Skipper Billy

I am sure its me being thick but I cant work out how to import the process icon you so kindly sent me ???

Outstanding - and great patience !!! I am getting better at gathering data but processing is still my weak point so I have nothing to add except it might be worth posting up your three stacked files to see what the Pixinsight and PS wizards can get from it then ask the questions about what they did they you didnt ?? May I ask why you gathered so much more Ha than Sii and Oii ??

Thanks I will try that too - thanks for the info. i have just seen the price of a 2" Astrodon mounted OIII filter so a software solution is very much required !!

Many thanks - I will try that. Thanks for the heads up.

Not at all !!!!!!

Straight combination of the 3 channels

Thanks for the suggestion but the filter wheel is definitely the right way round and the 2" filters are mounted and will only go in one way. It is annoying and disappointing though!!

Thanks - I am still learning this cameras foibles - its quite different to my Atik 460!! I will try 30 mins next time and see how it goes. Cheers.

Thanks - I will try that. Cheers.

Great tip - thanks - I will try that this evening.

Yes there are - but not in the Hubble image. I dont know how to get rid of them or what causes them - I wish I did - very ugly!!

First image this season due to lousy weather! First light for new camera - Atik 16200 The Heart Nebula - imaged over 19th and 20th Sept. in Ha, Sii and Oiii - 10 x 900 second subs of each. Takahashi 106 - Atik 16200 - EFW3 with Baader 2" filters, guided with SW ED72 and ZWO290 mono mounted on a Mesu 200. Sequenced with SGP, guided with PHD2, processed with darks, bias and flats in Pixinsight. Post processed in the SHO (Hubble) style and HOS. Jpegs attached - full definition images here - https://www.flickr.com/…/72157675109735132/with/48770836883/ Constructive criticism welcomed - I DO listen !!!

I feel the cold and work outdoors in the winter in NW Scotland - in moderately cold weather (around freezing) I wear 'winter lined' walking trousers, down to -5/-10 a pair of womens woolly tights under the winter lined trousers and colder than -10 or windy conditions a pair of ski trousers over the top of the winter lined pants and womens tights. Plenty warm enough. I have bad circulation in my legs but still manage with the above. Agree with above about Sealskin socks - they make a big difference. Also a really good hat makes a big difference to general comfort levels as does a scarf.

Have you installed 'StellariumScope' ??? http://welshdragoncomputing.ca/x/index.php/home/stellariumscope/download-stellariumscope

That's quite simply not correct. W10 plays very nicely with EQMOD. Not having a go - just don't want people reading that and believing it to be true.

Thanks Julian From memory its 2XX.XXX - its quite old as I couldnt see a benefit to upgrade to 3xx.xxx Maybe I will have to get my hand in my pocket!

Well done - you should be very proud of that!

You will need the FTDI chip lead I am afraid. I found a workaround a year or two ago but even that doesn't work now. Get one of these - the other benefit is you can plug it into any USB port and it will know which port its supposed to be.

Cant speak about the 120 from personal experience but a lot of people use it VERY succesfully.

I used my Lodestar 1x1 and 2x2 and to be honest I didnt see much difference in guiding performance (both were very good). I bought a ZWO290 mono with the idea of making an 'all sky camera' but havent done it yet. I tried the 290 as a guide camera and it is much better than the Lodestar - smaller pixels, more sensitive and my guiding with it (with a SW ED72) is very, very good. The Lodestar used to be the 'gold standard' of guide cameras but maybe it is losing it's crown??

PS - just found 'recovery' options in the SGP options menu that looks like it will do the trick too.

Cheers Folks.

Last night I was taking 1800sec Ha subs in between the clouds. Whenever PHD2 lost its guide star and the dreaded flashing red screen popped up SGP aborted the sub and the run! It did this twice and both times within 2 mins of the end of the sub! I cannot see a way to make SGP carry on even if PHD2 loses the guide star. Any suggestions??

You wont do it well for much less than that without going down the secondhand route. The one in the link is a good proven performer and will guide anything up about 1000mm FL without any difficulty.

Well you should have good dark skies in Skovde, my eldest son lives just outside Alingsas not far from you and the skies are great. (Sorry about no dots over the o's and a's !) The biggest single benefit you will probably ever get in astroimaging is adding guiding. It doesn't have to be expensive. A converted finderscope and cheap camera will do it. Then you are not limited to short exposures and worrying about trailing etc. Great first effort - keep at it!