WilliamAstro

Made a starless version. By the way regarding the stars, I used Color Range to select them, used Expand and Feather then used the Minimum tool so the stars can be less intrusive.

Did a starless version of the North America Nebula taken back from 30th September 2022. I used Starnet++ for this and it worked really well.

From this night brings a clear sky as I took my rig out to image the North America Nebula. It has been guided using ZWO120MM, ZWO 30mm F4 Miniscope with PHD2. Camera used: Canon 600D (Modified) Equipment: Skywatcher Star-Adventurer 2i Canon EF 75-300mm f4-5.6 III (Image taken at 100mm focal length) Software: PHD2 DeepSkyStacker Photoshop 2022 5 x 22 minute exposure for lights 17 darks 15 flats 15 dark flats Total exposure time: Over 1hr and 50 minutes In fact this is my second attempt at imaging a deepsky object and I am quite triumphant about the end results. Cannot wait for other nebulas like Orion Nebula and Horsehead Nebula. Cheers and clear skies! William

Should i get an off brand guidescope like this for example?

I was just wondering if what is shown on the title good for that?

I was just thinking of acquiring a nifty fifty for taking widefield images of nebulae and etc even. (e.g. Barnards Loop) Does anyone have any recommendations of any high quality yet affordable nifty fifties? Cheers.

Update: I have emailed Widescreen Centre for assistance in having my mount repaired as they will direct me to Celestron as they give a proper diagnosis to the problem.

could you send me any links to this mount please?

Since my Nexstar SLT Mount is presumably broken. I am looking for getting a new affordable GOTO mount with a remote.

I have checked the mount again and even set it back to factory default and still, I think the motor is pretty much had it. I could either get it repaired via Celestron or buy a new GOTO.

This night I took my rig out, the usual 127 SLT. Everything was going smoothly getting Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune, but when I went to slew to Uranus, the mobility of the telescope mount started behaving strangely. The telescope wont move sideways normally anymore and would be slow and I set the motor speed to 9 but the movement is still stubborn. But I can move the telescope up and down, now I can’t move it sideways. When I point at a target the telescope was just getting lost into oblivion and I tried turning everything on and off my unplugging the extension lead to the power adapter itself, still had the same problem. I am convinced my 3 year old Nexstar SLT mount has had it and I need to get another computerised go-to mount but it has to be affordable.

This process looks like a picture of it from an old book. In a good way! :)

i think it is best to leave the fainter parts out as if i overexpose the histogram, it will induce so much noise. it will be best when it is at a longer time and then the fainter areas will become more apparent and with less noise also would learn to use dithering and in addition to a guidescope

my mount is equatorial so there wont be too much difference, plus i could get the dummy battery so i wont worry about losing battery life

are there any of these on amazon? you dont mind if you could share me links of these? Cheers

It will get better, I will have an opportunity to take more exposures like 4 hours (depends if the camera battery is capable of that).

Autosave003.tif Raw unprocessed stacked data

do you think it doesnt need this and it can just heat up via a power bank? because these seem to have long delivery

P.S. This is where I got it from https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heater-Temperature-Regulator-Astronomy-Telescope/dp/B08LG4B41T/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=dew+heater&qid=1662122082&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1

I just lost my thermostat button that controls the heat to the dew heater for my lenses. It has three options "Low, Middle, High". Is there a spare of the same thing or similar? Cheers

Check out my next process I did, it is definitely better than what I did last time.

Reprocess, the galaxy is just sharper in one of the images.

Spent the night photographing our cosmic neighbour, Andromeda. It was a tricky but triumphant night as clouds kept passing by but at 22:00-00:00 the sky was clear enough for me to photograph the galaxy. It was tedious finding it but eventually I pulled through, This is my first successful attempt at imaging a DSO. In the future I will invest more money for a small OTA like the Evostar 72-ED to further my DS astrophotography. Equipment used: Skywatcher Star-Adventurer 2i Canon 600D (Unmodded) Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Software used: DeepSkyStacker Photoshop 2022 20 x 112 light frames used in addition to darks, flats, and dark flats. Over 30 minute total exposure. Cheers and clear skies William

I own a Celestron Skymaster 25x70 and Celestron UpClose G2 7z35. I use the bigger one for closer views of celestial objects and the smaller for widefield viewing. They do come in handy when I have trouble looking for certain celestial objects in the night sky from the naked eye.

Just started using my star-tracker and my only problems are that I can have a rough time finding things. I do own a guide kit but I am paving my way through that but if I can't use guiding for a night I need to find an alternative way to find celestial objects with binary aid, Like a red dot finder/finderscope I have seen a forum post of someone having a red-dot finder attached to their dslr with their star-tracker. Any adapters for this? Cheers William