jfrech14 Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 I am new on this site . I have a home made observatory with a LX-200 GPS 12" polar mounted with a William Optics Zenithstar II ED80 piggybacked on it. I have a nikon d5100 as my main imaging camera and guided with an orion starshoot color dsi V1 or sxv-M7 from SX. I have thesky 6 pro and starry night pro 6 as well as a temporary maxim dl pro 5. I like the observatory control i have in maxim but it doesnt handle nikon files well... at all. it guides will and everything though so i like it for that but I am considering moving to imagesplus 5 for camera control and processing because now i only use DSS and it for me is sometimes unreliable... any nikon users out there want to give me some pointers or opinions? Also, what planetarium program do most of you use? I have only tried thesky 6 and it can be buggy at times.Thanks and hope to post more in the future Josh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Hiya.I use Cartes du Ciel as my planetarium, free, and works just great. Have also used Hallo Northern Sky with good results.Nice images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesM Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 HI Josh and welcome to the forum. Some very nice images there and look forward to your next batch of images!Clear skies and enjoy the forumJames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glowjet Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Hi Josh and welcome to SGL, some very nice images you have there John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VigdisVZ Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Hi and welcome!I am quite inexperienced but I do have the same camera as you.I have no problems using DSS in conjunction with my Nikon D5100. I don't have a camera control software yet, but I plan on using NKRemote if no better program pops up now that there are rumours about a Backyard Nikon program. A friend in my club is helping me solder a shutter release cable for RS232 later...Have you tried stellarium by any chance? It seems to be able to do quite much, and I like the UI.Nice pictures you got also. Hope to see more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catweazel Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Hi Josh, welcome to SGL; nice pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charon Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Welcome aboard Josh, like previously mentioned some great shots there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd8137 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Hi from me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Green Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Hi I like your images welcome to theSGL Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn4me Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Hi Josh and welcome to SGL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningMajor Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Hi Josh and welcome from me too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stellawolf Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Nice images & welcome to SGL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telesto Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Hi Josh, welcome to sgl and the forumsClive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siriusmeg Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Hello and welcome from me too - great images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r3i Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Welcome to the forum Josh.Another thumbs up here for Carte du Ciel - there's loads of features in it and it can take a little bit of time to get it set up and find your way around it, but it looks from your post and images that you have plenty of experience behind you so you shouldn't have any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologuitarist61 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Helo Josh and welcome to SGL - great images by the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michigander Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Welcome to SGL, Josh!Nice pics!Dana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizibilder Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Hello Josh and welcome to SGL!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Scunthorpe Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Welcome to SGL. Awesome images.Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astronomit Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 HI Josh - welcome to SGL! The images look fantastic.Tim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranas Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Welcome to lounge, great images . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfrech14 Posted January 18, 2013 Author Share Posted January 18, 2013 Hey everyone! long time no see! Imaging has been horrible here this winter so I am very upset to say I only have one new image and its of M31. I got a WO ZS2 ed80 and the field curvature is horrible so I am getting a TV .8 FF/FR. Its a huge investment but I've heard its worth it. Plus I heard it has great results on SCT TWO FOR ONE! This is the center 30% crop of my M31. Had a green gradient that was hard to get rid of and it was using my untrained ability in imagesplus5 so here it is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Presland Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 hi welcome to SGL from peter in bedfordshire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midnight_sky_watcher Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Hi Josh, Welcome to SGL. Great images you have there.Grant.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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