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Hi Olly! I hope you are both keeping well in France.
Yes it is amazing and like I said, I feel the general standard is so high these days!
All the best,
J
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Thank you both! It was a nice surprise to catch the comet in the frame. Comet is the green slight elongated object top of frame adjacent to star!
Quite outshone by APOD Nov 12th! https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201112.html
J
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Hi all! I've been out of the game for some time now but nice to see familiar faces on SGL! I hope everyone is well and keeping sane and safe!
Lots seems to have changed! New cameras, new software, new lots of things! It's hard to get back up to speed after a few years. My Dad (Mick J) keeps me updated. The general image standard is now so high it seems!
I have a bit of a natural break in work and life things so enjoying some time in Crete with other half's family currently. First time using portable set-up for me and to be honest a lucky capture with the comet in the frame mostly by accident!
Approx 55 minutes total of 30s frames and some 10s frames for M42 core, ISO 400. Modded Canon 450D, Samyang 135mm F2. Skywatcher StarAdventurer.
Similar version of lockdown here so taken from city location and passing cloud but happy to just have some time to enjoy a bit of hobby time! Processing gradients wise was tricky!
Jordan
Larger version here with annotations https://www.astrobin.com/xn9rd1/?nc=user
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Turnbuckle finds em
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Manning, Ours is the same, just run it again to see whats going on, SPC900nc.bin shows as associated with VLC - but not important.
I had to plug a camera in, tick "ok-I take full responsibitilty", go to Webcam menu, chose DS interface, highlight webcam & click connect, bin file now shows in binaries window.
You may have to highlight to "load into cam"
Good luck
JCJC's dad
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Looking great Olly! Keep going on the Orion project, it's gonna be awesome!
Jordan
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You may/will need a video capture programme open when you are doing the flashing, craterlet or something, helps WcRmac to see the cam. see the top picture in russ's instructions
did two slowly yesterday:)
(J's dad)
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Half way down the ad, please download driver from here.
or http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/downloads/spc880nc.zip
un zip & put the file in a folder somewhere easy to find (desktop?), plug in the camera, it will look for a driver, pick the folder you have just created, it will install using the spc880nc.inf file.
now 'puter will see it and you can flash it.
(J's dad)
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I'm wondering if maybe it's because my Netbook has a built-in webcam too. If I select that, then Sharpcap works fine - but is taking pictures of me at the keyboard . it's only when I switch to the flashed SPC900NC that it crashes. If I don't click ok/cancel (or whatever the options are on the 'report to microsoft' box, I forget) then some activity continues in the Sharpcap window.
Our XP netbook switches twix built in cam & flashed webcam without a glitch (sharpcap), was playing with it this morning, will the philips work with other software, try connecting camera, then open the scanner and camera wizard in accessories under programs. I get an alert to choose the netbook cam or the phillips spc900. (we already had the drivers on the netbook, we have used one for guideing since we started)
(J's dad)
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IKO - DWB 111 Propellor Nebula - Processing Competition
in IKI Observatory
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Hi all,
This is such a good idea, really nice to compare processing of the same data and see different styles! Picking up lots of tips and tricks.
I haven't had the chance to process narrowband colour much previously so was playing around and found a nice 'false colour' technique for narrowband data online using R: 0.75xSII+0.25xHa, G: OIII, B: 0.1xHa+0.9xOIII.
-Processed RAW files independently in PS with levels and curves initially. (You realise how good the data is when the initial curves is so easy!)
-Combined the processed files in the ratios as above and RGB.
-More curves to keep brighter stars controlled
-Light use of noise reduction/sharpening
-Astro tools and Steve's actions for star reduction and colour enhancement.
-I just liked the orientation this way and have been looking at it like this for a while so any other way looks off
Thanks again SGL team, good fun and good results above! Stay well all!
Jordan