Dedicated thread for the DWARFLAB Dwarf 2.

[Ancient Starstuff]

exposure 8, gain 80, 115 stacked in siril, stretched, color calibrated.  This was my first try with Orion on Dwarflab2

[Bobby1970]

First attempt at solar with the Dwarf yesterday. Lots of high cloud but still quite impressed for such a small scope. 

 

Thanks for looking 

[Bobby1970]

The Moon this evening at around 6pm. Short video then processed on Pipp, AS3, Registax and Paint.net

 

 

The sun from Sunday afternoon, same sort of process followed. 

 

Thanks for looking 

[Doug9559]

@Bobby1970

Very impressive NGC7000, particularly from only 285 subs, love the subtle nebuosity.

I've had a go at this one in the past but didn't get anywhere near your result.  Does the Tri band filter make a difference?  You've spurred me on to try again!!

I also use Siril and Starnet plus Affinity Photo and Topaz Photo AI.

[Doug9559]

@Bobby1970

Very impressive NGC7000, particularly from only 285 subs, love the subtle nebuosity.

I've had a go at this one in the past but didn't get anywhere near your result.  Does the Tri band filter make a difference?  You've spurred me on to try again!!

I also use Siril and Starnet plus Affinity Photo and Topaz Photo AI.

[Bobby1970]

7 hours ago, Doug9559 said:

@Bobby1970

Very impressive NGC7000, particularly from only 285 subs, love the subtle nebuosity.

I've had a go at this one in the past but didn't get anywhere near your result.  Does the Tri band filter make a difference?  You've spurred me on to try again!!

I also use Siril and Starnet plus Affinity Photo and Topaz Photo AI.

Thanks Doug. I can't really say if the filter has ultimately made the difference as I've not captured the same target without it. For that sort of target it seemed a good option to use. 

I suspect I will mainly be doing lunar and solar now the nights are a lot shorter. But the Dwarf II is a great bit of kit on my view. Easy to set up and grab something, won't win any prizes but I'm fine with that. 

[Doug9559]

@Bobby1970 Don't give on DSO yet, I took this last night 20 May around 11pm with the D2 when the Moon was at 93% waxing gibbous shining full on the D2.

M51 was almost at zenith but the D2 is really happy in equatorial mode - I checked this with Dwarflab a while ago because I know that very early models had issues with cracked bases, this has now been strengthened.

For EQ mode I can't see Polaris from where I'm imaging I use a digital inclinometer to get approximate declination (52.6° from where I am) and a compass to find N-S, it seems to be close enough and I get very little field rotation.  This image was 900 subs, 6 seconds, 100 gain.  Processed in Siril, Affinity Photo and Topaz Photo AI (the latter really helps with denoising and cleaning up the background).

The D2 is NEVER going to replace a "proper" astro rig but I get a hell of a lot of fun using it.  Looking forward to seeing what the Dwarf 3 looks like after the 30 May release, what I've seen looks good but not what I'd call a game changer.  Although I'm thinking of putting in a capex request with the wife if the pricing is right...