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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

There were a lot of suggestions made on the previous thread. I will put my thinking cap on though. Carole

Welcome to being an active poster. Enjoyed your story of being banned and the T Shirt saga. Carole

If you did decide to get it l recommend adding a 10” pelmet around the “roof” as l have done aa existing oneis too skimpy. I also added clips to hold it diwn and they make it easy to put back on in the dark.

I have found that tent that l have on sale in Europe for £128 in the sale: https://www.astroshop.eu/instruments/omegon-tent-observatory/p,12278

I have a proper camping observatory not as expensive as the Kendrick tents but was about £180. Not sure howveasy it is to find them now though. I use it ar astro camps. Originally bought from Astrograph. It has a removable roof and built in floor

Getting to the stage where you don't need to process images, just press a button and use some-one else's skills. But it is a great reprocess Gorann. Carole

Thanks Peter, and thanks for inspiring me to do better.

I recently posted up an image of this - just the 2023 data and tbh was a bit underwhelmed with it. So decided to try to combine with data I took in 2018. 2023 4h 450mins using a dual rig ED80/Atik460EX and ED72/Atik460EX 2018 8h 5mins Using Atik314L/WOZS71 & Atik460EX/Ed80 Total imaging time 12h 45mins.

If you are used to doing things really basically why not try this - which is what l do. Yes a computer outside needs a box to keep the dew off. I simply set everything up and running outside and then retreat indoors and watch the subs and guiding from indoors on a second laptop via Teamviewer using Wifi. This does mean getting a second laptop but l buy very cheap reconditioned ones off Ebay. This will free up your work laptop which can be the indoor one. I can control the software from indoors and watch the guiding and change things as needed HTH

Amazing work Nigella. The Sun does seem to be very active.

I use both those scopes on a dual rig. Work well.

Agree with Vlaiv, an Acromat won't cut it, horrible chromatic aberration. Needs to be an Apo.

Depends on what sort of results you want really. I started out with a second hand CG5 GT mount and WO scope at £700 for both. Plus a second hand DSLR around £320 l think it was plus an ST80 guide scope. Total £1100. More basic mounts don’t really guide that well and can’t do long enough exposures to get decent results. The above kit served me well for the first couple of years l can certainly recommend the Samyang 135mm camera lens. Carole

I have always used doublets, apart from a few months when I bought a triplet. To be honest I didn't see any difference, but then I do image from LP skies and do a lot of narrowband. Perhaps the Triplet wins on broadband. Anyway, since I found no difference and it was very heavy and didn't allow for dual rig on my mount, I re-sold it. You may or may not like the images I produce, but I think my website is in my signature. Carole

I couldn't do any better, there should be Ha signal in the outer halo, but I don't think there is enough signal in the Ha.

Can you post the stacks in tiff format as well, l would like to have a go in photoshop. Carole

Excellent detail and colour. Carole

Agree with Adam about needing longer Flats due to shutter shadow. You just have to dim the light to compensate. Carole

I always use a dual rig if I can if using my telescopes (can't with my Samyang lens), as you can get twice as much data at a time. In particular I can get Ha only on one scope and concentrate more on Oiii and Sii on the other. I have been doing this for quite a few years and register the two different images in Registar, which I also use to re-size the Oiii and Sii which I bin x 2 (also saves time). I never bin Lum or Ha as you need the detail in those filters. Merging the Ha from two different scopes, once registered in Registar, I blend them together in layers in Photoshop. I am sure there will be a routine in Pixinsight which will do the same. HTH Carole

It is here;

Wow, some fabulous fine detail there. Excellent. Carole

Agree with Budgie.

I have been wanting to image this again, after imaging it in 2018 in HOO, but wanted to do it in full Hubble palette this time. Dual rig from SE London Bortle 8 ED80 & Atik460EX ED72 & Atik460EX HEQ5 Ha 36 x 600 Oiii & Sii 14 x 300 binned each SHO Total imaging time 8h 20mins Image edited, wrong colour caliubration due to using a different laptop!!!!

Awesome