Space Cowboy

Can't think of a better place for Ted to go than Ireland. I believe there is a place on the west coast (Craggy island) where there's a guy who specialises in removing dents. 😉

That's a super image with impressive detail inside the GRS! Those C14s are like OLED TVs with the extra contrast and detail. 😉 Clearly a man who knows how to use one!

Thanks for your kind and generous words Neil. I do need plenty of motivation to get out there at night when I have to be up early each morning on the farm. Obviously these past few years have been bleak for planetary imagers but now things are improving. I was surprised to see Mars looking good again despite it being smaller than last time 60 degrees aint too shabby! ( That 18 degree Saturn ain't to shabby either!)

Very impressive images with a manual Dob!

Still knocking out some good stuff Neil! As every the perfectionist 😉 I need to pull my finger out and get back into it!

Nice image with the refractor Neil. That must be quite a weapon!

Excellent capture Neil! High pressure over UK this week though lots of cloud so far.

Super image Neil!

Nice detail! I need to get my kit out!

Absolutely! Just a case of keeping the lawn well mown at that altitude 😉

Bravo Neil!

I know it's says 2015 but as there are no later showcases I thought this Jupiter animation I made from 2016 deserved to be on here. I corrected the field rotation in winjupos. 90 mins rotation taken with 10" Dob, ASI 224mc, 3x TV & ADC :

Thats a terrific image!

That is a dramatic improvement! Superb image Peter!

That's very good Peter! Love the vibrance.

High quality detail!

Quick squirt of WD40 and you'll be fine Neil 😉

Super images! Love your processing.

Don't know how I missed these. Good to see you are still keeping busy Darryl! Very nice collection of Mars shots!

I did try defrag but it didn't need any according to windows. Yep tried turning off WiFi & antivirus too. I've left a question about unity gain on the ZWO forum. This coming week looks like the best chance of getting some sharp images with high pressure dominating. Hopefully it won't mean fog. I've tried a few different processes and can't beat this one which only took 10 mins after capture. One thing I will try is lowering gain while focusing. Really struggled focussing with the high gain setting.

Thanks Neil. Defragmenting the laptop? Cheers Bryan!

Thanks Dweller & Nigella! Cheers Peter it didn't look very clear on screen but the result was better than I expected. After doing some testing it seems 375 unity gain was the reason for all the dropped frames. Every other gain setting and the laptop records everything.

This has got me baffled. It appears when I set my 224mc to 375 unity gain about 40% of frames are dropped as RAM falls on the firecapture readout. Any other gain setting and there is no problem. My laptop has 60% RAM available in system resources when unity gain is used so I can't figure out why the RAM readout on firecapture drops so much until frames are dropped? I have USB traffic set to the lowest value as is recommended.

Btw used 3x TV + extension tube with Dob & asi224mc which according to firecapture produced f22 & focal length of 5700mm.

Quick process from tonight. Laptop driving me crazy running low on RAM and dropping frames even though system resources showed only 40% memory usage. Think I've probably over cooked the wavelets on this.