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AstroMuni

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  1. Could you explain the reasons for this please? I can understand that a 6" would do a better job than a 5" and all that glass wouldnt help either, but is there something I am missing?
  2. I should have mentioned all those too 😞 Those are quite low on the ASI533 and as you say easier to deal with hence I havent found the need to take darks (yet).
  3. Correct. The 20-40 is just to average out the values. And as your camera is same as mine (the ASI533), I dont take any darks as there is no amp glow issues to deal with.
  4. If thats a Celstron Astromaster then its not really suited for AP.
  5. The exposure time for each dark frame needs to match exposure time for each light frame. You will need to stack around 20-40 such dark exposures to get a master dark. Does that make any more sense? πŸ™‚ So if you are taking 30s exposures for lights, you would take darks with same 30s exposure setting. Total number of lights exposures could be many hundreds.
  6. At this rate, the OP will have to go to a 'professional' collimator πŸ˜‰ Dont scare the OP too much chaps @a6400 I was in similar boat around a year ago and I joined the local astro club. Friendly members have helped me collimate my scope so my suggestion is join club πŸ™
  7. Forecast is bleak for my part of the country 😭
  8. I have been using Kstars for over a year and your message prompted me to look around, so I have learnt something new as well πŸ™‚ I agree its going to be tricky sending an alert to laptop, hence posted that link to conversation about connecting to Telegram etc.
  9. Looks like there is an option see https://www.indilib.org/forum/wish-list/7318-ekos-alerts-texts.html
  10. Worth asking in INDI forum. It would be good if you could run a script on job abort like its there for startup and shutdown.
  11. Apologies.. dont know what happened there 😞 Nothing happened when I pressed submit button, but looks like it did do something after all πŸ™ Perhaps the fact that I am not too far from reaching that age too LOL
  12. Perhaps its just time to admit that there are (more) things to learn from our younger generation and get on with it πŸ˜‰ LOL
  13. Perhaps its just time to admit that there are (more) things to learn from our younger generation and get on with it πŸ˜‰ LOL
  14. Perhaps its just time to admit that there are (more) things to learn from our younger generation and get on with it πŸ˜‰ LOL
  15. Perhaps its just time to admit that there are (more) things to learn from our younger generation and get on with it πŸ˜‰
  16. I have been a member for several years now...It seems flaky as one day its working and the next it wasnt. Now it seems to have fixed itself. Thanks Michael(s) as I notice both members who responded are Michaels πŸ™‚
  17. Welcome to SGL. As others have said its best if someone is near you to help (local astro club should help). If you can post the steps you took one by one (with details of what you entered), perhaps someone can spot where you went wrong. eg: does it think you are in Southern hemisphere? From the manual I can see that it has 2 modes - Autotracking or AZ Goto mode so we need to know which one you followed etc.
  18. Any ideas what 3rd party packages are bundled with Stellarmate OS - eg. PHD2, Firecapture etc. I posted on the INDI forum but no response 😞 hence trying here. The website only mentions: The following packages are included in addition to the base OS: INDI KStars/Ekos Astrometry.net with index files. StellarMate Web Manager. StellarMate Network Manager. StellarMate Serial Port Assistant.
  19. Its a lovely view of our galaxy and its interesting to see that at this scale its dominated with reds and browns interjected with blues. Hats off to you & your friends for compiling this.
  20. This should help https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astrophotography/astrophoto-tips/how-to-create-a-24-hour-star-trails-image and https://www.naturettl.com/how-to-shoot-and-process-star-trails/ Good luck and look forward to seeing your images
  21. I can think of a couple of options - move the whole assembly further up the dovetail or attach the ASIAir towards the front to balance the weight. If your dovetail is long, you could even attach few items below (under the dovetail)
  22. If you split the different exposures into its own set, you can attach the different dark sets accordingly in SIrilic. i.e S1 could be (say) 30s lights, 30s darks, master flat, S2 60s lights, 60s darks, master flat etc. If you have taken the exposures on different days with changes to optical train then instead of master flats it would be flats taken on that day instead of a master. Hope this makes sense?
  23. Welcome to the forum. It would help us if you can provide a bit more information about this image - eg. where are you located, what time did you take this image and in which direction did you take this image (ie. East, West...)
  24. I have a strange problem on the forum at indilib.org. I am able to log in and view and click Thank you button etc. But when I respond to a post, the submit button doesn't work (does nothing), and it doesn't give any warning messages either. I assumed it was some browser issue so tried with various browsers and on different devices. No luck 😞 Does anyone else have this problem or know the solution to it?
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