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So that looks like delphinus on the right and then on the left its the corner of the square of pegasus, matar been the top star of the triangle. Am I correct?

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Nearly there Chris and good that you're learning the stars. Top right star in pegasus is Scheat, Matar is off that diagonally up and right.

Bang on with Delphinius

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Great wide field Neil.

Look forward to your M31 Sam, I mangled a half an hour on the veranda here is a quick (over processed ;) ) image of Andromeda taken using Gains Astrotrack and my canon 60D with stock 250mm lens, 4min exposure with 1600 ISO :)

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Well, I did learn them as a kid. I just got lazy in my twenties :) slowly digging the information out of my brain. But always learning though as km sure we all are. One other star in delphinus is Svalocin. I so didn't look that up on the he net :)

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Nice one Chris a bit of research and another one to add to the list.
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It's not brilliant but it's not bad, I need to reprocess I think.

42 images stacked ranging from 80secs to 10 secs.

ISO 1600

Good night guys hope you like it.

I need to sleep I'm up at 5am [emoji33][emoji33][emoji33][emoji33][emoji33][emoji33][emoji33]

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dfa078560eb856606746751df5c9722b.jpg

It's not brilliant but it's not bad, I need to reprocess I think.

42 images stacked ranging from 80secs to 10 secs.

ISO 1600

Good night guys hope you like it.

I need to sleep I'm up at 5am [emoji33][emoji33][emoji33][emoji33][emoji33][emoji33][emoji33]

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Wish I was I'll just be thinking of getting ready to go home by then.
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Soupy and Sam - nice job both of you - well done. Bet it feels good to be out doing a bit of imaging  :)

Pleased to see you got the Astrotrac going Soupy - I'll have to pop across to have a look at it going one evening.

I managed to get Mercury, Jupiter, Mars and Venus before the morning light and clouds took them away this morning. It's come over really quite cloudy now.

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Just climbed into bed after a long night shift.

Took the opportunity to have a search for Mercury as the eastern horizon was free from clouds.

I was pleasantly surprised to find I could see it naked eye and through the finder the unmistakable illuminated disc so definitely Mercury and not a star.

Four planets and two of Jupiter's moons.

That's another one to chalk down.

Night all.

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Nice shot Soupy...hope you enjoyed the Astrotrac!

Next tim .try a stack of 10x 3mins exposures!

Cheers for lending it to me G. It was quite easy to use and set up. Loved having a go with it. Need to get a proper intervalvometer now instead of just a remote switch.

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Cheers for lending it to me G. It was quite easy to use and set up. Loved having a go with it. Need to get a proper intervalvometer now instead of just a remote switch.

Yeah, a great little device!

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You could try controlling the the camera via the mini USB and Canon EOS utility which has an intervalometer built in.

Enjoy.

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Yeah, a great little device!

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You could try controlling the the camera via the mini USB and Canon EOS utility which has an intervalometer built in.

Enjoy.

Got APT on the computer just wanted a quick fix! But didn't realise the utility program did that as well. :)

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My Quick fix!

It was aurora with Vicky and Terry night. I decided to have a go at collimating my 130 ED!

So took 5x 49secs subs unguided (4mins total exposure time) with my 5D to check the star images.

Image is a crop in. Noisy, light polluted and quite naff but it was fun. Need another fixpost-2759-0-78927400-1444731578_thumb.jp

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