Another 23rd capture

[neil phillips]

Experimenting with capture settings

 

[Kon]

Nicely framed with all the spots in view.

[neil phillips]

Another capture

Edited April 24, 2022 by neil phillips

[neil phillips]

11 hours ago, Kon said:

Nicely framed with all the spots in view.

Cheers Kon

[Pete Presland]

Looks good to me Neil, what are you experimenting with specifically Neil?

[neil phillips]

16 hours ago, Pete Presland said:

Looks good to me Neil, what are you experimenting with specifically Neil?

Sorry Pete i missed this

 A couple of things actually. Usual imager experiments. Faster exposure higher gain. slower exposure lower gain chopping to just the main group. and upping the frame rate from 120 fps to around 200 fps. lowering my capture time. more shorter runs. And more of them. 

[Pete Presland]

7 hours ago, neil phillips said:

Sorry Pete i missed this

 A couple of things actually. Usual imager experiments. Faster exposure higher gain. slower exposure lower gain chopping to just the main group. and upping the frame rate from 120 fps to around 200 fps. lowering my capture time. more shorter runs. And more of them. 

Always good to experiment, anything working for you or too early to draw conclusions?

[Trevor N]

Looks very detailed to me Neil. Interested to see what you can get with the 10”. Seeing Petes C9.25 image I’m tempted to buy one of these sheets !!!! . Always something else to try😬

[neil phillips]

2 hours ago, Pete Presland said:

Always good to experiment, anything working for you or too early to draw conclusions?

A bit early Pete. Also certain settings will often suit certain seeing more. Example bad seeing shorter exposure will help.  ( higher gain producing more noise) is the negative. I should also have been cropping more to the main group of spots. And upping the frame rate.  I did that on the 24th. But did it a bit late seeing had worsened. All work in progress but a lot of fun.

[Freddie]

Nice series there Neil. Good to see your progress with Solar. Will be interesting to see what the 3.8ND gives

[neil phillips]

1 hour ago, Trevor N said:

Looks very detailed to me Neil. Interested to see what you can get with the 10”. Seeing Petes C9.25 image I’m tempted to buy one of these sheets !!!! . Always something else to try😬

Cheers Trevor. Though getting the A4 sheet means i will be working at 190mm so a 7.5" stopped down Newtonian at  f8.4

Still should be interesting i hope

[neil phillips]

3 minutes ago, Freddie said:

Nice series there Neil. Good to see your progress with Solar. Will be interesting to see what the 3.8ND gives

Cheers Freddie. Yes will be interesting. Got the cell ready just waiting

[Freddie]

Sure sign of wall to wall clouds for ages then!!!!!

[neil phillips]

2 hours ago, Freddie said:

Sure sign of wall to wall clouds for ages then!!!!!

Most likely 😒

The group will be moving to the far side soon as well. Might have to wait