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  1. I started this post years ago as a bit of fun, I come and go on this forum as I’m sure many others find I use other social media forums for different purposes. Anyway, here’s my current set up, same scope Skywatcher 150p on Heq5 pro / Altair 269c / SV Bony 50mm guide scope / ASI178mc guide cam. Quick question, I’m looking at buying a 150pds and seen one second hand, the fittings near the focus wheels are gold as is part of the finder, he says it’s 3-4 years old but not seen them before. Is it even older?
  2. Doggers flashing brake lights as well!!
  3. Yeah they should do a monthly segment, “What’s Up, with Astro Pete”
  4. Thanks. They filmed loads and I’m sure I could have filled the full half hour of news! It was edited really well and it’s great getting people looking up
  5. Somehow Look North, East Yorkshire edition, got hold of my number and called me yesterday to be part of a short segment about the moon. Here’s the result shown last night. I’m quite chuffed. FullSizeRender.mov
  6. Thought I’d share my best efforts on lunar imaging so far in my astro journey, most of this down to good seeing last night, other contributing factors I suppose are better equipment and refined skills/techniques/processing. Anyway, all .ser clips captured through sharpcap stacked in Autostakkert and stretched in Registax Skywatcher 150p on Heq5 pro ASI178mc.
  7. I was lucky enough to capture an ISS transit of the moon the other night but need some tips on processing please. I captured .ser, about 5100 frames, only 90 of them are the actual transit. What I have done so far is using PIPP is extract those 90 frames into tiffs, using an old version of GIMP, I have produced and image to show every frame of the ISS passing though it is not very sharp. For lunar my normal workflow is Autostakkert and Registax to produce a final sharp image, but stacking in AS takes out all the ISS as I guess it is seen as an anomaly, the purpose of stacking! I can't get as good an image if i try and process the tiff made from the 90 in GIMP, it just does not achieve anything loading it Registax and messing with it, as it is a non stacked image. Any thoughts what I can do, can I stack and keep the ISS on the final stacked image somehow. Here is the image produced in GIMP of the transit, and an image from AS and Registax that I would like to have the transit on, saved as Jpgs to upload quicker, but they are tiffs.
  8. Sorry for not replying to your messages, been offline for a while. I did buy it and so far not had much chance to really test it much except for a quick bit of lunar recently and a little go at the ring nebula. This is just 20 sec clip using the ASI capture software, Autostakkert and Registax6. The moon was low and I was not sure of settings but early signs promising. Polar alignment took a while but I think I know what I was doing wrong so no panic there yet. So next set of questions: 1. Is sharpcap or ASI software better 2. I tried deep sky, image on screen was colour of Ring nebula but saved images not colour and stacking took ages and also mono. I’ve read so many things about what settings and I’ve got myself confused. I’d appreciate any guidance on what to take images in, raw 8 raw 16 fits tiff etc. 3. How do you get colour through DSS.
  9. Knocked up a quick cardboard one.
  10. Cheers. I’m just happy to be doing something new again. Mojo is back 😄
  11. Took delivery of a solar filter this week in preparation for the eclipse so fitted it and took my first proper image, 20 sec video through PIPP, Autostakkert and Registax to finish. Steep curve ahead but quite chuffed. Skywatcher 150p on Heq5 pro Canon 1100d Questions, how do you see what you’re all doing, so much reflection. Asi178mc at the ready as well, any tips?
  12. So I’m very close to purchasing above camera, I have Skywatcher 150p on Heq5 pro, just a couple of questions: 1. Can it be used at prime focus using sharpcap for precise polar alignment plate solving or does it need to be on a guide scope? 2. when at prime focus does the body of the camera sustain scratches from the screws on the focus tube Is it like 4 cameras in one? Planetary solar and lunar, polar alignment camera, deep sky, and all sky with the lens? Any other thoughts welcomed. TIA
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