Last year's image of M13, restacked using Nebulosity
Aug 8, 2018 02:00:23 #
Did something different with Nebulosity. Took a number of images saved with differing amounts of exposure time and had Nebulosity normalize them which means to adjust them all to the same brightness. And then I stacked the normalized results producing this.
This was done using my Explore Scientific 102ed and captured with the Atik 460ex using the Infinity SW.
This was done using my Explore Scientific 102ed and captured with the Atik 460ex using the Infinity SW.
Aug 9, 2018 00:28:11 #
Looks great Jim!
Quite a uniform result.
You do know you are going to have to start gathering new images.
No telling how many stars winked out since last year.
And even black holes fill up...
Quite a uniform result.
You do know you are going to have to start gathering new images.
No telling how many stars winked out since last year.
And even black holes fill up...
Aug 9, 2018 00:49:41 #
SonnyE wrote:
Looks great Jim!
Quite a uniform result.
You do know you are going to have to start gathering new images.
No telling how many stars winked out since last year.
And even black holes fill up...
Quite a uniform result.
You do know you are going to have to start gathering new images.
No telling how many stars winked out since last year.
And even black holes fill up...
Yeah, I know that I need to start gathering new images. But it has been soooo HOT, that I don't want to be outside to set up the scope before the sun goes down. Certainly this can't continue.
Black holes never fill up!!!
And now we know that they are cannibals also. (And so are galaxies)
Aug 9, 2018 20:09:43 #
Jim that Atik460 does a mighty fine job , I just love the stars {nice and tight} that's a really sharp m13 . It's not been any good for anything except dipping in the pool , the heat and humidity is off the charts and the storms keep on coming . Tell me who purchased the new astronomy gear? These storms just keep coming .
Aug 9, 2018 22:46:55 #
stepping beyond wrote:
Jim that Atik460 does a mighty fine job , I just love the stars {nice and tight} that's a really sharp m13 . It's not been any good for anything except dipping in the pool , the heat and humidity is off the charts and the storms keep on coming . Tell me who purchased the new astronomy gear? These storms just keep coming .
Thank you
This Mono Atik 460ex is quite a camera. But I am finding that stacking these images makes it even better.
Really hot here too in the Bay Area. Normally, when I plan on imaging, I start setting up a while before it gets dark. But now, it is still in the 90's at 9PM, but it does cool down fairly rapidly after that.
Aug 10, 2018 11:12:34 #
I too am finding the stacking of my track n stack images quite annoying, if only I could get my autoguide camera to stop it's crap of not wanting to connect when I'm ready to start catching photons, the last time I was out I finally got my guiding going great but, I still had my planetary GEAR on the scope and not my deep space. I set all my software up after 6 pm and make sure everything connects and it connects but, then when I go out to start getting everything going with teamviewer or windows assistant it wants to act ugly and not connect and I spend a good hour in the BOIL trying to get it to connect.
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