Skyline

8 hours ago, Lockie said:

Yes speaking to Steve, FLO are launching their own brand of scopes - Stella Mira ! The Apo on display was a 104mm f6.25 Triplet with not one but two ED elements! It's in a lovely black and red livery and of course very nice CNC machining inc a carry handle I was impressed. There is more but I can't remember what I'm allowed to say?

An approximate price tag and any other models?

Anyone got pics of new scopes?

5 hours ago, Lockie said:

What a scope that is (for the 20th time) why do I sell these things lol Well, it's a bond us three have...better than a blood oath  

Their really good scopes Chris, very sharp views.

Are you sure it's not the mirror being pinched by the clips. It's an easy fix not like refractors 

2 hours ago, sshenke said:

I have been fed up with dew build up on my reflector- Skywatcher 130PDS with no comprehensive solution to this problem. Every imaging session I had recently had been utterly ruined by dew build up within a maximum of an hour. hence thinking of buying a refractor scope instead, as I think dew will be much more manageable with the use of dew shields +/- dew bands. Would appreciate suggestions for a refractor scope for a modest budget (around£500) please. Thanks.

Btw how long is your dew shield on the 130pds. If you have not got one, make one out of a exercise mat. I can remember I did not get any dew problems using a home made dew shield with a 130pds.

An 80Ed variant Orion, Celestron, skywatcher s/h can be had from £250

N.

On 11/11/2019 at 11:50, JamesF said:

It's the free ZWO keychain that really sells it for me

James

I want a keychain as well

N.

I look into buying one of those Telegizmo's in a little time later. 

This was my 1st light with my camera, the stars are a bit of an odd shape, that was because this afternoon I realised my Optolong Dual Enhance filter the night I was imaging  got cracked, as I accidentally dropped it. See thread
 

However I was very much impressed with the results only for 1 hours worth of data, no calibration files were used.

Just now, JamesF said:

Ebay is with a scout around for the foam flooring too, especially if you need larger quantities (I wanted about nine square metres when I did my observatory).  But beware the really cheap stuff as it may well be thinner.

James

I need it waterproof and hardwearing because it would be outside with the elements.

Nadeem.

I think its more painful buying another !

The Stanley rubber gloves did it, thanks.

Nice to see there's no damage to the reducer.

No Obsy, just a concrete base for now, I thing I need to invest in rubber tiles or something.

I had a nasty expensive accident on the 1st night of using my pier, the reducer fell out of my hand and the front filter got smashed. I feel so gutted £185 down the drain.

I am finding hard to swallow. 

I can't seem to unthread the filter from the front now, maybe its jammed from the side of the impact. Any ideas ?

You should be just fine with a Unmodified DLSR.

7 minutes ago, vlaiv said:

DSS has two tabs - one for fits files and one for raw files (those from DSLR), are you sure you are looking at the right tab?

Doh ! You are Absolutely correct Vlaiv. Thank you just exported to 4144 x 2822.

Thanks.

My current setting is Bilinear Interpolation.

Hi,

I need some help in this,  I am sure I'm missing a trick here or I am going mad :

Last night I was imaging, I stacked the images using DSS, when exporting the image into PS I noticed the DSS Autosave.tif image was saved at 2072 x 1411 instead of the native resolution at 4144 x 2822. I was binning at 1x1.

Thinking it might be a problem with the FIT files, I checked in FITS Liberator and they all showing 4144 x 2822 resolution also this resolution shows next to each file stacked in DSS. Is this a DSS issue or a setting I need to set.

The FITS settings in DSS is set to Generic RGGB, Any suggestions please ?

Thanks

Nadeem.

4 hours ago, Pompey Monkey said:

Super!

What's all that black tape doing?

I hope it's just a low voltage cable!! 😱😱

That black tape is only securing the spiral cable wrap to join the ends together. I had loads of cable wraps in different lengths.

Tonight's session imaging with ed72.

You have done certainly very well on this. It can only get better with a modded camera.

The central core is not blown out. You could darken the background and it will pop the galaxy out a little more.

N.

I like it. 

I have a dehumidifier cannister under the covers. I need to print off a fixing bracket

My wife is waiting for the construction stuff to be cleared around the pier before I can have a go. Walking on crutches is no fun and dangerous in the dark with building material around.

N.