Simon Pepper

I often wonder how do you win the day? Is that the most likes on a single image or comment?

The two at the top on the rear are totally unnecessary I would complain in an instant about that. I too had a troublesome lamp post led fitted that for some reason stayed on all night all the others in my street turned off about 1am but the one right outside my house never turned off. Got in touch with highways and the cane round and sorted it also added a shield as well. Good luck with those naughty neighbours.

Hi Kelly Yep you nailed it well done!

Hi Yes you can still make calls etc. The phone is essentially just a remote control as soon as you put in the auto plan details on what you want the AAP to do and hit go it will run throughout regardless of if the app closes or even if the phone runs out of battery.

Manage to snap up a lost in post EQ6r from FLO offers yesterday pulled the trigger at 1pm and arrived 12:55 today talk about lucky and exceptional FLO as always!

Hi Moonshed I used the ASI pro on video mode I think it was 720p and outputs an avi file. I’ll try the ZWO FB forums as looking at the three videos I have captured I see this pattern in all of them. When I view the video in just windows player I see it but not so apparent Thanks

Thanks Elp I did that in the end anD managed to find focus I think I’ll leave the Barlow out for a while! Are you able to assist with this one? Issue after issue today…

Hi all, Just taken a 3 minute video of the moon and I can see the bayer or pixels (not sure which) clearly in the raw video. After stacking and zooming its making it worse. Have I schooled this or do I have a dodgy camera its new out the box today? Autostakkert raw video frame and stacked open in PI and zoomed in Thanks

So I got myself a new camera for a try at imaging lunar and planets but I can’t seem to find the focus point. I have focuser Barlow than camera. I have some M68 extensions and racked the focus all the way in and out. Am I missing something here as I think the OTA doesn’t look right? Thanks

I actually asked this question not so long ago and there were mixed responses thread here: Supporting FLO is a good thing as others have said though their team they got there really know their stuff helped me on numerous occasions.

Incredible!

Thanks guys.

Here is a rework of Pickering Triangle I used a HOO palette but used the Oiii as the Lum layer. Image was taken on the 22/08/2022 I shot just 2 hours of Ha and 2 hours of Oiii180s subs. I think its missing RGB stars wish I had collected data for those. HEQ5 Pro, 1600mm, ES127 ed Thanks

I didn't stretch anything I literally loaded your TIF in and completed the above steps. I did a range mask on the core, but you could extract the lum then blur it or use the GAME script to create a mask and then used curves on RGB and Lum and just pulled the curve down to remove some of that brightness, but you have to be a little careful doing it this way. Looking again I think its still a little blue so probably needs another curves or histogram on the blue channel to knock a little more out.

Hope you do not mind I had a quick go at this. See below and steps I just took. I think it could have done with a little more DBE but I like it! SCNR removed green Inverted image and repeated SCNR green Range masked the core and pulled down the curve Range selection again more aggressive in the core pulled down curve NoiseXterminator 0.4 and 0.1 Histogram transformation on each colour channel to balance them out this knocked out a lot of the blue This is good data and the core of M31 is bright as we know is it even possible to not blow it out to an extent? Oh and I 180 flipped it as any other way I see it as upside down which is stupid as there is no up in space

Oh my wading in here late but interesting hearing peoples thoughts on the EQ6R been saving for that and I also saw someone I follow on IG having to send it back twice perhaps I need to rethink as well! Never even considered ioptron I will take a look.

Hi Justin a fellow East Sussexer here! Welcome to SGL

I have just seen V 2.1 is out for beta testing let’s hope for some improvements!

The flip was about 8pm and it stopped just after 11pm. I had gone to bed so it could have been anything, but when I woke up the camera was disconnected but the mount was still tracking. Could be anything to be honest even an issue with my camera or SD card I will keep an eye on it. I didnt realise you could report bugs from the app ill be sure to do that going forwards. Thanks

I spoke too soon. Last night whilst on autorun was working as expected but then its randomly stopped at 2330 ish. Gone to check the AAP log and there is no log created for the autorun on the 8th lol. I suspect its the issue I saw the other day and mentioned above where it cant write to the card so it stops but who knows. Software updates please ZWO

Interesting so are you saying you are running an older app with the latest software on the pro? Pretty sure you can’t go back with software on the pro.

I feel your pain I have had nights like this worst being coming down to a mount strike and the mount still slewing against it for a couple hours. I went through a bad patch with them on the OS before the latest. Also both tHis happened it was in plan mode I don’t trust that mode anymore. I have to say though since the recent update I have only seen a few little oddities such as capture stopped unable to write to card but a reboot of the device has sorted that. Just out of interest how do you turn off the AAP do you use the app to shut down or the switch on it? It’s hard to understand these issues as everyone has different setups so what affects you won’t affect someone else I doubt. I do hope you have better luck or they push out bug fix version. If I had a permanent pier and obsy I would definitely transition to NINA.

@Space Cowboy absolute gold dust! Thank you!

I am trying to add the 2600mc to my armoury so will be interesting to know your thoughts on the 1600mm and how they compare. I love my mono camera even thought its the outdated 1600 OSC does have a place though its convenient hence why I am trying to source a 2600.

Oh wow interesting I didn't realise that. Here are the three images. Looking agai it looks like the 300s may have had some high cloud or I have used a screen shot or compressed image. I think the middle one looks best