geordie85

Thanks, I'll look forward to reading your thoughts.

How does this perform? I'm busy debating with myself between getting this and the 120ed

Nebula red with an alien head instead of a horse head. A great camera and I regret selling mine.

It is an awesome machine. I'm so pleased I got one.

Thanks. I took the bottom off and gave the fans a good blowing, when I powered it back up it was fine, then I put it back on the arm of the sofa and it made the noise again. I guess it was just catching due to it not sitting flat. I must say I'm very impressed so far and I haven't even started using it for astrophotography yet. Still busy downloading drivers and programmes

The hermes guy just delivered this to me. It's a nebula red alienware m17x r2. Now I just need to go through and download all the drivers and software needed for astro imaging (which is actually alot more than I though since I downloaded everything as and when I needed it on my old laptop). I bought it off ebay for £430 and it sounds like there may be something wrong with the fans. They're making a rather loud clicking/ buzzing noise.

You managed to get it then. Thanks for taking away my temptation

Have you ever had an esprit fail the bench test?

I've had another play around since its horrid and cloudy outside. Hopefully it's an improvement on my first attempt which I've used a similar approach but not so heavy handed this time.

I've had a quick play and I must say it was a joy to work with such good data. I've also attached a screen print of the processing steps I took in photoshop (easier than listing everything I done, but also ran a high pass filter at the end) Thank you for allowing me (well, everyone who want to) have access to your data. it really was such a pleasure.

Mine says 1:0.33 Not sure what it means but guiding always seems fine in real world action

Sorry for the bad weather. My new toys have finally arrived. Qhy183c, geoptik adapter with a rotator and an adjuster for my dual rig thanks to Allinthehead. I wonder how long it will be before I can play with my new toys?

That's very good for a first attempt. Your black point looks a bit clipped but then it could just be how it looks on my phone

I never check the bubbles to see if they are level. If I'm on uneven ground I roughly get it level by eye and never had an issue. But then I usually only shoot 1 min subs and loose basically none of them.

This was taken from a "darker" site 10 miles out of town which will have helped

No, my camera is not modded. Been thinking about it but to get my 6d modded it'll cost around £200. Not sure it'll be worth it since it has good HA response as it is.

It's been on my list for a while but never got round to it

Yeas it is. I was torn between getting this in the frame or M78.

Here's a quick 1 hour image I took last night after work with my canon 6d and Samyang 135mm. 60 second subs

I have both too

I use the one I bought for my WO star71, works just fine.

Do you have a bahtinov mask? They're great for finding perfect focus. Out on the middle of nowhere after I finished work.

They are both excellent pieces of software. You can't go wrong with either. If you think you might purchase a dedicated Astro camera at some point in the future I'd recommend apt as BackyardEOS is only for dslr whereas apt can do both.

Even though it's out of focus it looks like you've got good polar alignment. Nice round stars is what we all aim for. Well done

You can but I'd suggest checking polar alignment afterwards aswell just to be on the safe side and to be sure.