Altocumulus

Seems a little odd. Have you examples of the rings when in that tilter?

Meanwhile, in the cloudy north!

Love your CaK, especially good to see some proms.

One has to take the chance when it comes!

Classy yellow, not too sure about the invert

Cracking stuff - especially that monster. Shame it has to leave, though there could be something on the horizon!

To be honest I'm a little confused about the IMX174 - that's what I took from the website, but the pixels are 4.5*4.5 rather than 5.86*5.86 of the ZWO.

Tilt plate is nifty, built in, rather than being a separate piece - slightly more fiddly than the ZWO one.

10 minutes ago, LukeTheNuke said:

Thanks, Nigella. Gosh, your images are from a £284 camera? Yikes, there IS a tempting camera for under £300! (I'm tempted to get back to a bit of lunar imaging, and maybe some white light solar). Full frame (3096×2080) at 30 fps (10 bit) or 60 fps (14 bit)? Hmmm.

I'll check out for some info on G-band for visual then.

Ah yes, I did know I may have left it a little late in life for CaK visual, LOL, good point! Out of interest, why wouldn't you advise that even young whippersnappers give CaK visual a go? Could it turn their hair purple? (I might fancy that, I do like purple)

Player One Apollo-M USB3.0 Mono Camera (IMX174) Upto 164fps Built in tilt plate. 

Gorgeous!

Thanks.

All the imagining data is captured to the NUC memory and is downloaded next day to a stick. 

That was the bit I was interested in. 

54 minutes ago, Tomatobro said:

I have three NUC's in the observatory all on Win 10 pro. In the house I have a NUC, laptop and a tower PC again all on Win 10 pro.

Upstairs I have a WiFi repeater.

I can connect them to each other on a one to one basis using Remote Desktop. That means three paired systems at one go. Connections are stable if I remember to disconnect the Smart Speaker. 

Just of interest, where does your data go?

External drives and then to the final processing PC? 

Thanks both - I've tried Teamviewer in the past and found it glitchy.

I'm quietly wondering if I can run Windows Remote and an NoMachine at the same time Experimenting costs nothing.....

I have, finally, managed to almost complete a new observatory large enough for two mounts. Two mounts, 2 scopes/cams on each.

A warm room attached keeps everything neat and close!

A problem I have is finding a sensible, reliable, way to remote to the mounts - distance a massive 6 feet!

In the warm room is a PC with 3 monitors (one's a Wacom tablet) - two main monitors are supposed to display each of the mounts' output - allowing control through ASCOM/Ciel/Sharpcap/various focusers etc. The Wacom tablet allows me to do some processing during a session.

Each of the mounts has its own miniPC.

Connection through wifi, with router in the obsy.

*********The Issue********

I have tried Windows Remote, but although it generally works OK, it refuses to maintain a steady resolution on the two monitors, often leaving off the taskbar, no scrolling and not good quality display.

Both NoMachine and Anydesk work - however when one mount PC is connected, the other disconnects. A drawback with the 'free' versions.

Can anyone suggest any other remote software that allows active sessions for more than one headless PC at a time?

Otherwise I'll have to install an old laptop and have 2 separate one-to-one systems.

PCs are all Windows 11. (Laptop Windows 8)

An almost all night aurora - sadly the moon gets in the way!


But enjoy ... https://youtu.be/JglFz4UPMr8



Geoff

Quote

I will run it through photoshop, I did use the sharpen option in Autostackkert

I think most skip that sharpening in favour of more control in one of the other pieces of software.

Try Astrosurface on the already stacked image.

p.s.

Have you tried any sharpening? Astrosurface/registax/photoshop or equivalent?

Chuckles - It'll come with practice! Focusing is one of my issues as well, with a Mak 180 - it's not easy.

I don't use a DSLR, but 100,000 frames seems a little excessive.

Yep!

Have yet to download - but it looks good - somewhat improved processing time.

Looks good..

What did you use to stack?

Marred somewhat by cloud, but still with some activity.

Allskeye software running with two ZWO 178MC cams - Overhead and horizon timelapses

On youtube : https://youtu.be/DrSIPVw_vZ0

Definite keepers!

So that's where the dinosaurs migrated to.....

Mind you, didn't one William Herschel suggest sunspots were cool enough for life?

Of course we do, and yours are way better that what I managed this morning, trying to image through a thickening veil of cirrostratus.

Nicely captured!

For any interest.

Youtube video taken in NE Scotland...

https://youtu.be/IEZ5hCct1rA

Geoff

CaK Mosaic at f25
10th September 2023
Using Sharpcap's Solar Mosaic Tool.
9 frames - but neither MS ICE, nor my Affinity Photo can add the missing edge.

It was an experiment as I didn't expect the Sun to appear on the day.

A similar exercise on Ha at f46 gave me 13 individual frames, but too much turbulence/wobbly sun meant I've not managed to stitch a full disc....

Thanks for looking, and sorry about the bit bitten out. Plus I've not done much tidying up of the image..... ;D

Interesting days ahead !

Is it me, or is the image a tad under-exposed?