carastro

I like the second rendition the best, I think star removal is becoming a bit of a fad, they are part of the image.  

Carole 

Yes some of the changes in booking due to new management also played a part in my decision.   Years ago l was often still packing away until mid afternoon on the day of departure.  Now l have to book and pay for an extra day simply to pack up and be off the pitch by 10.00am !!!  

My local camp is midday and they are happy if it takes longer to pack up your astro kit.  
 

I decided not to come to Kelling this year as it is a long drive for me, costs a lot with hiring caravan and only got 1 1/2 hours imaging done in a whole week last year and wasn’t a lot better the two previous years.  So re-sold my pitch. 
 

Going to a campsite in East Sussex with a few astro friends in a few days time instead - only 1 hours drive away.  

i have been going to Kelling since 2010 and have had a great time over the years - met lots of lovely people but decided to stay closer to home in future  

Carole

Excellent, well done.

2 hours ago, skybadger said:

Carol,can you share the image for plate solving please, and provide pixel scale and focal length if not in the image headers ?

Does it fail to solve when submitted to the online solve facility ?

 

Over a year ago now.  Not even sure l would remember how to do it.  Thanks for the offer though.   

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And I know many people shy away from plate-solving thinking it is complex but so long as you have the right catalogues of stars and the correct info about the camera and telescope NINA does it all for you,

Oh yeah!!!!!

I have had 3 people try to get plate solving working for me.  3 have failed.  2 attempts were with APT, one by a regjular user of APT and Platesolving in APT, just could not get it to work.

The other was with Sharpcap.  All the correct Catalogues entered, all connected, went to target, but would not solve, then got lots of connection issues.

I have given up and gone back to doing it manually.  Normally not a problem if I sync to a nearby bright star.  Only had 2 occasions when I failed to find my target in 13 years.   

Presume you are using plate solving.  I don't use plate solving, but I know some-one who does, and he took the original captured image and plate solved the centre of the image and then used that to plate solve subsequent sessions.

Non plate solving method, I take a previous image as an example, and when I GOTO for the second time, I just examine the stars around the edges and make sure everything is in the right place.  Not too fussed if I have to take a tiny bit off the edge as I don;t dither, and use this as a "sort of" dither anyway.

Not sure if either of these suggestions will help since I use different software to you.  

I agree, I don't think it is possible to image both simultaneously, too much difference in brightness, maybe even needing different cameras.

Brilliant generosity and kindness.

That's very good for a first image.  Much better than my first attempts.

It's not the ISS as that is more of an H shape.  Too straight to be a bird and no flapping wings.  Guess it is one of those 1000s of satellites up there.  

Brilliant, what a stroke of luck.

Interesting to see the original poster has not been back on.  I bet he posted just to wind every one up.  You all seem to have had a good discussion though.

I don’t use PHD 2 but my gut reaction to reading this is l presume you have got your mount tracking in the Northern Hemisphere and or have done a guiding calibration before trying to guide?     Also done a good PA.  

Why not ask Steve of ENS Optics to drop the buyer a line.  
 

A great result.  
carole

Very nice Graham

Lovely image but there is something not right with the colour.  

I agree with Simon.  I live in SE London Bortle 8 and can only do NB from here. 
 

Can you try speaking to the Haulage company.  
 

12 hours ago, DaveS said:

Just along the road from me. It should be fairly dark, but it's a bit close to the LP of Bridport.

Maybe you could suss it out Dave. 

Also found this one which seems to have a range of accommodation

This 5 star park offers a range of accommodation including camping and motorhome pitches, glamping pods, lodges and caravans. The range of superb facilities including a bar and restaurant, leisure club with swimming pool and sauna, pitch 'n' putt course 

https://www.campsites.co.uk/search/holiday-lodges-in-dorset/bridport/highlands-end-holiday-park

I generally do twice as much Ha  to the other filters, despite it being the stronger signal as you need that for the fine detail.  Generally the other colours are just that, colours,  with a few exceptions.  I use photoshop and adjust the colour sliders in image adjust selective colour using green to adjust the Ha in the green channel and lifting the Cyan in the Cyan channel for the blue and reducing yellow in the Cyan slider also brings out the blue.  This might not help with the software you are using though from the colour adjust point of view. 
 

You look to have done an excellent job.  

A great result, those Optolong Filters work very well with OSC cameras.

Carole

Stunning image.  Looking firward to seeing it on a big screen and not just my phone.  
 

Carole

Just found this one on the internet.  Looks quite large with electric hook up and is accessible from the London area, and Dorset is pretty dark.  Looks like 65 pitches, do we need as many as 100? 

Looks like some Glamping Lodges too.  

Says Bortle 4 on Dark Sky map. and it is central for those of us in the South. 

Sorry this is large, just copied and pasted. 

24 x Electric Grass Pitches

7 x Grass Hardstanding Pitches

25 x Serviced Hardstanding Pitches9 x Serviced Grass Pitches

9 x Serviced Grass Pitches

https://www.campsites.co.uk/search/campsites-in-hampshire/fordingbridge/hill-cottage-farm-camping-and-caravan-park