My Companion Star - Now with WL Full Disk image and some Ha of AR2529

[Psychobilly]

Clearing Skies so have the LOHA/DMK618 setup  for the first time since the partial eclipse and the DSLR with the 600/F4L and 1.4X Extender II for WL

I am capturing data  the moment  and will process WL and HA images later but just had to share this...

One of the Robins that I hand feed shares my interest but it's probably  more interested in the dish of  mealworms along side the laptop... 

It's also been perching on the end of the 600 but I haven't grabbed a pic of that yet...

 

Peter...

 

 

[rwilkey]

Hi Peter, brilliant snap, a great companion!

[Stu]

Lovely little fella ?

[xtreemchaos]

great shot Pete, whos scope is it ? the robins clamed it.thanks charl.

[Psychobilly]

I just hope I can remeber how to process the data from the LOHA/618... Under cloud again at the moment...

I hadn't used the 618  on the Laptop since upgrading to Win10 fortunately IC Capture seems to work...

Just trying everything out ready for the Mercury Transit but having a monster Sunspot is a bonus

 

 

[Scott]

I noticed a bit of snow over wales when I got up this morn. any your way?

[Psychobilly]

1 minute ago, Scott said:

I noticed a bit of snow over wales when I got up this morn. any your way?

Probably on the Beacons...  It was raining here first thing this morning...

 

[philj]

They are great company when in the garden. Ive had to clear cobwebs from my scope but never Robins :-)

[Psychobilly]

As long it doesn't start pecking at the Kendrik filter on the 600... We will get along fine...

Just run a batch of 190 frames through PIPP  time to give Registrax something to do...

Clouds clearing again.. time to get more data ...

 

[laudropb]

Lovely shot of a cute little fellow. Good luck with the data.

[Psychobilly]

A quick and dirty rough process best 25/192  pre processed in PIPP , Stacked in Registrax 6 , Post Processed in PS CC...

 

[xtreemchaos]

great shot Peter with some lovely detail.thanks charl.

[Psychobilly]

Dodgy Ha image of AR2529...

Need to get some better data and work on the processing... I have forgotten a lot

 

 

[Psychobilly]

When taking the last WL run of 422 frames about a sec after I took my finger of the button a plane crossed the disc almost filling it ... AAARRRRRGGHHH

Winds picked up considerably so the clouds are scooting through a bit quicker but the Ha image is bouncing around a lot

 

[Psychobilly]

Better?  600/6000 in a quieter spell...

[Davey-T]

Very nice Peter, like riding a bike you never forget 

Dave

[Psychobilly]

It's taken awhile to get back up to speed...

Winds picked up a bit more and started spotting to rain... so stripping the Ha kit for now...

Put the DSLR WL setup on the NEQ-6 for a bit of remote tethered shooting...

 

[Psychobilly]

 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice shots. We do have a robin in our garden, but it is not that cheeky

[David Smith]

Nicely done.

[Psychobilly]

Thanks  for the comments.. the first Ha was very ropey but started to remember what to do and the last couple were OK(ish)

The 600/4L  with the 1.4X allows shutter speeds of 1/4000s  @ f5.6 ISO 200 and still useful 1/2000s at f8 which helps a lot.... I used  continuous liveview AF with focus priority and Silent continuous  so was able to get 3 fps  with the AF  coming from the Dual Pixel AF of the imaging sensor... one run of 200 shots varied from 100% to 99.5% according to AS!2...

Forecast looks better for tomorrow but of "birding"...

Peter...