geordie85

I've recently been playing with the trial of APP by using it to combine separate data sets and i must say that I'm quite impressed. On Friday I set up my star71 and QHY183C beside my FLT98 and QHY183M and shot just shy of 3 hours on C19 through each setup, so almost 6 hours of data in total. Shot under bortle 6 skies. Stacked in AA6, aligned in AAP and processed in photoshop.

Yeah, I think I read somewhere that the little nipples you see in the hubble image are the size of our solar system. Truely immense

Very nice. It's amazing that they appear so small, yet they're truly massive and dwarf our entire solar system.

I prefer the first one. The 2nd seems to be clipped, but that may just be my phone screen

A lovely image, seems to be lacking colour though.

Do you have any other equipment? Tracking mount? Telescope? Lens's?

Can you post it as a jpeg/ PNG file to save downloading please

That's an amazing result. Would you mind posting a few screen shots of the process please? I find it easier to learn things when I can see them.

Yes, mine was a 2nd hand unit aswell which I disclosed in my first email to him. Yet I still received a service as if I'd bought it new from them. Amazing service and I cannot praise him enough.

That's what I keep telling the wife, but she's not having it

The postman kindly delivered this today.

Yet another reprocess of this data. Due to poor weather, i have been unable to collect any more data. All comments or tips welcome

You've managed to capture some beautiful detail. Well done

Just cleared the houses here. Ran out to the local bowls club with my DSLR and tripod. Got a few nice images and several funny looks

I learned something new today.

The luminance channel is where the details lie as every pixel is registering every photon. If you imagine the bayer matrix is like a filter, red only let's in red light, green only let's in green light and blue only let's in blue light. So if a red photon hits the green filter, it is blocked from the sensor.

I've just packed away due to clouds stopping play

Thanks to Ian King joining forces with FLO, I managed to get a 1.25" 3nm Ha astrodon filter. But the postman signed for it, but still put that it was signed by me. I was at home so there was no need for this. A signed for letter or parcel should only be signed for by the recipient, indicating that it has been delivered safely and undamaged. The signature is only a squiggle.

I have the same one

Where did you buy it from? Have you tried updating the driver's/ software?

Apt will connect to the same settings as you previously used unless when you click connect, you hold the shift key down too. This will open the connectivity window. When you select your camera, the properties tab will become available to press. This is where you change the gain settings.

Thanks. I'm using a william optics flt 98 carbon fibre scope with a 0.8x Reducer/ Flattener. Qhy183m, astronomik 12nm ha, O111 and s11 filters in a starlight Xpress USB filter wheel all sat upon an neq6 mount. Good luck tonight

Thanks Carole. I was hoping for more detail but since this is less than 3 hours of data I don't think that's going to happen. I'm hoping I can get more data before this disappears behind the neighbours house.

Another reprocess

My guess is maybe. The rules seem a bit vague on this as its only said that all entries must fit the theme "30 second exposures, unguided" which this image does. There's only 1 x 30 second Ha, 1 x 30 second O111 and 1 x 30 second S11 which are actually all uncalibrated. It was also asked in that thread if separate lrbg images could be entered as long as they're single 30 seconds subs, without response. So I took a chance. I guess it's up to the judges if this is allowed or will be disqualified. Either way it was fun