DaveS

Alas, the PAS is the best part of 4 hours from here, too long for a casual bod.

Oh no, this is dreadfully sad news. My condolences to his family.

He will be sorely missed on the forum.

Now he's REALLY pi$$ed off

What is a "clear night"? Does such a thing exist?

Love these guys, mad as a box of frogs.

For all the advances we're still at the wire and canvas biplane stage.

Space travel won't be routine until take off for orbit involves a conversation with ATC rather than a room full of techs ready to blow your ride out of the sky. V1, rotate, V2, and V3, orbital insertion. And the throttle quadrant goes all the way to 11 😂.

More in depth on the Beeb website

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64223882

I can't see myself imaging anything in January, or anything else for the foreseeable.

Looking at the flight path I think it might be visible from the southern most coast of Ireland.

Better quality .

Made the local news, BBC Spotlight.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64165996

Slightly more in depth.

Beeb have finally woken up.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64179472

Yup.

CN might be Cloudy Nights, but HCN is hydrogen cyanide. Hmm...

I dislike the moon with a passion, but unfortunately we need it, not just for tidal stabilisation but for resources and as a staging post for solar system travel, so best give it a paint with Black V3. Otherwise I'd say collapse it into a Black Hole and be done with it.

Whenever you put socks in the washing machine one will be exchanged for a hideous pink and green monstrosity from the planet Zog. Washing machines are the best wormhole generators known to humankind.

Part of the Coma galaxy cluster during "Galaxy Season". It's not as good as I'd like as I've been having no end of problems with Flats calibration so had to push the background down further than I should like.

Realistically it's a good 7 hour round trip from here, even assuming I could find a parking space in the car park.

All the astro shows are a long drag for a day trip.

OK, to get back to my original question, which I think has been answered.

What I have taken from this discussion is that if I use the SPCC script in PI then I don't need to worry about G2v calibration and can use the same exposure for each filter.

NB is another ball game entirely, and needs another thread.

Thanks for all the replies guys, plenty for me to take on board.

Regarding LP it's mainly to the east (Weymouth), and west (Bridport). To the south the nearest town of any size is in France, about 350 km away.

I will give the replies the attention they deserve, and try to come back with a sensible post tomorrow.