DaveS

Haha, glad it's not just me that can't get their head around PI. My desk has a big dent in it from banging my head in despair LOL. ATM, I'm reasonably happy with AstroArt 7 and Gimp 2.10.14, just trying to raise my standards. If I can come anywhere near the standard of Sara's NB Horsehead, I'll be delighted.

I freed up some space on my boot drive and downloaded the latest version. Looks to do the job.

It has a 12v adaptor, but I have mains power to the pier.

I have Telegizmos covers which are pretty good at keeping condensation at bay, but even so I have an electric pet-bed underneath on low for when dew is forecast.

But do @FLO have any info they're willing / able to share?

Thanks John, looks like I'll need a PS equivalent. But the proof of the pudding, as they say, and your image is very good.

Very well worth watching. Pete even managed to image a comet!

On NOW!

On in 15 mins.

How do you manage to get Stratton to do anything meaningful? When I've been trying it I get horrible halos where stars were, and trying to get stars only in Stratton is even worse.

I wish Stratton would come with something resembling documentation, other software does at least have a help file of some kind. With this I'm just flailing around. Since there's no Healing Tool in Stratton i'll have to pull the TIFFs into GIMP to deal with the halos, as I don't have PS.

This is what I get with Stratton using the default settings I'm not fussed about the borders as I would crop them off anyway, it's the big pale circles where stars used to be.

Well I downloaded the software, but now I have no idea how to use it. At least it was free. I tried copying the files into the AstroArt folder in program files, hoping it would find it as a plug-in, but no luck.

Many thanks for the link Steve. I knew about Starnet++ from posts in the DSO Imaging section but thought it was a PI only plug-in. I do have a trial of PI running but since the latest version of AstroArt came out I'm wondering if I really *need* it. Will investigate further.

OK, I've purchased a copy of Stratton to be able to process stars and nebulae separately, but my first forays have been frustrating. Nebulae have big pale areas where stars were, while trying it on galaxies leaves those pale circles, while taking out some galactic cores. No my assumption is that I'm doing something wrong, either in preparing the image for star removal, or in setting up Stratton, but there is no help file or guide, nor can I find any sensible slider for star adjustment. Unless I'm overlooking it. I think there are people here who use Stratton, presumably successfully, so how do they get it to work? Or is there an online resource that might help? TIA, Dave.

Have a look in garden centres, they often have water-permeable rubber flooring.

Oooh, that's nasty, feel for you. Not had anything quite that bad, which is surprising given my rubbish coordination. What's the flooring in your obsy?

Still planning to go on the Saturday but will buy a ticket on the door to keep my options open. GMaps is giving me journey times of 3 1/2 hours or so. Allowing a couple of breaks that gives more like 4 hours. With that journey time it means that even if I leave the show early at 3 o/c or so I'll still be doing the last 2 hours in the dark. And around here dark means dark!

I cut the last of this batch of uprights, to 1490 mm, just short of the 1500 mm I had planned, but it means that I was able to be sure of the length, instead of just cutting nominally 3m lengths in half. Now have 12 lengths standing up in the garage. Bit (Actually quite a lot) annoyed with Wickes and their website. Bought tsome "85 x 85 x 25 mm" angle brackets to hold the corners of the bottom square together while being screwed, but reading the label "25mm" (Which I took to be the width) should be "2.5mm" ie. the metal thickness. They actually look to be 50+mm, and too wide to fit within the 45mm thickness of the bottom timbers. If that makes sense. Bother.

Hi and welcome. I'm a bit further east over the border, but the weather's been rubbish here too. Very good images.

What is "Fahrenheit"? I seem to recall something of that name from my youth but have only used Celsius or Kelvin for the last 50 years or so.

I'm taking the long view of this, a telescope's for life, not just Christmas. So if I cannot complete an image this year, I'll wait for next. In fact I've got a few targets lined up for next year when I'll have the ODK / 16200 up and running. Now just off to just some uprights for the build.

True. For a given value of "fun".

Wow, wow, three times wow. That is really something.

The stuff I've got in the conservatory would buy quite a few years of remote hosting. I think that would have been a wiser use of the money