Nigella Bryant

C11 XLT CT and Zwo Asi 224mc with 2.5x Powermate. Straight off the shelf with little processing except stacking and some wavelets. Second image tweaked in Affinity Pro.

tweaked, lol.

Just finished another image of Mars from last night.

Hi all, still getting to grip with planetary imaging, WOW, what a learning curve. C11 XLT CT, Zwo Asi 224MC and 2.5x powermate. Still a long way to go.

Excellent image, fantastic results.

Brilliant capture, well done. I've a C11 XLT CT so hope to get some decent imaging on Mars. Epic fails so far. Big learning curve, lol.

Thanks peps, appreciate all your comments.

Hi all, Posting Solar Images/Observations from the 17th and 18th September 2020 using the Lunt 60mm DS and Zwo Asi 178mm. False colour added in Photophop CS2.

I have the same problem with my solarquest mount and eq6 adapter. Just turns but does not undo. Not found a remedy for this yet. Doesn't affect use, just annoying.

Yes, it's been fairly active of late but now gone quiet.

Custom made but you can buy the metal plates off flebay. I did for my neq6 you just need the right size metal plates to take your mounts puck.

Fantastic image, lot's of details, well done.

Couldn't a drone like craft be used to fly through Venuses atmosphere to sample the molecular structure. Assuming you could make one that would withstand the acid cloud's?

I've stopped at my 12inch f4 newt and 11inch F10 SCT but I tend to use my Lunt 60mm DS solar scope more so I'm getting aperture fever with that and thinking I'd love a Lunt 100mm DS. After I'd got that I'd probably want bigger, lol.

Thanks Paul, got a new computer coming soon for the obsy so will get that for the obsy. Much appreciated.

3.8 prism for the Star analyser 100 arrived. Hopefully get back into spectroscopy. I'd taken a few spectra a while ago. Probably be cloudy now, sorry guy's.

Yeah, it's pretty obvious, been quite a bit of activity over the summer months. Been getting images like this one attached on a monthly basis.

Thanks, it was an 11inch Celestron XLT and Zwo ASI 178mm with RGB filters and Zwo filter wheel. Also a 2.5x Powermate.

My f4 newt has an offset and looking down the focuser tube it's not centered, worried me for ages before I found it was right. As posted before.

Love the CaK. Well done.

Well done Alexandra, an amazing achievement.

Lunt 60DS and Zwo Asi 178mm, false colour added in Photoshop CS2. Spicules are quite prominent on the 14th September. 20200901-1111UT.tif

Thanks Peter, good to know.

Hi all, just wondering if anyone has had any experience with Affinity Photo software for photo editing. I've got a really old copy of CS2 but don't want to buy yearly subscription for Photoshop as it's really expensive and life long purchase. Be good to know if it's any good. There's an article each month in Astronomy Now mag highlighting different ways it can be used with astro images. Particularly interested if it is good with LRGB images and processing.

Great capture, what telescope and camera did you use? Is this a single shot or stacked? Did you use RGB filters? 🤔