Europa wrote:
I take it you didn't have any good luck tonight?
Oh no, I'm actually having more fun than should be allowed. This is beginning to get too easy.
I decided to try a different target and did two runs on the Whirlpool Galaxy.
I did a sequence of 300 second images. I felt I was blowing out the center. So I wound up staying up post meridian and did the flip, restarted PHD2 and got it running, then did a second (post meridian) run of 50 - 100s images. I was awake till 3 AM! And just let the telescope do it's thaing for the most part.
I do a single image to get a feel for where to set the sequence section, then click 'Run Sequence' and let it collect the chosen size pile of images.
I don't like that it only records in fit file format, but hey, it's much better than sitting here manually triggering, or looping then storing the results.
The Sequence part does most things auto-magically. And as long as I keep my fingers out of the pie, it stores the sequence. But if I stop it, it all goes out the fan in a green cloud. May as well hit delete, because that's what happens.
The fit files are kind of a bother to me. This is the age of the Internet. TIFF and JPG rule the web, and particularly jpg. Adopie can't figure out what to do with a 16 bit file, so it wants to convert it to 8 bit. That makes me do conversion Called 'Export' in the Orion camera studio program and save the images in another folder for easy transport into udder programs. As a bottom dweller I just work around it for now.
I kinda got pulled aside today so I haven't even pulled the 64GB card from last night. But I believe it has two new piles to play with, process, poke, prod, filter and peadoodle.
Cropped, croaked, and collard greens...
Looks like a giant step backwards..