Thorney

Thank you all for the comments it’s really appreciated. Wow thank you for sharing this. Definitely a lot more details than I have and it’s good to see what can be achieved so it’s something to aim for. Thank you for the feed back. Regarding the star, yes I’m looking at getting some unfiltered images hopefully round a new moon. I am just unsure of how to combine them, would it be a case of just stacking onto what I already have or is it best to created a layer mask and go down that round? I do have the Astronomy Tools which is heavily relied on 😆. I will have another play though and see how I get on. I think on one of my first attempts I over done it so I’ve held back a bit in this one.

Finally manged to get out for a couple of nights last week since late Feb early March time and shoot the old faithful North American Nebula. I've done about 4 attempts at processing the data but I'm still not quite happy with it. Every time I think, right that's it. I then save it and sit there looking at it and change my mind. So I reprocess the image and it comes out totally different. This is probably my best so far but I'll no doubt have another go at some point. I still feel like I am at the very basic stage of processing so in time we'll have a better outcome. This is about 12 hours with 30 Darks, 30 Flats & 30 Dark Flats. Shot with a Redcat, ASI2600mc, Optolong L Extreme and ASIAIR pro. Stacked in DSS and processed in Photoshop. I've also attached the tif file incase anyone would like to have a go. Autosave.tif

I’ve had this happen before but I found ordering new equipment will fix the problem.

Did you ever go a head with this setup and if you did, how did the mount cope? I currently have a heq5 pro and thinking of buying the esprit 100 so It will be a similar setup to what you have. I will be getting a new mount later next year so if I could get away with the heq5 for now then happy days.

I’m hoping to go to this event. My wife is out for the day so it just depends if I’m brave enough to venture out with our 10 month old twins 😂. At least I would be easily to spot.

I can literally walk to this venue and only just found out about these events 🤦🏻‍♂️ I’ll definitely be popping in to have a look.

Thank you for the reply. It’s showing a couple of clear nights this week so I’ll have a go and post my results. Appreciate your time.

Thank you for the reply. I’ll have a look into this and see if I’ll be able to fix it. Hopefully it is just a minor tweak.

Thank you for looking at this and highlighting the issue. I’ve seen a few people use these graphs but they are a bit complex for me. I guess I need to do my research and do some more learning as it proves to be rather helpful.

Below is a full frame shot with a Redcat 51, asi2600mc and optolong l extreme filter. I’ve only just recently noticed that the star shapes in the corners of these images seem off and I have read a few things online from people saying they had to return the Redcat due to coma issues. My question is do I have this problem? Is it down to poor focus? or am I just being over fussy/ paranoid? Any help will be much appreciated.

It’s in the latest issue. Decembers issue isn’t out yet?

Hi Adrian. Thank you for this, appreciate the time you took to have a look. it does look a lot better after more of a stretch so I’ll give it a go and see what I can bring out. I’ll also see if I can go back through the steps I took and ease off on the smoothing.

After many nights of failing to get both targets in the same frame I finally got it how I wanted it. The plan is to get this image printed to hang on the wall in our new borns bedroom. I may revisit this when time allows to see if I can do better but for now I’m rather happy with it. Shot over 2 nights. 38x600 & 40x300. 30 darks for each night. Gain 100 -5c Asi2600mc…..Redcat 51……Optolong L extreme…… heq5 pro……ASIair pro. Any comments welcome. To my untrained eye I feel as I’ve done to much noise reduction so the detail isn’t as sharp as could be.

Anyone going to see him or seen him live? I’m going this evening to see him. Quite looking forward to it.

I have just taken some flats with a light pad. .420ms. The preview looks ok to me but we’ll see once stacked. If these fail I’ll try with a white T-shirt or think of some other method