DaveS

Thanks guys. I'm somewhat surprised that I managed that number of postable images through the somewhat rubbish year we've had. I also have other projects started but on hold until I can capture the rest of the data, and one or two that simply aren't up to scratch.

Or my year in images. All captured from my Bortle 4/3 location with the TS 130 rig, ASI 1600 and either Baader LRGB or Astrodon NB filters. Roughly in chronological order, though there was some overlap in the image capture. Processing mainly in AstroArt 7, with some polishing in Affinity Photo. M33 Triangulum, 10 hours HaLRGB, Capture right at the beginning of the year. Next on to the Leo Triplet, 29 hours HaLRGB And M106, 33 hours. a bit dubious about this one, will likely have another go with the ODK12 Next a couple of Globulars. Firstly M13, 6 hours RGB And M5, also 6 hours RGB, with a synthetic Luminance. This is a bit of a crop due to the small size of the target in the FoV Now we move into summer, and emission nebulae, captured largely in Nautical Dark. There is some overlap in the captures through here. Starting with the Witches Broom, SHO 12 hours S, and 6 hours each H, and O which are stronger in this target. And Fleming's Triangle. This was only 8 hours S, with 4 hours each H, and O. Staying in Cygnus for the Tulip Nebula. SHO with 11 hours S and O, with 6 hours H. Was going for 12 hours each S and O but the weather was against me. Moving into Cassiopeia for Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula. SHO again with 9 hours S, 4 hours H and 12 hours O. Another one affected by weather. And lastly (Phew! hope you made it this far) we have M27, the Dumbbell in Vulpecula. 9 hours each N, H, and O. Note, [NII], not [SII] And that's it for this year. The last three months have been dire for imaging, with the few clear nights affected by either too much moon, or too much wind.

I run my obsy remotely. In addition to the computer I have an AAG Cloudwatcher for weather monitoring and a Talon roof automation system. All the IT stuff is connected to a big UPS. There is also a POE CCTV camera for monitoring. The computer is mounted on the obsy wall, not on the telescope. There is, however a Pegasus APB for power routing and auto dew control.

OOUK are premium optics and priced accordingly. They also have long lead times, I ordered my ODK12 at Astrofest in Feb '19, and received it in Oct.

Wow! Some pretty good detail there, not sure I'd be brave enough to image at 0.51"/pixel (According to Astronomy Tools). Working on an M33 with my ODK12 / 16200 set up at 0.61"/pixel, but the weather has been against me.

Grabbed a view in my 10x50s, but so low down as to be below my telescope's horizon. Easy split with naked eye, Stellarium says just over 9 mins of arc.

I was hoping to see it blow up on the launchpad and trash more military trash.

10 mins to go.

To the best of my knowledge, yes.

The QHY dovetail adaptor has a M54 thread. SX do a M54 adaptor for the filter wwheel.

With a bar of Sunlight Soap?

Imaging *anything* lately has been a challenge in itself.

And the 2" mounted is £200 *more* than the 50mm unmounted

Snap!

Finally aborted. Will be trying again tomorrow.

Hold at t-1.53. Now put back to T-45. Hopefully you managed to miss the vomit-inducing NRO puff.

Live in 60 mins

Just seen the new prices on the @FLO site, good job I was sitting down! Most likely to go with Astronomik if I buy an IMX 571 camera

Yeah, I thought the Chroma packaging was poor, to say the least, especially for such an expensive filter. Also the cleaning protocol that Chroma lists is finicky to say the least, while Baader and Astronomik damn near say you can use a Brillo pad (Don't, by the way ).

A very comprehensive and erudite presentation.

Solid cloud for as far back as I can think, and for as far in the future as I can see.

Eyepiece? What is this thing "eyepiece"?

I have signed the petition. No streetlights here in semi-rural Dorset and next to no crime either. What there is largely targets farmers.

Alas no, but I have been sorely tempted. Mostly held back by me reluctance to spend any serious money on kit until I have my pensions coming in. The 80mm f/4.4 in my sig is a real devil to get the spacing right, finicky down to the tenth of a mm.

Looks like This one from TS, or With the reducer