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Go for a desiccant type as in previous post made to work in low temperatures

This video may be helpful

My what a lot of satellites, bearing in mind I removed all satellites and just left Starlink satellites showing

No

Sorted my bad ,trying to press add instead of Save .

I tried adding starlink to Stellarium using this tutorial but after pasting the starlink url as per video I can’t add, as button greyed out has anyone done this in the latest release

I would recommend installing Astrophotographytool ,https://www.astrophotography.app/ though not sure on using the Pentax with APT , I think there is a work around but you would need to check with Ivo @Yoddhaon APT forum , (I’d probably look for a cheap canon body tbh less hassle )then you could connect camera to pc and image indoors , this would let you platesove so no need for star alignment though you still need to polar align using Sharpcap which is very good .

I acquired a 130pds in a deal which unfortunately had too much chopped off I fixed it by supergluing 6mm of tube to the end of drawtube and fitting a grub screw to the flat surface on draw tube slightly in front of the stop to act as a new stop so drawtube can’t fall off support rollers .

Try blindsilving some previous images you have taken saves frustration on the night .

Wind out draw tube until it hits stop now look in ota the protruding tube is the max to cut off it’s only about 10mm to much and tube will run on rollers supporting drawtube before it hits drawtube stop .

I you dither 10-12 pixels then Darks not required just bias and flats ,bias you can do every now and again three or four times of year and flats on the night,time saver .

i have attached my data work flow ,im using 1.7.455 in the shrink module it has an unglow feature which is handy , create a mask containing nebula and use unglow that works well any questions just ask ,looking through the work flow will give you an idea of work flow, ignore blocks of code better to use auto dev create a ROI covering just the nebula. sgl user data.txt

i see your previous post you ate using APT then try davids tutorial and use ASTAP as the solver ,never used astrotilla myself so cant help there .

Certainly is ,Startools really starting to shine now

i have similar distance using a Nevada unit no problems 13.8v at pier powering a Eq6 camera ,autofocuser ,guide camera ,dew controller wires running underground to pier .

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Run through Startools 1.7.456 looks nice to me

Nice image russ , try redoing flats just refocus ,the orientation doesn’t change on a lens and recommend a sensor clean skears in Northampton do a nice job 👍

Can’t see your signature but dithering with a dslr is beneficial to eliminate walking noise ,I use Apt this communicates with phd2, more subs the better will help too .

Not properly I need to have a go at last years m42 see how it works on the halos, I saw your comment on ST forum

Nice capture Steve ,did you just use unglow on stars or the planetary nebula ?

+1 for Startools

Great job 👏

I’m sure that doesn’t work since last big update, scripts changed.

Heart nebula approx 3hrs data teknosky 70Q,Nikon d5300,idasD2 filter ,processing in Startools7