Ibbo!

Whats this sun thing you mention ?

Thanks To Adam, Grant and Daz for the talk,upload and links.

Its for old school guiding, I have one somewhere.

Great fun till you adjust the wrong way.

Missed this one due to other commitments.

Looking forward to the replay.

6 pane mosaic, it was 3500 x 3500 before I reduced it.

Lunt 60mm Coronado richfield D/S ZWO 178 cam

44 minutes ago, Anne S said:

Lovely. I take it you're doublestacked.

Thanks and yes.

7 minutes ago, Neil H said:

A question for you that use sat24 why does it show no clouds any were every night after 18.00 ???

For night time you need to click the IR option.

5 minutes ago, Peter Drew said:

Poor Helen, perhaps better known for her dropping the Olympic torch.    🙂

Maybe for most but for me, more for opening my mobile planetarium 20 odd years ago.

Thanks Helen.

Set up the Lunt for full disc and then dug out the tilter and popped in place on the Quark and no adjustment was required.

The wind made things a bit difficult at times .but I did capture a bit of data today.

293Gb of it  😮

15 hours ago, xtreemchaos said:

glad to see you have gone Quarkers Steve😀, great shots mate. charl. ps a 50% reducer should get rid of the NRs.

Thanks I will give that a try if I can find the reducer.

2 hours ago, David Smith said:

Great start with the new kit Steve.

Thanks David.

It is growing on me.

5 hours ago, vineyard said:

Now you are talking. That is gorgeous!  👏🏾

(PS Did you use layers?)

thanks

yes

9 minutes ago, symmetal said:

Great images. Plenty of prom action there. 🙂 How do you avoid the Newton's Rings when using the Powermate? I have the same scope and camera, (and Powermate) but I've avoided using the PM due to very noticeable rings.

Alan

Thanks Alan.

I'm not sure TBH as they are there some days and not others, the only thing I can think is that the tilt shifts a bit each time I set up.

Before the FLIR Chameleon cam went to meet its maker i could not get it to work with the pm and had to have a tilter in for native.

Last year I modified the BF from diagonal to straight through and maybe that imparts a slightly different tilt, or the fact that I use a Coronado rich field unit for double stacking.

Or it coud be the luck of the draw.

18 hours ago, vineyard said:

V nice - lots of activity!  The 3rd image really captures the silhouettes of all the proms (incl the one at 11 o'clock).  If its possible to combine those silhouettes w the 2nd image, it should be quite spectacular! 👍🏾

Do you mean a bit like this ?