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Status Updates posted by spaceman_spiff
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Imaging Mars tonight, seeing is bad/can't get good focus. Will wait for Mars to get a bit higher...
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Finally got my Esprit 100 in the post! If it's clear, i'll set up a star test to see how it performs.
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Just blew my synguider...put the wrong supply in...started to smell something then...pop.
Sigh...
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I was planning on a night out with the scope getting more hours on M51 but I just don't have the energy . I fell over a week ago and my back is still not quite right...My mount looks heavier than it used to.
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Meeting cancelled tomorrow morning...I'm getting the mak out again for two nights in a row, I can't quite believe it!
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Should be clear here tonight...perfect for my lunar terminator study
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Feeling a bit downhearted today - totally clouded out last night in Bury whilst the most of England had clear skies. Was looking forward to imaging all week
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Off to France tomorrow. Can't wait! Staying in some dark skies around Limoges.
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Excellent area to visit. Be sure to visit this place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane_massacre
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Tomorrow night predicted to be clear and Moonless...a rare thing. I'm planning on imaging the Leo triplet, and later M92. Lets hope the weather holds.
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I've centred Jupiter and with my 2x Barlow it fills the screen! Hopefully I'll get a really nice gif from all this effort.
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Really want to do some Lunar imaging tonight but the wind is howling! I think I'll stick to bins tonight - I don't want to over-stress my mount.
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Predicted clear sky all night tonight. Guess what...clouds. I'm glad I got my white light Solar scope working otherwise I would have nothing to process.
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I have just upgraded my old barlow to a 2x Tele view 1.25 inch. I am interested to see how it performs.
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I have just ordered an astro-modded Canon 600D from Cheap astrophotography to replace my knackered Nikon D200. Can't wait to see how it performs!
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Just done a run of 40 x 3 min subs of M106...cloud fogged up a few subs and I lost guiding on others but I should have enough to get some detail.
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Well you definitely bested me on M106! I have added the attempt to my gallery. I can't seem to remove a duplicate upload of the picture. Makes me look like I'm trying to flood the SGL gallery!
I tried to pull out as much detail as I could but all I was getting was noise . I will try to add another 40 or 50 stacks tonight and see what I get. M1 would also be great to get but my view is blocked to the west.
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Many thanks! Although it's not a competition. Your image of M106 is actually very good, far better than some of my previous attempts. I've posted my image of M1. It's come out really well with some of the changes in technique, I was able to stretch the image far more and reveal a lot more data. I intended to do M109 tonight but ended up re-dong M106 again using the technique that I used on M1. So it will be interesting to see if I have an improvement on it. I may even add the stacks together to see what else I can get out of it.
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Well I tried to go for some of the galaxies in Virgo on the weekend but they were just too low so I played it safe and imaged M101 and M13.
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