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daz

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daz last won the day on April 7 2014

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    http://darrenjehan.me.uk

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    Astronomy, Guitar, Eating
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  1. Got back on Sunday after 8 nights there. The first Sat/Sun/Mon was amazing weather for October! Warm sunshine, shorts and t-shorts, ice cream on Cromer pier! Fantastic... Then the wind and rain came! My scope survived until Friday morning - annoyingly, I'd even checked it about 20 minutes before my utility tent gave in and collapsed, taking the rig with it! Thankfully the only real damage was the flat-flap and that should be easily repairable! The LP is definitely getting worse, but then so is the amount of moisture in the air (and not just the precipitating kind!). Still, as @Hobbes says, it's great to meet up with friends again, look through some nice glass and chill....
  2. Another terrific image Peter! Gonna have to move to Spain!!!
  3. That's a cracking image! So much going on! I love images like this, where you can zoom in and see even more in the background! Fantastic!
  4. That's an outstanding image Olly!! Awesome job from everyone!
  5. I've used SGP for a long time and recently ran some comparisons to NINA. I must say, I do like the operation of NINA and the features. The interface ... not so much, but I can live with it! 🙂 There are a couple of key features that really stand out for me: Monitoring of star sizes to determine if an autofocus trigger is needed (although to be fair, this is now in SGP too) Plugins - There are some really useful extras that you can extend NINA functionality with! The advanced sequencer is very powerful - nested blocks, blocks that can be saved for future use - very clever! The different file-naming for the calibration frames - SGP is limited to one file naming format for a sequence Downside for me is Discord (I just don't 'geddit'!), and the interface. I still subscribe to SGP, in fact, my renewal is due anytime, as I do actually like the software...! In terms of stability, I have not actually had very many issues with my setup. The one I had recently turned out to be the camera at fault (had to be sent for repair) not SGP... Having made a change a while ago to 12v powered USB, that solved a lot of issues for me!
  6. Have you got limits enabled in EQMOD?
  7. That's a great read - and your observing cards are just amazing!!
  8. Definitely a bug.... mine shows the usual red colour - as it should!!
  9. I have one for sale in case you were interested, is all...
  10. You could look in the For Sale section Paul ... 😇
  11. Shot through my ED72 with ZWO 178, best 500 of 10,000 frames. Just over 12 days old, at approx 87% illumination. Processed in: Pixinsight for deconvolution Registax for wavelets Affinity for contrast, shadows & highlights, curves, high pass filter, cropping I tried to keep the overall tone as natural as possible - previously I have tended to go a bit OTT with the contrast, but I am pleased with this attempt. Thx
  12. daz

    Star Party 2022

    Hi all Firstly - an apology for the delay in getting back to you all... So, we have been working with the team at Lucksall again to see if we could make an event work - but sadly we believe that Lucksall is no longer a suitable venue for us.... The rally field has now been converted into hard-standing to accommodate more caravans and motor homes and the last two rows of the rally field (Hare) have now been converted to static holiday caravans. There was a glimmer of hope in the form of Long Meadow, but.... Because this lies at the bottom of the slope from the hill, and is below the level of the river, it is very prone to getting wet - and in fact, the recent wet weather has meant that Lucksall are not allowing the use of the grass pitches for this reason. There are 16 hard-standing pitches on Long Meadow, but these are not suitable for tent use, and the lines of trees that are in the meadow means many of the pitches have quite a restricted Southern view. See the attached pictures showing the trees. The fence along the back of the first picture, is the bottom of what was the rally field. While it does give some screening, it would not block all the lights from that area... All in all, not at all suitable for what we need. So, where does this leave us? Well, we have already begun the search for a new venue - but this is going to take some time to work through. We are looking at variety of factors (number of pitches, number of hook ups, toilets/showers, space for talks, dark sky levels, etc) and we are looking across all areas of the country. This is going to take some effort to work through, so bear with us while we do this. We know it's disappointing, but hopefully we'll be able to find a suitable place and get back to meeting up again.. Daz, on behalf of all the Admin and Mod team
  13. Wow! That's a landscape!!
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