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Hi everyone Wanted: blue reflection. Got: rubbish. This is nearly 2 hours! What do we need to do? All advice most gratefully recieved. TIA and thanks for looking 450d on pn208

Hi and thanks for the comments. Yeah, the blue is wrong. It's frustrating since performing the same process elsewhere in the sky makes for a more realistic blue. This was low in the south. Maybe that has something to do with it? Not sure about the stars. It benefitted from a deconvolution. Again, it probably was a bad idea. It was a DSLR at 812mm, f3.9. Cheers

Hi everyone Not an easy one this. With the big 10" reflector doing duty elsewhere, we had to make do with something smaller. Followed it up to the meridian for around an hour before the haze took 30 minutes after the flip. Not enough time. Need a bit of a breeze. Again, the biggest discussion point must be the colour. To me, it's too orange but then look away from the cluster and there are blue stars too. Thanks for looking and do tell us what you think Cheers and clear skies. 450d on pn208

Dunno. The OP didn't have any success. Maybe they would if there were more of them? Worth a try? Cheers

Hi. I think you'll need longer. This is with our 700d on 130pds but using 300s exposures. Cheers and good luck.

Hi A good way to learn different approaches is watch someone's TeamViewer session. Not so good when they then expect you to switch cameras at 03:30!

Hi How about one of these for the planets? Then use it in a guide scope for your deepsky frames. Either get your d90 fixed or a cheap eBay canon? Cheers and HTH

Hi. Details in the OP. The camera is on a fast reflector. It doesn't need guiding -30s frames- but must be tracking. We guided anyway as phd2 gives us access to its rather nice spiral dither. HTH

Hi. A Canon 450d. It's astro modified but for stars, I don't think it need be. HTH

Hi everyone More ideas of what to image at full moon. Stars! You can do loads in a single session. Almost satisfied with the colour. Please tell me how wrong I am with this one. canon 450d + es f3.9: 30m @ ISO400

Hi. Same on my 130pds. Easiest way is to saw off 10mm of the inner focuser barrel where it enters the light path. HTH.

Hi. Yes that's fine, the disadvantage is that you either need to be there or set another plan to execute. It was one of the reasons we went INDI last year. At the time, anything reasonably priced in windows didn't have auto-flip.

Hi. Platesolve will get you to the target. Autoguide will keep it there. HTH

In APT it's called PointCraft. You take an image and the program will tell the mount exactly where it's pointing, update stellarium and generally relieve the trial and error tedium. Use it once and you'll never go back to anything else;) HTH and gets you automated. Cheers and clear skies.

Hi I'm assuming you have eqmod in which case you simply lose the hand controller. APT does automatic meridian flip but I don't know whether it will do an anticipated flip and then do either a cw-up track on the other side or wait for the object to catch up'. If your camera is to crash into the mount, the best way to be sure no harm is done is to stop the plan, wait for the object to pass say 15 minutes past the meridian, then platesolve and restart the plan on the other side. You can follow the progress across the meridian in stellarium. Then consider a mount extension to eliminate the possibility of the crash and in so doing get back to automated peace-of-mind- flip whilst you sleep:) Cheers and HTH.

Hi. If that puts the OP overbudget, there's a clone for around €90 for the colour verson. I have the mono version and alongside the zwo120, it's performance is identical. If you want to do deep sky too, just get something easy to cope with e.g. an eos 450d which has nice big light hugging pixels. HTH

Hi. We once did an old refractor. Best to dismatle it, swab in 1% copper sulphate solution -sold as swimming pool fungicide- and rinse well with distilled water. Use one of these to shine through it over night every few months. HTH.

Hi. Oh dear. Too many variables? Suggestion: Lose the rpi for now and throw some decent resources at it. Get indi-ekos-kstars all on the same box; e.g. a laptop running ubuntu 18.04. Once you're familiar with it, then may be a better time to delegate parts of it -e.g. the indi server only on the rpi- to lower resource. +1

Hi. Great shot. I had a go at the stars and took down the red a bit. Salu2

Hi everyone Not had the little 130 out for too long. We used an old eos 450d which a visitor had brought along. It made an interesting comparison with our 700d. The 450 seems more sensitive -we took 4 minute frames- perhaps at the expense of noise. Has anyone done a dslr sensitivity comparison I wonder... Thanks for looking and any 450d users do share your experiences...

+1. Yeah, there's so much rubbish out there. It's just a flat mirror which apart from reflection does nothing to the incident light falling upon it. Get it close and leave it! I wish I had read nothing before I started. All I needed was someone to say 'make it look like this'. With apologies to @Jason D for reusing the post. Cheers and clear skies

Hi Don't forget that what we do have in Linux is support. The indi devs will ssh/teamviewer in and fix your problem there and then. **To save embarassment, firstly make sure that it isn't something obvious; the last time I asked for help, all that was done was change the configuration and hit save. I had forgotten the latter. DUH!

Here's your kick start. Let us know if you get arount to it:) Cheers and good luck.