-
Content Count
544 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Community Reputation
2 NeutralAbout greenkat
-
Rank
Proto Star
Contact Methods
-
Website URL
http://www.digitalnoise.co.uk
Profile Information
-
Gender
Male
-
Location
Cloudy Manchester
Recent Profile Visitors
The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.
-
Wanted to try this with the QHY8L that I bought recently but the vignetting was terrible, presumably due to the massive chip size not being illuminated properly by the small exit on the Skymax 127 ? So slapped on the Meade DSI IIIc instead
-
Haha, nice one
-
Love the images I recently bought the QHY8L & used it on Mon night with my SW Ed80pro, 12x5 min subs, no darks flats or bias & ended up with this, though had to crop because the rest looked all wishy washy
-
For a 1st try thats brilliant, I've tried a few times & this is my best so far :/
-
Fantastic images
-
Hi, hope you don't mind, just had a play with your image in photoshop and came up with this
-
Starry Night Pro 6 and image previews
greenkat replied to philming's topic in Discussions - Software
Hi Phil It may be something to do with Quicktime It happened to me with no images showing, I think you need the latest version of Q/T It was a while ago but i'm sure I found the solution by googling S/N6 & Quicktime Hope you get it sorted Greenkat -
Meade 105ETX ... struggling
greenkat replied to bird_2112's topic in Getting Started General Help and Advice
Hi Gareth Have you gone through the procedure of training the drives? Cant remember how its done as I gave up on the ETX's I had (70 & 90) a long time ago. You could try Mike Weasners website Mike and Laurraine's Home Page which is dedicated to all things ETX After giving up with the ETX I got a Skywatcher mount & took the tubes off the ETX's. Dont do that if you've borrowed it though Greenkat -
Also regarding focus : Most camera lenses focus beyond infinity. The thing to do is turn the focus ring all the way to infinity, then back just a notch. Take a test pic to check focus. Hope this helps Greenkat
-
advice for photography
greenkat replied to samui13's topic in Getting Started General Help and Advice
Hi Lou Not sure if this is the answer you are looking for but here goes... If your husband is only casualy interested in astronomy, it may be unwise to spend your money on a telescope he may only use a few times. With the equiptment he already has, he can already do quite a bit of astrophotography by just mounting his camera on a tripod and taking longer exposures of the night sky. My advise would be to maybe buy him a book on astrophotography and see if he enjoys the hobby. If he does, you could possibly buy him a motor driven equatorial mount at a later stage to mount his camera on to do ev -
Hi John I could be wrong, but I dont think it would matter if you flipped the image before processing and might actualy help you process the image better if your seeing it in its correct orientation. Im sure someone will correct me if I am wrong Greenkat
-
Astro Engineering anti-fringing filter ?
greenkat replied to Donkeiller's topic in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
Hi Don Cant help you with that particular filter, but I have a minus violet filter from a company called Sirius Optics. Works ok on my 6" F5 refractor. Greenkat -
webcam/mount control dilema
greenkat replied to richiebragg's topic in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
I dont use the same equiptment, I use a skywatcher mount, a DSI3 camera, guide camera & joystick. I have a 4 port powered USB hub conected to the laptop via a long usb extention lead. Both cameras, Usb-serial mount adapter and joystick all conected to the hub. Hope that helps Greenkat