Blazar

Taken me long enough to get the data processed and happy with it. Think this is the best I can do really. Usual equipment. Would need to dig through the logs to get the free numbers etc. Though there were 2000 frame captures. RGB +L.

Welcome aboard! As knobby Says....it used to be fairly busy, but life took over I think 😉

Another HA target. trying out what had been learnt and seeing if guiding could be conducted under wifi control.....to which the answer was 'NO'. Same equipment as Pelican shot. this is over 40 subs though of 180 seconds.

Nah...this is our own private group now...I will keep posting stuff when I have it. I also have the North American to do...will post them both in here and the imaging section. Cant wait for you to get your new mount and then perhaps we can try out a combined imaging target...

Yeah....the Pelican is very subjective...I will keep trying that PAPS side of things and see how that goes. I guess for larger apertures it might not be good enough, though time will tell. Was glad to have you onboard and chatting whilst being outside...it's so much more sociable 😉

So first good try out of using some of the APT tools (Such as PAPS, and the Bhatinov mask tool), and then try to do some imaging for the first time in ages. The mount and laptop did not want to play ball at first (Windows 11 and driver updates that had been done without my permission). After all that we could mess around with PAPS and see how good it could polar align. As this was the first time we were a little slow, but im sure with practice and adjusting the config it will get faster. So in the end it was IC 5070 - The Pelican Nebula which was best placed to mess around on. Focus had shifted on the first few subs, so that needed tweaking. All in all it was circa 36 x180 second subs, using a WO Star71 (with aperture mask), guided by PHD2. its just a rough process job, and looked not so bright on my other laptop, but hey..... Great fun to be out, and just in time for the end of the good weather o_0...darn.

Yeah...I put them over there as well...but my Priority was of course this page 😉

Hey all, Managed to get out and catch some rays! decided to make some time being as it was sunny. There was a slight haze, but I think these came out ok whilst I was trying to remember how all the kit works 🙂 . These were with the TAL100RS, on the CGEMDX. Quark Cromosphere, ZWO174mm camera. Stacked in AS3, processed in ImPPG and finished in PS5. I tried various processing options and had to try and recall what some of it was...Might try and do this again at some point!

Hey all, Managed to get out and catch some rays! decided to make some time being as it was sunny. There was a slight haze, but I think these came out ok whilst I was trying to remember how all the kit works 🙂. These were with the TAL100RS, on the CGEMDX. Quark Cromosphere, ZWO174mm camera. Stacked in AS3, processed in ImPPG and finished in PS5. Might try and do this again at some point!

Very nice indeed ! I might have to give that a go at some point (probably too late now I would imagine).

Well its a start 😉 . I never said I was any good at math of course 🙂 kind of makes sense though looking through it all.

I like the Red to be honest 🙂 but this is part of the fun....

So the seeing was not to bad at all (though Jupiter is still way too low) really. Managed to actually use a barlow though (2.5x powermate). Usual kit in the signature. Did also connect the mount via wifi and get all the starsense working over it all..so thats a positive as well.

Never bothered with an ADC (but I did buy one), and I have a 174mm...I guess shooting with a colour whilst they are low is ideal and the ADC is beneficial... Jupiter is around -20 degrees below the celestial equator even at the meridian. Probably why I have not been out for two years or so!

I have asked FLO about tuning it...