fireballxl5

Great image and I really like the colours as well. Good to see your picture now as this is my current imaging project, started mid June but only 4 hours Ha / 1 hour OIII so far.  

59 minutes ago, DaveS said:

Read my post.

Sorry, but I wasn't referring to your post Dave.  I understood your use of the term "135 format" thanks.

BTW, I think that it's fair to use the common term "full-frame" in an astro imaging forum, with a reasonable expectation that it will be interpreted as intended. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/135_film

8 hours ago, Adam J said:

I would say there is no way that a Samyang 135 would give good corners on a 6200 sensor

I think that the OP is referring to the CFF 135 refractor...http://www.cfftelescopes.eu/product/refractor-135-mm-f6

PS, I'm considering purchase of a Samyang 135mm f2 lens to use with my Canon 6D Mk1. Is this lens good for a full-frame DSLR?

CS, Andy

Same experience with Team Viewer here. Good alternatives I've tried are TightVNC and Microsoft Remote Desktop, the latter I use on my android tablet to monitor & control my Win7 laptop in the shed. 

Philips Toucam 740k vs ASI224MC, both on a 150mm f7.3 APO refractor with 3x Barlow from 2017...

MaxImDL v6 for my main fixed rig and ASIair (with the Pro HW) for my travel setup. Both are great pieces of software. 

+1 for the AZ-GTi as a light weight travel mount, though I do use the ASIair Pro now for alignment,  control and guiding. Works well for me using focal lengths ranging up to 650mm with my 60mm travel refractor. 

There are a couple of related threads already on SGL, such as 

Sounds like you may have solved your problem,  especially if you aren't currently leveling the scope for initial alignment.  One more thing to try is to enable the auxillary encoder in the Settings menu. This may indicate that the main encoder is faulty or contaminated. 

Good luck as it's quite a capable mount considering it's price. 

HTH, Andy

Although a fantastic bit of hardware and software, the WiFi range of my ASIair Pro is poor, 3-5m maybe for a good, stable connection using 2.4GHz station mode. I've seen that some are adding a separate WiFi extender to improve on this.

My images of the over the last couple of nights from Denham Quarry Trig Point on Hough Hill near Preston

CS, Andy

Friday 10th July:

Canon 6D with 50mm, 0.8s

Canon 6D with 100mm, 5s

Saturday 11th July:

Canon 6D with 70-200mm F4 + 1.4x extender @ 280mm, f5.6, ISO3200, 26x20s

3 hours ago, ollypenrice said:

Registar not only aligns images when co-registering them, it also resizes them.

I run a dual Tak setup, RGB using one and Lum on the other. Occasionally combining in PI will result in colour fringed stars, usually red though.  When this occurs I transfer the individual, part-processed channels to MaxImDL for LRGB combination and this works without fail.  I've not found a detailed explanation of how MaxIm works under the hood but maybe similar to Registrar? 

5 minutes ago, Snooze said:

M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy

6 minutes ago, Snooze said:

M27 - Dumbbell Nebula

love the colours in both of these images - nice👍

another +1 for the Baader Optical Wonder Fluid, great stuff!

it's worth noting that PI is great SW, very good value (compared with HW costs & other photo processing SW) and the tax helps governments pay for stuff like the health service...

I managed to make use of the limited period of semi-darkness last Saturday (13th) to capture this image of Sh2-115 (main image) and Sh2-116 (planetary nebula PK 85+ 4.1), the small ball of nebulousness to the lower right.

This is a first posting of data using a 'new to me' Chroma filter set (thanks @Steve 1962), so this image was taken using a 3nm Hyd Alpha filter. Just 6 ten minute subs before the cloud came over at around 2:30am. Data captured using a 85mm refractor/mono CCD at 1.7"/pixel. Minimal processing in PI (DBE, MLT and some curves). Cal files need re-doing at some point😜

Hope to collect some OIII and RGB soonish.

CS, Andy

1 minute ago, Rodd said:

That maybe the star next to HD191765--not sure.  maybe they are the same just with different designations (HD vs SAO).  In either case--you got the right spot

wiki is your friend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WR_134

nice find Steve😉

Great image Rodd - I very much preferred the 1st version👍

I found the area using star SAO 69541. This is the region from SkyMapPro v12 with some of the background and the Fov of my 150mm refractor/CCD combo...

I have the JTD device carrying my FSQ85/QSI690 combo. To allow use of the JTD I reluctantly had to switch from piggy-back to side by side. Luckily I already had the heavy-duty ADM side by side system, but now that I'm here I won't go back!

CS, Andy 

It was a long time ago,  but when I first tried imaging using my OO GX250 with my SLR (in late 90's) I didn't have enough back-focus. I overcame this by using the full range of the primary mirror holder to move the mirror further up,  into the tube.  This pushed the focus point further out at the focuser. If you can do this it should avoid the need of the Barlow. 

Great detail in the close up and great colour, like the high res image

Interesting design there. How compact is your observatory? If that was in my observatory (approx 9x9 feet) I'd be concerned about tripping over the wedge in the dark!

Hope it works out well for you.

CS, Andy

potential issues with the optics aside, here's a 100% crop of the LRGB combined image using MaxImDL v6.09 for comparison.

HTH, Andy

I have a dual rig setup for AP with an 85mm scope for RGB and 150mm scope for lum. When combining these stacks in PI I usually have similar problems though more pronounced. In these cases I transfer the part processed stacks to MaxImDL to create the combined LRGB, going back to PI to finish off. I'd try a different app for RGB combination to see if it's just a limitation of PI. Having said this, mine may just be a problem with my lack of PI knowledge/experience.

 it's just been cancelled for today