Uranium235

and i'm binning them

next option is stick the 12 " dob on the mount and try that

Might be an impossible ask without really fast optics. Unless you go with the dob + binning idea.  Well, thats me done for the night... time to crawl into bed...lol.

there is a glimmer

snap

That was Wednesday night for me, the first time

Hope you guys had a good session. It was pretty sketchy stuff for me, mostly involving patching up cloud damaged mosaic panels. Going to look at processing it all tonite.

Is this another outing for the mighty Samyang...

Yep, with the DSLR this time - trying to in-fill some colour on the Iris CCD data.

Made me laugh. I`ve never heard it called that before! 

what a flippin' disaster that was! loads and loads of rain!

youneed one of those fishing coveralls

Only just got back mate... the trip home has really knocked the the stuffing out of me. I left the site about 10:40, didnt get back until gone midnight. The main route back was closed for roadworks with utterly useless diversions set up that went nowhere. Had to pull over and resort to the sat nav to get me home via an alternative route.... good practice for night driving anyway.

opps as you say good practice

hope the data is good

you me and the rest of the forum.

I got my longest guiding session last night

and had my DEC corrections going the wrong way

RA wasn't too bad.

 fortunately, just the target drifted 'down' so when stacked I have very cropped result

LOL

welcome to my world, so often get fog and mist up here

Have you got one?, Im jealous its a lovely bit of kit...

Yep  got it yesterday - getting first light tonite!

Yes, I sorted the Star 71, though I haven't tested it, but it was obviously wobbly and is now solid, so will be fine. The new altair scope has replaced the old SW 80ED. It seems lovely and the autofocus is working well, pausing guiding while running it and everything is fine when starting up again. So, happy days!

What you on?

Im cooking up an "ultra pelcian"... 8 solid hours of Ha to really give it the beans. Just running the data through Ps now.... its looking really clean.

Beautiful - nothing beats loads and loads of data. It also makes it much easier to process. I look forward to seeing the finished bird!

Don't worry... Clear skies are on their way back now. With perfect timing too - the claggy cloud has been over the Full Moon, but we will all be enjoying perfect conditions for the coming New Moon.

At least, that's what my therapist has suggested I keep repeating to myself....

Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

Well, if it isn't tomorrow - I might get some clear sky on mon/tue. But that's going to be a long, boring  weekend  in between... bah! 

Has to be the 71 but I am biased.

lol... well its all academic now as its been cloudy since I put the scope out (typical!). I'll give it another hour then give up.

I have the 71 up and running now on 1499

also being a slightly greedy chap have the C11 with reducer on NGC7662

Heh   theres no kill like overkill

LOL

Congratulations, that image deserved it.

I feel your pain, some monkey up the road from let a air bomb, off last night at 11.40 scared the c*&p out of me

The mount just exploded