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Hi, So here is a stacked file with what I deemed were the naughty frames out. Looks much better and the star shapes look a lot more regular. This is still a work in progress but now my nights work looks like it might bear some fruit. Thanks, -
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Very attractive and I do prefer the Hubble when the processing keeps away from green like this. Olly -
Beautiful gentle colours David, lovely taming of the stars -
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ok I see it also depend on your climate too, there are many factors in this hobby, I guess you can try wrapping it as others suggest see if that helps joejaguar -
I have been using refractors and dew heaters for 9 years and only time I had dew was when my dew heater failed. I also had a SW130PDS for 2 years and never had dew on that either, but I was worried it could happen so I always had it inside an obervatory eitehr at home or a camping observatory and additionally drapped dew heaters around the tube (either side of the focusser), not sure if that helped or not. My refactors have been out on the camping field loads of times and with dew heaters I never get a problem with dew. Carole
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Well despite the clouds, rain and wind a few captures of Mercury were made. Now to process them....· 0 replies
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Funny sort of night here on the east coast. Too much moonlight, too much cloud, fireworks and then rain. In between I captured a few widefield snaps of ngc7000. Unfortunately my dslr, intervalometer and staradventurer mount were rained upon when a sudden 'squall' took me by surprise and terminated my imaging session. Have dried everything and all appears well with my kit. An Intervaluometer can get the unwary astronomer into 'cold' water!· 0 replies
Night night stargazers hope your evening went better.
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Hi couple of weeks ago we talking about using a DSLR on my explorer 150.Camera is a canon 40D bit old i know,i have the attachments the Canon eos ring and the T piece. no i experimented in the garden just on a tv antenna which was a success,photo enclosed.Now i tried on the Moon this evening,between clouds and was a total failure,no way could i get it into focus,i tried 2 methods one with T piece direct into telescope eye piece and again with a barlow,both failed.Is it poss i may need a extension tube to get focus?.Telescope is non motor at the moment.Sorry to be a nuisance. Regards derek· 23 replies
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