Brian28

Hi Alan , yes it was the RC .. not cropped very much , just enough to take out stacking errors ..

Reprocessed my original data on this target , using PixInsight as well as Photoshop ..

Oh yes , as soon as we loose the moon .. and the skies clear ..😉

Thanks Alan .. much appreciated .. .. hope your all well up there in Benfleet ..

You can see a theme here .. 😂 after giving up on M63 I moved round to M81 hoping for some better results being further from the moon , however I was wrong .. 😔 once again the subs were pretty poor quality, but been messing around for a few days with them and this is the sorry result .. halos , noise .. 😖 I must remind myself not to bother with LRGB when the moon is up ..

Wanted to try my new set up and there were a few fairly clear nights , end of last week , though the moon was nearing full .. I stupidly decided on an HaLRGB target .. M63 the subs were pretty poor tbh with the high cloud or humidity probably being lit by the moon with the best HFW of a star being 4.1 .. on any sub .. only ended up processing some Ha L & R channel anyways , I have been messing around with the data for a few days and this is the end result .. not very pleased with it really , but something to post .. and at least I got to play around and experiment with the new rig . Collomation seemed a bit off on this shot , but there seems to be some nice detail in the galaxy , can’t wait for the better skies ..

That looks a lot like mine ..a bit soft and hard to extract any real detail .. bloody moon 😂

Hi , never had an issue with Moonlite Focusers , they are very very good ..,I have them on each of my scopes ..,

I`m determined to get the most out of this M106 data and I think this is better that my previous efforts . If anyone would like the data to see if they can get some more out of it ,and we can find a way I will send it to you , especially if you have PixInsight , as I would like to see if it can produce a better result .. In the right hands 😉 comments welcome . Brian

That’s very nice .. ..

Reprocessed this ..

Hi Alan , don’t you think it’s amazing just how far these targets are from us and it’s hard to comprehend , but we can take pictures of them .. it’s a cracking shot 👍

M106 , taken during this past week total integration time doing 11 hours . I have processed this about half a dozen times , and I dare say I will do half a dozen more .. with PS and LR

Making the most of the clear skies here in sunny Essex .. I thought I would give this target a try . taken over 2 nights this week , Tuesday and Wednesday with 10 x 600 Blue 6 x 600 Lum 12 x 600 Red Syn Green taken with the RC10 , and QSI583 processed with APP , LR & PS its ok 😔 , I've seen some cracking shots of this , but I don`t think the skies have been that clear for me ..

Finally some clear , or nearly clear nights here in sunny Essex .. I decided on NGC4565 for my Target for the night on Sunday .. and as it turned out most on Monday night too .. in total 10.3 hours of subs made up of 20 x 600 sec Lum 30 x 600 sec Red 12 x 600 sec Blue and the green channel synthesised .. processed in APP ,LR and PS .. taken on the RC 10

I think most of us aren’t 100% with our pics TBH , I know I’m never 100% .. but this is a nice picture 👍 .. I would have cropped it slightly differently.. but we all see things differently ..

That’s nice .. very nice .. 👍

Thanks Ron

Monday night was supposed to be pretty clear , so i took the opportunity to set up my new toys .. a Mesu 200 mount on a modified Tri pier , and an RC10 scope .. My goals for the night were to make sure that I had collimated the scope properly , and had set up the back focus for the QSI Camera with the AP telecompressor correctly .. then to make sure the M200 would behave its self , as I had only set it up in the workshop since purchase . I purposely hadn't set any targets , as i get annoyed with myself if things go wrong and I don`t get an image 🤬 . The night went better than I could have hoped for TBH .. only a very minor collimation adjustment was required , and slight re positioning of my main camera , though the Superstar camera wasn't playing ball and I couldn't focus on a guide star , so I had to swap it out for a Loadstar .( sent back to Starlight this morning for checks ). As for the mount .. well it worked like a dream .. no issues .. so the upshot of all this good fortune was I decided to shoot M82 .. simple easy to find target that would allow quite a few hours of imaging from my location . well the skies were not that clear after all with quite a bit of high cloud , and the lower stuff rolled in about 3 am but I managed 6 x 600 sec Lum 6 x 600 sec Red 6 x 600 Sec Blue 6 x 600 Sec Ha I used Syn Green so a total of 4 hours total integration time ..

Cracking shot Alan ..

Played around with the selective colour levels a bit , and i like this one . hope you do too .

Yes I agree .. I will have to adjust a little when I’m home later in the week ..

This was taken last week on the 3rd March , the skies were supposed to be clear , but there was high cloud and the moon was bright , so my original target was abandoned . I managed 4 hours on this image . 12 x 600 Lum 6 x 600 Red 6 x 600 Blue Syn Green Taken with my TS 65 Quad and QSI camera not sure which version I like the best .. ?

Been a while so I thought I would do an update .. well we all know the weather has been rubbish , ( trying to be polite ) .. the pier arrived , and I have also brought a tripier so I can be a little more mobile .. the Tripier needed a few modifications, just to make it more user friendly.. mounting the pier in the garden has been on hold ..I dug a 2’ deep hole approx 18” square , but it just keeps filling with water as the garden is saturated.. .. so I set the pier up in my workshop .. just to play around with everything ..

Lovely job 😉