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Sorry, there's always one isn't there... ;)
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.. and this is a test to create a comment :)
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From the album: James' foray into the Dark Side
M31, Andromeda Galaxy. 25x 2min Luminance 20x 2 minutes each of Red, Green & Blue Taken through Borg 77EDII @ f/4.3, Baader LRGB filters, SX H694 camera. Captured with Nebulosity, processed with PixInsight© James Mackay
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From the album: James' foray into the Dark Side
Early version of M33, Luminance through a Borg 77EDII @ f/4.3 captured on an SX-H694. Some work is still needed on my spacing between the reducer and the camera I think, I'm nearly there though. About 20x 5min subs.© James Mackay
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ATIK Progress (and AOSX)
James commented on NickK's blog entry in Nick's blog, including AOSX (Astronomy on OSX)
You like doing things the hard way then eh?? :) I'm really looking forward to giving this a go... especially when it's integrated into some other vendors software. James -
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From the album: James' foray into the Dark Side
OTA & Camera: 2x Borg 77EDII @ f/4.3 with SX-H694 using Baader Ha/OIII/SII filters Mount: EQ6 Pro controlled via EQMac Guiding: SX Lodestar through piggybacked Miniborg Guidescope Data Capture: Nebulosity Data: 28x 10 min Ha (mapped to Green) 60x 10 min OII (mapped to Blue) 36x 10 min SII (mapped to Red) Data processed in PixInsight, all on Mac OS X -
ATIK OSX Drivers (alpha) released..
James commented on NickK's blog entry in Nick's blog, including AOSX (Astronomy on OSX)
Aaargh... the suspense... don't tell me the people it got sent to think that celebrating new year was more important!?? ;) :) -
So who's interested in ATIK on the mac? (see here)
James commented on NickK's blog entry in Nick's blog, including AOSX (Astronomy on OSX)
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So who's interested in ATIK on the mac? (see here)
James commented on NickK's blog entry in Nick's blog, including AOSX (Astronomy on OSX)
Fair enough.... No worries :) -
So who's interested in ATIK on the mac? (see here)
James commented on NickK's blog entry in Nick's blog, including AOSX (Astronomy on OSX)
For me Nebulosity is the deal maker/breaker so it's good to hear that Nebulosity is an option/possibility/probability? :) as it's the only app I use for image capture/guiding. The two other apps I use most are Astroplanner (author Paul Rodman) and SkySafari although in each case I leave control of the scope usually to EQMac and neither are really relevant to camera control. Another possibility is Equinox/Equinox Image by Darryl Robertson. It's mostly SBIG oriented but as a Mac user I've always wanted to link in Equinox into what I do.. James -
From the album: James' foray into the Dark Side
OTA & Camera: 2x Borg 77EDII @ f/4.3 with SX-H694 using Baader Ha/OIII/SII filters Mount: EQ6 Pro controlled via EQMac Guiding: SX Lodestar through piggybacked Miniborg Guidescope Data Capture: Nebulosity Data: 28x 10 min Ha (mapped to Green) 60x 10 min OII (mapped to Blue) 36x 10 min SII (mapped to Red) Data processed in PixInsight, all on Mac OS X© James Mackay
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From the album: James' foray into the Dark Side
Rosette Nebula in Ha OTA: Borg 77EDII @ f/4.3 Camera: SXVR-H694 Mount: EQ6 Pro controlled via EQMac Guiding: SX Lodestar on a piggybacked Borg MiniBorg Guidescope with PHD Captured by: Nebulosity, 21 x 10 minute subs Processed in: PixInsight (all on Mac OS X)© James Mackay
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From the album: James' foray into the Dark Side
OTA & Camera: 2x Borg 77EDII @ F/4.3 with SX-H694 camera through a Baader 7nm Ha filter Mount: EQ6 Pro via EQMac Guiding: Lodestar and PHD through a piggybacked Miniborg Guidescope Data Capture: Nebulosity 28x 10 minute subs, stacked and processed with Pixinsight, all in Mac OS X© James Mackay
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ATIK status update
James commented on NickK's blog entry in Nick's blog, including AOSX (Astronomy on OSX)
Sounds like some good progress is being made Nick :) James -
From the album: James' foray into the Dark Side
15x 5min subs of NGC1499 - California Nebula in Perseus, taken on Bonfire night through gaps in the clouds. Scope: Borg 77EDII @ f/4.3 on an EQ6 Camera: SX-H694 Guided side by side with Phd Capture: Nebulosity Stacked and proceed in PixInsight All on a Mac :)© James Mackay
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From the album: James' foray into the Dark Side
IC410 - reprocess of data from autumn 2010 - through a Megrez 72 with an SX-H9© James Mackay
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From the album: James' foray into the Dark Side
14x 5 min Ha subs IC1848 (Soul Nebula) using a Borg 77EDII @ f/4.3 with a Starlight Xpress H694 through a Baader 7nm Ha filter© James Mackay
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That'll be James, Greg and Jon methinks :) -
AOSX.. onwards!
James commented on NickK's blog entry in Nick's blog, including AOSX (Astronomy on OSX)
Looking forward to it :) -
It's in Orion, just a little way south of Alnitak (the left most star on Orions belt) :) -
Leo Triplet wip 25x 5min luminance taken at the SGL7 star party.
James posted a gallery image in Member's Album
From the album: James' foray into the Dark Side
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From the album: James' foray into the Dark Side
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NGC281 - so far... more to come on this one :)
James commented on James's gallery image in Member's Album
Hi Paul - unfortunately visually through a telescope the view is nothing like that, it's just a bit of a smudge really in this instance. The image is the result of about 15 hours worth of light gathered on a ccd chip. The 250 Dob should do you well though - just wait until you point it at the Orion Nebula or a few nice globular clusters :) J. -
From the album: James' foray into the Dark Side
