AstroMuni

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 🙂

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.

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.

Great image 👍

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.

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

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)

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?

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...)

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?

Looking much better. Previously I could barely see your signature 🙂

It does appear a bit dark on my Mac but thats easily rectified. Love the detail and faint colours.

Wow, I love this version. I would have preferred if stars did not have halos around them but that doesnt lessen its beauty. Thanks for sharing @carastro

Thats a great image and you can even make out NGC206 in it. You should be proud of what you have achieved 👍

Lovely image. As you say, with the right star tools you could probably enhance it more. I would love to see the version without the star reduction - I know the recent trend seems to be all about star reduction but I somehow feel the beauty lies in the veritable treasure trove of starfields.

I think this is now talking more about aesthetics & subjective matters rather than what could be applied to a 'rule', is it not? I like your image as it showcases the sheer number of stars & nebulosity.

The main thing that I have done wrong is possibly choosing to pick up this hobby in a country plagued by clouds all the time. And now with Global warming its getting worse 😞 So wrong time, wrong place.

Applies only to gents 😉

Hi all, here is my attempt at this faint group of galaxies most of which are around 300mly away. Around 100 x 120s subs with the ASI533MC pro mounted on SW130PDS / HEQ5 Pro. All equipment managed with Kstars/Ekos and processing done on Siril. Needs more data to reduce the noise & bring out the fainter details and the IFN around NGC7331 but this is a start that I am happy with. Thanks for looking and comments/ suggestions are welcome.

I took the liberty of applying the following to your jpeg image using Siril - Increased saturation - applied contrast limited adaptive histogram enhancement (CLAHE) - Noise reduction - changed black point

Nebulae such as Heart are quite faint, so suggest practicing with brigher objects first - atm you could try Ring, Dumbell nebulae to name a few prominent ones that are in our skies. It will give you the confidence and help configure settings for such objects

3 things droolworthy in that picture - planewave equipment, rollback obsy and the lovely skies. We could get the first two here but definitely not the last 🙂

Lovely shot. It also tells me that I am going to need a lot more data & skills to get anywhere near your image quality 🙂

Thats a great image. I didnt think the HEQ5 Pro could handle the 200PDS + the rest of kit. Its good to know that it can. How are you finding its ability to manage this load?

Thats a great shot of M31. Love it. EDIT: realised that your equipment list has grown now, so my previous comments were out of date 🙂