geoflewis

If anyone wants to play with my data and show me your versions here are the stacked, Registar aligned, but otherwise unprocessed tiffs for each channel.M81_G_CombineFilesSigMed_reg_cp.tif M81_B_CombineFilesSigMed_reg_cp.tif M81_L_CombineFilesSigMed_cp.tif M81_Ha_CombineFilesSigMed_reg_cp.tif M81_R_CombineFilesSigMed_reg_cp.tif I'd love to see what expert hands can achieve, it would be very informative and instructive to me.

It is and it isn't..... Other than a few minutes here and there I've never had anyone show my how to process my data, so I'm mostly self taught by watching on line videos and lots of trial an error - probably the same for most of us I expect. When I see something not right, I'm mostly not sure what step or steps in my processing caused the issue, or whether it was just poor data....?🥴

Hi Donal, That looks very good to me. At full resolution I can't see any obvious mosaic frame misalignments and your processing is just about right, good detail on show without over sharpening. That camera with 3.7u pixels would probably be optimised shooting at around F18-F21, so including a x1.5-x2.0 Barlow, Powermate or tele-extender would work very well I think, but you'd then have to shoot twice as many frames for a full moon mosaic 😉. It would definitely be worth trying out on individual features or regions like craters Plato, Copernicus, etc.

Thanks Mark, I know what you mean. Please see my reply to Rodd above. I'm not sure what to change in my processing to fix it.....

Thanks Rodd, Maybe it is the crop, but more likely my processing skills, or lack of them. Even though I've been imaging for a few years now I still feel like a compete novice most of the time. I never sure how far to go with the various processing steps, especially sharpening, so I tend to leave many of my images soft looking. I often wonder what someone who knows what they are doing could do with my data..... 🤔

Well I'm not one for making recommendations for fear of comeback, but the purchasing experience was good and using them even better 👍.

Sorry, I missed your post earlier today and yes, the mount has transformed my binocular observing even with my cheap old Revelation Astro 15x70s. It is so much more comfortable viewing sitting down with my head resting on the back of my garden recliner chair. I can just relax and let the binos bring the sky to me 😀.

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Hi Mick, I’ve already taken the mount there a couple of times, but not the binos yet. Are you a member there?

Mine got is first cut this year yesterday....😏

Thanks Steve, yes, for the price they perform very well, I'm delighted with them and the Orion Monster P-Mount.

Thanks Steve, yes, that is what I've done, but it's not possible (nor do I wish) to move the binos any closer to the tripod head, so there is some but completely tolerable shake with the 22x85s, whereas the 15x70 were rock solid. For anyone interested here a couple of pics of my set up. .... and yes, my patio does need cleaning 😏

That's turned out great, very well done and definitely worth the extra effort

Hi Matt, I'm only now just seeing this thread and so glad that I came across it. It's a superb mosaic and I agree with others that the 1st version is best, the 2nd one is just over sharpened for my taste, but that might work very well for a poster print rather than pixel peeping. The drizzle looks to be working well based on the comparison frames, so it would definitely be worth working up the full mosaic, which I look forward to seeing.

Hi Mick, no apologies needed, you didn't 'jump on my thread' and yep, it was pretty much that video that persuaded me to buy them. I also had a few email exchanges with Orion, in particular about payload capacity and they were very responsive and helpful., not trying to oversell them. They arrived from the Netherlands about 3 days after I placed the order, very well packaged, so I thought the service was excellent all round.

Yes, really excellent bins. I bought my P-Mount from Orion in the run up to Christmas 2019, but they were more like £450 then 😒. Maybe Christmas is NOT the time to buy them 🤔

Those babies look the business, I'm really looking forward to reading your reviews of observing with them. The current model were on my list of possibilities before I opted for the smaller, lighter and less expensive 22x85s. Clear skies

Excellent pics Steve, with superb detail in the close ups, particularly with the 685nm filter, but I really love the 2 panel mosaic at the top of the list. The colours in that one are just right and whilst I couldn't see any colours visually, it's a great reminder of the session I had with my 22x85 binos last night.

Yes, definitely Rodd. The original was great, but I agree the subtle differences in V2 were worthwhile.

Hello and welcome to SGL. I think I'm also a member over at CN, but I can't recall the last time I logged in, so probably a few years ago....

That's a stonking good image - the colour and detail are superb

That's a great idea if you have the tools and skills, both of which are lacking in my case 🙄. I did think of making some wooden ones following a recipe that I saw on the Oz forum 'Ice in Space', but that project never got off the ground. I've attached the link in case it gives you some design ideas... https://www.iceinspace.com.au/63-383-0-0-1-0.html Cheers

@Mick H @merlin100 Thanks both. @merlin100 that's a lovely detailed picture of M51, but it was very fuzzy and looked a bit more like this in the eyepiece.... 😜😏

Looking good Steve

I have the Orion Monster Parallelogram Mount https://www.telescope.com/Orion-Monster-Parallelogram-Binocular-Mount-amp-Tripod/p/114271.uts It's rated up to 15lbs, which is a tad less than 7kg. I asked Orion about going above 15lb and they were understandably cautious about making that recommendation. I was considering a pair weighing 7.1 kg (15.6 lb) and this is the exact reply that I got.... "....exceeding the maximum weight capacity for a mount doesn't necessarily mean it completely will not work, however, it does mean that you are going to run into some challenges - namely in that the binos are going to have a tendency to sway and be a bit shaky, reducing the overall usefulness for visibility. If you go too far over weight capacity, there is also the possibility that the whole thing will just fall over, but we're talking less than 10% over weight capacity here, so while I can't guarantee it wouldn't do that, it is much more likely that you are looking at the reduced stability issues instead...." My Apollo 22x85s weigh ~5kg and they are susceptible to some shake when there is any wind, so I would think that heavier binos are likely to suffer even more on this mount. The disadvantage of the P-Mount is that there is a large moment arm either side of the pivot point, but of course it is that distance from the tripod head that makes them so good for observing from a seated position in a recliner. I hope this helps.