Jupiter Through My Telescope

Sweet video......not had my scope running right since my pc crashed. My Starshoot Autoguider won't work. The error says Ascom couldn't connect with pulse guiding. With the pc crash, guiding error, clouds, -0 temps,snow and wind it has been a rough Winter for for Astrophotos.

5 stars

Thank you!

I was seeing these almost every night in central Texas,
back in late Nov.
They aren't stars. I haven't noticed or looked for them
in a few months. There were two I could see simultaneously.
I have a Celestron CPC925 XLT, but didn't scope the objects.
I could tell from looking through bino's they aren't stars,
or I never seen stars with flashing lights like that.
Next few weeks I'll be out more with the scope, it's warming up now. If I see em, I'll image one with an Atik Titan CCD
and see what I get, and post it. No stacking I am guessing due to the flashing lights but with 15 frames a sec, maybe
catch a good frame. They are bizarre, maybe another sky watcher knows what these are?

I'm thinking....


you know.


.

I had a similar issue one time with PHD guiding; the solution was to turn off "use newer pulse guiding" under the telescope's ASCOM driver options. Maybe toggling that setting will help?

I'm thinking....


you know.


.

I got a telescope...



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(no, I really do)

I was seeing these almost every night in central Texas,
back in late Nov.
They aren't stars. I haven't noticed or looked for them
in a few months. There were two I could see simultaneously.
I have a Celestron CPC925 XLT, but didn't scope the objects.
I could tell from looking through bino's they aren't stars,
or I never seen stars with flashing lights like that.
Next few weeks I'll be out more with the scope, it's warming up now. If I see em, I'll image one with an Atik Titan CCD
and see what I get, and post it. No stacking I am guessing due to the flashing lights but with 15 frames a sec, maybe
catch a good frame. They are bizarre, maybe another sky watcher knows what these are?