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+1 for autoguiding. You “only” need a guidescope and a guiding camera. You might find both for less than 200 quid.

+1 for platesolving. I use APT which I consider easy to learn. There is a free version with almost all the features available. 
 

You can handle all of the above with a Windows based laptop.  

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10 hours ago, AstroMuni said:

Any luck?

Than you for asking @AstroMuni

No errors in the log. Moreover, I've realized that when I try to process images from 2 or more sessions, none of the Steps 1 & 2 work; and the script generated by Siril IC is incomplete. 

I'll ask in the Siril foum.

Looks like it was worth the wait. Nice pic Stuart.

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I would say either slightly out of focus or the spider vanes changed position between sessions (camera or OTA rotation).

10 hours ago, Elp said:

Halpha filters are a wonderful invention

Yes indeed. Also a good excuse reason to move to mono imaging.

Yesterday: around 4h of 75s subs. No filters. 


Yes, you can; however, I’m planning to move mono since NB seems the way to take advantage during bright moon nights. 

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Same issue here. CdC only shuts down after APT and EqMOD are killed.

You might consider upgrading the stock focuser.

Can't speak about the mount suitability.

12 minutes ago, kens said:

It looks like the registration stage has failed. Maybe you need to put in some registration options like Min Star Pairs

Done and didn't help. I don't think the failure is in the registration phase since I managed to stack correctly in SiriL the already registered intermediate files from Siril IC.

10 minutes ago, AstroMuni said:

Then check the log tab and see if it there are any errors showing up.

Didn't see any. I'll double check tomorrow.

Thank you both!

3 hours ago, alacant said:

Well done. You'll love it.

+1

3 hours ago, alacant said:

Don't forget to remove the adapter and screw an extension onto the cc.

I'm still trying to get rid of some residual coma in my images and the CC could be the cause. Do you mean this ring:

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What version of the 130 do you own, P or PDS? The focuser (and its height) is different depending on the model. If you have the 130P you could have not enough inwards travel distance to reach focus. The PDS version is designed for astrophotography, hence the shorter focuser. 

2 hours ago, AstroMuni said:

What is the setting for CFA under Global properties? I have mine ticked to equalise CFA

Likewise

Already checked, and the only difference is the -output_norm command. Don’t know if it can make any difference.

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