Steve, Nice M64 image. Glad someone getting some clear skys. Skys clear here tonight after weeks of crap, but it's blowing a gale, suppose I could always use...
Hi all I put my new William Optics ZS70 mm f/6.2 with Vixen 0.6X reducer to work the other night during first light testing of the scope. Moon was 1/2...
Hi all, Steve M mentioned that he had noticed sometimes that the GSTAR when set to x128 isn't actually integrating at x128. I recently imaged the tarantula...
hello richard i dont think its wireless for all the camera functions too just the video output. you still need to hang a power cable to the camera anyway. john...
Hi Neil Thanks for the reminder on this. I need to update the FAQ page on the GSTAR site where we have similar advice at the bottom of the page. Knowing that...
Hi Robert, I saw you at SEQAS' meeting last month and you offered to have a look at some photos of mine and process them in Gimp. Since the meeting I have sent...
I thought I had fixed this a few releases ago. At the same time as I added a menu item to set Factory Presets without having to use those pesky little...
Chris, Steve, I didn't even know that GStar2Com could be expanded to reset factory defaults etc! Thanks for that. Also, is there a way to do the sun occulting...
Hi Steve, Thanks for your kind words. I have been playing around with some images to try and improve them. sometimes you get lucky. I say this because I'm...
Hello Chris, Tony Barry writing. have been looking at the GSTAR-EX and am wondering about software, particularly the control program for RS232 operation of...
Seems Ok to me testing indoors capturing dark frames by switching between sense-up off through to x128 and back gives a progressive increase/decrease in hot...
Make sure you are running GStarCapture v2.6.21 or GStarCom v2.2.2 versions, or later, the problem did occur in earlier versions.(thanks Rob for suggesting it...
Chris, Everything is OK with GStarCom, I just noticed that the GSTAR wasn't operating at x128 until I did a dark frame. The factory reset in GStarCom works...
HiAll Have been doing a bit of searching of late for some freebie Video Tutorials and have found the following links for Photoshop,Paintshop and MaxLm Dl Ver 4...
Hi Dave, Thanks for these web sites. I use MaxDL extensively for image capture and processing with a variety of cameras and purposes. I have mountains of...
Hello all, I am trying to input the CCD dimensions of the Gstar into AstroPlanner, but am having some difficulty. The Website lists the pixel dimensions OK,...
... Glad to be of some help I also use Max Dl for stacking and found it to do a much better job than DSS and found the tutorials of great help and as you say...
Hi Dave, If you have never used it, K3CCD Tools is another very good program for image calibration, quality assessment, ranking, aligning and stacking. I use...
... You might find this link below of interest. http://www.primordial-light.com/macastronomer.html It is a Astronomy site for Mac users offering software...
I like to see all the new pics posted and compare them to the ones i take (admittedly i havent posted any for a while) .However i cant do that in many cases as...