Mick J

29 minutes ago, 2 Scoops said:

Does Affinity Photo have a user manual for beginners?  

 

It has a chunky general work book for processing, for astronomy some video and macro's on James Ritson's web pages  HERE

A SGL member Dave Eagle has an Affinity guide HERE

Dave did a StarGaZine talk on Affinity V1.8 HERE 

'May never get finished '

Know that one 

That's nice,  153 images into ICE - wow , well done.   Love the screen shots.

Hi @Kasper and welcome to SGL,   I am not super good with Ascom  but these url's may help : Ascom   APT

When Ascom installs it will download a few extras, APT is software for capture control, you will need software for processing the captures.

You may be able to use Nina or other capture software with Ascom - I don't know.  A lot to learn and you will have lots of questions but you will get the answers you need on SGL.

Have fun  

Edit:  A utube from one of the SGL's Sunday Zoom meetings (StarGaZine) covered Nina

Some Astrophotography macro's for Affinity on James Ritson's web pages  HERE

50 minutes ago, barrie greenwood said:

There's a home brew lead for the camera  on the cloudy nights site so I'll be making that tomorrow when the parts come from amazon 

Regards 

I saw  the 'homebrew' and it looks doable,  good luck with it.

On 05/03/2021 at 10:06, barrie greenwood said:

The flame photo I had the problems with was over 200 stacked 30 seconds exposure photos  if I increase the iso it makes the film faster in old terms catching more photons but adds noise .

I don't do this stuff and may be wrong but I don't believe increasing iso allows catching more photons, may well add noise.

DSUSB cables, may be easier to get a cheap Canon DSLR

Time for bed, wonderful stuff

Then it was gone..........

Small fire, but all back - fantastic

Lift off, bit late

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOQkk3ojNfM

EDIT :     Looks like 10 minutes, that's  23:14 ish

Nice to know it works @vineyard just pointed someone else that way,  I downloaded the msi but did not use to install.  New lappy arriving soon so will need it myself.

Possibly buried in yesterdays posts,  second post down in this thread 

24 minutes ago, Adaaam75 said:

Thanks Mick,

As suspected. When I tried to boot up my installed version of ICE it kept failing saying it's an online resource that can no longer be located so i went onto Microsoft's download site and they no longer support ICE effectively pulling the plug on it and rendering the program redundant.

But I need to stitch for free

I have V 2.03.0 64bit installed on windows 10pro,  I also downloaded the msi from yesterdays post, just ran my installed and stitched three snaps quickly and saved as jpg & tif,  no mention of online resource here..

Alternatives mentioned in that post, good luck.

Recent post may help 

I have used Hugin and AutoStitch sometimes it seems a different programme will give a better result, I don't stich astro.

@vineyard  Found this thread, possibly same as @Mognet  - thread here - second  post down.

Found a thread on CloudyNights   https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/623451-svbony-sv105/

It may help or you may have found it yourself,  some nice snaps taken with a C14,

Have you looked at the Sharpcap forums  https://forums.sharpcap.co.uk/

Wonderful work, many thanks 

Very nice,  very much enjoyed the animation - smooth and left wanting more, thanks.

Welcome Ash,  here's a link to a big book,  free to download and read.  

I think you will get a lot of help from this forum,  remember SGL likes questions.

Was thinking the same, lots of short exposures.  I am sure I have seen examples on the internet.  

Good work @malc-c,  stay with us.

We were lucky our 450d worked on reassembly, this was years ago.  I can remember the seating of the ribbon cables caused most problems. Not helpful I know but you have our sympathy.  Take it to bits and try again and better luck next time.