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    Comet C 2020 E3 ZTF absolute best

    From the album: Comets, Meteors and Asteroids

    A crop from the widefield image taken with a Canon 600d DSLR and a 135mm F2 Samyang lens all on a Star Adventurer Eq mount. The moonlight, light pollution and intermittent cloud created a number of acquisition and processing problems.
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    Comet E3 CROP

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    Comet E3 CROP

    From the album: Comets, Meteors and Asteroids

    My first go at Comet C/2020 E3 ZTF on 29-01-2023. Sadly, too much moonlight and skyglow. Used Star Adventurer mounted Canon 600d with 135mm Samyang lens. 40 x1 minute exps at ISO 400. Stacked using DSS in comet plus stars mode. Processed using Affinity Photo2, APS, StarnetGUI, GraXpert, Topaz Denoise AI and Fitswork4.
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    Thank you very much Michael. Features on the lunar limb seem to vary significantly with both phase and libration. At least I will now get my image the right way up - come to think about it I'm not sure whether the Universe has a right or a wrong way up? "Live long and prosper" George taking a relaxed role on a grey Lowestoft Sunday.
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    I cannot seem to find a way of loading an ACV file as a preset curve adjustment in Affinity2. The curve window in APS has a load button which makes this simple but there is no such button in AffinityPhoto 2. I can create a curve in AFFP2 and then add it as a preset but I cannot find a way of importing a curve from an external source, is there a way to do this? I would very much appreciate any help regarding this issue. George easily baffled in Lowestoft
  5. Hawksmoor

    The help you receive from the members of SGL, when you are struggling with some bit of kit, software or astronomical knowledge, is both welcome and heart warming. 

    George about to go to sleep in cloudy Lowestoft.

     

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    Thank you Peter for this excellent reply including the NASA link which I will find very useful when I next get lost on the surface of the Moon. I very much appreciate your assistance. George
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    On the evening of 02 January 2023 and whilst I was getting focus sorted out for imaging Mars I captured an avi clip of the lunar limb. I wasn't really taking much notice of what I was imaging but more focussed on focus! As I was using a x3 Barlow it is very easy to get lost on the Moon. Anyway taking for read that 'I'm good for my age' I would be very pleased to be informed as to just what I managed to photograph. I have used the Virtual Moon Atlas but incident lighting makes all the difference so would welcome some help. Please note, up is not necessarily North or any cardinal point for that matter! My best guess is Mare Smythii area but only a guess. Best regards George
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    IC1805

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    IC1805

    From the album: Backyard Astronomy

    Whilst I was messing about trying to find Comet ZTF C/2020 V2 I snapped a bit of the Heart Nebula just before it disappeared behind the roof of our house 10x3 minute lights at ISO1600. Canon 600d DSLR with EOS zoom lens at about f=200mm.
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    Comet ZTF (C/2020 V2)

    From the album: Comets, Meteors and Asteroids

    A stack of 10x2min lights at ISO1600. Captured with my Canon 600d DSLR and a Canon telescopic lens at approx f=200mm. Took me awhile to find it !
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    Brilliant selection of images, thanks for sharing. Hope to return to Iceland soon, we had a great holiday there a few years ago. George
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    Not just me then Reggie. Tried again tonight and still couldn't see it. George
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    Tried spotting it last night with my 12x80 bins but with no success.😪
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    Lovely clear night in Lowestoft this evening. Been trying to spot the comet in Cassiopeia and or image it with Camera on Star Adventurer eq mount. Certainly couldn't spot it through my 11x80 bins so maybe tomorrow I might find it on an image.

    Nighty night Stargazers.

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    Hi Reggie Nice to hear from you. I thought your processing of Jupiter was spot on (literally😀!). Orion is better for me before Christmas rather than after. Lowestoft is as far east as you can get in the UK and the OMC now is quite a way west by the time the local street lights go out at 11:30pm. and light pollution levels near my southern horizon fall sufficiently to make astrophotography easier. I'm not sure whether I managed to capture Hind's Crimson Star earlier in the year on some of my widefield shots of Orion, I will have a look. Anything below Rigel is very difficult from my 52 degrees North location. Anita and I are well other than the odd seasonal virus we contracted over Christmas, hope you are keeping well too! I'm hoping for a clear night without too much wind this month, so I can have a look and maybe image comets C/2022 E3 ZTF and C/2020 V2 ZTF. I will have to get up early to image the first of the two and as I age, rising from my warm bed on a cold morning becomes more difficult! We have just returned from a walk around the local bird reserve, Carlton Marshes, not many birds about but the fresh air and exercise did us both good. I am now loading astro software onto my new Lenovo laptop after my old machine died at the end of an extended Mars imaging run on a very cold and damp night at the beginning of January. Best regards George
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    Really nice images but how small the GRS has become and so noticeable in these images. George
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    Excellent image Reggie! George
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    I have now acquired a new Lenovo laptop and StarnetV2GUI has loaded up a treat. Thanks for your help StevieDvd🙂

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    Thank you so much for this response which I found very helpful. I am now in the market for a i5 replacement laptop. George
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    Thank you for taking the time to reply. I had read the StarNet2Gui read me. The Intel 4415U CPU was launched in 2017. I have not been able to find out whether it supports AVX instructions and hence my post. I'm not sure whether it's possible for Dell to have incorporated a potato in the laptop but I suspect there may be a lot of chips. If I need to buy another laptop to run StarNet V2 would any I5 or above launched after 2011 be ok. Is the graphics card spec an issue? As you may have realised, I'm not particularly IT savvy and quite ancient and so very much appreciate your help. George
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    I have been running this app successfully for sometime on my old Lenovo i5 laptop. Sadly the Lenovo keeled over and had to be scrapped. I have managed to reload all my software and folders onto an older Windows 10 Home Dell laptop with a 2 core Pentium Gold Intel(R) CPU 4415U, with the exception of the StarnetV2 app. When I try to activate the exe a notice comes up Application unable to start correctly (0XC 0000142). I'm not sure whether this is something simple like a missing driver or whether the lower spec CPU and video card on the Dell just cannot cope. As I use AffinityPhoto2 I tried downloading Russell Croman's StarXterminator plug in free trial. When I tried to activate it through the filter button using the trial key I got the same error code. As this app is such a good bit of kit I'm not sure whether I need to come up with the money for a new i5 or better laptop or not. Any advice in layman's speak would be very much appreciated. George 'scratching his baldhead' in Lowestoft
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    Mars

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    Syrtis Major Rising

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    Syrtis Major Rising

    From the album: Mars

    First image captured in 2023. Syrtis Major just coming into view and Mars showing a little phase .a 5000 frame video clip, best 15% stacked. 125mm Meade Apo, Televue x3 Barlow, QHY5-11c planetary camera. PIPP, AS!3, Registax6, AFFP02 and Topaz Denoise AI.
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    I now possess an operational Dell laptop upgraded with some of the better functioning components from the dead Lenovo. I am currently reloading software and folders from the Lenovo ssd. Much happier today and who knows, tomorrow I may be back on line processing more of my signature blurry Technicolor astro images.

    George in cloudy Lowestoft

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      DSviewer

      Fantastic image

       

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    It’s official my Lenovo is intermittently expiring and in doing so corrupting the operating system. It is time for it to fade into the cloud. I’m hoping the recently acquired video clips of Syrtis Major can be saved.

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    Tottering start to imaging in 2023. Managed to get some video of Mars in between the clouds. Unusually all my kit performed faultlessly.Then when I brought my laptop into the house it stuttered and appeared to expire. It has seemingly died before only to be revived by the local IT legend Robin. It is with him as I type!    
    George laptopless in Lowestoft.

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