Altocumulus

I thought, in space, there was no up, nor down.....

You'll have to re-position, and capture it on the other side .....

Jupiter and Saturn in that top one, too...

Definitely something there....

Nice. Lots of little dances around the rim. No chance here, either, cloud and occasional rain.

Weeps - all I saw was cloud and rain.... Interesting inverted image - looks like a watermelon

What is the smart money using? A certain gentleman is experimenting with Gigapixel AI... But what you've teased out - especially the first one - is wonderful. With your 174?

Chuckles. I only tried jpg and that worked....

@Lee you appear to have uploaded a PDF format. I've downloaded and changed to JPG - Looking good!

John, could you put the original in this thread as well, so we can compare.

It is perfect. I run the software 24/7, dedicated PC, but it only takes images through defined nightime settings. It's all there on the website and there's plenty of support on offer. I started using it on a stick PC, but although it's ok for taking images it failed to have enough storage and enough power to do the behind the scenes work.

Just followed a long conversation on the CN Forum, from a couple of years ago, about this subject. Conclusion was some liked it, some didn't. Did you remove the dovetail, or closely tuck in around it? I'd rather not try and remove mine on a Skymax 180Pro.... A worthy experiment to try, if I can find some insulation. I know I have some expanding foam :chuckles:

Cracking images - who needs activity on the disc, when you have such a show on the rim.

We too had intermittent sunshine. I would have been repairing my shed roof, had my back not been playing up! I felt a twang before I was to climb the ladder - thought better of it!

I feel certain it is an owl - would explain the poop on the outer shield too - but that's been there a while.

Hey - you saw that in North Yorkshire Looks very like the one I could see here in NE Scotland - though we had rather cloudy skies....

Thanks Dave - been there done that numerous times - all failed to shift it.

Thanks Terry - unfortunately the dedicated flattener predates the current version with all its adjusting malarky! I had to buy a baader adjustable spacer - weeps upon weeps - I threaded it carefully onto the WO adapter and it froze part way on. Nothing will allow me to shift it, further on or even off! It should at least still work, just can't rely on the scale.

With many thanks -

Thanks Terry - I suppose it's that obvious. I just couldn't visualise how one would tell whether it's the reducer distance that's not correct or the overall focus distance....

Hi all, In imaging. Now that Summer (*coughs* - if we had one) is over. I thought I'd finally start to use my 4" on the night sky instead of on the Sun. William Optics 0.8x Reducer Flattener 6 - GT102...I have the adapter specifically for the GT102 Given the precision needed with a flattener / reducer - how does one know whether it's correctly distanced to the back of the camera sensor. Are there any tell-tale indicators, apart from being out of focus!

After that, the nights will be boring.....and cold Good anim....

One from January.....

Perhaps not what you had in mind - but a few nights ago ....

Allskeye 👍