tony

I recently sent in a request for a shield to be fitted to the streetlight over the road, just got this response from the council. Result, so if anyone else got a similar problem it's worth contacting the council. We currently have little to no stock of shields, with no chance of obtaining more due to the street lighting lanterns now being obsolete. We are reliant on our county wide LED lantern replacement program to return shields already fitted on the network for re-use. Unfortunately I am unable to provide any idea of timescale when this may be. You may find the lanterns you have identified get replaced before a shield/s becomes available. The new lanterns are optically better with less intrusive light spill and should a problem still persist, being new, shields are readily available. Please bear with us. Once the streetlight number is confirmed, I will however raise a job in the system to instruct our contractor to fit a shield to the light, if/when one is available. Additionally for information, we’ve recently had our policy approved by Cabinet to implement part-night operation of streetlighting and are in the process of confirming which areas can be switched off, starting with residential and rural. It is hoped we will be able to implement this before Spring. If you have any further queries please do let me know.

First post in quite a while, New obsy sort of up and running but I've still got quite a bit of old unprocessed data I'd like to get out the way, yes I know🤫 but I never got round to processing quite a few images, data for this was captured March 2015. 5 hours 40 mins in 20 min sub-exposures with Astrodon 3nm Hydrogen Alpha filter. Astrobin Technical card https://astrob.in/8s1k6d/0/

Just to give this post a bump, I've just sent an email to my local council regarding a lamp over the road, I will post their response if and when I get one.

😝 Had to wait till I had everything of course😆

Had this last Thursday, the FLT132. Its a biggy compared to my GT81.

Had these delivered before xmas, EQ6-R Pro, mount hub prov4 and the HitecAstro Weather thingy😄and the QSI6120.

Obsy number 2 will be underway soon and this time I want to have the roof fully automated with one of those sliding gate motors so it can he controlled with Sgpro, so I'm asking is there a particular motor that people use as there's quite a few out there with varying prices, also how do you get it working with Sgpro because I assume its not going to be plug and play. Your input will be very much appreciated. TIA, Tony.

Yes, I saw that. 👍

Appreciate the comments guys, thankyou.

Rosette or my mugshot?🤣

A nice surprise, didn't think it would get in but it did. (please excuse the mugshot😂)

Yes I know, the Rosette is long gone🤣 I've been just too busy to sit down at the pc and do any processing, but I've finally found the time over the last few weeks to actually get some processing done, I've spent ages on this, wasn't happy with how it was looking at first, maybe 4 or 5 different versions/colour combos. Its been a long and steep learning curve on Pixinsight but thanks to the workshops that Ron and Warren did it made Pi a lot easier and I finally have an image I'm really happy with, may need a bit more n/r but other than that maybe🤔 Your comments and critique most welcome😬 10 hours Ha 8 hours OIII 8 hours SII all 20min subs. Gear used- Camera - QSI583WSG Telescope - William Optics GT81 Guidecam - Starlight Express Lodestar Mount - HEQ5PRO Captured using SGPro Processed in Pixinsight.

Outstanding Peter, as mentioned before, stunning detail and colour 👌

Thanks Mick.👍

It's definitely worth a go, thanks.👍