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  1. Vroobel
    Every post I'm more excited. 🤩
  2. Vroobel
    I highly recommend making a kind of collar protecting your light source from falling. This collar prevents the 'flat field panel' from any unwanted movement which may affect your flats. After all, it's recommended to collect at least 30 of them. Three different apertures, one flat field panel. It doesn't need to be the 3D printout, can be even cardboard, it's just an idea.
  3. Vroobel
    It is.
  4. Vroobel
    Yes, it's very nice picture. Thanks, you just gave me the idea. 🙂
  5. Vroobel
    As you use Nina, set the Flat Wizard at 1/2 ADU Max +/- 10-15%, then it doesn't matter how bright is the screen - the wizard adjusts an exposure time on its own. Edit. ASIAir does it automatically.
  6. Vroobel
    The Sigma 40mm and 2600MC got another chance. 🙂 A few days ago I received a custom made 24.5mm long (!) Canon EF / M42 adaptor. That means it's 2mm shorter than the ZWO filter drawer. Hopefully will test it tonight at F/1.4, I'm very curious about the result.
  7. Vroobel
    What does it mean?
  8. Vroobel
    What about flat frames?
  9. Vroobel
    Yeah, I feel the same and fully agree. Yesterday I published the Crab Nebula while data wasn't mine. I cannot be fully proud of that because it's not captured in my garden using my stuff. I like the Crab, but what's the fun if I didn't need to spend hours on removing a gradient? (Bortle 2...) 😂
  10. Vroobel
    🤞 😊
  11. Vroobel
    Look at the second picture.
  12. Vroobel
    It's Astro Gadget AstroPC. Good enough, but originally the antennas are very fragile, I broke them exactly like Cuiv did, but I was the first. Now it's fixed and much more solid than earlier. I also think about the Mele 4C, but shouldn't think too loud as long as the AstroPC works.
  13. Vroobel
    I see in the second picture that you didn't use side tapped holes, which I did. 🙂
  14. Vroobel
    I have this 0.8x Altair reducer: https://www.altairastro.com/altair-08x-m92-reducer-for-altair-102edt-x-wave-series-refractor-12453-p.asp I can unscrew the knurled part and there is the M48 filter thread inside. Check your flattener, perhaps there is something inside.
  15. Vroobel
    Well, it always was the most colourful nebula, but the HOS palette makes a difference.
  16. Vroobel
    WO RedCat 51(?) ring matches in think, moreover, it has a shoe for guider.
  17. Vroobel
    12 minutes? That's really impressive! 😲
  18. Vroobel
    I'm bored, so it's best to play with other people's shared data while waiting for the complete set of my own. I found a website on the Internet describing so-called Moana Project: someone from Texas (or just in Texas) built a decent ATM Newton 10" F/4.5 and mounted it on an Astro-Physics 1200 GTO mount. A common camera and filters, probably for now or when subs were being collected. The data is decent and presented as a set of subs plus masterDark and masterFlaty for SHO and RGB. https://erellaz.com/moana/ https://erellaz.com/moana/open-datasets/ The Crab Nebula (M1) - 2022.12-2023.01 - HOS MOANA 10" f/4.5 Newton, Baader 6.5nm 36mm SHO + RGB, ASI 1600MM @ Astro-Physics 1200 GTO; almost 13h of integracji in SHO: 48 x 300s Ha, 52 x 300s OIII, 54 x 300s SII; almost 7h in RGB for stars; acquisition in NINA, my post-processing in PixInsight plus minor retouching using Affinity Photo; near Fort Davis, Texas, USA, Bortle 2. https://www.astrobin.com/qzel27/B/ The Starless version is rotated at an angle of -35° according to telescopius.com. Why HOS? I was charmed by the colours after using this combination, because it looks like some surrealist painting. The colours are not modified manually.
  19. Vroobel
    The higher class of the purchased stuff the longer period of clouds and rain? 😏
  20. Vroobel
    Wow, that's much better and useful than a quick start guide. 😲👍
  21. Vroobel
    I think it's an overkill for you at this moment. You should try to find similar source but containing the OSC data.
  22. Vroobel
    Regarding the good data... I'm bored without my data to work on, so I downloaded free SHO & RGB data sets to process them for the first time. 🙂 The M1 goes as first, then the M16, the Helix and M8 as 2-tile mosaic. https://erellaz.com/
  23. Vroobel
    I live in Merseyside which is called 'a cloud generator'. I think the only thing which differentiates us is patience.
  24. Vroobel
    OK, 20-30% is the acquisition, so 10-20% are the skills directly related to it. 🙂
  25. Vroobel
    Really? I don't think about it too much. I still use a set of darks + bias taken 2 years ago. I took them at night, in shed, if I'm not wrong. 🙂 People say that the good astrophotography comes from the good stuff at most at 50%. I would say no more than 40%, rest comes from the post-processing.
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