harry page

Hi

I Know this topic is a year old but I also had this problem with my ODK10 and cant blame orion optics this time it turned out to be the adaptor on my sx filter wheel

was causing the problem - bit of black paint and all is well.

Never had this problem with all my other scopes - must be down to the optic configeration off the scope

I would have gone mad looking for the problem and cure - so Thanks you SGL and all you great people

Thanks

Harry

Hi

going to update them all next year - lots of new stuff going on in pixinsight

Harry

Hi

These only create 1 com port each hence 2 required for the mesu and cloudwather

The mini pc connects by wifi to these , I also have a Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox v3 attached to that to run everthing else power wise

they are only for connecting the mini pc by wifi to the 2 com ports

Harry

Hi

This may be off interest to some

I have gone down the route of a mini pc mounted on the scope to keep the cables down and the usb3 cables short as well

but my mesu 200 is run by a serial port as well as my cloud watcher - you could argue that its only 1 more cable down , but who wants a easy life

I found these online usr w610 and took a punt , happy to say they work , does require a software driver to emulate a com port - but so far so good

Now have wirless everthing - well except the power cable

cheers

Harry

Hi

Excellent stuff and lots of depth

Harry

Hi

not done as much imaging as I wanted to in the last year ( long story ) but managed a few hours on this to add to last years stuff

taken with tak 106ed and a sx56 camera on the old faithfull mesu 200

had to beat the data to death and have lost some star colour and needs a redo , but spent hours doing this

dragging colour from the orange goo is always a struggle as orion is low in the sky and perhapes a bit overdone , but the draw is too much 😍

Always more data required

high res version here https://harrysastroshed.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/fin-orionfull.jpg

Thanks

Harry

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Excellent details - top draw stuff

Harry

9 hours ago, ollypenrice said:

Hello Harry! It's been a while. You need to come and see us...

Olly

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well if you dont retire before me perhapes I will make it there

Harry

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well thats just not fair - we in the uk will never ever get enough imaging time to do that

Regards

Harry

Hi

Been a while since I have posted anything ( too much work not enough play )

I Have this data for a while now and only just got round to processing it , M101 is one of those targets that is harder than you first think.

Also in the field is ngc5474 which I am happy with - got more detail than I have managed before

Its not perfect , but what is

It consists of about 8hrs of Lum and 8hrs of RGB all taken in 5m in subs through a ag12 and processed in pixinsight

Thanks for looking

Harry

42 minutes ago, Tom OD said:

That’s a huge difference. Without reading I would have thought this was a single frame verse 5-10 frame stack comparison 

Can’t wait to get it up and running. 
Tom 

Hi

with testing on darks etc I have found so far its very quiet

With the qhy there is a " usb speed " slider in the driver which when adjusted gives a way off reducing the horizontal lines , in fact I have none

do not know if there is a option with the Atik ?

Harry

Hi

The build quality looks very good indeed , I have the qhy600 and perhapes does not look as pretty

Anyway I Have only had a very quick go at some Ha ( 1 sub ) as the spec seemed to show a much better response and my intial comparison with my old sx h35 looks very

promising indeed  both the crops down below are 10min subs and the imx455 chip is clearly way in the lead

looking forward to imaging with this chip

I will not be throwing away my ccds but they may be getting less use

Harry

58 minutes ago, josefk said:

Thanks everyone for the welcome. 

Hi Harry - my "dark sky" site is Burghley Park. Its not exactly dark but it's very close by and not soooo bad especially from the point of view of there being no nearby local light sources.

Cheers

Hi

My observatory is in the back garden , I just have to cope with all the light pollution and tend to image a lot as visual stuff is hard

in the orange goo

Harry

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welcome fellow stamfordian , lots of people here to help

Harry

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Here is my first every mosaic a 2 pane effort containing about 21hrs of data ( LRGB ) and taken over the last month or so

taken with a tak106ed @F5 and using a SX trius 56

As m42 is low down in the orange poo , I have to beat the data within a inch of its life - I may come back and try again , but my brain needs a rest

the full res image is about 8000 x 4000 pixels

Cheers

Harry

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As you have had a trial licence I am sure they will reply - For some reason thy have problems recieving emails from certain domains and then licences disapear in email land ca.

I can assure you , that you will not be charged twice .

If want to send me a private email with you details I will make contact for you and make sure its sorted out for you

Regards

Harry Page

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A bit off topic from my original post , but still related to lunatico

They are running a processing contest , with high quality data provided by them.--https://lunaticoastro.com/imaging-contest-jan-2022/

As you will see I will judging the entries, something I am looking forward to .

It is open to anyone and offers excellent data to practice your skills on

Look forward to seeing different offerings from you all

regards

Harry Page

Hi Gents

Thanks for the info - I will try chris's ascom driver as well

the weather has meant I have not been able to fine tune it

thanks again

Harry

4 minutes ago, tomato said:

You certainly could if your filters are parfocal, so you don’t need to refocus each filter change, but I wonder how many folks have tried this approach?
 

Your EFW would earn it’s keep!

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This is what I do every time - make sure you focus with the Lum as thats the critical item - if the rgb is slightley off focus it will not matter

but I use baader filters and they keep good focus between filters - make sure you refocus when the temp changes this has more of a affect

Cheers

Harry

Hi

does anybody have a Lunatico AAG Cloud Detector  and managed to get it working with sgp/ascom

cant seem to work it out

Cheers

Harry

9 minutes ago, astro mick said:

Pehaps i over estimated just a little bit😂

Mick.

who knows you could be right

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not sure really how many there are Pixinsight image solver script found over 24,000 and I think there are more

Will try harder to find out 😵

Harry

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Must find out how many there are -Loads and Loads

Thanks for looking

Harry

24 minutes ago, ollypenrice said:

Harry, you're back! I was just beginning to get worried about you and was on the point of dropping you a line. I am slowing down a bit for sure, though! 🤣

Olly

Been busy at work - which seems to take more out of me these days + daughter got married a short while ago  all seemed to leave me with little spare time.

enough moaning , I will be back soon

Harry