Simon Pepper

Thanks and point noted thankfully I do use an OAG so hopefully shouldn’t be too difficult to transition. Was lucky enough to get the reducer as well so will keep that on as you say not enough clear nights at f10! Decent comparison image above as well it does look quite a lot larger that the 8!

Makes sense. I don’t have a permanent setup yet but I am working on that. It will be my first SCT though so lots to learn I am sure after the initial excitement. Do you image with the reducer or use it at native? Thanks

I have a 9.25 on the way and I am so excited. Will you use bobs knobs or do they hold colimation well? Thanks

Saved as not used these before and they look really good. Thanks

@AstralFields thanks for this mine turned up today And better than I expected so will be making a start on this!

Amazing what an experience I bet! Going to have to travel to see one of these as won’t be around for the next one in the UK 😭

This is awesome! Where did you obtain the print out from? Thanks

I am in East Sussex I am about an hour from Ashford!

What and incredible thread of images well done to all! A very late in the day image here that's been sitting in my done pile for a long time an I forgot about it! Image was taken over two nights on the 19/01 and 26/01. Ha captured on the 19th and Oiii on the 26th. SW HEQ5 Pro, WO Redcat 51 Ha 51*300 Oiii 69*300 Imaged stacked and process in Pixinsight and drizzled 2* Thanks Simon

Welcome back!!

Here is another image taken in March I have just completed. I imaged M106 over three nights and used 10 hours of the data collected. Images were 180s long. Hopefully this qualifies within the rules as I do see several distant NGC and PGC catalogued galaxies as shown in the annotation. I just realised I didn't specify equipment on Markarians Chain above and it was the same here. Explore Scientific 127ed and I used ZWO2600 MC Pro cooled to -10. I cropped the image, but the annotated image was the uncropped version. Image was captured with 94 - 98% illuminated moon from Bortle 4.5 with no filters Thanks Simon

Here is my first entry here and hopefully not the last, but the weather has been absolutely shocking of late I think we can all agree on that (those in the UK that is)! A deep sky survey wouldn't be a deep sky one if Markarians Chain was not entered! As above this is a mere 4 hours of data at F7.5 shot at 180s. Image captured on the 20th March in a four hour window of no clouds or rain in the whole of March. I spent a while processing this trying to maximise what small integration time I had to work with. I am sure someone will do a bit more justice than mine when we finally get some clear nights. Unbelievably a clear night for me tonight, so its M106, so perhaps there will be another image entered Afterall. Thanks

That’s amazing I never knew the JWST could be imaged at its current point. Not sure my 5” refractor is up to that 😂

Thanks all I will try again when I have the patience. Criminally I did not take flats which has not helped and I have moved the camera orientation now but the master of the stars looks perfectly fine it’s when I come to try and stack the comet the issues occur. The left over from star trails is evident when stretching it’s a mess. As I said three comets in now and I still can’t figure it out. Where the hell is Russ with CometXterminator !

I am trying to process my third acquisition of comet data and yet again I am unable to do it. Spent hours stacking, aligning, messing about and the outcome with comets is always an utter mess. I have followed countless tutorials and none of them work for me. What am I doing wrong? Can anyone assist here or want to have a crack at my data? If not I will be buying Adam Blocks complete library as I have just about had it with these cold ice monsters!!!!

I saw this and was very tempted not for a minute did I think it was a scam, and the only reason I didn’t bite was because I had my wife (and myself) telling me I dont need any more mounts stop spending money on Astro stuff talking in my ear!!! In all seriousness though glad our community has better spotters than me it keeps us all a little bit safer. Thanks

Tipping it down here in Brighton 😭

Welcome back Niels!

Very interesting and I had actually read this one before. So far not even tested the Sammy yet so those first shots will be interesting I have it paired with 2600mc so tilt could be very evident but at least no filters to deal with. I’ll start at 44mm and go from there. Was your testing always at f2.8 do you laws leave the aperture there? Thanks

Thanks here is what I have so far. Waiting for a 5mm spacer to hopefully turn up from FLO today. Point noted on the hard stop. Just out of interest and I was going to start a new thread but on the subject of tilt and getting it dialled in how does one actually go about mitigating it? How can you tell from an image where the adjustments need to be made? Surely it’s a nightmare understanding that after unscrewing and screwing back the camera? Thanks

I have the usual 16.5mm and 21mm spacers and I have swapped out the back of the lens canon fit with a threaded adapter below but it’s the same size as the samyang one so makes no difference to length. https://www.firstlightoptics.com/adapters/astro-essentials-samyang-lens-to-m48-adapter.html thanks

@Elp I was planning on no filter I am bortle 4 and 2600 already has IR cut so that’s why I aas confused.

I have another question if I may it’s probably been answered already but this is now a mega thread and a bit of a needle in a haystack! Lens has arrived and I have ordered the Samyang adapter from FLO as well as mounting rings etc etc, however my understanding is I need circa 44mm backspacing but I plan to shoot unfiltered the camera is 2600 and I am unfamiliar with it as in the past I have had the 6.5mm to the sensor this is 17.5 and is female on camera side so I believe I am missing an adapter? Does anyone have some insights on what else I need to order here and how to get to 44mm? Thanks 🙏

Here is my take on the Rosette imaged across two nights 15th & 18th Jan from East Sussex in bortle 4.5/5. Image was captured using Redcat 51 and ZWO 1600mm pro with Antlia 3nm Ha, Sii and Oiii filters Ha 35x300 Sii 44x300 Oiii 39x300 Image stacked and dizzled 2x and processed in PI using the NarrowbandNormalization script and RC suite of products. I added some saturation and some star reduction and a final crop in. Thanks

That's a shame as @JTEC put it there are so many bad things that come from it its unnecessary.