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Hi Andrew Yes it has arrived and all setup next to you 😉 Grant is currently running some tests. Regards Dave

Great image Peter you do like the dim targets 😀 Happy New Year. Dave

We are really looking forward to your set up arriving in Castillejar and getting it ready for the SGL community to start enjoying the wonderful dark skies here at Pixelskies. This is a great project and hope you all enjoy it. It's a fantastic opportunity to see how new and innovative equipment works and performs and we are looking forward to working alongside FLO and IKI. Dave

Well done brian great image 😎. Dave

Excellent image Peter well worth the time and effort of 75 hour 😀. Dave

Evening Carole, I have recently moved from light polluted Birmingham to Rural Spain where we are setting up our second remote telescope hosting site. I totally agree with you that dark skies certainly make a massive difference to the image quality and the amount of clear nights is also a bonus 😀. Cheers Dave

Thanks Peter, much appreciated. I am very pleased with the outcome. Dave

This is IC 5146 Cocoon Nebula taken from ICAstronomy PixelSkies, Spain IC 5146 is a reflection/emission nebula and Caldwell object in the constellation Cygnus. The NGC description refers to IC 5146 as a cluster of 9.5 mag stars involved in a bright and dark nebula. The cluster is also known as Collinder 470. Lum33x900Secs Red8x900Secs Green14x900Secs Blue8x900Secs Ha 19x1200 Secs 20.5 Hours in total. Equipment used: Telescope: Tec 140 F7 Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -5C Image Scale: 0.95 Guiding: OAG Filters: Astronomik LRGB, Ha 6nm Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC

Many thanks for the comments all Cheers Dave just used SCNR to reduce the green and that was it for the colour.

Here's my M16 taken from ICAstronomy in Oria, Spain. Ha 10x1800 Secs OIII 7x1800 Secs SII 9x1800 Secs 13 Hours in total. Equipment used: Telescope: Tec 140 F7 Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -15C Image Scale: 0.95 Guiding: OAG Filters: Astronomik Ha 6nm, OIII 6nm, SII 6nm Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC

Appreciate The comments all looking forward to adding some OIII and SII 😀. Dave

Many thanks 😀

This is M16 captured from ICAstronomy in Oria, Spain. The image was captured using a narrowband Hydrogen-alpha filter (Ha) as the moon was at about 70% this was a test of my new Ha filter. Also in the image is the famous Pillars of Creation. Ha 10x1800 Secs 5 Hours in total Equipment used: Telescope: Tec 140 F7 Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -15C Image Scale: 0.95 Guiding: OAG Filters: Astronomik Ha 6nm Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC

Ok 😁

I will PM you the directions. When are you thinking about coming over?

Yes not to far away.

We are just in the process of updating the website as we speak. There are no more places available left at Oria it's full. Maybe come and have a site visit at Oria?

It's a small world Colin has made the move from Alcalali to Oria we also have a place near Castillejar where we are setting up another Hosting site and going to be running some courses from there.

Yep you Definitely need to put the time in and having good skies help 😉.

Hi Dave Thanks for the comment been to Galera afew times do you have a dome by any chance? I work at ICastronomy it's Definitely a great location.

Thank you 😀

M106 was captured from our other site ICAstronomy in Oria. This has got to be my favourite galaxy of them all. The processing was a lot easier than the last time I processed it as this data was taken from a dark site in Spain and not from light polluted UK. Some Info about M106: Messier 106 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. M106 is at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from Earth. It is also a Seyfert II galaxy. Lum 51x900 Secs Red 19x600 Secs Green 10x600 Secs Blue 10x600 Secs Ha 26x1800 Secs 32 Hours 15 mins in total. Equipment used: Telescope: Tec 140 F7 Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -15C Image Scale: 0.95 Guiding: OAG Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB,Astronomik Luminance filters L-3,Astronomik Ha 6nm Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC

Many Thanks for all the comments 😀.

Thanks for the comments 😀

M13 The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules was captured from IC Astronomy in Oria. Some Info about M13: M13 is about 145 light-years in diameter, and it is composed of several hundred thousand stars, the brightest of which is a red giant, the variable star V11, with an apparent visual magnitude of 11.95. M13 is about 22,200 light-years away from Earth. Lum 13x600 Secs Red 19x600 Secs Green 26x600 Secs Blue 23x600 Secs 13 Hours 30 mins in total. Equipment used: Telescope: Tec 140 F7 Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -15C Image Scale: 0.95 Guiding: OAG Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB,Astronomik Luminance filters L-3 Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC