Manners2020

On 13/08/2018 at 02:07, nm1213 said:

Hi, Thanks for the suggestion.  I'll certainly get the EQ wedge for when I'm travelling and able to see Polaris.  I can't polar align easily from Singapore... especially since I need to pack up after each session and can't leave the rig out.

Just looked up marathon  on the lp  map. That's a brilliant  image. Can you give us more details please.

6 hours ago, therion82 said:

Andromeda on September 2018

Less than 5 minutes total exposure time, with a skywatcher 130pds on az synscan go to mount, and a 1100d canon at iso 800.

Location:Marathon, Athens, Greece

Brilliant 

Tried it last night and it works, not too slow either. Thanks everyone. 

So just managed to get in front of pc. It is 64 bit with an added 4gb of ram now bringing it up to 8 but I have a processor  which is only  2.00ghz.  In your opinion is that enough for startools?

So if its 32 my 8gb ram would be 4gb effectively?

I'll have to check on that.

So its 8gb now. Windows 8 though.

I've added another 4gb  since I tried it last. I'll try that crop then bin first.

It is a pity  I liked the results  on a youtube video I was watching. I'll try again.

Well it might now since I added more ram.  I should try but it's not a powerful  pc. It would start and gradually  grind  to a halt. So I tried pixinsight trial which works but I cant justify  the price yet as I dont get many opportunities  to image. Maybe in the future.

Great image. Question on post processing.  My computer  wont run startool will gimp do the job?

Hello. Unrelated to anything on here but I've read on another thread somewhere that this fella who is piggy backing is using a 1.25 lp  filter which he says clips onto the back of his sigma 70 300mm . I thought you could only get them for the body. I can't seem to find these online and he says there a lot cheaper than the body ones. Has anyone heard of these?

Pardon the poor grammar  I'm supposed to be working. Also messed with it in the photoshop Express app on android.

Don't know if this qualifies for this thread or what part of the sky it is but I really like this pic. I think it was 18mm on the nikon kit 18 55.  30 second random pic in southern Alberta.  So the hint of red is some kind of nebulosity  I gather. Is the dark patches the same?

Never heard of that one happy kat  , I'll  give it a butcher's. Also carsten. Is there another way to get to those links  you sent? I've tried copying the addresses but they no longer appear to be available.  

Carsten I mean.

Thanks calli.  Yeah I use deep sky stacker.  I'll check that vid  out today. Much appreciated. 

Hello all. Anyone any experience  of gimp? I used the month trial of pixinsight which I liked but I can not justify  buying as I virtually  have no time to get out there. Or previous little. I've read it works it's just not very intuitive.  I can live it being finicky  as long as it works. My pc  does not like startools  or I would be using that.. thanks.

Thanks.

Hello smicey.  How do you manage to get such good alignment with your phone and scope? I've tried 3 different brackets and wasted a lot of time which  could have been spent viewing before I bought a dslr.  The one out of the three I had most success  with  was still far from good. 

So this phones video function is stacking frames? What a great tool for our  hobby.

On 2018-05-08 at 13:35, keyser187 said:

i have but im just too lazy and money goes on other things plus i didnt know you could control it from an android device lol, im going to have a butchers at that, ive got an android phone.

There's  some pretty decent apps  for dslrs  for android. Just a few dollars too. The one I use is for a nikon which works better than good enough and I believe the canon ones are better.

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The lunt was on the evo mount.  Clearance and balance  is a bit of a pain, I use one of those weights  that you strap around an ankle .. it kind of works. And yes the orion could be good with multiple exposures. When the skies and time next permit I'm going to have a proper attempt at something. 

1 hour ago, rotatux said:

@Manners2020 I find your Orion quite good. Comparing with unprocessed, I think you may have stripped too much of the background, hence loosing some details of the nebula you had captured. Now if this is a single sub, imagine what you will have with stacking several subs

BTW what mount was your 102 lunt on ?

Keep up trying, have good skies.

BDamn  good point about going against what the experts say ian.  If I'd have listened to all those in the beginning  I would have not even been discussing this.?