AstroKriss

Thanks, now looking forward to some clear dark nights of the UK winter (fingers crossed)

Crikey, what a beast... I can't begin to imagine what that must cost lol....

Thanks, only recently finished building my DIY observatory... If you want to take a look: (https://astrokriss.com/observatory-build/)

I'm pretty chuffed with my current setup pictured) but what im drooling over at the moment is between an C11 Edge HD SCT, and or a large 120mm Triplet Refractor...... (might need to sell a kidney to get either).

It's very exciting, hope they can corroborate and confirm v.soon, and we need to get more advanced tech to be able to get probes out on thier way to explore. Anyone finished building a warp drive yet?

This looks very sleek

Wow, impressive with a 4" Refractor, I thought you need much higher focal length to get that sort of image.

This is awesome, thanks sharing, I’ll be sure to give this a go

Looks amazing, great image. That’s the sort of result that makes me want to give mono a go

So I fir this one stacked the lights from each panel in SiriL, opened the stacked fit file, cropped out the edges dithering, then only performed histogram and asinh transformations. Save the resultin fit file and as a jpg. Then just used the jogs to stitch together with Hugin. overall not too difficulty a process.

Hi Paul, do you have link or details on steps to do this in ASTAP? Would like to try it, but not clear on how to. Thanks

Sure I’ll do an update in a few months with progress using it and likewise do share yours as you build it.

Hi John, yeah I found that yesterday too, seems to be a good option although had to covert to JPEGs first but seemed like I got a good result from it: https://astrokriss.com/my-photos/galaxies/ The top image of m31 is the result which I’m quite pleased with.

Ah that’s a shame will try and hunt down one for the original.

Hi @aleixandrus Im not sure 2x3m would be enough for a second Pier, I think you'd likely want a bit more space, you might get a small portable ring in there but would likely have limited space to use it, but again I'm no expert. I think If I had lots of room, I'd have made it 3m x 4m, which I think would be plenty of room for 2 piers and some storage.