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Messier 33 - 9th october 2020 Skywatcher quattro 250s and Atik 383l+ with the efw2 and 7 pce filter wheel with 36mm unmounted Baader filters all on the skywatcher azeq6. L-120 SEC TIMES 5 = 10 MINUTES R-120 SEC TIMES 5 = 10 MINUTES G-120 SEC TIMES 5 = 10 MINUTES B-120 SEC TIMES 5 = 10 MINUTES no darks or flats i did boost the colour a bit 40 minutes in all and its a bit noisy but all in all not to bad especially for Darlington uk

they fitted a shade to the new led street light next to my obsy strait away but it was useless so i made my own with a small aluminium frame sandwiched in between 2 flooring mats and bolted it to the lamppost and used a long pole to push it up and it works great now.as seen above and behind the home made dome.

oh just a bit mick and thanks ,the worst is the blue gradient from led street lights but i found a way to deal with it to some degree

oops i forgot to balance the background oh well so much to remember hope this looks better ha ha.

NGC 281 8th october 2020 L-120-SEC TIMES 20 R-120-SEC TIMES 20 G-120-SEC TIMES 20 B-120-SEC TIMES 20 HA-180-SEC TIMES 13 TOTAL 199 MINUTES OR 3 HOURS 31MINUTES ha used to lighten red and l added to chanels at 20 percent then combigned in photoshop and a few light stretches in levels at incriments of 10. Skywatcher quattro 250s atik 383l Az-Eq6gt. Messier 33 9th october 2020 L-120 SEC TIMES 5 = 10 MINUTES R-120 SEC TIMES 5 = 10 MINUTES G-120 SEC TIMES 5 = 10 MINUTES B-120 SEC TIMES 5 = 10 MINUTES 40 minutes in all and its a bit noisey but all in all not to bad especially for darlington uk its been a while since a could use the big one ,only been able to use the light setup but hopefully this is the way its going now lol.

thanks Tom and all will be revealed when im finished even if it fails

it is a real filter that screws in front of the lens

night flats is something i am experimenting with - i have made an opaque filter to take care of the noise and uneven sky glow at the same time but its to early to confirm that it works in most situations but it looks promising.

i rate it very highly so long as you get the balance right and the polar alighnment sorted

thanks Tom yes i was surprised about the noise level the 90D seems to handle it well but i think what helped the most is the night flats.

thank you Lee

Andromeda 120 - 30 second exposures at iso 6400 and at F8 canon eos 90D (not moded) with 70-300 f4/5.6L at 300mm on the Star adventurer. used bias frames and a night flat filter developed by me needs more testing no darks no noise reduction no colour enhancement just levels to line up the colour peeks and increased levels at 10 points per itteration as shown by steve chambers on his processing video in stargazine on SGL. and cropped get rid if stacking artifacts. stacked in dss and lightly processed in photoshop cs5. all comments and critique welcome thanks

lovely image Peter

its not an atik 383l+ mono is it i have found that any kind of power fluctuations to my 383l+ tends to make it do very strange things so now it has its very own psu and it seems to behave now.

ouch i hope its all ok now Steve never heard of that filter problem before ,but plenty of others like filter wheel no connecting - camera window freezing up - scope not seeing anything but that's just my stupidity without me the gear is fine lol.

the OIII looks like its enveloping the whole object even in the mono version cant wait to see it in colour if thats what the mono looks like

it looks like you have loads of OIII in that image its very nice indeed

the only suggestion i can give you with the stuff you have is to make sure your hinge on the barn door tracker is pointing at polaris so you will be able to track for longer and no more the 10 seconds at 18mm or you will start to get star trails allso you will be able to use the 1100d at iso 3200 without to much noise and dont forget to take darks - flats - and bias frames to calibrate the noise and vigneting -this will help http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html there are help videos there as well as the free software.

thank you mark

clear night for a change on wednesday so i got out the old SA with the new cam and lens and i am very pleased the way they worked. Andromeda 33 x 30 seconds at iso 6400 - canon eos 90D with 70-300 f4-5.6L at 300mm f5.6 on the star adventurer no guiding or filters. Deneb area 90 x 30 seconds at iso 6400 canon eos 90D with 70-300 f4-5.6L at 70mm f5.6 on the star adventurer . NGC 281 33 X 30 seconds at iso 6400 canon eos 90D with 70-300 f4-5.6L at 300mm f5.6 on the star adventurer. stacked in DSS and processed in photoshop.

stunning capture and processing Tom

great image well done

yes it is called color efex pro and in that select detail extractor and use the sliders to increase or decrease but not to much in the detail or contrast as it will show more noise you just have to play with it till your happy but there is so much more in these tools just go gentle with the adjustments hope this helps

yes but when you get your flow down you can create your own actions then that will speed up the process and make it all a bit faster but faster is not all ways better

yes they do that's the version i used to have but now on cs6 but there is not much difference tbh