MarkAR

Great first effort with PI, there is a lot to learn with it. Only one thing is that it's just showing a touch too blue on my screen.

I've reworked my subs of the Waterbug, combined LRGB pretty much straight away as my previous attempts left me with no colour when I combined the luminance. I couldn't really find any good reference images to go by for colour tone so left PI to keep it roughly as is. All subs 360 secs, binned 1x1. Lx19, Rx22, Gx21, Bx23.

Looks really good, picked up the colours nicely.

Should be ok.

I've always thought it should be on the standard side, my Lakeside is on my refractor and it works fine. I would have thought that if it's on the fine focus knob then it'll take forever to go anywhere. The one pictured may be on the fine knob side but could be connected to the main shaft and not the reducer gear.

My vote is with the Pegasus. Does everything I need and no other boxes to mount. Another couple of minor inconveniences with it though are I had to make up custom brackets to mount it crossways so that the cables run left and right. Also could do with being supplied with a longer USB3 to computer.

I should have pointed you to the DewControl power supply I use. I have the 10A one. https://www.dewcontrol.com/Power_Supplies/cat3099126_4477720.aspx

Some lovely detail showing up and well balanced colour.

Well done. Lovely time lapse of the proms. Lack of flats makes it look like planet sized lumps of coal getting incinerated.

Using an AVX mount, just select the moon as your target and set to lunar tracking if it doesn't do it automatically.

Linament and hot water bottle followed by a massage. Back problems are a killer. Well done on getting this far, give the concrete good time to set and dry.

Basic kit would be SW Star Adventurer and DSLR, then the next step up is a big hole in your wallet.

Imaged in the middle of April and just got round to processing these. Still learning AP and PI so any advice would be welcome. The Waterbug Galaxy NGC-3055, bit of a tiddler at 644mm. I've processed two versions, the first is drizzled. Both are RGB 360secs Rx22, Gx21, Bx23. For some reason when combining the luminance I completely lost all colour ! Slightly different processing on this the non-drizzled. Thought I'd give it a different tone.

Normal procedure is to hook everything to a powered USB Hub then hub to computer. That takes care of connectivity. For power, you'll need something like a rig runner/powerpole 12v to send power to the necessary equipment. A more expensive option is a Pegasus Astro Powerbox, it's a combined USB/12v output hub. Just one power cable and one USB cable dangling, everything else goes to Pegasus strapped to scope/mount.

Definitely sounds like lack of power, my AZ EQ6 motors groan and whine when there wasn't enough juice in the battery pack. Now hooked up to mains supply.

Great effort with the moon blazing away.

I was chatting to my neighbour the other week, he works at a University Technical department. One of the branches is for building satellites and they have one for knocking debris out of orbit. I say we fund them to get it launched and use it as a Musk Killer.📡

Lovely image, HOO certainly is really nice on some targets.

The latest Dylan O'Donnell YT vid suggests Swan might be breaking up.

Pretty good start. Not easy holding a phone steady over an eyepiece. One thing to note with imaging the moon is to try to bring the brightness down. It'll help reveal more detail.

Very well done, lovely image.

That's a lot of friends, well done.

Well one, nice star colours.

Both really good, I think I like the second one better. I think the only thing you might want to consider is trying to tame the brightness in the core a little.

Nice one, captured the central star well.