Ibbo!

17 x 600 with the reduced FS102 and QSI cam in ha.

Hoping to grab a bit more on this before swapping to longer f/l for galaxy season.

Grear result.

Can't help with your exposure times as i have only managed one very poor outing with my UV filter.

8 minutes ago, Buzzard75 said:

I mainly do imaging as well. I certainly won't claim that the eVscope and tripod are the most stable either. They are stable enough to handle 5-10mph winds and capture exposures at a few seconds a piece. Anything stronger and it will drop frames here and there, but will still capture the occasional frame to add to the stack. I know that if I had my 12" dob out last night it would have been bouncing all over the place. There's a lot of flex in that system and it acts like a big sail. My EQ mount and wide field imaging rig are pretty solid and it probably would have been fine, but I know from experience I would still have had to throw away a good bit of the data. With as limited as my time is, even with a little bit of wind it's not worth it for me to waste imaging in those conditions.

I am glad you are happy with it.

I certainly would not be esp at £2600.

40 minutes ago, Buzzard75 said:

I know 10 mph doesn't sound like a lot, but when you're fully exposed it's a lot stronger than you think it is and can induce a lot of vibration. If you're just doing visual observing, it's not so bad unless you're using something like a huge dob with a lot of flex in the system. If you're doing image stacking though, any wind stronger than a couple MPH and any vibration in the system is undesirable. What made these conditions particularly bad though is that the wind was variable and constantly changed directions. Fortunately, the software is smart enough to detect the vibration and just drop the frames. I know other live stacking programs, like SharpCap, have similar frame rejection, but I don't know how the algorithms compare.

I am an imager (mainly) and I image in a lot worse than that from back yard and in open fields Ok  my main mount is pretty good but the smaller mount copes well.

I have also done a lot of outreach and that kit has to stand up to quite a bit of abuse and in my opinion that tripod and mount is not up to the job unless it is fenced off.

In fact I did an outreach last night and the "stars" were a couple of 10" Skywatcher dobs and a couple of well mounted large binos.

The tall spindldy fracs did not fare well.

10 mph thats a light to gentle breeze for outreach I would want something that would stand up to more than that, including the odd prod from a passing curious member of the public.

Lovely shot.

I've not had any luck so far with the UV filter. (only 1 outing)

My cable has a break in it somewhere.

Gone over to the synscan.

Tak 102 QSI cam

17xHa 1800s

10x O3 x1800s

S2x10 x 1800s

20 each rgb x 60 s

I put one of B&Q's finest buckets over the mount head and then the cover.

Next home made/sown mount cover I will get the wizard with the sewing  machine to try and sow in the bucket.

2 hours ago, Louis D said:

did I mention they develop some holes by that point?

1 hour ago, Jiggy 67 said:

You need to go shopping more often 😀😀

I have been told "you cannot go out wearing that thing with holes in it"

and

"you cannot go into the workshop wearing that new shirt"

Only to find out I can  🤣🤣🤣

12 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

Nice and quiet up there, it'd better get its act together next week when I'll be starting this years attempts 😂

Dave

Yep  tripod to max height and dust off the solar scope.

I will get round to the proms disc as there was a bit going off and there is an AR just left of centre.

Yeah Charl is back posting 😃

Quot

5 minutes ago, DaveS said:

Thanks Steve, I'll have another look at the FITS. I did pull the black down a bit as I thought there was a bright halo around M33 that was a precessing artifact that I should get rid of, I may have pulled it down too far.

I have a load of data on M33 from last year and I tried several attempts at processing it and the last one I made a right mess of the stars and never noticed till I posted it .

I find it is easy to loose sight of the whole image while trying to pull out or contain a certain portion of the image.

I must go back and do something with it.

Hi Dave

looks to have grest detail but maybe the black point is a bit clipped as the background looks very black and you may have lost a bit of the outer arms.

Well it was much brighter without the powermate, but it was still a mess of an image.

Great work pete.

I have a Moonlite on the 8"SCT but the MHP would not connect today so no motor focus.

If i have chance tomorrow I will try with and without the x2.5 powermate if I don't get enough light with the UV I can use the C11 but it is a lot more of a challenge to get it on and off the mount.

Shows the phase very well.

I am also struggling with focus.

My first outing with the UV resulted in nothing as the cloud came just abpout the same time I got Venus on the camera chip.

I have a done a couple fully in APP except noise reduction, but normally stack and  align in APP and its over to PS.

58 minutes ago, Marvin Jenkins said:

Wow that sure is an in-depth answer. I would give you sixty seconds under interrogation. I will look up IC 443 and see where it resides in the sky. Good luck capturing that S11 data, I hope you get to post a complete image that you are happy with soon.

Marv

I copied it from my Astrobin page  not realising it carried that much info  😃😃

29 minutes ago, Marvin Jenkins said:

I am unfamiliar with IC443, any further details would be much appreciated. Looks like you captured some amazing structure. What equipment are using?
 

Marv