a workflow prior to using AutoStakkert. Do you have any thoughts about that?

Great inspirational post for us long-time visual folks who are just entering the digital astrophotography world. Thank you 🙏🏼

Love your videos and i can sympathize with your seeing conditions as i have similar conditions! Just makes those few nights of good seeing all the more spectacular!

Always look forward to seeing what you have for us, I’m just getting started in Astrophotography and your insight has been useful to me. Thank you…

I have the 662 also, but I’ve only used it a couple of times (also on Jupiter) as I use the ASIAir which has a painfully slow frame rate even at low ROI. I’m a Mac user for lots of other reasons but I think I need to buy a cheap Windows laptop if I want to do planetary. I have no idea of the minimum specs required though. Great video full of useful tips. Thanks Ivana.

Very informative, thank you.

Saved! Thank you.

Why not using the ZWO capture soft ware ?

I have two manual alt-az mounts [AOK-AYO and Tele-Optic Giro]. Can I do planetary imaging with them?

Hi did you get to see the total solar eclipse after all??