Space Cowboy
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Impressive detail with the 127! Gotta love that scope 😉
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Thanks Geoff!
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Excellent detail Geoff!
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Mars, 25th October 2020, animation and a few other things
Space Cowboy replied to lukebl's topic in Imaging - Planetary
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Cheers guys! Might be 3 more years before I get another shot looking at the forecast!
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Mars after 30 months away from the scope
Space Cowboy replied to the_laughing_crow's topic in Imaging - Planetary
Well done! That's exactly how I felt the other night taking the scope out for first time in 18 months even though I started planetary imaging 10 years ago it was scary how much I'd forgotten but surprising how quickly it starts coming back! The cloud usually returns first 😉 -
Nice detail! Definitely benefited using the 3x for highly signal to noise ratio. Something I should have done the other night. I guess 5x is for those super calm nights but it's good to experiment with both.
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My first planetary image for at least 3 years last night after brushing off the dust on my 250 flexttube Dob and scraping off the rust of my skills from the past! I was pleased just to capture Mars on the cam chip! Used 5x powermate which was probably overkill for the cloudy and windy conditions. Think back in 2014 I used 3x powermate looking back. Its not a show stopper but pleased to get this with the asi 224mc : Taken at 22.22 ut :
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That's another super image Simon!
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Very nicely done!
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Saturn and Jupiter 13th September 2020
Space Cowboy replied to astroman001's topic in Imaging - Planetary
Remarkable image of Saturn at that elevation! -
That's a lovely image of Mars Simon! I need to bring my gear out of hibernation!
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From the album: Moon
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From the album: Moon
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From the album: Moon
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From the album: Deep Sky
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Crab Nebula 1hr 16 mins ST 102/ ASI224MC/ alt/az 5secs 375 gain
Space Cowboy posted a gallery image in Member's Album
From the album: Deep Sky
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From the album: Deep Sky
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From the album: Deep Sky
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From the album: Deep Sky
M82 Taken with skymax 127 & zwo asi224mc -
Thanks Pete the green was pretty bad in the first sample. Amp glow is my big issue at the moment, experimenting with some gradient removers as darks are not working.
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Gave this a few tweaks :
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I used DSS as I struggle to get decent results with as!2 which is much quicker. I capture fit files though this was mistakenly caught in ser format which DSS wont use so I had to convert to fit format in pipp and also debayer as for some reason the unbayered pipp files did not debayer properly in DSS. If the fit files go into DSS undebayered the stacking process only takes a few mins. I'd like to try m27 & m57 with my DOB using 1 sec exposures though DSO imaging with the big fella is a bit like riding a camel! The GOTO being more like "Go near".
