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Argh, the bank balance!!! Thank you! It might be needed if the sun keeps putting on a show 🙂 😁😁

Thanks Mike!

Had another crack at this, and improved the colour I think. 100% crop Full FOV

3hr 40min LRGB with a full moon. No sign of the faint tidal stream that accompanies it - I suspect that needs darker skies than my Bortle 6 / moon wash to tease out asi1600mm / APM107 100% crop Full FOV

Thank you! Cheers! 👍🏻

Clear night, full moon (of course!) so why not

Captured 18-03-22. Daystar Quark / APM 107 / Hypercam 174m 28 panels x 2000 frames stacked 10% - (56000 frame captured, 5600 stacked) Microsoft ICE hates stitching solar images, but will do it in sections. I then stitched the resulting sections in PS, using the auto alignment tools. It almost came to hand aligning the lot! If anyone has a suggestions of another more suitable tool for this, I'd appreciate it! Please click on the full size version - it'll make me feel like it was worth the effort 🤪

I think the C8 will need some sort of off-axis energy rejection filter (daystar-off-axis-erf-energy-rejection-filter-for-8-sct-63mm-version). Also, the Quark for a reflector isn't the same as for the refractor (Quark Combo, I think?) The TS 100mm should just need an IR / UV filter before the first optical element (before the diagonal is quite common). If going straight through, then it can go on the Quark nose - this is the configuration I use on my APM 107/700 You'll also need a USB power source and will likely benefit from a tilt adapter It's astro imaging - always needs more that you budget for 🙂 Hope that helps!

APM 107/700 - asi1600mm. LRGB, around 1hr 40mins for now I've tried to restrain the colours, as it kept tending towards being a bit lairy Crop: Full FOV

Taken with a 2000 x 2000 ROI with my asi1600mm - I moved to deeper things after this, so didn't want to be swapping imaging trains 2000 each LRGB, 25% stacked the aligned and PixInsighted

Spectacular sight, it's a massive region!

I had planned to grab the wedge and capture some white light, but work + clouds got in the way 😆

A band of activity: AR12967 - AR12965 - AR12962 Daystar Quark / APM 107 / Altair 174m. 4 panels, 25% of 2000 each AR12965

Thanks Mike! I forgot to mention I'm also using the QHY supplied IR / UV filter - I suspect this has helped with the colour (it was still very green!)

Trying a different method tonight, using what is normally my guide camera, for a moon mosaic rather than messing about with RGB filters and mono QHY5iii462c, 10 panel (25% stack from1000 per) mosaic. Could have done it in less, but I trimmed the ROI down a little to exclude a nasty and very black dust mote AS!3 -> Registax -> MS ICE -> PixInsight Pretty satisfied with the outcome, although I think the asi178mm with filters gives a cleaner image and less mosaicking v LRGB capture and alignment headaches

Thank you!

I've been hoping to capture a 'good' Iris Nebula image for a few seasons now, with very little success. This is as far as I've got so far this year, over 2 cloud truncated evenings: APM 107x700mm + flattener / asi1600mm 5 x 300 Lum 5 x 300 Red 12 x 300 Green 12 x 300 Blue Cropped the rough edges and battered to death in PixInsight. A couple of left over satellite or aircraft trails due to the thin stacks

Waxing crescent moon from yesterday evening. A quick LRGB grab around 18:30. I've tried to present it orientated as it was in my sky - my imaging FOV doesn't give me the wiggle room to capture it correctly, so it needed rotating in photoshop and some 'content aware fill' to pad in the extra background. The L channel was far too soft, so just RGB in this image. Still a little soft, likely down to imaging over my house roof!

AR2960 from this morning. Nice to see activity on the sun, or even just to see the sun! First outing of the Quark this year, fingers crossed of more of the same! Alitair Hypercam174m + APM 107/700mm

Thanks for the heads up! Clear this morning, so first outing of the Quark this year

A closer couple of stacks taken with a x2.5 barlow. Pushing the 107/700mm further than the seeing really allowed for

Having a very understanding wife, this was captured in a 'quick' trip to the observatory last night 2 panel mosaic - LRGB: 8 x 1000 frames stacked 25%. Registax -> MS ICE -> imPPG -> PixInsight General method in Pi is Linear fit - source G, targeting B and R LRGB Combination - RGB Curves for the slight mineralisation (+saturation, CIE b*, CIE c*) SNCR Green, Invert, SNCR Green, Invert (clear up slight green fringing) LRGB Combination - L Rotate, crop square Aristarchus Crater and Schroter's Valley area looking very nice @ 100%

Another floating wood vote. Polystyrene insulation between the joists, vapor barrier and 18mm ply on top. Interlocking gym floor tiles over that. Warm and dry 👍 With a suspended floor, you might want to fix mesh to the perimeter, to stop small creatures chewing insulation / cables underneath.

Cheers! Very kind of you to say! It's on my desktop background for now 🙂

Thank you Neil! Thank you!