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Looks like a Teddy bear in free fall ??🤔🤔 John

Thank you all, --- What medium did you use to sketch this? Is this with pencils? --- I have used black pencil on white paper. Scanning on the PC and editing by increasing or decreasing brightness/ exposure/ contrast etc.The sketch in the circle and finally the information and notes. Digital notepad on the kitchen table. In the mornings, I'll usually leave a note 😀

I got one of these 😁 Which enabled me to do this....... And yes that is the seestar tripod, cant wait to try it out now

Visiting Carmathen Cameras in West Wales today. Some interesting wood carvings outside as seen in the pictures.

That's what I usually do for planetary, put it through pipp but I always struggle to get it a surface anchor to work at pipp, unless I do something odd😂.

I should have added that I was using an Asiair, daft of me to forget that!

Another once in a lifetime thing so had to try 😁

Amazing images. That first one is breathtakingly beautiful. except for the moon and sun it looks like nebula. Do you mind if save a copy and share it with the members of my local astro society? They'll love it.

Bedfordshire may just be ok until it's dark, but a lot of cloud is likely in eastern areas.

Wow. You were lucky. Super images. Dave

Also, I am just using the stock focusser manually. I'm finding focus not too hard with an AsiAir.

That's very nice. Moody describes it well.

Wow, great images.

An early start and some blind luck saw me pointing the scope at AR13664 this morning. Below are two images (RGB and Greyscale) of this region at 07:00:22 UTC. X3.8 commenced at 06:27 UTC, peaked at 06:54 UTC and downed tools at 07:06 UTC. I do have earlier captures and will update this post later with them.

We were just returning from a talk at Jodrell Bank and were fortunate to have an almost clear sky to see a 1¾ day old Moon Quickly bought out the new SeeStar and click! Quite moody.

Yes, same here in terms of conditions. Totally right in terms of the visual views being so much better. Visually in Ha there was plenty of fine flux lines arcing around the AR, bright plage areas which were so much brighter in reality. Well worth looking into, the views can be amazing.

Great image! With regard to your lens group now turning, this happened to me and I was advised not to disturb the corrector plate housing, but instead remove the primary mirror cell and put my hand up the tube to hold the secondary assembly so it could be tightened back up. This was all carried out successfully. Having said that, I note you have a RASA11 as opposed to my RASA8, so it could be a question of if your arms are long enough to reach up inside the tube.

Those are spectacular!

Good to see you caught it ... 😀 I always bung my captures through PIPP before letting AS!3 loose on them , it'll stabilise the AVI by tracking a region of your choosing and crop the frames to a size of your choosing , as well as sorting the frames by quality and reordering them to make things a lot quicker i the stacking phase I find. If I have multiple videos to play with I PIPP one while AS!3 stacks one and so on.

Imaged with my Askar 120 APO and ASI 585MC (uncooled) with a x1 flattener fitted and an Astronomic L2 UV/IR cut filter. Guider via a TS Optics 80mm guide scope and an ASI120MM guide cam. NINA used for capture. PHD2 for guiding. M57: 24x 240 second subs (gain 252 with an offset of 25) M64: 12x 240 S and 14x 120s (from March) gain and offset as above. Processing in PI. Correct only with RC Astro software with noise reduction to finish off.

I use the reducer I have - an SCT f6.3 reducer. It seems to work OK... I just got the RC, it's been great on the little targets (and there's a lot of them ).

I have a much better Western horizon than usual. I had a reasonable view of a 1.3 day old Moon last night. I was able to see the craters Humboldt, Hecataeus and Neper. I think I also got a glimpse of Mare Marginis. Cheers Ian

if you come up with any bright ideas on the last bit then let me know - i'm not sure i need to (i haven't had 1st light on my SCT yet) but if i need to then i want to try and do it without sticking anything to the OTA itself... mmmh.

Thanks. For planetary imaging I use the drift method but for this particular capture I tried to move the dob or at least keep the sunspot in the middle of the sensor as I couldn't otherwise stabilise it in as!4. For this image I had an 8,000 frame capture and stacked the best 5%. The passing clouds were not playing ball to get more captures.

M40. That's very much all l could manage this morning - but even more hazy. 😊