TiffsAndAstro

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?

I'm a noob so bare that in mind. I'm ok at focusing but hfr in Nina seems higher during bad seeing. I realise that's nebulous and not much help, but I'm also interested in the answers to this There is a column on meteoblu website lists your seeing by the hour in arc seconds. However, while I'm noob I'm in the UK so that prediction might be as accurate as weather forecast are here ;( Mine will be just 1.6" at midnight tonight. Apparently. Can't wait

One step at a time. We can wait until we have ftl and other magic, but that just leaves us exposed to multiple low to high risk events occuring in the meantime. Maybe I'm just too risk averse when the potential stake is so high. Also I'm far from convinced that a lack of the very basics such as clean water, food and education is due to spending too many of our resources on technology. Certainly from a historical perspective, that seems to be more due to our/the west simply not giving a s*&t about it. Oh and of course capitalism, I'm alright Joe etc. remember it wasn't that long ago the UK was forcing heroin on china down the barrel of a gun. This lack of interest in other nations seems to be mellowing a little over time, maybe as comntech has improved. Which at least is one positive trend.

Looks fantastic and under 3 hours too. I actually like what I achieved in two hours with a dslr, but it's maybe 1% the quality of your result

Earth is incredibly fragile. As far as we can tell, the only place in the entire universe where life exists. Asteroid impacts, nearby supernovas, jellystone exploding, nuclear wars and I'm sure there's more.