happy-kat

I think it was the drizzling, you might want to delete the file from your post as in time the post will lose edit and that is a lot of your space allocation eaten

That is a huge tiff, really huge, for me doesn't look normal

Could add setting circles on to the mount

That looks a very usable combination with comfortable observing position, enjoy

I's a tripod can be used for all sorts it's not end of life, it even has a use as a potential basic wedge.

I wonder if mine is similar as currently I'm not getting it to guide at all the star drifts off and I know you can guide atl-az just use one star not multiple in the settings and a centre or so star to minimise rotation It's a summer project to open it so I'm following the replies here

Agree darks and bias but in testing with my data I'm undecided and had found dark flats ok

For flats, you'll need aperture, ISO and focus the same as your lights, look at the histogram use your shutter speed to get the histogram light peak in the middle. Dark flats, cover the light source (lens cap), take dark flats as nothing else changes. In Siril you can enter a number for a synthetic bias.

A fitting name for this nebula showing nicely

Hi Have you checked each file to see if any of your lights have passing cloud as you might want to exclude those from your stack

I did but shucks you stashed a quote before my correction 🙂

Doesn't the redcat 51 have a petzval design eliminating a field flatenner?

I borrowed the image from FLO When you're using your telescope the tube OTA needs to be on the left side of the mount, level and the open end facing North. Once connected are you still not able to see it move with the up and down arrows.

I enjoy the mystery of looking through the dark patches to see a few stars behind this adds to the wonder of space and it's three dimension. Great image

Although I haven't used that mount I would extract left or right and up down but check your rate speed as it's hard to see low numbers. Can you hear it wanting to move? I'd contact the reseller

Have you done the switch off. Level and tube horizontal with open end pointing north and I think it probably wants the tube to be left mounted on the mount check the manual then switch on a start again

The Moon for me is below the horizon APT Darkness Clock mobile app is great for quick Moon status

The planets and star lists etc change depending on what's in view for you right then

Under stars the synscan app lists comets if that helps

Hi, I think the interval is the length of exposure plus any gap you want, so 21.

I use synscan pro on my mobile 2.4.11 and not the PC and it works for me

Loving the very hot off the press new Sharpcap function for dealing with chromatic aberration just tested on some random data and it made a improvement on my data and I hadn't used any filters. I use the Pro version it's enhanced and made easier what I can do.

Ooo that's going to suit you, great first light. That's a EEA monster great fun with that.

I have updated my linked post with the driver I have got on each relevant step hope this helps

I've been fine tuning how I use sharpcap and synscan and sharpsolve, I'm hoping to test it again tomorrow it looks likely to be clear. I do a one star alignment on two different targets and just accept where the mount is pointing, I do step 4, 5 and 6 then select the first target again and do a sharpcap platesolve and sync if the target isn't actually in view and repeat select target in synscan hopefully now it's in view and fine tune so it's in centre of view and accept. Do similar on the second target and repeat, keep repeating until the targets are in the centre hopefully now tracking will be ok. I do this because I have very limited sky visible so can't work with stars a 70-90 degrees apart mine have to be a lot closer. I'm also going to turn the camera into portrait mode.