mark skelton

Thanks for that just what I'm been looking for

Ok cheers, what's then best way of selecting said frame?

I noticed people are talking about reference frames, what are they for and how does one make one?

At the bottom of my reply's is the list of stuff I use

thanks for the reply, phd updated

https://www.firstlightoptics.com/adapters/flo-80mm-125-focus-extension-tube.html

when setting up an equipment profile in PHD under the scope focal length do we add the extender length to the length of the scope or is it just the length of the scope on its own?

Thanks for the heads up, looks like worth a try.

Ok I'll give them an email to see what they say. cheers

Any recommendation on what the exposure for flats should be

When you do the master darks, do you do master bias as well or will the darks do both?

Hi sloz1664, As I tried to say in my last post last night when we had a clear spell I also used 2x2 binning & 3 sec exposure to start of with, then when the HFR got down to 3.0 I then set the binnig to 1x1 & 3min exposure to fine tune til I got the HFR to 1.87. I've got rig set up as permanent (see my post https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/274300-show-us-your-set-up-in-action-at-night/page/20/ ) It's about half 2 thirds down the page. The set up can be tken down if I'm going to a star party.

Thanks for the info I did the same till I got down to less than HFR =3.0 then I selected 1x1 binning and 3 min exposure where I got the lowest HFR down to 1.87 before the clouds came in

Never thought of the use subframme, I'll give that a try next weekend if skys are clear.cheers for the info

When I Start up SGP I connect the camera, filter wheel, focuser and the mount, no problems so far. The trouble I'm having is when I use the frame and focus, I get the target stat into the centre of the crosshairs the star is some what bigger than the two circles out of focus and the exposure is out by a big way, what's the best way of getting the size of the star smaller and in focus/exposed?

Thanks for the feedback. I already got my HEQ5 PRO mount set up and aligned with Polaris, I've got adovetail with a camera quick release and backyard EOS that can give me the same control.

All are 10 sec. exposures

Here's my set up,

Just had a look, I've been here 11 years- April 13th 2008.

Ok here's the latest, had brother ( he's into IT)look at laptop couldn't find the problem but sorted a few other things out with the laptop make it perform better. Anyway got the telescope set up out side connected up to laptop, went to select Arcturus, slew this time I heard an odd noise from the mount then I had the same problems as before. when I had a closer look at the mount I noticed that the Dec worm gear was a bit tight making it had for the motor to turn the dec axis. A good adjustment of the grub screws sorted that out, A quick check with cdc and the mount is moving so I give it another test run tomorrow to see if every things ok.

Here's few that I took on Saturday night with my canon 750D with 18-55mm lens at 18mm f5.6 iso 3200

Hi Brian when you got the image opened up in photoshop click on image (located at top where you got file, edit then image), then scroll down to mode (should be first at top) then make sure you got RGB checked and not CYMK mode. Hope this helps.

I'm not going to make it this year. hope fully next year.

I know it sounds daft but how does one get the screen images?

When done like this it does, but when I press park nothing happens.