Nigella Bryant

-COMET C/2018 (AFRICANO) Comet C/2018 Africano is expected to reach between magnitude 9-10 at perihelion on 06th September, 2019.

I can't do October at all, sorry peps and September is completely out of the question too. Bad when life gets in the way.

I'm no expert but it looks like coma.

Hiya Dave, I'm afraid it is over my house, lol. You do have to know the nasa boss to fly it over for you (if only) lol.

Thanks for the comments, yeah, looking forward to next year to image Mars. Least I got some practice in, lol.

My duck's are loving the rain though and the cat's taking a rest, well, the cat's actually chilled out on catnip, lol

Probably less frustrating than trying to get all the software, focuser, eqmod, filter wheel and telescope mount, etc, etc, talking to each other and staying that way, lol.

What else, but play around with automating your mount, lol. VID_20190816_121812.mp4

Managed to capture Jupiter and Saturn tonight with my 12inch f4 newtonion, just primary imaging, no barlow as planets to low from here in the UK. I captured with zwo asi 224. I know they're not great but probably the last I'll do this season.

Hi all, hope someone can help, I've been trying to update ascom drivers for new focuser and mount control but keep getting this error message. Appreciate your help. I'm running Windows 10. Thanks.

See my heads up for August 23rd ISS transit.

Friday 2019-08-23 08:43:00.13 • Solar transit ISS angular size: 29.24″; distance: 944.94 km Angular separation: 0.2′; azimuth: 100.5°; altitude: 22.9° Center line distance: 0.07 km; visibility path width: 13.63 km Transit duration: 1.60 s; transit chord length: 31.6′

Friday 2019-08-23 08:43:00.13 • Solar transit ISS angular size: 29.24″; distance: 944.94 km Angular separation: 0.2′; azimuth: 100.5°; altitude: 22.9° Center line distance: 0.07 km; visibility path width: 13.63 km Transit duration: 1.60 s; transit chord length: 31.6′ Friday 2019-08-23 08:43:00.13 • Solar transit ISS angular size: 29.24″; distance: 944.94 km Angular separation: 0.2′; azimuth: 100.5°; altitude: 22.9° Center line distance: 0.07 km; visibility path width: 13.63 km Transit duration: 1.60 s; transit chord length: 31.6′

Thanks peps, I appreciate all the nice comments. I must admit it wasn't easy thing for me to do. But I'm glad I persevered. Chuffed to bits.

Thanks peps, I appreciate all the nice comments. I must admit it wasn't easy thing for me to do. But I'm glad I persevered. Chuffed to bits.

Yes that's correct but I've actually managed it, lol. Thanks though for the info.

Captured the ISS in transit across the solar disk. I think this is awe inspiring to think people are in that craft while we see it transiting our star.

Hi all, managed to process my images of the ISS solar transit a few days ago. Huge learning curve for me with layer masking in Photoshop. What a great bunch of people on here that has helped me, I was beginning to despair of getting to grips with it. Anyway the image is composed of 12 images using a lunt 60mm HA telescope with skywatcher solarquest mount and zwo asi 120mm camera. Avi file was broken down into 16 files containing image of the ISS and saved as tiff files, these were then processed in Photoshop and false colour added. All I have to say is that acquiring the image was the easy part, lol. P.S added a second image that includes all 16 of the layers, and a zoomed image, phew, lol.

After three days of playing with Photoshop I've managed to layer several images into one of the ISS solar transit. Here is my effort. Will post under solar imaging as well. Thanks for everyone's support and help with my huge learning curve with layering.

Update, can't seem to get my head around image stacking to here's just a couple of images from the stack. 16_47_36_F_00001042-ebc.tif 16_47_36_F_00001042-ebc1.tif

Up date, further looking at the avi I've managed to get 16 tiff files with the ISS crossing the solar disk, if anyone knows how I can put these together with gimp or CS2 I'd appreciate it. Thanks for all the good comments. I am chuffed to have captured it.

I know I'm dumb, I've managed to get 16 tiff files of the ISS solar transit today. I've spent four hours trying to get layers in both photoshop and gimp, but it's eluding me, I did manage to blend two images but didn't really know how I did that and couldn't seem to add any more in gimp. Help would be appreciated. I really struggling with adding images together. Thanks for reading.

Omg, it is, lol

Hi all, I'm sure hope someone can answer my question. I managed to get an avi file of the ISS transit across the solar disk today. I've looked at the avi file and frames 1042 to 1056 contain images of the ISS in transit. When I use autostakker 3 combines the avi file into a tiff but no ISS. Is there a software that can isolate the frames with the ISS on them? One of the frames, a screen shot attached.

Captured the ISS in transit, clouds started across the sun b4 and threw my solar mount off centre a bit but definitely got the space station going across the solar disk. Now I have to process the image. Just some screen shots for now. Seems it was so fast I needed to speed up the captures as I've only managed to get two frames with the space station on them. Oh well.