Ibbo!

For night time you need to click the IR option.

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

ED 80 Quark and the 178 cam I fitted the tilt adaptor in the mix

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 😮

Thanks I will give that a try if I can find the reducer. Thanks David. It is growing on me.

I went back to one of the images and had another play. Daystark Quark Vixen 80/990 and ZWO 178mm

I have a new toy to try a Quark Ha, which I just hd to try out even in disgusting seeing conditions. Ed 80 and the Vixen 80/990 with the ZWO 178 cam shows rather a lot of NR's that I have mainly cropped out a best as I could.

thanks yes

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.

Do you mean a bit like this ?

Lunt 60mm Ha x 2.5 powermate ZWO 178 mm cam

Vixen 80mm 990mm f/l Lunt, Cak filter ZWO 178 mm

Thanks. Yes its possible but I haven't the patience at the moment TBH.

Lunt 60mm Ha ZWO 178 mm Ed 80 Cak ZWO 178 mm Close ups to follow later as i have a bit of data to get through 225Gb - opps. Do the clicky thing for full res.

I call it the cheetah. Apparently there is a zoo of animals in the rosette if you look. good imagination required though.

Yes it was nice in the sun today -shirt sleeves no less. And a proper prom fest.

I have just gone over to M96

A glimspe of the sun at last through the clouds. Lunt 60 mm ZWO 178 mm

Wrong info I have of course now swapped scopes so it will be interesting to see if I can get the data to line up. Best go and do something a bit more suited to the RC like a galaxy 😋

Thanks Dave. Thats good news, I have about 3 hours /night on it.

Thanks Martin. I did take some O3 but it was not great data the secondary on the RC dewed over a bit. I miight try again tomorrow if the forecast is correct. It certainly does not, I have to grab it between the unfriendly streetlamps and the garage roof.

This tme done with Pixinsight and a final tweak in PS 13 x 900 secs Tak FS102 and SX 694 cam

Lovely shots.

Some info here.

You can use any of mine if you wish. have a look here astrobin/users/ibbo let me know and I will try to find the tiff files.