TiffsAndAstro

i think this must be my best image so far. almost 90 minutes of 120sec subs. or am i just over stretching noise?

Not even noticed a hw accelerator on/on switch, but I did notice a improvement in detail of the gradient corrected and denoised outputs in 3.0.2 over 3.0.0. This is an amazing piece of free software.

So I got 22 x 2min usable subs on m57. It's a tricky b#£&@#£d to process, and I might be flogging a dead horse. Fortunately it seems I have undiscovered sadomasochistic tendencies, so flog away I will. In my head and from others' images I've looked at, its green with a red ring around it's edge and a star(s) in the middle. Removing green noise in siril turns it blue but I can see the red ring, though maybe that's ca. Who knows? I will flog it some more. of course, I mistook m57 for M27 dumbbell which I should have imaged cos it's bigger don't tell anyone. my 3 usable 2 min subs on m31 as sun rose are not apod quality who knew? But m32 was definitely still there and heading right at us. Hopefully I have 30 x 2 mins on NGC 7000 the alien queen skull (as it is now known except for some colonial rebels ) but been to scared to post process it yet but did see the jaws/teeth in a quick auto stretch preview. For a non premium telescope and stock dslr no filters and with no astro darkness I'm quite chuffed. Again. also 0.8" RMS auto guiding with my non premium mount ......mostly. Would like to say thank you all, again, for so much help from so many people on this forum. It would be a huge struggle without it.

I need to get some Herbs de Provence chipolatas now ty i somehow thing my local Morrisons won't sell them

When discussing events of such magnitude like this, i think its important to use the correct scientific nomenclature so as to avoid any dangerous confusion. Don't all chipolata sausages contain herbs by default, or is there a yet undiscovered (by me) subset of chipolatas containing extra herbs?

hope they all had their seat belts on tight

ty for this i wish phd2 told me that rather than pick a star blah blah all worked out in the end, even 5 x 2mins of m31 as it was getting light it took me a minute to work out why nina said only 14 stars visible

asks me to pick a star that isn't saturated and snr > 10. which i've done and the start button is still greyed out. it did this before i reset everything and started from scratch. anyone any idea why this might be ? apologies all ignore this is seems to be doing it now without me pressing start f$%k auto guiding. now i've reset it all and changed my guide camera to 1.5sec exposures im getting 0.8" rms so i think i'm going to sit on my hands. oops i meant 0.75" i should be quite content with that on my non premium mount, right ? as im showing off, i decided to try live stacking in siril, just to see how my 2min subs of alien queen profile nebula, also known as the NA neblua ngc7000 was doing and it works well. not so much my dslr and Ha but no shock there. i can see the jaws and teeth though a bit dim after a couple of frames. So as its even clearer tomorrow night (lol) i decided to change to m57 and live stack from the start and its pretty good, but my guiding goes crap for about 8 seconds every 120 seconds. what a coincidence that it takes 8.3 seconds to stack each additional sub.... sadly i think this 2core/4thread 8 year old macbook isn't quite up to nina + phd2 + siril live stacking but its still fun test back to ngc7000 tomorrow and hopefully my guiding is as good.

Get a second baby monitor plonk it outside I can't speak from much experience but when I've had to 'borrow' my niece and nephews over the years, I've found them to be very useful at things like farming stuff in video games even better when they were old enough to not have to sit on my knee whilst doing so. So it's not a dead loss

I'm appalled. I'd never be guilty of such a thing myself.

Everything is bigger in the us of a

Ty very kind of you to say Sw 72ed, sw gti unmodded 600d and zwo f4 120mm and 120mm guide cam

Galaxy season sucks with my gear, but I managed almost 2 hours on m106, the galaxy with no name a week or two ago and I quite like it I can see some detail in the tiny galaxies around it. As it has no name and I've imaged it, I'm pretty sure that means legally I get to name it. I haafter much thought, I've decided on naming it The galaxy formally known as the galaxy with no name.

I'm amazed the fiesta ever existed in the USA. Vaguely similar, but smaller than a VW rabbit if you remember them? I've never owned a fiesta, just Ferraris I friend at uni early 90s had one and it was s£&f. Even so it carried a remarkable amount of duty free from across the channel

Me too

Yeah I like his videos. Not very flash but very very helpful. Thing is, I agree I'm far from ready for it, but I'm probably even further than I think I am Maybe I can get some stuff second hand, but if not I'm looking at at least £5k, probably nearer £10k. I won't be buying a Ferrari until I can at least change gears in my fiesta a bit better first

I didn't realise that, I obviously need more reading up on this ty

Live long and prospect, as Vulcan miners say.

I can't see me getting a Rasa 8, when I can get a similar result from a edge hd and hyper star. Never say never though and will have a look through your link now,very

Yeah I can imagine if I did ever get it spot on I'd probably buy a second one rather than even breathe near the first one. I'm sure I'd ask more detailed advice if/when that time approaches. Need more money and way more skills before that point.

It definitely has a very different vibe to sgl. I don't mind trawling, but there is definitely a lot to trawl through

Ty reading it now. Want to make sure I don't make stuff worse holy moly that's a lot of info. I think adjusting this goes on my list but below trying longer exposures/higher or lower gain and couple other bits.

Thanks both. Putting hyperstar on a edge hd gives me Rasa like speed and focal length though, so in theory I could switch between full focal length for galaxies, x 0.7 that with a reducer and then like f2 with 500mm ish with a hyperstar? I'm certain it won't be that simple as I've heard reference to mirror flop and other difficulties, but I'll look into those. Also cost but I'm ignoring that for now

Looking for reasons why, at sometime in the far, far future, an Edge HD would be a terrible idea for astrophotography? Yes will need better mount and oag or maybe that weird looking zwo 2 cameras for the price of 3 camera thing. But it looks like a good flexible scope with maybe Rasa conversion for just £1000 more ?

Only just seen this so apologies. I'm auto going with Nina, should be messing with this value?