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Quick capture during break in clouds. Used my EM1mk3 + 300mm lens and MC14.

I would love to get an ZWO ADC but they seem to be out of stock across Europe.

Best 10% of 5000 frames taken 27/12/20 at 16:50. before the clouds rolled in. HD925 + ASI290MC

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Best capture I have seen.

Do you have a time machine?

Managed to capture an image between clouds. Taken using my EM1mk3 with 300mm pro + MC14. ISO4000, 0.8sec shutter, F/5.6. Used the Oly built in Starry Sky Focus mode to get accurate focus. Processed with Topaz DeNoise AI and PS.

The first part works like you describe. iif( condition, expr_true, expr_false ) The second part ~x. does a Pixel inversion on x so Evaluates to 1 − x, where x is in the normalized [0,1] range (0=black, 1=white). So it is combining the two images by calculating 1-((1-Starless) * (1-starsonly)) Thats the limit of my pixel maths knowledge.

Quick shot between cloud cover. HD925 + ASI290MC. best 10% of 2000 frames.

I have the Esprit 100ED and the focuser is superb. Solid as a rock and can handle my Filter wheel and CAM no problem. The only mod I have made is to add the Sesto Sensor electronic focuser attachement to the fine adjustment rod so I can use software controlled focussing.

Sorry I have no idea, I have a tin full of assorted Allen keys gained over many years:) It is very small. The little screw only adjusts the friction of the fine focuser drive on to the coarse shaft. The locking lever simply locks the coarse shaft that's it. It's not really designed for fine adjustments IMHO.

The very small socket headed bolt(screw) shown with red arrow on the photo was very loose. I just tightened it a little with an allen key and everything now works great. The bolt I think sets the friction pressure for the fine focusser. This is for my Esprit 100 so not sure if its the same for the 120. Hope this helps

Had the same issue on my Esprit 100 a few years ago now. As already posted its just a simple adjustment of the tension screw. Worked fine since. The tension screw only adjusts the friction drive of the fine focuser as far as I remember. I have the Sesto senso V1 and it is more than capable of holding the weight of my camera and filter holder even when pointing vertically.

Been running final release candidate of Big Sur for a couple weeks now on my iMac and finally the full release. Obviously not done in depth testing but so far this is what I have found. PS CC 2021 works OK. APP works as far as I have tested but it did have a few issues on the earlier betas. The developer says its not officially supported on Big Sur yet so be careful. Pixinsight seems OK as far as I have tested. If you have been using any 32bit windows apps like Registax6 or Autostakkert3 wrapped in a WINE wrapper then they will not work. WINE does not work on BigSur yet.

Superb set.

What version of APP are you using and on what platform. The latest version 1.083 is a Beta have you tried 1.082. Assume you used the same camera for each frame. Is it showing the same number of stars in every frame?

The Light Vortex Tutorials are very good I have attached my Pixinsight crib sheet built up over quite a while. Its far from ideal but the post processing steps on Page 12 are what I follow usually. There are a few people who have also shared their process steps on this forum so if you do a search you can find them. Anyway this is in PDF format so hope you can read it. I didn't follow all the steps on my crib sheet on Pixinsight, I missed out he noise reduction ones. Then the only thing I did in PS was flip the image horizontally and vertically as that's the way I like to show it. Then I reduced the noise and colour noise using the Topaz DeNoise AI plug-in its the best I have found. I also increased the contrast a little to darken the background. The one that Vlaiv did above had a much darker background than mine but that is always down to individual taste. Have fun. Pixinsight Process Steps.pdf

Had a very quick go with your M31 image. Processed in Pixinsight and tweaked in PS Stars are good shape.

If you are happy to stay on the latest full release versions then the updating is very easy its a single command line. It is only if you want to access the bleeding edge Beta stuff when it does get technical I agree. Thats not really any different to other apps is it?

Given the weather forecast for tomorrow decided to have a go tonight to get Mars and The Moon in one image.This helps put them in perspective. Hope I live to see the day we get a human on Mars!! Olympus em1 mk3 Focal Length 55mmISO 2501/1250 secAperture F/2.8

Interesting comparison. Certainly can see the difference.

You can download the latest INDI releases from here. https://github.com/indilib/indi/releases But you will need to compile from source🤓 If you create an account on GitHub they will email you with what drivers are updated as they release new ones.

The moon and Mars will be very close tomorrow Thursday, 29th Oct at around 20:00 GMT when viewed from the UK. Get your cameras out

The author of Astroberry only updates to the latest release after it has been out there a while and does not support Beta versions of Kstars. The current stable release on the Kstars site is 3.4.3 which is what is supported. You can always download the KStars/EKOS source files and compile on your raspberry. I have been running an earlier 3.5 Beta for a while.