PaulR1

9 hours ago, Cornelius Varley said:

Moved.

Thanks

Hey folks

Just wondered if anyone from the Netherlands knows if we need to obtain planning permission from our local city hall to install a dome. Not a massive structure but something small like a Next dome ?

thanks

Paul

Thanks guys , appreciate the comments

6 hours ago, Scooot said:

Lovely image & thanks for the video, it was very interesting.
Out of curiosity, couldn’t you have used the starless image that starnet created as a galaxy mask, perhaps after extracting the luminance? 

Thats not a bad idea actually , I might wind back in the project processing and have a look at that and also for future projects.

Here is my M33 , Triangulum Galaxy , from 71 x 5 min subs over 2 nights

Was fun to process as two of us also found an asteroid lurking in the subs which can be seen in the processing video near the end

thanks for the responses guys , I guess its FTDI, it plugs from usb hub into the port on the mount which is an NEQ6 which I forgot to mention.

Im thinking that it might be a wobbly / bad connecting power plug , as I dont tear down its a permanent setup, so I guess I will order one of those 2 pin screw on power plugs and go from there.

It may of course just need pluging in and out a few times to clear any corrosion.

The intermitancy ( is that a word ) of the problem I guess might point to this.

Hi folks

sometime during an imaging session or not at all EQmod does a connect error : timeout because the com port has gone wobbly. It is still visible in device manager. If I kill EQmod in task manager and delete the com port and do a scan for new hardware it comes back and then it works fine for a while.

cable , hub problem ?

the ring with QHYCCD written on it ?

here we go

yeah can do tomorrow , its imaging right now

ok cool , so its possible , will sort out ordering the part

thanks for the help

thats part  of the coma corrector and the spacer is what came with the camera

this is how far out the focuser is right now to achieve focus

thanks for that , yeah im a bit worried I wont be able to achieve focus with this gadget fitted as right now focus is a little over 1cm out. However getting a bit cheesed off with fiddling about trying to stop the camera from being a wobbly fit.

Hey folks

wondering if anyone uses one of these on a 200PDS scope

https://www.firstlightoptics.com/adapters/baader-2-clicklock-m54-clamp.html

Im guessing it will just screw onto the focus tube but Im just wondering how it will affect focus and coma correction with my QHY168C and Skywatcher coma corrector .

thanks

interesting I ran through the subs and some had dust some didnt so I guess as the flats didnt have dust donuts they had nothing to remove from the stacked image which of course when stacked would have included the subs with or without the donuts.

thanks vlaiv

Many thanks for the reply Vlaiv , appreciate your input.

I do see donuts in the image here but your right there are none on the flats and I just checked my sensor and it appears clean , so maybe the dust moved between be taking lights and flats.

Not sure

Yep ,

Light

Flat  

Darkflat

Dark

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Hey folks

got a real problem taking flats that work

got a dimmable A3 tracing panel , place this on top of scope ( 200PDS ) Camera is a QHY168C . With a optolong L-Pro filter on it .

Flats look like this

They do nothing at all , they dont remove vignetting or fix any dust donuts. Nada lol

Any ideas ?

ok will hunt down a black shower cap lol

thanks

Hey folks

This has been annoying me for a while now but there is light leakage around the primary mirror on my 200 PDS any suggestions / ideas to stop this ?

Ta !

This might help ?

Streamed for a couple of hours and processed M27 . Was a fun night with a few fellow astrophotographers

Its still damn raining here so still no clear skies grrr.

Anyway here is the dumbell from last nights processing.

about 4.5 hours of 3 minute subs with a 450D DSLR

Clear skies !

https://www.twitch.tv/astrophotography

http://www.youtube.com/c/SoRealsEntropiaUniverse

So no clear skies now for something like 2 weeks so  tonight will be live streaming me processing the Dumbbell nebula , M27 , on some data I took a while ago.

https://www.twitch.tv/astrophotography

+1 for sharpcap polar align , works a treat

Heya ,

thanks for stopping by ,

its from here

http://www.skypixels.at/pixinsight_scripts.html#autocolor

it seems to work quite well and ive been trying it on the last few images