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Hi In Spain, maybe call Luis at str-astrum who will be more accustomed to the climatic conditions. FWIW, for cooled CMOS here in Alicante, we've standardised on -5º all year round. In summer it's not easy maintaining much below -10º anyway and the benefit it brings is negligible. HTH
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Hi I don't think a change of glass will make much difference, but a triplet may. Ideas. Use a: focus mask to get you close to focus, then remove it. Use live view to move away from that focus point until the blue halo is reduced. reflector #8 and correct the colour cast afterwards Or just mask and reduce it:
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DSS seems to vertically flip images when stacking
alacant replied to Andy56's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
Hi Siril flips the images. Is there any reason for not using Siril to process your cr2s from start to finish? Siril's banding algorithm is best applied after pre processing the fit sequence. You need only a flat frame stack which has had the offset subtracted. Details here. You are free of course to flip back or choose any orientation you like. Probably easier though to do it after processing. HTH -
Hi everyone First night for ages I had a telescope to myself. In fact two. Cheepo specials; a gso203 and a Bresser 203. m106, ngc2903, m63 and m66, changing to the gso after 106. Forgot to take flat frames, so had to guess the camera angle for the Bresser. Hopeless. The only way out was graX's AI, which I really don't like. Ironically, I think it has the best background. Thanks for looking.
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Birds/Angel's on images but not in 10x live view
alacant replied to TiffsAndAstro's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
To reseat the front element, simply loosen its retaining ring until upon shaking the lens, you can hear it rattle. Now tighten the ring until the rattle just disappears. That should help with the astigmatism/gulls/birds. ISO800 is the optimum setting for low noise on the 18mp sensor. -
Birds/Angel's on images but not in 10x live view
alacant replied to TiffsAndAstro's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
As per our 700d -same sensor- and an old Takumar 135... Did you try the ISO800 5s f8 no drizzle idea? You might also try loosening and reseating the front lens element. Cheers -
People seem obsessed with it. I image. To me, it's useless. Where I live, I can see the milky way. But if there's a moon, haze or I've been looking at my 'phone, I can't. I don't need a number to associate with these observations. But... Is it a 'good' night if I can see the milky way? No idea until I've assessed the seeing. If it's poor, no amount of Bortle is going to change it. Cheers and clear skies.
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Hi No need to cut the spring. Simply remove it. That should give you the distance you need. To help you with the secondary, replace the hexagonal grub screw adjusters with M4 hex head bolts; much easier to take up the slack that way. HTH
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Excellent image. Loadsa detail you don't usually see. I'm absolutely useless with colour, but had a go HOO. It may help in controlling the red a little. Cheers **@stu: have you had a go at this with the same filter on your f4? Should be an interesting comparison.
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Yes. My bad. I read that the 8" was f5 and the 12" f6. f5 is offset. f6 is much more central. But the method I gave to adjust the secondary is still correct; the secondary is both too far toward the primary and is rotated incorrectly. Cheers
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Hi The main difference between f5 and f6 is that for the latter, you'll find the primary donut reflection will collimate almost centrally, with very little offset. You have it set (perhaps by habit?) more as if it were at f5. Primary visibility is not helped by the small secondaries fitted to sw Dobsonians. The fix is easy: 1. Move the secondary toward the open end of the tube a few mm. To do this, loosen the three secondary adjusters and turn the central screw clockwise. 2. With the secondary adjustment screws still loose, rotate the secondary until it appears circular. Relative to your photos, you'll need to rotate the secondary anti-clockwise. Repeat 1 and 2 until you can see the missing primary mirror clip. Now you will be able to complete the collimation Focuser? Be sure to read the common collimation myths and Seronik's no nonsense collimation guide. Note that the fast and slow photographs in the AstroBaby guide are incorectly labelled. They should be like this (you're aiming for the slow version): fast: slow: Cheers and HTH
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Towards a right spacing for coma corrector
alacant replied to v4169sgr's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
Therefore, and as your images show, apart from tilt, you are too close. Can't recall exactly but we needed at least 58mm from the shoulder of the m48 thread. The m48 t-ring alone will give you 55mm. With your 2mm spacers that's probably around 57mm, but you're now at the safe thread limit. Baader give 57.5mm. Use 58mm as a starting point. The low profile t-adapter with a set of extension rings makes this easy. It removes the coma, but introduces astigmatism. If you want out-of-the-box-corner-to-corner over aps-c, perhaps consider the GPU. Cheers and HTH -
Towards a right spacing for coma corrector
alacant replied to v4169sgr's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
Hi If you're able to reach focus with the clicklock, then it looks just about as good as you're gonna get. If not, use a low profile eos-m48 adapter and a 12mm extension tube. The tilt was measured using Siril under Ubuntu 22.04.3. The same version will run under Mint but if you're interested in the journey as much as the destination, you may wish to build the latest version from source. Testing and reporting bugs helps the developers toward the next release. HTH -
Towards a right spacing for coma corrector
alacant replied to v4169sgr's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
Hi Excellent shots, but if you feel you want to take it further... Both images are tilted; make sure that the primary mirror is adjusted correctly and ensure that the camera-cc assembly be inserted correctly into the focuser. Baader cc? Lose the m42 adapter and go with 58mm from the m48 shoulder. If your focuser has a compression ring, avoid clamping across the shoulder of the undercut of the cc. Or just remove the compression ring. Simply dismantling and re-seating usually helps. But hey, 450d on a 200 f5; if you're satisfied with the images perhaps stay as you are. Cheers and HTH -
Beginner needs help photographing dso
alacant replied to Conanp's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
Hi Nice shot. I removed the gradient and gave it a crude stretch. There is colour:) As you can see, I'm hopeless at balancing it but I'm sure one of the processing gurus will be along soon. Cheers and HTH -
Hi. What's wrong with it? What are you expecting over and above that which the 150 offers? Cheers
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For astro imaging, along with logical thought, any remaining sanity you may posses is a distinct disadvantage.
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Just starting out and have a few questions
alacant replied to fievelgp's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
https://linuxcb.blogspot.com/2023/09/siril-dslr-processing.html HTH