TiffsAndAstro

Don't think you botched the background at all this looks great.

Ty gonna reset phd2 start fresh

Not sure how I saw a blue power box on accessory tray

Any tips on your phd2 settings?

Some "classic" cars had fibre glass bodies, like some lotuses. In spite of their tremendous build quality and reliability some of them need body work redoing Might be something the restorers know that works?

I am not a tidy person, how dare you accuse me of that? I think I use a flimsy usb hub instead of your your blue power box? I have it velcroed on top of my scope and I have all those leads gathered and tied at the base near the dovetail plate. Purely because I think any wires dangling down even my balance/guiding. Don some shades or other protective eyewear and stare at the magnificence below

Apologies I was just trying to be funny also, i have thing about wiring at the moment I notice you use a lot less NASA space tape than I do

Need to run this image through astrosharp

Great images. Cuiv the lazy geek has a video about syncing two instances of Nina and setting one as master, other as slave in case it might be helpful.

thanks for all this. i assumed it was more involved, but this shows me just how much.

I'm new ish to astrophotography so not sure of the technical terms but I wonder how you stretch both parts of the mosaic equally/to match each other. Not asking for an explanation but is there a key term or search phrase I can use? for YouTube videos

That's some incredible detail on the brain

This looks even better.

This looks really really good to my noob eyes.

Btw m31 gets higher in the sky over the next month or two, so you're fighting a lot more horrible atmosphere to image right now. Also the moon and technically no proper darkness. I'm new, and desperate to image m31 with my new gear, but it's still too low for me right now. Having said that, it's probably ideal to practice and get data to practice with

Check out deeps space Astros siril tutorials on YouTube. Quite amazing

Try it and see. Take a 5 sec at a high iso then zoom in look for star trails/elongated stars. If none use 5 sec. If you do see trails etc drop to 4 sec, and look again. I'm very new to this but I think I saw trails at 50mm crop frame at about 5 seconds or more. You're at 200mm so if you don't see trails at 2 sec I say you're doing well I think. I think iso800 might be best when taking your subs

Your result is even better than the original. Not sure about the half swastika satellite galaxy in the top left? Actually 2/3rds Manx flag galaxy sounds more contemporary

I just tried to process the Manchester City Telescope data, expecting to find even better source to process. The website said plod are currently investigating 115 sub exposures for financial irregularities

Well I did a 3ppa from home ish and 20 degrees measure steps. Went very fast and easy, but then phd2 guiding assistant said my pa was 8 arc mins error and guiding was bad all night. If clear tonight I will reset phd2 start it again from scratch. My subs looked ok in Nina as far as I could tell. ***** doing some processing now on veil nebular with terrible guiding and dss has given most of my subs the highest score i've ever seen. Plus in a quick histogram i can clearly see the witches broom. So right now im happy but have no idea how. This is clearly no apod, but for less than 2 hours I'm quite chuffed

just for the curious bit less than an hour on m106 and almost 13 minutes on m94 (had issues finding veil nebula, i remember now but its high enough after 1230 so will try again tonight). i think the m106 is ok considering one hour, full moon, clouds and my gear. m94...well i at least i've proved it exists...

im a bit surprised, but it was my flats. not sure what happened, as i did them as i usually do. using a set of flats from a few days ago and the dew seems to not appear after a background extraction. ty again, again.

Didn't seem to be any dew last night my gear was bone dry. To be fair my dew heaters isn't directly around the primary, it's a little higher up the dew shield. But it was switched on. I'll have a look at my flats and lights a bit more. I can also test stack with less recent flats see if any difference. It's only an hour of subs, so not earth shatteringly vital. Would just like to figure it out to avoid repeating same mistake. But because you said it looks like dew, it does indeed look like dew Also they only appear after a background extraction

Ty I mentioned phd2 pa error because I thought it might be right due to my 10d measure step being less accurate. Next time I will try 20d starting at home/Polaris ish and my finger on stop button try and do as you do. I think you might be right about budget mounts, at least mine 1.4" to 1.8" for my 2" image scale is probably acceptable as my stars look ok.

I'll have a closer look at my flats, it's not impossible though I did then as usual.