Andywilliams

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Post flare loop prominence development. 13/2/24 11am NZ time. loops.mp4

I was stunned to see an enormous prom lifting off really quickly today from the northeastern limb. By the time I had sorted out a capture I had missed the start. It’s still my biggest and fastest prom to date 😃 Captured in NZ at 10.30 am local time, 13th Feb 2024 Esprit 80mm Quark chromosphere Player one mars m 76 X 500 frame captures ( best 10% ) with 4 second intervals. Firecapture Imppg Pixinsight Timelapse tool. prom 13 feb.mp4

Ooops…..yes it should…..my bad 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

Continuing with our lovely high pressure system and clear skies here in NZ 😊 SH2-308 The Dolphin head nebula. Located about 4,500 light years from us. The nebula is located in the Canis Major constellation which is high in our sky at the moment. Technicals SW ED80 ZWO ASI1600mm HEQ5 4 hours Oiii filter 2 hours Ha filter Both at 300 second captures. Captured with N.I.N.A. processed with Pixinsight. Captured 6/2/2024

NGC 2264 the Christmas tree nebula, cone nebula, fox fur nebula. SW ED80 ZWO asi1600mm ZWO EAF SW HEQ5 40x300 seconds Ha 40x300 seconds Oiii NINA Pixinsight.

A cloudless morning in Waipawa….. a rarity ! Nothing to do but take some photos of the sun 😊 Sun 7/1/2024 11am NZ Widefield is Lunt 40mm Close shot is SW80ed esprit with quark chromosphere Each is 10% of 3000 frames stacked in astrosurface and processed in imppg and Pixinsight

Thankyou 😊😊

Absolutely right…..I have a fairly nasty northern outlook from my place….street lights, houses etc and M33 never gets above about 20 degrees…..hence my surprise and smile 😊

Messier 33, The Triangulum Galaxy. This is the third of my wine night pics and the one that surprised me the most. Only a tiny 35 minutes of data and yet it still gives up lovely detail. The Triangulum Galaxy is one of the closest of our galaxy neighbours at a mere 2.73 million light years from earth. Our local group of galaxies consists of M33, M31 the Andromeda Galaxy and our own Milky Way. They are gravitationally bound and headed our way. Look forward to a spectacular collision in about 4 billion years. SW150PDS HEQ5 Canon 6d 35x60 seconds Backyard eos Pixinsight

Less than an hour on M42 the great Orion Nebula last night. Sometimes this hobby goes smoothly and sometimes the wheels fall off a bit….last night the wheels were very wobbly and not helped by a bottle of wine 🤪 With such limited data plus short exposures of 60 seconds and unguided…..and with my dslr….we’ll, I’m pretty stoked with the result 😊 Skywatcher 150pds HEQ5 Canon 6d

Nice work Carole 👍👍🤩🤩 many thanks for contacting the site producer. its the best fov calculator I’ve come across 👍👍👍

BlackwaterSkies !

Hi All, Maybe not quite the right forum for this question but it seemed the most apt. I use the Blackwater imaging toolbox on their website as I find it the best one available. Over the last couple of days I’ve noticed that I can’t get on the website. Does anyone know anything about this ? Cheers, Andy

Capture number 2 from Friday night. I managed 3 targets on Friday due to the constraints of my view of the northern sky. This is the longest capture and I’m pretty pleased. NINA wasn’t playing ball with me on Friday so I tried to manually dither to reduce walking noise with my 6d and it worked rather well 👍 M45 Sw 150pds HEQ5 Canon 6d 95x60 seconds Backyard eos Pixinsight

A second go at some data I captured last week. Im pretty happy with this result. SW ED80 HEQ5 ZWO ASI 1600MM ZWO EFW Ha 74X240 seconds guided phd Oiii 72X240 seconds guided phd captured with NINA and processed in Pixinsight.

My Saturday morning capture 😊 sunspot region 3415 captured on Saturday 2nd September SWED80 Daystar quark Player one mars m Firecapture Autostakkert Photoshop Approx 1.5 hours of data in 20 seconds untitled-1.mp4

Thanks Peter 😊😃😂 I'm hoping that the built in tilter that player one cameras have will suffice 👍

A solar prominence looping approximately 80,000 kilometres above the Suns Chromosphere with an egg frying temperature of between 7,000 to 11,000 C. It’s amazing to me that with a fairly average home set up, in my backyard, that I can capture this wonderful display. This is approximately 30 minutes of imaging compressed into a few seconds and looped forwards and then backwards. There is plenty to work on here. I need to eliminate the newton rings at source, does the player one mars m have a built in tilter ? otherwise it’s hand in pocket time again 🙄😂 pscompress.mp4 Apart from that, I’m pretty pleased with this. It’s my most detailed prominence yet 😊 SW80 Daystar quark chromosphere HEQ5 Player one mars m Firecapture Autostakkert Imppg Pixinsight Photoshop

Nice filament eruption from this sunspot on the solar limb ! SWED80 Daystar quark chromosphere HEQ5 Player one mars m Autostakkert Imppg Best 10% of 3000 frames

Thanks 😊 I use astrosurface quite a bit for stacking but I can’t get along with the wavelets, so I stick with imppg which works well for me 👍

Popped my new Daystar Quark on to my SW ED80 and used my player one mars m camera. I'm pleased with the result so far. I need to work on my processing skills and wait for some really clear mornings. best 10% of 1000 frames captured with firecapture. Processed with Autostakkert, imppg and photoshop. cheers, Andy

This is the best I’ve been able to do this far…… 127 mak cass , player one mars m, x2.5 Barlow.

Hi Guys, A simple question for you. I would like to photograph solar granulation. Will I be able to capture it with either my Ed 80 or my mak cass 127 ? With the requisite white light filter of course. Plus I also have x2.5 and x 5 Barlow lenses. I have a player one mars m camera and various assorted dslr. I have tried once before with the mak cass 127 plus barlow, plus the player one mars m but I couldn’t process out any granulation. I suspect it was a little bit off in the focus and the seeing was fairly crap. I just want to know whether it can be done with these apertures. And of course, if anyone has any examples, I would love to see them. Thanks heaps in advance, Andy

I am still on my learning curve for a full disk mosaic with my set up. There's a small chunk missing and it’s a little unevenly lit despite a good flat field being applied. Im getting there slowly though. lunt 35mm player one mars m 18Xbest 20% of 2000 frames firecapture, Autostakkert, imppg, Pixinsight (for dynamic crop) , autostitch , photoshop for colorise