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By Adreneline · Posted
Very nice result. Can you provide an insight into the equipment used? Adrian -
By teoria_del_big_bang · Posted
Only time I had this was after a bearing replacement and it would stall when slewing but I could jog the axis okay at speeds only just below full speed (messed about with speeds in EQMOD and it was only at absolute top speed it stalled. It was due to putting too much pre-load on the taper bearings. What I was wondering was if you had jog speed set lower than full speed that's why it might have worked but not when slewing but sounds a different issue. It does sound like a software issue but very strange. I am not sure what this will prove but in APT you can type a position to slew to manually. Then you could type the current position into Ra so that doesn't move and type a position to go to in Dec then press GoTo. Then only Dec should move, in fact is should be no different to when jogging with gamepad. If that fails to work then looks like the issue is between APT and EQMOD. Like I say doesn't help a lot but at least you can sort issue out during daylight (hopefully). Steve -
By cloudsweeper · Posted
Hell, Olly - if that ^^^^ doesn't win over some converts, nothing will! Now, what's a good camera to start with? 😉 Doug. -
By ollypenrice · Posted
I liked your post very much and many points resonated with me. This last one, though, misses a key point about astrophotography and, more specifically, about image processing, which is (for me) the most rewarding part. Your choice of the term 'intimacy' is an excellent one, but it applies just as perfectly to image processing as it does to visual observing. It's a different kind of intimacy, sure, but it's a closely related one. Our data often contains the merest hints of signal just above the background sky and who knows what faint structures might lie, tantalizingly, within that signal? They might be tidal tails from ancient interactions, they might be vast extensions of better known and brighter nebulae, they might be ghostly outer spiral arms rarely seen or they might be traces of the Interated Flux Nebulosity. Then again, careful sharpening might find new structural details on the finest scales. The object becomes a friend, gradually revealing more of itself, providng answers yet posing new questions. What, for example, might the source of that particle wind which must surely be sweeping through Orion from the west, imploding the western side of Barnard's Loop and shaping the Meissa Nebulosity? No visual observation can know even that this phenomenon exists because it is both too large and too faint for any eyepiece yet for me, processing an Orion image, it became a source of fascination, an intimate interaction with that constellation. I don't feel I know an object until I've imaged it. Looking at someone else's image doesn't work. I need to work through the data processing to feel confident that I know it. Olly -
By Nigella Bryant · Posted
Hope you don't mind but I did try and sharpen things up on your image.
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'rah'! - finally, I was able to spot Comet W2 AFRICANO sailing through Andromeda. Managed to get a few widefield images of it but sadly through high level cloud and brightening moonlight that rather spoilt an otherwise good night with my little 66mm Altair Astro Lightwave scope. Will have a go tomorrow at processing what I gathered tonight. Weather forecast for Lowestoft over the next couple of days is quite poor so I need to make the best of my blurry images as I'm unlikely to capture anymore anytime soon.· 0 replies
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Great to visit you last week Olly, I can thoroughly recommend Olly's website and his holidays.· 0 replies
Also what great hospitality and and an experience.
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I am sorry that the forum moderators did not remove “Goodmojo’s” posts denigrating your sale of your Vixen ED114S. This is the sort of stuff that drags down other forums and I am sad to see that it now going on here.· 1 reply
You are wise to rethink the Vixen’s sale, though. They are as rare as hen’s teeth and excellent quality for the money. You’d miss it if you sold it. Dual rig with your other 115mm apo?
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