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  1. Wonderful images. Thanks for sharing πŸ‘
  2. Trying my hand at processing real colors from some old moon shots. This one is from February 22. 2016. suing C11 Edge and Nikon 7200. Stack of 9 exp at ISO100. Re-processes/further processed in PS.
  3. Here is a second version with a bit less noise, smaller starts, sharpening....
  4. @Taman I'm becoming confident most of my guiding issues are getting resolved and can go to 300s without problems. The ASi294MC Pro is pretty good but need a little taming with long exposures. Autofocusing is the next challenge I'm dealing with but without clear skies ... πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ Thanks for the feedback!
  5. I've been trying to get M63 for a while but something goes wrong every time. Either the guiding goes wrong or focus goes totally wrong or I forget to set gain properly on the camera... Last week I managed to get what you see below. 40 x 60s lights and calibration darks and flats with C11 Edge + 0.7 FR and ASI294MC Pro at gain 120. It's still quite noisy. I used NINA to capture and PI for processing. Comments most welcome!
  6. After sorting out the automatic focusing I'm going to focus on trying to get >60s lights, aiming at doing 300s if the CGEM-DX allows it. It's my lockdown homework at the moment.
  7. OK. So i managed to make a new calibration library and reprocessed the lights. I still got some banding but decided to try to use CanonBandingReduction (I guess it does the same as the Horizontal banding reduction in Carboni's actions for PS) and that did cleanup the image nicely. I've also done a bit of CT and NR with MLT and enhanced detail with LHT. The jpeg look pretty awful...Still work in progress but I wanted to share what I managed so far regarding this issue and thank you again for your help!
  8. Hi Guys! Thanks for the advise. Sorry for the delay in replying - working from home is much more intensive than anticipated. I will make a new calibration library. It make sense this being caused by changes in the drivers. But I also think there may be some spurious noise coming from the cables. So, I'll do a full refitting of everything. I've always had quite a noisy background with this camera but I don't think this is the camera itself but rather my setup.
  9. This is my latest M101 after doing a lot of fiddling with N.I.N.A, which I'm quickly learning to appreciate (a lot). Focus was best (for me) for this DSO (much worse on others) but I got caught up with banding, which I can't figure out! One thing goes well and another goes funny. That's why I love this hobby (I guess!) πŸ™‚ Can someone help? 60 x 60s Lights at -10C, Gain 120. Flats and darks from a library. The only thing recently changed are updated drivers from ZWO and New Beta from NINA (2008). Thanks for watching!
  10. The first one was spectacular enough for me! For me it is one of a few wide field that stand out!
  11. Spectacular! Thanks for sharing πŸ™‚
  12. Hiiii! I'm not sure. I'll certainly revisit the target but not at gain 250. On second thought maybe I should just try to add another or two hours. Thanks for watching.
  13. M95 taken with a C11 Edge HD + 0.7 FR + OAG guided with QHY5L-IIM + ASI 294 MC Pro at 250 Gain and -10 degrees C. 1 hour worth of lights of 60s. Processed with PI. Guiding was not great for reasons I'm investigating -the polar alignment may have been knocked out by me - I've a bruise to prove it! I've been becoming familiar with N.I.N.A and I must say I'm very positive. Autofocusing is a challenge though, so I'm going to try the nightly build which has a new contrast detection routine. Comments are very welcome!
  14. The latest and best M51 so far taken with C11 Edge HD + 0.7 FR and ASI 294 MC Pro. About 3 hours of lights at 250 G and -10. About 70% frames where useful for the stack. Processed with PI. Feedback is always appreciated. R.
  15. I note that M81 is a popular target now and I'm quite impressed with what I see. My 2 previous efforts were mediocre due to lack of exposure and experience. Mastering guiding, focusing and camera settings are quite a challenge. To top these with processing is quite another. I love this hobby, but must admit that the weather lately has also been quite a challenge too.
  16. Latest M81 from 02/03/2020. 60 x 60s lights and calibrated using my dark and flat library for ASI294MC Pro. Scope is C11 EdgeHD+0.7 FR+OAG w/QHY5L-IIM. Processed with PI. Bortle 4 skies but windy. Had to drop a lot of frames due to errors in tracking but did manage a personal record for a single object. It's not perfect but I'm pleased. R.
  17. Dumbbell from Essex, UK on the 25th December 2019. This was derived from 70 subs (and calibrations frames) using SharpCap 3.2 using a C11 EdgeHD w/ 0.7 FR and OAG (w/ QHY5L-IIM) and a Altair Quad filter. Processed on PI only. I think I'm slightly out of focus, but can't figure by how much just yet. As always, thanks for watching! R:)
  18. Awesome stuff and nice composition for 2019! Thanks for sharing! R:)
  19. Hi Ragnar, Many thanks for the comments. This is what I appreciate enormously about SGL! Compared to my first effort with M33 this one is an improvement and I'm delighted to get advise on how to improve it further. Thank you. As soon as the weather permits I'll try the DEC balancing offset. I still need to find what limits my CGEM-DX has...and what gives with the ASI 294 Pro (battling amp glow). It's a great camera but it needs taming. Thanks for looking! R:)
  20. Thanks for pointing out my mistake with the NGC catalog number (how embarrassing). It should be NGC 592. And also for the advise regarding longer exposures and CLS filter. As my guiding improves I hope to get longer exposure at less gain on this camera. Thanks for watching ☺️
  21. Hi Everyone, This is my latest try at NGC592 using my C11 EdgeHD w/ 0.7 FR and ASI294MC Pro at -10 degrees C. 70 x 60s Lights and corresponding Darks and Bias frames. All processed with PI. I'm using the Celestron OAG w/ QHY5L-IIM and 0.5 FR. Guiding has improved a lot since I decided to go East Heavy on the CGEM-DX and this is one of the first results. I could have framed M33 better but I did not want to spend time sorting out the guiding. Clouds rolled back at around 9pm and that, and with this, was the end of a beautiful 25th December 2019 in Essex. Thanks for watching!
  22. After more processing with PI and getting rid of noise as well as hot pixels due to lack of calibration frames using MF, I've gotten his far today. The most important thing to note, which I didn't mention yesterday, is that guiding has improved a lot, even if the lights are still only 30s. But with this camera, it hardly makes sense to expose for longer on this type of target. I now notice there is a red cast on the image here - much more pronounced than on the same screen but in PI....(tsk!)
  23. Bubble nebula C11 Edge HD + 0.7 FR + Altair Quad filter and ASI 294 MC + guiding w/ Celestron OAG & QHY5L-IIM 70 x 30s lights Not quite finished processing but I got quite exited by the results πŸ™‚ Hope nobody minds. Comments very welcome! R:)
  24. Hi, This is my first go a M1 and with the ASI294 MC Pro. Its quite an amazing camera and I think its a good for the C11 altogether. This was taken using a OAG with a QHY 5L-II M. There are some 70+ Lights (selected) at 30s at gain 200. No calibration frames. Processed in DSS and PI. It's not perfect but then this was the first clear night for me in about 8 weeks! As always, comments are very welcomed! R)
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