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ahh - thanks guys I have not had the filter in for a while as I was shooting Andromeda. I used to shoot at 800 but dropped to 200 as i read that was a better ISO for the 1000D Makes total sense to shoot at higher ISO with that filter in as it does block a lot of light. It's obvious to me now you both say it out loud Back to the drawing board as they say... be kind clouds... be kind... Cheers!
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Hi all, I have been having a go at the Flaming Star Nebula with the recent clear nights and have around 9 hours of data on it using the following. Skywatcher ED72 Modified Canon 1000D @ 200 ISO lEnhance filter Approx 180 exposures at 5 mins each I was hoping this would be my best image yet however, the nebula is so dim I struggle to get anything out at all once stacked! I have to stretch so far I get really bad artefacts before the nebula appears. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong would be much appreciated. Not had this trouble before... cheers! I got
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Skywatcher ED72 guide scope shoe placement
Desmond replied to Desmond's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
aha - great info in what teh screws are there for - I suspected that they were serving a purpose I was not fully aware of - I'll leave them well alone! Thank you all for the help - much appreciate - I'll look for an alternative - underneath might be possible for me... -
Hi, Does anyone know if I can move the position of the guidescope shoe to the other side of the telescope? Currently it is on the same side as the ZWO eaf and it throws the system off-balance. I see a screw there that can be removed but I don;t want to move it if it is holding something in positiojn internally. Ha sanyone swapped the shoe over? Thanks!
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Setting up Temp sensor in NINA for Zwo EAF
Desmond replied to Desmond's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
I do see the temp reading from the sensor, but I am unable to enable Temp compensation due to some driver config option I cannot access 😕 -
Hi, I have a problem enabling the temp sensor in NINA as the documentations says I need to setup temperature in the EAF driver, but the EAF ASCOM driver does not have any settings for a temp sensor. Am I missing something obvious? Documentations says: Driver read temp but offers no settings: Any help much appreciated! Thanks!
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Sky Watcher AZ GTi - New Firmware Available V3.31 is out
Desmond replied to Gabriel Paunescu's topic in Discussions - Mounts
I have always worked to get 'Excellent'/'Good' in SharpCap - where it flip flops between the two usually due to seeing conditions I'm told. Now I'm wondering about all that effort Some experimentation I think... -
Sky Watcher AZ GTi - New Firmware Available V3.31 is out
Desmond replied to Gabriel Paunescu's topic in Discussions - Mounts
I had much better success last night so I'll record here for others what I did just in case it's helpful... I set up just to try and troubleshoot guiding and with that in mind I sent NINA to M31 and got it to centre the image but not start any imaging. I then went to PHD2 and set it looping and calibrating manually (I usually had NINA get this going from the Sequence tool) This time, calibration worked (without me fiddling in any settings). Once Calibration was good, back to NINA to initiate an imaging session just to check it's all OK. NINA was set to slew to target, centre target and start guiding. This all worked perfectly! So it could be the interface between NINA and PHD2 that went wrong for me - not sure, but I'm going to adapt my workflow for this now. I did have one runaway though which I caught. Stopped PHD2 manually and set it off again - no further issues. Funnily I managed to get over 4 hours of guided imaging at 300s per sub after this. The interesting part? I had not polar aligned at all! I was running a test to I plonked the setup down and just let it go. Maybe I got lucky?! So for me the findings are: NINA > PHD2 might have had issues when NINA is waiting on calibration (it just kept stopping and restarting for about 40 mins). So I'll get PHD2 happy first, on target, then start NINA imaging sequence. No calibration wait seemed to keep everything happy - fingers crossed... Hope that might help someone else -
Sky Watcher AZ GTi - New Firmware Available V3.31 is out
Desmond replied to Gabriel Paunescu's topic in Discussions - Mounts
hmmm - never delved into calibration settings. Probably worth a look, thanks -
Sky Watcher AZ GTi - New Firmware Available V3.31 is out
Desmond replied to Gabriel Paunescu's topic in Discussions - Mounts
Has anyone had any issues with 3.36? I tried for the first time last night and PHD2 just would not play ball. It kept stopping after a few steps West and restarting calibration again. Anyone else seen that? I use a cable connection to the mount to avoid WiFi connection issues. I updated due to runaway with 3.26 (no longer on the website) after a meridian flip (went perfectly) and subsequent dither (ran away with itself). Using NINA to put everything together. Any thoughts, much appreciated Considering going back to 3.20... -
Flats, Dark Flats and Bias - Take them every session?
Desmond replied to Desmond's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
I have an old 1000D at the moment and I do not change focus or remove the camera. I just bring the whole setup inside and re-polar align each session. I used to take darks but read they were not needed so I have removed them from my process. Thanks for the help - much appreciated as always. Save me some time and disk space! -
Got it working now - brilliant - thank you!!!
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aha! - thank you Much appreciated! Now I need to work out how to connect the two together... A little more learning to do!
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Probably something dumb I'm doing wrong... I want to be able to find a nice bright star to check my focus. I decided on Arcturus and thought I'd be able to go into the Sky Atlas, type in Arcturus and NINA would find it. I get no results. I have even tried entering other formats from Stellarium but still nothing... What am I doing wrong? Thanks!