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Yes Orion and GC will be available soon too. I ll post links as soon as they re up. Tom.

Ha ha I ll try that. thanks Tom.

Thanks Brendan. next step is to put the 400hr Orion up as a Zoom image too. And the galactic centre. This is the pint if these images. Let people enjoy them big!

They have a 6m x 4m screen 😂😂😂

Well thanks very much Steve. I believe that's the highest praise I ve ever received from anyone. Zoomify will finally show these the way I want. Hopefully I'll have about 3 more to let you delve into shortly. Tom

Hi SGL, The Zoomify version is now on my website. Click on the full screen tab and then zoom in and enjoy. I m going to have to do Orion, Galactic Centre and Rho now after seeing the results from this. I say I but it is my friend who does the updates. I ve harassed him enough over this for the moment. I did notice one blend area that needed fixing. It became more evident on the site compared to my version Photoshop, so I'll fix that in my final version. http://www.astrophotography.ie/ My friend sent me a screenshot of what it looks like when you have a nice big widescreen monitor to view this. Tom

Thank you Geoflewis

Cheers Bob.

I am thanks 😊 i m waiting on my friend to sort out my website so you can see a 50% version in zoomify. Hopefully it ll stand up seem less too. Looks fine to me but I might have a bias on that. Do let me know if there are blend issues you notice in the high res. I ll fix those. Thanks again Tom.

Calm down, calm down

Hmm Cygnus. Well it’s on the To do list

Ha ha thanks Kirkster. I saw a Caneletto exhibit in Dublin last year. He was a master at exaggerating building sizes and he even changed the positions of the building in his Venice painting. He must be the original Photoshop king

Cheers Olly. I m very flattered. I had originally planned to do Cepheus, but changed my mind on night one as I was setting up. Guess Cepheus is next 😂 Every pane had something lurking in the data which is great. Blending was as always very tricky. I m surprised about the near absence of smoothing and sharpening needed.

Thanks Mark. Its 15x10 degrees of sky, so huge. Cheers Brendan, Yes as soon as the zoomify version is up in the site I'll post the link. This needs to be seen as big as possible. The more you zoom in the more the resolution unveils the real deep sky stuff. Tom

Hi SGL, I ve been away for quite a while, but its good to be back, and have a picture to post. This is Cassiopeia, a 25 pane 530mm mosaic. I started this in 2016 when I captured the Lum panels, it took building my own remote observatory at Ollys in France before I could capture the RGB, Ha and O3 data. This comes to about 350hrs of LHaRGB data about 240 of those taken in the last year remotely. No noise reduction has been used, and only sharpening on a few certain objects. I re-took about 5 panels in RGB due to stitching and gradient issues. There are a lot of objects in here that I have not seen before. mostly Sharpless objects, but the main defining nebula here is the "Breaking Wave" that Olly coined when we went deep in Ha in this area before. I was pleased to find the "Face On mars" as I like to call it SH2-173 in the mix, along with numerous other objects. I m attaching a small image, and then a bigger attenuated version which I hope you can zoom in to. My friend is setting up the Zoomify option on the website but it may take a few days, so I ve decided to post these in the meantime. I hope you like it, and of course huge thanks to Olly Penrice, Steve Richards for helping with the remote set up, and all the others on the group who helped me trouble shoot the observatory issues. Tom.

Great blend of Ha that is subtle with O3. Excellent image. Tom

Great result Tom

This will be a super image with the LRGB, although I think you have most of the data needed already. That tail or plume is an excellent catch. Tom.

Ha ha. Yes the better you get the more scrutiny you receive 😁. Tom.

Excellent detail Brendan. The stars look a bit soft but the nebula is fantastic. Super work. Tom.

The starless view looks great.

In case I did not say this already , I think the Ha was perfectly added in this pic. Not overwhelming, and so delicate. Top marks Maurice. Tom.

Looks like it was a USB cable issue. That’s the third in about 5 months now. Same symptoms and same fix. Next time it happens I ll ask Olly to put in one of the old cables in case it was just a dry contact or bad connection issue. Tom

That's a beauty Yves. I like the bright look and the colours of the browns are excellent.

Damn it I m still crashing the Cooler somehow. This was after restarting the PC when it hung the first time tonight. Any ideas anyone? This bit seems like I might need to re install the driver or revert to the older Windows version Property write ASCOM.Atik.Camera SetCCDTemperature is not implemented in this driver. (System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Property write SetCCDTemperature is not implemented in this driver. Tom 09/05/19 23:31:54.827][DEBUG] [Telescope Thread] Telescope solve with plate solver PlateSolve2... [09/05/19 23:31:54.827][DEBUG] [Telescope Thread] Setting filter for scope sync... [09/05/19 23:31:54.830][DEBUG] [Telescope Thread] Setting filter position 1... [09/05/19 23:31:54.830][DEBUG] [Telescope Thread] Filter position 1 is already set. Skipping... [09/05/19 23:31:54.831][DEBUG] [Telescope Thread] Plate solving scope frame... [09/05/19 23:31:54.832][DEBUG] [Telescope Thread] Created full file name (file does not exist): C:\Users\PrimaLuceLab\AppData\Local\SequenceGenerator\Temp\plate_solve_image.fit [09/05/19 23:31:54.837][DEBUG] [Camera Thread] SGM_CAMERA_PLATE_SOLVER_CAPTURE message received... [09/05/19 23:31:54.838][DEBUG] [Camera Thread] Collecting FITs headers for plate solve frame... [09/05/19 23:31:54.840][DEBUG] [Camera Thread] Collecting FITs headers for plate solve frame... [09/05/19 23:31:54.865][DEBUG] [Camera Thread] SetAscomNormalSpeed... [09/05/19 23:31:54.866][DEBUG] [Camera Thread] Readout speed set to NORMAL... [09/05/19 23:32:37.111][DEBUG] [PHD2 Listener Thread] PHD2 - No messages received from PHD2 for 1 minute, checking socket with status... [09/05/19 23:32:37.111][DEBUG] [PHD2 Listener Thread] Checking PHD2 state... [09/05/19 23:32:37.111][DEBUG] [PHD2 Listener Thread] PHD2 GetPhdStatus - Pre-Wait : Stopped [09/05/19 23:32:37.111][DEBUG] [PHD2 Listener Thread] Sending to PHD2: {"method": "get_app_state", "id": 1001} [09/05/19 23:32:37.111][DEBUG] [PHD2 Listener Thread] PHD2 GetPhdStatus - Post-Wait: Stopped [09/05/19 23:33:30.459][DEBUG] [TEC Thread] ASCOM Camera: Failed to set CCD Temperature! : Property write ASCOM.Atik.Camera SetCCDTemperature is not implemented in this driver. (System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Property write SetCCDTemperature is not implemented in this driver. --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.RuntimeType.InvokeDispMethod(String name, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Object target, Object[] args, Boolean[] byrefModifiers, Int32 culture, String[] namedParameters) at System.RuntimeType.InvokeMember(String name, BindingFlags bindingFlags, Binder binder, Object target, Object[] providedArgs, ParameterModifier[] modifiers, CultureInfo culture, String[] namedParams) at System.Type.InvokeMember(String name, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object target, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture) at ASCOM.DriverAccess.MemberFactory.CallMember(Int32 memberCode, String memberName, Type[] parameterTypes, Object[] parms) in C:\ASCOM Build\Export\ASCOM.DriverAccess\MemberFactory.cs:line 331) at ASCOM.DriverAccess.MemberFactory.CallMember(Int32 memberCode, String memberName, Type[] parameterTypes, Object[] parms) in C:\ASCOM Build\Export\ASCOM.DriverAccess\MemberFactory.cs:line 364 at ASCOM.DriverAccess.Camera.set_SetCCDTemperature(Double value) in C:\ASCOM Build\Export\ASCOM.DriverAccess\Camera.cs:line 572 at q9.if(Double A_0, Boolean A_1) [09/05/19 23:33:30.459][DEBUG] [TEC Thread] TEC Change: Failed to set cooler temp! Aborting... [09/05/19 23:33:30.459][DEBUG] [TEC Thread] TEC Change: Aborted... [09/05/19 23:33:30.464][DEBUG] [TEC Thread] ASCOM Camera: Failed to set CCD Temperature! : Property write ASCOM.Atik.Camera SetCCDTemperature is not implemented in this driver. (System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Property write SetCCDTemperature is not implemented in this driver. --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.RuntimeType.InvokeDispMethod(String name, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Object target, Object[] args, Boolean[] byrefModifiers, Int32 culture, String[] namedParameters) at System.RuntimeType.InvokeMember(String name, BindingFlags bindingFlags, Binder binder, Object target, Object[] providedArgs, ParameterModifier[] modifiers, CultureInfo culture, String[] namedParams) at System.Type.InvokeMember(String name, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object target, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture) at ASCOM.DriverAccess.MemberFactory.CallMember(Int32 memberCode, String memberName, Type[] parameterTypes, Object[] parms) in C:\ASCOM Build\Export\ASCOM.DriverAccess\MemberFactory.cs:line 331) at ASCOM.DriverAccess.MemberFactory.CallMember(Int32 memberCode, String memberName, Type[] parameterTypes, Object[] parms) in C:\ASCOM Build\Export\ASCOM.DriverAccess\MemberFactory.cs:line 364 at ASCOM.DriverAccess.Camera.set_SetCCDTemperature(Double value) in C:\ASCOM Build\Export\ASCOM.DriverAccess\Camera.cs:line 572 at q9.if(Double A_0, Boolean A_1) [09/05/19 23:33:30.466][DEBUG] [TEC Thread] SGM_CHANGE_COOLER_TEMP complete... [09/05/19 23:33:37.220][DEBUG] [PHD2 Listener Thread] PHD2 - No messages received from PHD2 for 1 minute, checking socket with status... [09/05/19 23:33:37.220][DEBUG] [PHD2 Listener Thread] Checking PHD2 state... [09/05/19 23:33:37.220][DEBUG] [PHD2 Listener Thread] PHD2 GetPhdStatus - Pre-Wait : Stopped [09/05/19 23:33:37.220][DEBUG] [PHD2 Listener Thread] Sending to PHD2: {"method": "get_app_state", "id": 1001} [09/05/19 23:33:37.220][DEBUG] [PHD2 Listener Thread] PHD2 GetPhdStatus - Post-Wait: Stopped [09/05/19 23:34:05.635][DEBUG] [Telescope Thread] Scope solve complete... [09/05/19 23:34:05.802][DEBUG] [Camera Thread] ASCOM Camera: abort message received in download... [09/05/19 23:34:05.803][DEBUG] [Camera Thread] SGM_CAMERA_PLATE_SOLVER_CAPTURE complete...