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Sunday evening found me back in the dome with the solar gear swapped over to white light. You might be surprised how many times I have failed to find the Moon. Through a telescope still equipped with solar filters from the fun and games earlier in the day. 
The
ZWO camera was able to detect the moon this time but utterly failed to
show Saturn again. I captured a series of 1000 frame videos of different
areas of the Moon. With no clue as to whether the results would be
worth processing. There was, to put it mildly, considerable movement and
distortion of the lunar features on the big screen. All the videos are
still on the laptop so I need to transfer them to the SSD.
Monday
morning at 33F is bright and clear but with the car covered in ice as
testament to a chilly night. I shall be back in the dome if it continues
clear. Yesterday was almost continuous cloud.My first slew to the sun was hopelessly poor despite having just synced the parking position as usual.
45F
@ 11.30am. I have been letting the mounting follow the sun's upper limb
in H-alpha with 2.4m focal length and the ZWO camera.49F @ 13.00. The cloud turned up so I processed last evening's moon videos while I waited. As usual, I am amazed at the increase in quality compared with the stills from the video. They are by no means high quality but just satisfying enough to warrant continuing.
The moon was very low indeed and just above the roof of our home. All these images are using the 7" f/12 iStar refractor with the ZWO120MC fitted with the Baader Solar Continuum filter. Captured in SharpCap, processed in Registax 6.2 and recoloured in PhotoFiltre7.
Click on any image for an enlargement.
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