putrigo

12 hours ago, ollypenrice said:

I think the first thing is not to expect too much from those small mechanical setting circles.  Not many people really use them.

Polaris is, within the accuracy you'll achieve with these circles, at Dec +90.  (It's less than a degree off from that.) If you centre Polaris in your eyepiece you can see what the Declination circle reads. It should be 90.

Don't check your RA circles using Polaris because, during one day, it only describes a tiny circle. Choose a star as close to the celestial equator as possible to do that. A planetarium software such as the free Stellarium will tell you which stars are close.

Olly

I'll keep that in mind, thanks!

I feel as if my telescope isn't properly polar aligned... (Celestron CG-3 mount) I have the correct RA, assuming I used the term correctly😓, but I feel like my declination wasn't right. The degree wheel says I'm supposedly spot on(yet again assuming I'm using it correctly) and paranoia arose. There any way I can be sure? 

On 23/05/2022 at 07:00, putrigo said:

I will in a while, I'm about to head to school.

Shoot, I can't find it right now. I think I do have it somewhere.

12 hours ago, AstroMuni said:

What software are you using. Try something like SharpCap or Firecapture. They are excellent for planetary imaging. Take videos and stack them in software like PIPP, Autostakkert, DSS etc. I would have recommended SIRIL but its not really suited for planetary for the moment.

I wasn't really using anything to process or stack, I just saw it looked like a big star from my Burst Color's view.

11 hours ago, symmetal said:

TIFF or TIF files, (they are the same thing), can be in many different variations with multiple layers and compression types and many programs just accept basic uncompressed tiffs. If I have this problem I just load the tiff into Photoshop and resave it as an uncompressed tiff file. This usually solves the problem. Any good free image processing program like Gimp or Irfanview etc. should be able to do this as they should be able to load any tiff file format.

Alan

Okay, thank you!

1 hour ago, AstroMuni said:

Could you upload a single file here so we can check

I will in a while, I'm about to head to school.

On 18/05/2022 at 04:53, StevieDvd said:

Some astro images are composed of several separate captures. For example images of the sun showing surface details and prominences are usually done seperately, the surface detail short exposure and the prominences longer (over exposed).

The same is done with Jupiter, if the image shows the moons the surface of Jupiter will be over exposed. So take multiple images and edit them in Photoshop or equivalent.

 

On 18/05/2022 at 05:12, Elp said:

Your exposure time is too long, or the gain is too high, but pretty much guess it's the former.

Alright, I'll keep these in mind. Thank you!

I recently tried to use RegiStax V6, I converted my pictures I wanted to stack/process to TIF. When I selected and then tried to open the pictures, it said I had an "invalid TIFF header." I've named the files "1," "2," "3," if that's useful. How do I fix my problem?

On 17/05/2022 at 02:40, malc-c said:

You need to give us details of the equipment used, both telescope and camera so we can advise what you were doing wrong

I was using a Celestron NexImage Burst Color and Celestron Astromaster 130eq

I tried getting a picture of Jupiter and it was just a white orb. I could see the Galilean moons, but Jupiter was just like a big star. I'm unsure if it's because I had my setting over exposing the picture or if it was because of like the Sun's reflection. (It was about 4:00-4:45 when I took the pictures.) Can I fix my problem or will I need to wait for Jupiter's position to change?

So I accidentally changed the saturation and auto reference on my NexImage color burst.... Will it affect me? And how do I fix it (if it will) The auto reference is now at 120, and sat. at 20. I forgot if they aren't the settings they were before, I had just woken up.

...my dumb 15 year old mind.