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  1. David Smith

    Another weekend of permacloud :(

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    2. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      its Darn depressing mate, its chucking it down here cold aswell and ive got Quark fever bad. heres hoping for better skys. charl.

    3. David Smith

      David Smith

      Yeah, that must be frustrating Charl. Hope it clears for you soon. 4th Feb my last solar image :eek::crybaby2:

    4. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      yer mate you have deff had morethan your fair share of cloud, heres hoping for a change in weather, Monday might have some clear bits.  charl.

  2. David Smith

    So the weekend arrives along with an infinite layer of cloud!

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    2. Knighty2112

      Knighty2112

      Ditto here again too. Getting very boring just staring at clouds all the time! 

    3. Uranium235

      Uranium235

      Too right.... Im getting damn sick of it now. Its going to be at least another two weeks before we see any changes.

    4. David Smith

      David Smith

      Guess what, back to work today and the Sun comes out. Bad words spring to mind :angel:

  3. David Smith

    Merry Christmas all

    1. Tzitzis

      Tzitzis

      Merry Christmas Dave! May the new year bring joy to the Bears' fans! xDDDD

    2. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      merry Christmas Dave, I must be sliping, sol was out and I missed it. charl

  4. David Smith

    Winter solstice today. Soon the Sun will return to northern skies.

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      great news mate, it can only get better from today , ive found it hard to grab detail in the last month with sol being in the woberly bit all the time. hope you get some clear, charl.

  5. David Smith

    Up @ 6 to image the Sun, only to find laptop has failed again! 2nd time in about 3 weeks. That's it time for Linux Mint.

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      Darn badluck mate, same problem as last time ? or another gremilin. got good seeing earlyer but now the clouds have invaded. hope you get the lappy sorted soon.  charl.

    2. David Smith

      David Smith

      Thanks Charl. Looks like the same issue but I suspect the HD is on the way out as the root cause. Not sure what to do now!

    3. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      get another hd thay only take a few minutes to fit + a hour or so to put your programes on and other stuff, i keep all my astro stuff on a 2tb portable harddrive and thats backed up on another hd just to be on the safe side. hope you get it sorted soon .charl. 

  6. David Smith

    What a frustrating afternoon trying to image the Sun through "sucker holes". Almost wish I had been at work!

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      that bad mate, much the same for me thismorning,i ended up deleting 80% of frames. yer mate i like our focusers,i brought after reading your review, it worked straight outa the box, fitted it in 5min, put the laser on it and it was spot on center, thay have a nice movement, and not too pricey. hope it clears for you. charl.

  7. David Smith

    Spent the morning with my scope pointed at the clouds :angry7:

  8. David Smith

    Bacon sandwich with lashings of brown sauce to distract me from the clouds :D

    1. romx

      romx

      Bacon sandwich does sound really good, minus the brown sauce though. I will substitute the brown sauce for sausages

    2. David Smith

      David Smith

      Hmm, the healthy option!

  9. David Smith
    Seems an odd thing to say as the current 17.3 was only released end of last year!
  10. David Smith
    @GinaLooks like it might work in wine or maybe this?
  11. David Smith
    The other issue I have preventing me from moving fully to Linux Mint is mosaics. At the moment I use AutoStitch 64 bit for pretty much all of my mosaics (occasionally MSICE) and I cannot get this to work under wine. Now my Mint install is 32 bit but Autostitch 32 bit would not work so I am assuming 64 bit AutoStitch will not work on Mint 17.2 64 bit either? I have tried a couple of Linux alternatives and to be honest they don’t even come close. Any suggestions on this front would be hugely appreciated.
  12. David Smith
    Great thread, very informative. I use Linux Mint 17.2 on my desktop for processing including:- Registax (via Wine) PIPP SER Player GIMP2.8 GIMP2.9 (via Wine) Tilting Sun (via Wine) AS!2 (via Wine) Edit: ImPPG Edit: ImageMajick - (Brilliant for putting animations together with one command line!) I also use Stellarium & Carte du Ciel All of the above run really well on this distro and I find Mint more stable and user friendly than Ubuntu. I have tried OACapture on this machine and seems to work well. My laptop is Win 10 which annoys me immensely; really want to move to capturing in Mint as well, just not brave enough to do away with my only Windows machine only to find there is something that doesn't work! Must look at dual booting again as I have not really looked at this since UEFI muddied the waters for me.
  13. David Smith

    Up early this morning so grabbed White Light and Ca-K data before work :headbang:

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      same here mate, mines a bit cloudy but im working on it.charl.

    2. David Smith

      David Smith

      Where there's a will there's a way. Look forward to seeing your images later.

    3. Drop Of Sun

      Drop Of Sun

      Look forward to seeing them, David! I generally can't do mornings any more, though that spot was tempting!! :D

  14. David Smith

    Enough with the clouds already :BangHead:

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      ive got a big cloud invasion here :clouds1: havnt seen sol for two days. i think theres a chance Thursday,. hope you get some clear sky.charl.

  15. David Smith

    White light and Ca-K data grabbed before work this morning :happy11:

  16. David Smith

    Gutted, beautiful sunny day and I'm stuck at work :BangHead:

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      you will have to clone yourself mate,so the the clone can go to work:happy7: but dont show the clone your scopes or you might have to share,:help:charl..

  17. David Smith
    First Rate Optics! Contacted FLO about an item from a manufacturer for which they are an authorised distributor but the item was not on their website. Had an email back from Martin the next morning saying they would order it in for me and would contact me once it arrived. Had another email a couple of days later saying it had arrived and was cheaper than previously quoted - bonus. Placed the order Thursday morning and it was delivered next day. Thanks Martin, thanks FLO. Always a pleasure doing business with you.
  18. David Smith

    New dual speed crayford focuser for my Evostar 120 just arrived. Should make focusing a little easier.

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      nice one mate,which one you got?...

    2. David Smith

      David Smith

      Went for the Skywatcher version as it was  a guaranteed fit. Quite impressed. Will post some pics later.

    3. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      yer thay are good,ive one on my ed80 very smooth and a nice feel to the movement, and very easy to adjust if it starts to slip.look forward to the pics.charl.

  19. David Smith

    Nice detached prom on display if anyone has clear skies today.

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      look forward to seeing your images Dave,glad you have got some sun mate.charl 

    2. David Smith

      David Smith

      Thanks Charl. Can't remember the last time I had Sun on a weekend. First time this year for sure!

    3. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      yer its been a while mate,the seeing was good when i had a few snaps at 10am.

  20. David Smith

    Sick of clouds :-(

  21. David Smith
    2015 has been dominated by Ca-K for me. The B1200 module only arrived at the back end of July but still managed to get some good sessions in before the onset of the monsoon season. 20150926_CaK_6PaneFD by David Smith, on Flickr 20150930_CaK_LargeProm_invert by David Smith, on Flickr 20150926_CaK_AR12422_2x by David Smith, on Flickr 20150822_AR12403_3lights by David Smith, on Flickr 20150808 by David Smith, on Flickr 20150414_WL_Barlow by David Smith, on Flickr So many images to choose from......
  22. David Smith

    Happy Christmas all. May Santa bring you what you desire and 2016 bring you some clear skies!

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      same to you mate, and may your skys be clear as a bank directors guilt :-)

    2. Drop Of Sun

      Drop Of Sun

      Happy Christmas David! May the sun shine on you! Luke

  23. David Smith

    Need some clear skies, all this bad weather's costing me a fortune!

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    2. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      ive got sun,ive sent it your way mate...

    3. David Smith

      David Smith

      Look forward to that Charl, thanks ;-)

    4. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      its gone from here now, so its deff on its way.

  24. David Smith

    My name is David and I am a solarholic. It's been 4 days since my last solar image but it feels like weeks :-p

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    2. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      me to, ive been watching the movie "sunshine" its got some nice a H-alpha shots....

    3. David Smith

      David Smith

      It's reassuring to know I am not alone in my affliction!

    4. Luke

      Luke

      What is this yellow disc you speak of? I'm really missing the moon as well as Sol at the mo, I am supposed to be into my lunar imaging season now. My SCT is getting dusty! :-o Itching to get the dob out for some deep sky too. That new AR looks nice :)

  25. David Smith

    Tickets for Star Wars booked.

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      when it start Dave ?, im very much looking forward,ive been watching the old ones just to refresh my memory.

    2. David Smith

      David Smith

      Release on the 17th December and we (family) now have tickets for 6pm that day. May have to get a refresh on the originals before then myself. Although I have seen them so many times I can pretty much recite them word-for-word!

    3. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      not long to go then mate, but it seams of taken ages to come round since feb when thay said it will be opening.

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