The Evolution of imaging using the SV305C planetary camera. 3 months later of Imaging:

I have now used the Svbony SV305C planetary camera now. I have spent quite of time deep sky and planetary imaging with the versatile little camera. Great for deep sky and great for planetary actually. I have found that with planetary imaging with the 102mm Mak which has a native focal length of 1325mm using a 3X barlow seems to produce great planetary images with lots of detail and great color with this camera. Deep sky is more flexible but I found using around 70 percent gain (350 gain) on this camera with short exposures seems to creat optimal captures of small DSO targets with my little wide field 80mm Orion short tube refractor at 350mm focal length. And yes the noise floor is so low I almost do not even need to use dark frames for either anymore! My old T7C astrocam was so noisy in comparison and dark frames was a must!

So lets explore my latest planetary captures first and then we will delve into some deep sky stuff. One thing I found from my original articles is that was using the wrong PSF size in dec weiner convulution in Astrosurface during processing so the captures off the planets you see will be much better. Also yes the 3X barlow definately helps especially with Jupiter and distributes and reduces the brightness making image detail much better and seems to create the optimal F ratio. Very important concept to keep in mind that I did not intially use in the my 2 reviews.

Anyways here are some of my newest captures of the planets.