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UKJay1971

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  1. Just joined the 10" Classical Cassegrain Stellalyra gang Fantastic service (as always) from FLO Anyone used it with a 178c camera and, if so, any guidance on the number of extensions used? I can't focus on anywhere distant in the daytime and so any help with approximated extensions needed will help when I get it set up (hopefully Monday night)
  2. Finally managed to grab some solar this month in between the seemingly permanent cloud cover. AR 2822 has developed nicely and shows lots of detail. Had a play with my Daystar Quark setting and it was quite off-band. Also an opportunity to test my revamped T430 imaging laptop (these things are awesome for the money second hand now and the ability to upgrade them!). New SSD and 16GB of RAM and I was hitting close to 100FPS on my Altair 174m camera. Seeing was average but being able to reject 80% of frames across 2000+ frame 20 second video grabs was a bonus. Processed using Astra Image wavelets and Topaz DeNoise (my go-to denoising software now!). You can see the sunspot, its magnetic patterns as well as some Earth facing spicules (sharper white crests on otherwise motion blurred waves of plasma). Hoping this is the start of more surface activity for this summer. sunspot01.tif
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  4. A beautiful image from a beautiful country
  5. This from Wadi Rum? I love it!
  6. Picked up my 130dps last weekend and gave it a test run in light polluted Wakefield. I wasn't expecting much and the data could be a lot sharper but I am seriously impressed by how this scope can perform. QHY163m & 0.9 FR Baader 7nm Ha filter 8x360sec subs Targetted NGC 6888 - Crescent Nebula - and I literally chucked the data into DSS with no calibration files at all. A very quick curve transformation in photoshop and I got this. Loving it
  7. I am currently loving Sequence Generator Pro - the automation combined with plate solving is a game changer for me. Forget star alignment - I now polar align with Sharpcap (5 mins) and then plate solve straight onto target (another 2 mins). Auto-focus takes a further 2 mins so I am imaging within 10 mins of starting to polar align which is just brilliant. I also love my new camera - the QHY163m. Just buy one. Seriously. Do it.

    1. RichLD

      RichLD

      Amen to that!

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