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  1. Pete Presland
    So much activity visible.
  2. Pete Presland
    very nicely captured.
  3. Pete Presland
    nice sharp disc.
  4. Pete Presland
    Lovely looking discs, some nice Proms there.
  5. Pete Presland
    No problem always happy to help. Just a few other questions. What is the focal length and R ratio of the scope, also how frames did managed to get during your imaging run?
  6. Pete Presland
    I don't think so, not sure about how sensitive at that end of the channel the camera is. I think the filter I use is a Baader uv/ir cut.
  7. Pete Presland
    It all seems so long ago now, as I sit here listening to the wind blowing outside. loving all the sketches and the memories that they bring back 😀😀😀
  8. Pete Presland
    The 2nd image is excellent George, lots of very nice detail visible. Maybe a little to red to my eye are. Are you using the RGB align and RGB balance options in REG6? I think you are just over doing the sharpening after you have enlarged the image perhaps?
  9. Pete Presland
    I have always wondered if that was the case Olly, it certainly would not be very rewarding having to use, then criticise a product for a printed magazine.
  10. Pete Presland
    I owned a Vixen 2" 42mm LVW, it was a good performer in my C9.25. Nice and lightweight, pretty sharp across most of the field of view. I have replaced with a 35mm Televue Panoptic, which is quite a bit more expensive and substantially heavier.
  11. Pete Presland
    Some nice detail there, despite the problems you are having. An ADC certainly has helped my Asi224mc images, as for the focuser. Have you got a crayford on your Mak, or are you just using the knob to focus? i have fitted a thick Tiewrap on mine to allow finer focuser control, without nudging the tube too much.
  12. Pete Presland
    Exactly what i thought, might still look nice in a couple of months though 🎅
  13. Pete Presland
    It will be a sad day indeed if anything like that became the norm. Going on the internet and reading all the reviews of products, is so much better than reading the reviews in magazines, which nearly always are positive. That said, the reviews are still only one persons opinion and as you have said Olly, "that is for the reader to decide".
  14. Pete Presland
    I also heard rice is good for drawing moisture out of things, I have used on mobiles that have been immersed. It worth trying that maybe before any disassembly of the lens cell.
  15. Pete Presland
    Some nice detail there.
  16. Pete Presland
    another nod for Autostakkert, very easy to use, lots of functionality. delivers excellent results
  17. Pete Presland
    very nice sharp captures.
  18. Pete Presland
    Very nicely captured, love seeing the rotation.
  19. Pete Presland
    Got to be worth a try with Mars in such a good position for opposition next month. That said I would be using the QHY5L=iiC, you might find you will be doing more than one run with the seeing conditions in UK most of the time 😀😀😀
  20. Pete Presland
    Looks like some sort of Optical aberration to me. If you scroll through the frames, the Moons distort at around the same time as Jupiter does. The distortion travels around the disc as well.
  21. Pete Presland
    I don't know if sharp cap allows it, but the general consensus is you are better saving files as SER files rather than AVI files. What did the original unprocessed output from Registax look like ?
  22. Pete Presland
    Two recent Mars images first from 14th sept, the 2nd a week later on the 21st. Pretty happy with the details visible, particularly like the Polar clouds in the 2nd image. Stacked in A/S3, processed with Registax 6. Used a different method this time with Reg6, only adjusting tabs 4,5,6 with linked wavelets, then denoise in tab 1. C9.25, Asi224mc, ADC, X1.8 Barlow
  23. Pete Presland
    nice sharp image
  24. Pete Presland
    Very nicely captured.
  25. Pete Presland
    Fabulous image, an excellent level of detail on show there.
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