Ibbo!

Several panes stitched in ICE taken with 7D and 500mm lens at 2 UT

Behind the brick pillars are a couple of very annoying street lamps.

Do the clicky thing but it is big even though its reduced to about 30% of original.

Looking forward to this one.

Thanks folks.

This is the camera that keeps giving after 16 years, on and off still does the business.

Thanks for the heads up.

its going to turn into a mosaic.

somehow I skipped a bit

I got NINA running and here is 27 x 300 with the same cam but different 12 nm ha filter.

Very well done.

I have set phone alarm for this one.

Thank you for your help .

It now connects and hopefully I can get it all to work .

Good set of images.

Good luck with the new job.

Nice.

Now I know what you mean about what a full disc Cak looks like 🌞

Thanks for that bit of info.

I will try it tomorrow.

I get an error saying chip temp not detected.

And yes it conned me, set up not seen sun since and just been running round to pack up as the thunder started rumbling and spotting with big raindrops.

Nice shots David.

It keeps brightening up here just to keep me interested.

I have been trying tonight to get my old H9 to connect to NINA with no luck.

Thanks David.

It was a bit of a long session for so few sers and frames today.

Which camera are you using - some are more prone to NR's than others.

Try cutting back to 20 to 50 frames for flats I have very mixed results using flats.

Cut down the AVI or SER capture to 30 to 45 secs and stack less frames., I use between 51 and 350 for a stack.

For time lapse I have done 10/15 secs capture every 1-2 min using a stack of 50 frames in the past but it did involve some tweaking to line up to produce the final result.

I have a tilter in place for NR but remember every tweak you make tends to alter something else.

My Chameleon delivers 56fps at full frame size at about 18ms double stack and 3ms single stack.

I have installed a PCIe SSD as I got buffering over 20 secs of capture.

I have stacked small number of frames ie 51 on my last image and got a resonable image, I am starting believe with solar we tend to try and stack too many.

For planetary I can get over 160fps with ROI.

39 minutes ago, johnturley said:

I remember the old Orgreave Coking Plant well, used to sample the effluent there initially on behalf of Yorkshire Water Authority, and then later the National Rivers Authority.

I expect that you also used to measure the strength of the caustic soda in degrees twaddle.

John  

I dont remember that, but remember having the short straw and having to go round and collect the cooling waters and effluent waters in the middle of winter.

The bug plant was IIRC the furthest away from the lab and kept the YWA fairly happy with our discharges.

Also the blood tests every 6 and then 3 months for the nasties like benzene.

When i was lad in my first job out of school, woking in the lab at a coke oven plant some of you might of heard of -Orgreave (Choke and Chemicals as it was commonly known) we had to measure something in grains /hundred cubic feet as that was what the old tables listed.

Thing is we could not get gas meters that measured in cubic feet and the tests were done in SI units and instead of converting the tables we had to convert the result.

Nicely done.

I fell for the afternoon sucker hole yesterday and left the kit out and manged to grab some data in the evening.

Don't think i will get anything today.

I have the Lacerta and I find it good as an imager , if fact i managed to get the spot last night  with the ED80.

I must say I'm a bit out of practice with WL.

I have not had a chance to compare with any others .

What I do know is with the 2" version you need a goooooood bit of back focus.