The good, the bad and the truly ugly...
May 21, 2017 13:19:47 #
Sky condition were the pits last night but I just had to try my new observatory slideout... So shot the Sombrero galaxy and the Antennae galaxies through fairly heavy cloud to the extent I lost over half my Antennae subs and a third of my Sombrero subs. BUT the slideout work nicely!
The first time I've had the Infinity software give up on alignment; fortunately I also captured subs.
AT8RC, 0.6x reducer, Hutech HEIUB-II filter, Color ATIK Infinity on CGEM DX mount.
The truly ugly:
The first time I've had the Infinity software give up on alignment; fortunately I also captured subs.
AT8RC, 0.6x reducer, Hutech HEIUB-II filter, Color ATIK Infinity on CGEM DX mount.
The truly ugly:
May 21, 2017 15:53:26 #
bwana wrote:
Sky condition were the pits last night but I just ... (show quote)
Very nicely done Brian. The antennas​ are so hard to get with our capabilities.
Craig
May 21, 2017 18:57:00 #
CraigFair wrote:
Very nicely done Brian. The antennas​ are so hard to get with our capabilities.
Craig
Craig
On a good night I can image them... A bit like comet tails.
bwa
May 21, 2017 21:44:53 #
Thems is quite fuzzy.
But hey, you were giving it the old college try!
Glad to hear the slide out is working better for you.
Gives you incentive to get out under the stars.
But hey, you were giving it the old college try!
Glad to hear the slide out is working better for you.
Gives you incentive to get out under the stars.
May 21, 2017 22:16:57 #
SonnyE wrote:
Thems is quite fuzzy.
But hey, you were giving it the old college try!
Glad to hear the slide out is working better for you.
Gives you incentive to get out under the stars.
But hey, you were giving it the old college try!
Glad to hear the slide out is working better for you.
Gives you incentive to get out under the stars.
Yup, the slideout (on right) is working well. Allows me to get the whole dome far enough away to almost be below my normal northern line of sight AND totally out of the way for everything else.
bwa
May 22, 2017 12:00:37 #
May 22, 2017 21:13:07 #
Europa wrote:
I assume the dome is somewhat heavy, how do you slide it off?
It weighs about 150 lbs but slides quite easily. I just apply brute force to move it.
bwa
May 22, 2017 22:27:03 #
Awesome! I would never come in on clear nights if I had one of those! We have so many trees in our yard - and neighborhood, I say grace daily for the 80 degrees of the north and north east sky that I have a pretty good view of - from 35 degrees up.
I would have thought that you would have super skies living in your neck of the woods the best of seeing conditions.
I would have thought that you would have super skies living in your neck of the woods the best of seeing conditions.
May 22, 2017 23:06:57 #
nikonshooter wrote:
Awesome! I would never come in on clear nights if I had one of those! We have so many trees in our yard - and neighborhood, I say grace daily for the 80 degrees of the north and north east sky that I have a pretty good view of - from 35 degrees up.
I would have thought that you would have super skies living in your neck of the woods the best of seeing conditions.
I would have thought that you would have super skies living in your neck of the woods the best of seeing conditions.
Too close to the Rockies for good stable weather!
And the weather over the past couple of years has changed significantly from when we first bought the ranch back in 2003; much more cloud and moisture. Good for the pasture and wildlife but not so good for astrophotography!
bwa
May 23, 2017 01:21:46 #
bwana wrote:
Yup, the slideout (on right) is working well. Allows me to get the whole dome far enough away to almost be below my normal northern line of sight AND totally out of the way for everything else.
bwa
bwa
And that new slide out is not going to hold as much snow as the first one did.
So sliding the opened dome off is preferable to rotating it with the lesser half opened?
May 23, 2017 01:28:38 #
SonnyE wrote:
And that new slide out is not going to hold as much snow as the first one did.
So sliding the opened dome off is preferable to rotating it with the lesser half opened?
So sliding the opened dome off is preferable to rotating it with the lesser half opened?
If the dome opened more than 90 degrees, it wouldn't be too bad; however, being only half open can block the best imaging sky! Sliding it off is far superior. Also, StarSense works far better if it can see a good portion of the sky.
bwa
May 23, 2017 13:10:38 #
bwana wrote:
Sky condition were the pits last night but I just ... (show quote)
With sky conditions remaining terrible I was forced to look for some reprocessing projects. Decided to take another run at the Antennae galaxies.
On the 1st pass processing I salvaged 24 of 60 subs due to cloud problems. This time I reprocessed each of the subs individually and salvaged 36 of 60 subs. I 2x Drizzle processed the subs in PixInsight and Photoshop'd the heck out of them.
I kinda like the end result. At least it is better than the 1st pass and gave me something to do for a couple of hours...
bwa
May 23, 2017 16:52:53 #
bwana wrote:
With sky conditions remaining terrible I was force... (show quote)
Great job on both topics Brian. The antenna are really getting better. And I love your observatory. Mama says I can start some plans for one.
Craig
May 23, 2017 17:27:57 #
CraigFair wrote:
Great job on both topics Brian. The antenna are really getting better. And I love your observatory. Mama says I can start some plans for one.
Craig
Craig
If Mama says so, get to it before she changes her mind!!
Take a look at roll-off roof models. With them if you ever decide your astro-imaging career is at an end, you can use it as a garden shed, kid's playhouse, storage, etc.
Quite a good article at: http://www.skyshed.com/gallery.html
bwa
May 23, 2017 18:30:28 #
bwana wrote:
If Mama says so, get to it before she changes her mind!!
Take a look at roll-off roof models. With them if you ever decide your astro-imaging career is at an end, you can use it as a garden shed, kid's playhouse, storage, etc.
Quite a good article at: http://www.skyshed.com/gallery.html
bwa
Take a look at roll-off roof models. With them if you ever decide your astro-imaging career is at an end, you can use it as a garden shed, kid's playhouse, storage, etc.
Quite a good article at: http://www.skyshed.com/gallery.html
bwa
Some great ideas in that site Brian thanks.
Craig
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