tim r

Also outside been tidied up a little

Covered my mount as I’m going plaster my walls  don’t like the block work look it feels like a prison cell also I can neaten up my wiring at the same time, my question what colour would you paint the finished walls I’m leaning towards black. 

4 hours ago, Stuart1971 said:

You don’t even need USB 3 cables, you get far too much interference with them, USB 2 is perfectly fine and better in nearly all cases of long exposures, USB 3 is only needed for fast frame rate capture, like planetary imaging with a ROI, give yourself less headaches and just use a USB2 cable and set the USB traffic on about 10, in saying that i use 0 on my 268 with USB 2 and it works flawlessly..👍🏻

Will try this makes sense it’s not planetary at 100 fps , lost 4 images last night out of 60 not counting cloud cover. Thanks Tim.

4 hours ago, PhilB61 said:

I would also try a direct cable run to your PC ie not too through the iOptron USB hub, it won't be as neat but just for elimination purposes, it's worth testing. 

It’s looks so neat , no chance of snagging, I lost 5, 180 subs from 80 exposures, (unfortunately 3 in 1 channel) , I’ll test direct but not sure if the chance snagging is worse than loosing some images. 

42 minutes ago, Richard_ said:

What length USB cables are you using and what brand? The general rule of thumb is to use a good quality cables and to use the shortest cable length possible. For USB 3, do not exceed a cable length of 3m as mentioned by Pegasus Astro in the link below.

https://pegasusastro.com/cable-management-recommendations/

Thank had a good look might change somethings around

Less than 3m just about, bought a reasonably expensive one, but who knows they claim to be good .. Don’t know it’s it’s using all the usb 3 ports on the mount , going to move the Zwo guider to the usb 2 port to the left and it that doesn’t help plug the Primaluce gotto focuser into a usb2 to only run usb 3 with the camera 

Just checked Nina setting my usb limit was set at 0 , read online should be 40 ( for Zwo)don’t know if this will stop since the change of settings I’ve had 7 more 180 subs come out ok.

dose anybody know what this setting is for , is it download speed or capacity or am I barking up the wrong tree

See photo this happens every so often, using usb 3 from onboard hub on Ioptron 120 then straight into pc..pleas excuse the large dust moats

70 x 3mins subs in narrowband with zwo 2600mc over 2 night with skywatcher esprit 150, stacked and processed with pixinsight.

ic1396bmp.bmp

out for 3hrs last night lost the last 1/2 hrs work of light due to forgetting to turn on dew heater, tried without any light pollution filter so as is .m51.bmpm51.bmpm51crop.bmp

redone with less over the top processing.

galaxy_clone1.bmp

now a little too purple

1st go in pixinsight was happier with the image 5 steps earlier over done it but quite alright with the end product .

steep leaning curve will back to original uncropped image and start again..

Thanks again it’s a little more involved the my Zwo plus but I’ll get to grips with it eventually 

The mount connects but I’m getting this error an I doing something wrong.

Wow what a coincidence I downloaded this program late last night and literally just tried it in NINA and it slewed to the targets as much as I could tell in the day time. It came  up with a few errors but still worked as far as I can tell.
And parked it that worked as I should, now to try properly on a clear night I  want the park scope feature to work so my roll on roll off works with the mount so not to snap my scope in half by accidentally closing.

I can control my Meade lx850 gem mount with the Zwo air plus but want more control like parking scope and roof on off automation which the Zwo won’t do.

so going to try connect to Ascom then NINA, but try as I might cannot get the mount to connect to Ascom it not a hard wear issue as can connect to meades updater and Zwo. 
Trawled the internet for every driver but no luck has anybody been able to connect a Meade to Ascom thanks.

42 minutes ago, Elp said:

Also a supporter of manual processing as you learn more about image editing and can apply the same skills to daytime images (or any images), though I use Siril for pre processing (which has transformed my editing) and sometimes starnet. This is around 20 minutes in PS, I lost the star colour which I normally get back via Photometric Colour Correction in Siril, your original image was quite good I think:

I’d settle for any 3 of the images, thanks again to everybody like a said gives me something to aim at (no pun intended)..

2 hours ago, tomato said:

Apologies, a bit late with my processing effort. I used the LP removal and star colour calibration tools in APP, BlurXtermintor and StarXterminator in PI, then used the clone tool on the starless image in AP  to remove the ampglow artefact from the background. More Histogram transformation and curves in PI then recombine with Pixelmath and NoiseXterminator to finish. M81 still looks a bit too green to me, even though I applied SCNR.

Thanks for that I’m blown away with the detail you both have pulled out of my image,I read what you did to the image if I’m honest it was all Greek to me I’ve got so much to learn.

I’m thinking of buying pixinsight might be better to learn from scratch without using app too much and getting used to its process. Buying the 2 sounds a costly way to go (no change there then). Will download trail version today and see if I can get my old brain around it, thanks for all the input didn’t expect this and sending me on my way…

36 minutes ago, wimvb said:

Not in my opinion, no. But it's a very powerful program, and for a beginner it's easy to get overwhelmed by its functionalities. Unlike a few years ago, there are now many youtube tutorials that will help you along the way.

Would you buy pixinsight over app I’ve got the trial version at the moment thanks for all your help..

57 minutes ago, wimvb said:

Here's my attempt. There's some ifn coming through, but unfortunately also the residual of the amp glow

Is pixinsight as hard to use as I’m led to believe 

That 100 percent better ,my 1st go with app and not really ever stacked the darks we’re done day after.. Thanks give me something to think about.