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It's been ages since I posted here! Finally made the leap to a cooled camera a while ago, after many weeks of clouds I finally was able to do some decent sessions in the past days! First time trying the Rosette Nebula, about 7,5 hours of data spread over three evenings. SkyWatcher Evostar 80ED SkyWatcher HEQ5 Pro + Belt mod Omegon veTEC Pro 533c ZWO ASI178mc guiding camera Optolong L-Extreme filter 90x300s lights 30 darks 30 bias no flats. -10 temperature, 160 gain, 5 offset. Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, edited in Photoshop and a final denoise pass in Topax Gigapixel.

Apologies for the silence I have been fighting for a while, ended up fully reinstalling it and then reset back to default settings to be sure and that worked But I'll update to the latest version anyways.. thanks for the heads up

Correct, if I open them in a FITS previewer they look normal and that's basically what Pixinisight confirms with stacking them normally

I'm using 4.2.3 which appears to be the latest version

Hey guys, I'm still very new to this so please forgive me if this is a newbie mistake of some sort. I'm running into a strange issue lately, when I import my files to DeepSkyStacker all light frames have a severe horizontal line pattern on them which is obviously no better in the final stacked image.. below is a screenshot of a single FITS file, it is a shot of Andromeda at 120 seconds with a ZWO 178MC camera, but the lines also appear on lower exposure times. The funny part is, I also have the trail version of Pixinsight which processes the files without those issues 🤷‍♂️ So I'm wondering now.. is this some kind of glitch in my DSS software or should I get a new camera? 🤔

Thanks I was really surprised by the detail we got for just 20 mins, the plan was to get at least 60 minutes. But we wasted approximately 2-2,5 hours on tweaking things in stellarmate to get it all running nicely. Fingers crossed for another clear night so we can add some more time to this

It's been a while since I posted here, sadly the weather has been taunting us so in meantime I upgraded our rig with a ZWO 120mm mini guiding camera and have it running on Stellarmate via a Raspberry Pi 4. We wasted pretty much time to get familiar with this new setup, so the image only has 20 minutes of integration time, nonetheless I'm really satisfied with the results we got considering it's just our 2nd try on astrophotography Some details on the picture: Captured with a ZWO ASI178mc, 20x 60s exposure, 5 dark frames, 10 bias frames, no lights (yet) and a UHC filter. SkyWatcher Evostar 80ED scope with a HEQ5 mount controlled/guided by stellarmate Processed & edited in PixInsight

After a long time with way too many clouds (yes I bought new goodies 🤣) Yesterday evening/night I finally had a chance to go out and try to capture Neowise. I was still doing test shots when capturing this, I literally just pressed the button and some random fireworks in the distance went off and they got captured as well It's not perfect but since it was so random I consider myself very lucky to catch both of them in a single shot Equipment used was a Canon 750D with a 55-250 lense, zoom at 55, infinite focus and a single 4-second shot at 800 iso.

Yeah I noticed that editing is a very delicate job and it can quickly get out of hand so far it seems we'll have good conditions tonight, so if the dumbbell nebula is high enough for my viewing area I might give it a shot

Thanks for the feedback guys! I did some more digging into this and I managed to get some darks and flats so I got the DeepSkyTracker and did a first attempt on stacking and editing myself, I sacrificed some colors but the pixels are indeed gone! Here's a slightly cropped version of the edit, I noticed in the bottom left corner some reflection/glare appeared so I cropped that off for now. Tonight it should be clear again, so looking very forward for a 2nd chance

Hey everyone! Last year I posted here for advise on equipment, I managed to get a good deal on a HEQ5 pro mount and a SW Evostar 80ED telescope, sadly when I got it the weather got in the way and also a bunch of issues which held me from trying out anything until now! The first night was a bit trail and error and getting familiar with everything, but last night I managed to capture the Ring Nebula, considering it's my first picture ever I'm pretty excited about it! It was taken with a ZWO 178MC camera, I user Sharpcap livestack each frame was a 5 second exposure with a total of 20 minutes, no darks or lights used (yet) and no filters used either in a bortle 5 area. One thing I did notice though, it has some strange red/green/blue artifacts in the picture, I just went to check and noticed that every frame I shot has a red, green and blue pixel in it... is this because the camera overheats or can they be considered as dead pixels?

I'm amazed by the DSO and nebulae photography so that is definitely something I'd like to try, planets would be cool too but that's not the highest priority. I'm working on a deal for an HEQ5 Pro mount, if that works out I will stay well under my budget in case of the ED80 scope, so I might be able to add some good accessories as well

Thanks for the great advices so far guys I think I might be able to squeeze a HEQ5 pro mount + the ED80 scope both new into my budget. I have been fighting with my ETX tonight, had some lovely views of saturn and jupiter but in manual mode. I got a load of motor errors as well today so I think it's definitely time to move on to some good equipment cause now it's becoming more of a frustration rather than having fun and exploring the sky 😕

Hey guys, I would like to start exploring the world of astrophotography, but I am a little lost in what to choose as a telescope.. Years ago i bought a Meade ETX90 with autostar from ebay, it was a pretty complete set with 4 eyepiece, a barlow lense, color filter set, solar filter and some other accessories. However, the autostar never really worked nicely, it's always pretty much off even though I calibrated it countless of times and set the time, date and location correctly. I did try to update with the autostar updater software but it keeps throwing me 404 errors that it can't find any new firmware. So last days I've been doing a lot of research what to get, but I thought it couldn't hurt to ask the advice from all the pro's here my budget at this moment is about max €1500, i'm still considering to sell the Meade but not sure how much that set will be worth though. From what I've read and seen my first choice would fall on a SkyWatcher Evostar 80/600ED Refractor with an EQ3 or EQ5 goto mount, but now my mind got mixed up and i'm doubting between a refractor and a newtonian so... what would you guys advice me for the budget I have? As far as photo/video equipment goes I have a Canon 750d (unmodded) camera and an older Celestron Neximage camera which can be inserted as eyepiece.

Hi everyone! I just registered myself and thought I'd give a short introduction about myself. I'm Mitch, currently 29 years old and living in the Netherlands. I've been fascinated by space since I was a little kid, my parents bought me an entry-level 100mm newtonian which I spent countless hours with gazing at the stars and the moon Sadly due to a lot of health issues this hobby has been put away for a long time. Now I live together with my girlfriend who shares this fascination so we want to pick it up again and also explore the world astrophotograhpy as well, I need some advice on that but I'll post a topic about that in the apropriate section Here are 2 pics of the sun & moon we took with our dslr camera, I know it's still far beyond the quality we someday hope to get, but it's a start