I ran finished up on data collection on Orion for this year: I'm getting more data and getting settled in with this pro camera , the year has started out very wet and this year I ran...

stepping beyond Loc: usa eastcoast

I'm getting more data and getting settled in with this pro camera , the year has started out very wet and this year I ran on both sides of the meridian . I had a real hissy trying to get the shift from the flip not to show that bad , so until next year here's what I've been doing in between the floods. It also has some ha to go with it this time since getting the avx mount . I still have the HH to put together. I really enjoy this stuff.

2nd framing run
2nd framing run...

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J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

stepping beyond wrote:

I'm getting more data and getting settled in with this pro camera , the year has started out very wet and this year I ran on both sides of the meridian . I had a real hissy trying to get the shift from the flip not to show that bad , so until next year here's what I've been doing in between the floods. It also has some ha to go with it this time since getting the avx mount . I still have the HH to put together. I really enjoy this stuff.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Looks great, Ronnie.
Keep at it as much as you can. (Considering your challenging weather...)
Good to see your progress with the Pro camera.
What's next?

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

stepping beyond wrote:

I'm getting more data and getting settled in with this pro camera , the year has started out very wet and this year I ran on both sides of the meridian . I had a real hissy trying to get the shift from the flip not to show that bad , so until next year here's what I've been doing in between the floods. It also has some ha to go with it this time since getting the avx mount . I still have the HH to put together. I really enjoy this stuff.

Really nice looking image. Great work.

Europa Loc: West Hills, CA

Nice Ronnie.

I’m assuming g you are not using flats? The right side has the washed out look, if you take flats, it’ll remove that/balance the image across the entire FOV.

Good to see you are getting some sky time.

juan_uy Loc: Uruguay

Amazing result, at least for me :)

I only do wide field astro with DSLR, so this is incredible for me.

(comment: I see a little circle on the upper-right quadrant, what is that?)

stepping beyond Loc: usa eastcoast

juan , that's a photoshop pointer that I forgot to remove . My bad .

stepping beyond Loc: usa eastcoast

Thanks Sonny , I'm getting pretty sick of all the traffic my street is getting since this Covid crap. Cars sit on the street waiting with there headlights on for someone to come out of their house and chat for ever, BS if you ask me. It's a good run though , I stretched the crap out of it just to pull everything I could get out of the data. I'm still giving it He-- and I'll start combining the Horsehead nebula next . I cropped three sides on this one

Less1/2 the amount of frames and added Ha
Less1/2 the amount of frames and added Ha...

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Looks good, looks like you are having fun.

Out here, that kind of traffic tends to attract the Narcotics detectives.
Sounds like drug dealing.

I had to put up a fence on top of our back wall to block out the condominium road aimed right at our house. It doesn't seem to get as much traffic as it once did, but the braindeads still pull down it and leave their headlights on, glaring into our homes.

I guess setting up out back won't work as well as up front does for you.

Well, Mr. Glary Moon came up. But behind where I'm aimed, and besides I've got a filter in use to kill the Light Pollution anyway.
LOL! We just gotta do the best we can do with what we haveta do to do what we wanna do, trapped where we do it.
If it was easy, there wouldn't be much fun in it.

stepping beyond Loc: usa eastcoast

You're right about it not being easy , I was out 3 nights and at 930 FINALLY ! reset the sequence after troubleshooting everything else. I had the guide going awesome then as soon as I was going to slew over to m81 , here comes a cloud the whole length of the sky and the guiding went in the toilet. I'm here for the long haul , taking the good the bad and the ugly.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

stepping beyond wrote:

You're right about it not being easy , I was out 3 nights and at 930 FINALLY ! reset the sequence after troubleshooting everything else. I had the guide going awesome then as soon as I was going to slew over to m81 , here comes a cloud the whole length of the sky and the guiding went in the toilet. I'm here for the long haul , taking the good the bad and the ugly.

I think I learn, or maybe relearn something every night.

But repetitive regret helps drive the lesson into my raisin.

I have learned to keep a better watch on my guiding camera picture in PHD2. It can tell me clouds are coming in and I better wrap it up before the sky closes my imaging session.

I develop routines to try and avoid forgetting steps.
But I don't have an answer for clouds yet. They are just obnoxious.

stepping beyond Loc: usa eastcoast

No calibration Brian , every time I get setup for them something goes crazy weird with a usb 2 or my 9 pin AF cable not wanting to connect ? I need to get some more cords for sure , I have one of those newer led streetlights in the direction I'm shooting coming just not any good sky to do anything. I think the wash look is an over stretch or my pitiful processing attempt or it could be the light pollution I'm dealing with now? I better start using my lp shield to see if that'll help my color channels had an aperture disc on them. I think I can get a better result the next time I get time to attempt without chipping away at the honey do list .