Maxrayne
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...and another one - Comet Swan.
Maxrayne replied to Geoff Barnes's topic in Celestial Events Heads Up
Might be worth having a look at comet C/2020 FL4 as well -
Imaging with a Star Adventurer
Maxrayne replied to M Astronomy's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
Managed a quick grab at M42 last night between clouds. ED72/modded 450D on the SW SA, 60 second subs (37 minutes), plus darks and flats, ISO 800. Biggest complaint is that bright blue star on the right, but I'm guessing there was still some high level cloud. Other than that, considering the lack of time on target, quite chuffed with this. Even managed to not blow the core totally.
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Charting my own journey in astro with nebulae. Some, if not most, will be rubbish in comparison. But the only person I'm competing against is myself. Hopefully there'll be an improvement over time
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Imaging with a Star Adventurer
Maxrayne replied to M Astronomy's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
Technical Card: --------------------- Capture Date: 16/12/2018 Sky Quality: 5 Target: M101 Pinwheel Galaxy Location: Ursa Major Right Ascension: 14h 03m 12.6s Declination: +54° 20′ 57″ Apparent Magnitude: 7.86 Estimated Age: N/K Estimated Distance: 21 million light years Mount: SW SA Tracked/Guided: Tracked Guidecam: N/A Guidescope: N/A Imaging Device: SW ST102T Capture Device: Nikon D5300 (unmodded) Focal Length: 500mm Aperture: f / 9.5 ISO: 1600 Sub Length: 45 seconds No of exposures: 56 Darks: 5 Flats: Nil Bias: Nil Total Integration Time: 2520 seconds Capture Software: N/A Stacking Software: Sequator Editing Software: LightRoom Playlist: Sleeping With Sarah Brightman via Spotify
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Following intently as you're exactly where I'm at atm with this ?
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Orion Molecular Cloud Complex-1.jpg
Maxrayne commented on Maxrayne's gallery image in Member's Album
Thank you, was up against Hereford's light pollution domewirh this, a campfire and high winds so really happy, despite the lack of data. Hoping for much better this season ?? -
Imaging with a Star Adventurer
Maxrayne replied to M Astronomy's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
V nice indeed ??? -
Apologies for image spam, just found the member's gallery thing so I'm populating my own one ?
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Starting at the beginning of my astro journey, some of these (okay, probably a lot of these) will be utter rubbish. But I want somewhere where I can collate everything as I go, and chart my journey.
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Imaging with a Star Adventurer
Maxrayne replied to M Astronomy's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
Nice! What was the total integration time? -
Ordered a few items from FLO now, on word of mouth recommendation, and I'm FAR from disappointed. Martin has been most helpful in assisting picking the right items for what I want to achieve within my budget. He'll query one way, but once I've explained, he isn't someone who gets all funny about not going with his recommendation, something I find quite refreshing. I also ran into a problem with the SW auto focuser my ex got me as a birthday gift from the kids, in that it stopped focusing. After explaining to Martin in a late night email, including the fact I'd stripped it down as far as I could to see if it was anything obvious (sadly not), I woke up this morning and was more than pleasantly surprised to see a replacement on it's way. And that was before my first coffee!!! Can't ask for better service than that!! Think I'm happy to say that the only time I wouldn't use FLO is if they're unable to source something, and even then, I believe they'd bust a gut to get hold of something they don't have in. Great work, you guys seriously rock and, imo, have a well deserved reputation of being the "GoTo" (pun intended) place for all things astro
