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Nicola Hannah Butterfield

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  1. This is part of an image I took of the Bee Hive cluster on the 4th Nov 2022. When I looked up objects in the frame, when I got to PGC2819573 I got this redshift 1.6940 on simbad I wrote a wee python script to chug through objects, and I get this redshift 0.7578 for it It is reported as a quasar, what I would like to know is it possible to record something so far away with an 8" scope, or is it something else or a clitch in imaging . Not asking about coma ect, that is obvious.
  2. I have this hair like feature in two images, imaged months apart, I find it strange it would be in two separate image sequences, but only the two, of complied images of the moon I have done seem to show it. If one evening, maybe, other images I have are lit as the moon is waning. So if it is a cliff, they wouldn't show it
  3. Sort of failed again, odd APT can't record image. I know cable length.
  4. Well it is working with, one 3m USB 3 and one 4m USB 3, to the short USB 3 cable to hub. It remains to be seen if there are any issues, what I am really struggling to understand with is 1 m i.e. a 5m and a 3m caused issues. Yet, the 3m and 4m seem to work.
  5. Bit messy but a screen grab of the remote desktop. So what I have a short USB2 directly behind the comp to outside and a weatherproof box, then a 4m USB 3 to the short USB hub cable. Ideally I am looking at a short USB 3 to the external socket and either as is or change the cable to the hub 4.5m USB D cable, but fitting that to the is more fiddly than to the extension. This isn't as neat as I would have liked, but it works, it just means the power for the system, hub, mount, Canon and USB dew heaters, comes from one part of the shed, and the USB from another part. Thanks for all the input,
  6. @m40 & @david_taurus83, cheaper option, just move the weather prove box, to the front of the shed and run the USB from there, it's basically how I ran it before but through the window, everything worked well, the eqmod usb, the canon camera, the ASI120mc and focuser, the only thing on it that is USB 3 is obviously the ASI 120 MC, and depending on settings and resolution, I can achieve up to 65-70fps. @m40, the only laptop I have in the system is the one I keep an eye on stuff in bed, via Ethernet. The computer in the shed is a desktop, remotely controlled from either my bedroom computer or the cr**** laptop, which, whilst more modern than the shed computer, wouldn't be up to the task, however running a copy of Linux it's OK to keep an eye on things. If memory serves me right, Cat5 is 100Mbs which is very slow, even USB 2 is quicker, if I run a USB 2 from the end of the 5m USB 3, it seemed to work, but it was late, and I was tired, so not everything might have. I do know if I ran the USB 3 from the comp to the USB 3 12v powered hub, it worked as it always has, bar other glitches. Thanks for the input.
  7. Well I started with a 200P same focuser, you have the PDS, more photographically inclined, shorter tube so easier for cameras to focus. You should i think have a M42 mount on the focuser, metal ring around the outer part of the focuser, or maybe a 2" adapter with a male thread, if the later most likely, this needs to fit the eos m42 thread, change the 2" m42 to an m48 and eos m48 and you get a wider view with less vignetting
  8. Basically you need either an M42 or M48 (preferred if full frame Cannon) to Canon EOS, M48 I believe is the 2" mount screw thread on the scope, but would need to check this P.S. and Edit dont ever be afraid of asking stuff
  9. If I use USB 2 in place of the USB things worked (and these were patched together cables) , well it was only one test period. So how do you do your CAT5 ect.
  10. I do most of that, remotely from my bed, I run an Ethernet cable (cables are usually more reliably than wifi I find) to the shed it works perfectly on Linux or windows remotely. Where my shed is my phone does not really get Wi-Fi well, and the repeater is patchy, hence wires. I don't have an issue running a shorter cable that will work, I just asked if a powered hub at the end of 5m cable would work. Connecting stuff over the net isn't an option unless there is an easy way, ie close to a router
  11. I use APT and plate solving, and it can take 3 or 4 attempts as currently setup, but I am experiencing other issues, re cable, but usually it requires at least 2, not sure if resolution and accuracy is an issue, ie 1000 pix 100pix 10pix I find APT stops if 5-10pix or less If polar alignment is rough 1000pix would be quite good. I can get a lot of pixels out and still find the object, mmph like I said other issuse
  12. I thought I would post this here. Seems my plan of routing the USB to outside easy access is scuppered by the USB 3 cable length of 3 m to the access point, plus the 3 m cable to the powered hub on scope fails the demands of USB 3 length, before I drill another hole in my shed, and running the cables to other than my chosen point, would it be possible to run the first USB to a powered hub, then the next cable to the scopes powered hub, total length, pretty sure first cable is 5m, length of shed 10ft, up to bench is maybe 2ft, plus 5" and 8" leading outside, I have 2 other usb 3 cables 3m and 4m. These question being, can I run a USB to a powered hub 5m away, then run a USB from that powered hub to the powered hub on the scope, and it works as though I just ran a USB 3 direct from comp to scopes hub. Yea I know dumb question.
  13. Thanks, I could have used any of the images for the single one, but thought just that little gap works. I am a little disappointed with the quality of the moon, but it wasn't the best in terms of cloud, but I was fortunate to actually get to see and record the event.
  14. There was one visible between the crescent moon and Venus Dec 1st 2008 UT 15:40 ish on (Upton) I didn't have a scope at the time but a rather longish lens on a bridge camera, cloudy then too. Of all the regular, rare but repeatable events . i.e. Venus transits (saw one of those or rather projection of it) Jupiter Saturn, Venus-Pleiades (2012 and 2020 both cloudy), most are cloudy where I am, even the great Leonid shower back in 1999 it was clear in Inverness, but cloudy on Skye. (roll on 2032, bet it will be cloudy).
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