Stuart1971

I think most of the discussion on NVME or not, is on the discord forum…

Well, I have read yes, it’s much better, it certainly is on the new range of Mele quieter 2 and 3 mini PC’s, this has been discussed at length on the NINA discord forum, and there are a few YouTube videos about setting it up my a guy called Patriot Astro….HTH…👍🏼

Hello, You should consider your imaging set up to choose a good guide set up, what is you FL and imaging pixel size, to give an imaging scale, also will you want to use an OAG, or stick with a 50mm finder scope…. I recently bought the ASI174mm mini, and it’s superb, and blows the Lodestar X2 out of the water which is what I had before, I also tried the ASI120m mini, and that also was very good, but I am using an f5.9 Tak FS60 as a guide scope, so the smaller pixels of the ASI is much better with my set up…

Lovely…👍🏼 Can you share your process and software used….

Yes, I wondered about that, but personally I don’t like that idea….I really can’t see how it would work properly….🤔

Yes, I get that, but he had to add his own screws, this is not my issue, @teoria_del_big_bang said that “the mono camera does not come with the same tilt adjuster adapter as the OSC” so where is the tilt adjuster on the OSC…?? or has he got that completely wrong…??

Well, there is no tilt adapter on either version, AFAIK, (without sorting yourself as @tooth_dr has done) but @teoria_del_big_bang said that the OSC came with one earlier in the thread….so was just curious where that info came from, or if I am missing something….

Hi Steve, I know this thread is old, but can I ask where is the tilt adjustment on the OSC version, as I have that and I don’t see it, there is rotation adjustment but not tilt….🤔🤔 cheers

Totally disagree, over 95% of older Astro cameras are absolutely fine, I have owned 20 year old SX CCD cameras and were all excellent, obviously not as sensitive as modern day CMOS cameras, but certainly more than capable of the had one bad experience and it’s a shame, but this is not at all typical…..👍🏼

They are still there….😳😳👍🏼

I have all of the filters you mention, and with your camera I would deffo go with the L-Pro, as you won’t benefit much from the other two Dual narrowband filters, the L-Pro is a very good LP filter and when I got mine I sold the Idas P2 I had, as the L-Pro blew it away…👍🏼

What is your question….?

What scope are you using these with, as if it’s a fast scope, then this can be an issue and you need filters specially made for fast scopes, F4 and below…

Thermal noise is not really an issue with theses cameras, cooling is not really needed…..👍🏼

Why export to PS, from affinity, as you can do it all in there, no need for PS…👍🏼

Or,I could post it for you, if you like….?

Probably best to ask this on the NINA discord group, you will get an instant answer, and probably from the author himself….👍🏼

Thanks for that, much appreciated….👍🏼 Imthink I did tweak the colours a bit, saturation and warmth, but just on my iPad, as I wanted the newly noise reduced image to send to someone….but they are the same images with different crops plus the colour adjustments after the NR..

This was my example of a before and after, and I thought it looked ok, this was with default settings, the crop is not identical but close enough for a test, what do you guys think..? as on another forum I was told it did not look real and looked “plasticky” and that I had lost loads of detail in the reduction, especially in the galaxy….….🤔🤔 before… and after….

Yes, I bought it a few weeks ago, and just used on the default settings, and have been really pleased with the outcome, well worth the money IMHO…👍🏼

Nice Images, very sharp….👍🏼

Well if it works for you great….until it doesn’t….been there done that with Wi-Fi and with Ethernet…..the latest RPI 4 with 4-8gb of ram is more than capable of running Kstars and indi, as it does not use up any resources at all really, and runs well, but as I say whatever works for you…..if it ain’t broke, then no need to fix, but mine broke so I fixed, and never looked back, NINA all the way for me now….👍🏼

This is all well and good, and I tried it for a while, till you have Wi-Fi issues between mount and indoor PC, then you have to start all over again, much better if the PC on the mount can do it all and not rely on network connections….but I get your point…👍🏼

Absolutely, before moving to NINA 12 months ago, I was an avid user of the RPI4 and Stellarmate, for more than 2 years, and can tell you without doubt that NINA on a mini PC blows it out of the water for ease of use, reliability and of course it’s free, and constantly being developed, updated, and the support is superb too.. There is just no comparison, don’t get me wrong I liked the RPI, but would never go back to it, too many bugs, issues drop outs, lost nights of imaging….

First of all sorry if this had already been covered, but wanted to share a direct comparison using this new Noise Exterminator Plug-in from Rc Astro, I have to say, for me using APP and Affinity it’s a game changer.. It costs $59.95 or $39.95 if you already own a license for one of his plugins, which may sound a little expensive, but for me it was worth it as I already own Gradient Exterminator. There is a free trial period. https://www.rc-astro.com/resources/index.html It really is so simple to use and takes just three clicks to use the default settings, there are two sliders in the plug-in to play with, but I just left on the default. In the blurb it says to try and use early on in the processing, but I did not and just used on finished JPEG files I had already processed, but worked fine. Here is one of my recent images taken with a Tak FSQ85 and QHY268c camera, it is a JPEG of M51 which had minimal processing and also not much data, and a heavy crop, hence very noisy Zoom in on the two images to see the difference… As you can see it protects the stars and the nebulosity, beautifully…in my opinion, unlike some other noise removal plugins… And after using the plug-in on the default settings on the exact same image…