Everyone should check out today's APOD if you get a chance. It is a extremely nice image of NGC 1097 done by Jay GaBany. I was blown away by this image when he...
Hello all, a basic question. What is the processing methodology you guys are using? Here's what I am doing, and I am sure it's far from being perfect and am...
Hi Manoj, ... I usually preshoot darks on a cloudy night and make one master dark at a temperature I am likely to reach for the time of year. I'm not sure if...
Hi Manoj, ... Those are a nice start! ... I'm not sure it will make a difference because there might already be an IR filter embedded in filter matrix of the...
Thank you :) I am learning, and I think that's the fun part. My images have improved over the last few weeks. But I think initially the quality jumps are big,...
Hi Manoj, ... A bias frame is a dark frame with 0 or close to 0 second duration. You can do bias frames on the telescope if you want. Just set the duration to...
Hi, last night I set up my scope to calibrate the center feature in AstroArt. This feature allows you to click on a point in an image and AstroArt will move...
Hi Iver, Your image looks quite good despite the moon! I think you did a great job processing. Even the stars look good despite any color bias you had from the...
Nice Image! All your images have lovely gray dust clouds which I never seem to get - any advice on how to get them? Thanks, Darren. ... [Non-text portions of...
Nice shot, indeed. Great job of image processing. Like all the detail you retained around the trap'. Well dones, sir, exceedingly well don. Jim Livermore ...
Thanks everyone, now I'm eager to try it again without the Moon! Darren, sorry I don't have any great hints, I just play with the RGB sliders and the...
I just wanted to thank Iver, Joe, and Darren for stopping by last night. It was great to meet you guys!!! We should do this more often to discuss image ...
Thanks for your hospitality Ray. It was good to meet Iver, Darren and yourself. I look forward to meeting up again. I need to get my act together and capture...
Got'ta love H-alpha. Bright moon, hazy skies and I'm still able to get some imaging in. This shot was exceedingly cool for me as I have never seen the...
Hi Jim, That's another nice Halpha image! You are building up quite a collection. I'm curious why you manually autoguide. I think there is free software...
Hi Ray, First, let me apologize for not letting you know that I would not be able to attend the gathering around your scope Sunday afternoon. Sounds like I ...
Hi Jim, ... No problemo! I'm sorry you couldn't make it this time but I'm sure we will have more gatherings and you will always be welcome! ... Hehe, I...
Yup, PHD Autoguiding is the one I settled upon. Looked good, had good reviews and I like his attitude regarding simplicity. I'm a very simple, basic kind of...
Last night I showed a few of you the raw frames to this image the data for which I collected several nights ago. I tried to frame IC405 and IC410 in the same ...
I really enjoyed this version with all the nebulosity between the two brighter regions. Do you think that the scope's f.l. might be longer than its nominal...
Here is another image I took the same night as the IC405-IC410. This Image is of the top part of the Rosette (I have the bottom but have not tried to make a ...
Hi Paul, ... Thanks! ... I think it might be a bit of both. I think the nebulosity extends farther than TheSky's image shows and I think my scope may really be...
Thanks Ray for having us over, it was great to meet everyone and I agree we should do this more often. Thanks for the link and the images also. Iver...
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