Dark Raven

Check this out before you scrap your old 16 bit routine...

I recently switched to Affinity as got fed up with Adobe privacy concerns and price hikes. Some differences in UI but not bad at all. Need more time with it. One way I found on getting arround Adobes greed is to buy one year licence on Amazon sales, Black Friday and /or Prime day. Usualy at ~50% off. Affinity does not use your data to train AIs and perpetual licence costs one year of Adobe at 50% discount.

Appears to be coming

Could it finally be December?

There are smartphone coolers without led lights. I tested two and you can find details in the post below. TLDR: You can expect up to 10'C lower temp compared to ambient.

Check original creator video in below post. Might help with prompting syntax.

Adding some not previously mentioned... General AP info: The Astro Imaging Chanel https://youtube.com/@taic AstroWorldTV - skip first 20-30 min https://youtube.com/@astroworldtv Cosmos Safari Wide field: Late, Alyn Wallace Richard Tatti - Nightscape Images Lonly Speck Michael Goh Deep Sky: View into Space Visible Dark The Narrowband Chanel Galactic Hunter

Just stumbled on this. Stella, upcoming Ekos/StellarMate Astrophotography digital assistant. https://www.stellarmate.com/help/Stella.html This might get me back to revisit my old RPi4 StellarMate again. Video below. If it turns out to be properly implemented, it might finally become competition for ZWO ASIAIR Apparently announced in April, did quick search on mobile phone but oddly did not find other posts here on SGL.

Zwo AM5 has new version. New 2024 Version - AM5N Improved for 2024: New USB-C & DC 12v output ports on the mount saddle for improved cable management New Bluetooth compatibility for improved connectivity New base design eliminates azimuth locking knobs Improved tracking with higher load angles & heavier payloads Periodic error reduced from ±20 down to ±10 arcseconds

Ben interviews Simon abot ZWO ASI2600 Duo Air

It can be externally controlled via ASCOM / Alpaca over WiFi.

New Features Added an AI model for denoising linear images Redesigned the user interface for incorporating the denoising model Extended GraXpert's cli interface with a denoising command. Run graxpert -h from a terminal to view the cli documentation For gpu acceleration during denoising, please note: on Windows, we rely on DirectML which requires a DirectX 12 compatible graphics card. On Linux, we rely on CUDA 12 and libcudnn8. On macOS, we rely on CoreML Repackaged AI models in .onnx format. This simplifies to provide GPU acceleration on different hardware platforms for us. Thanks a lot to Riccardo for his pull requests! Frank aka astrophotocologne has created introductory video on GraXpert 3.0: Download: https://www.graxpert.com/ Cuiv, The Lazy Geek also made video about it. Deep Space Astro First run comparison to PI and RC astro NoiseXterminator

Looks like it. Nope, ASCOM / ALPACA connection via WiFi is available. See video with Nico Carver and Ben in Edit 4 below:

Nico confirms it is ASI AIR Mini hardware inside and 2600MC Duo is externally controllable via ASCOM / Alpaca over WiFi.

Nope, but this may help.

Works just fine.

Interesting new development. The tease started as April Fools Day joke. But now appears to be introduced at NEAF. Below was shared in one of AP imaging groups. Nico posted this. It was a matter of time. I like the concept, if it gets to work properly (had to RMA my 2600MC DUO). I wonder how much memory will it have 32 GB or 256 GB. What do you think? Edit 1: From: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/919191-new-camera-zwo-asi2600mc-air/ Edit 2: Edit 3: https://x.com/zwoastro/status/1781344506878509057 Edit 4: ASI AIR Mini hardware inside. 2600MC Duo can be externally controlled via ASCOM / Alpaca over WiFi.

Same here. With seldom clear nights that I am able to put everything else aside, take my gear and drive to the dark site. I have no patience for troubleshooting.

Thought you might want to know...

I tested consumption on Black Sharks You can also choose various voltage and power. I bought this below as it was fitting to be run directly off ASIAIR But then discovered Black Sharks and never used TEC Module.

Appears to be in line with my results. I used off the shelf smart phone Peltier cooler on ASI585MC. Best results will be during the summer months.

He had such calming presence and joy for sharing knowledge. His videos were truly global inspiration and he will be missed. Tonight we light a candle for a man who brought stars closer to all of us.

I would second Astro-Physics Riccardi-Honders. That is a peace of optical instrument. Ed Ting had nice look at one:

Had similar issues with corner stars on full frame with my scope. Troubleshooting was cumbersome and took forever given my limited availability, clear nights for last six months. Adding individual 1mm, 0.5mm and / or 0.3 mm rings (refers to unscrewing the camera adding ring and reattaching the camera), refocusing (on full frame), adding more rings, overshooting, correcting, overcorrecting. Add freezing temps and loosing clear nights on this just adds to the overall frustration. I bought Precise Tuning M54 Artesky Ring Unfortunately, it rotated field of view so it was hard to make like for like comparison without spending even more time on rotating the focuser. But then light at the end of the tunnel just as I wanted to give up... M54/M48 Backfocus Adjuster-Jiaxing Sharpstar Optical Instrument Co., Ltd. (sharpstar-optics.com) Askar Backfocus Adjuster | First Light Optics I can confirm that it works great! Got it sorted 90% in half an hour... Then clouds rolled in... Went from this: To this: As mentioned still some fine adjustments to be done, but much better and so much faster.