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Finally got some no clouds, snow and moon nights and collected some photons on a couple of objects and surrounding areas. Have been suffering the curse of spending money and the weather goes away but than again I do choose to live at 5500' in the mountains of Utah.
IC434 and area with my WO GT81, AT2FF, and Orion G26 OSC.
NGC4631 and NGC4656/7 and some really small and fainter galaxies. Plan is to get more subs and see where they go. Astro Tech AT152EDT, ASI2600 running on the CGX-L all being guided with a WO Uniguide50. Had some issues with tracking on the 5 min subs so some egg shaped stars and like I said working out the kinks in this rig. And mind you these are low rez jpg's.
Such a long long time to be gone, such a short time to be.
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Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro with Rowan Belt Mod
Stuff: ASI EAF Focus Motor (x2), ZWO OAG, ZWO 30 mm Guide Scope, ASI 220mm min, ASI 120mm mini, Stellarview 0.8 FR/FF, Sharpstar 0.8 FR/FF, Mele Overloock 3C.
Camera/Filters/Software: ASI 533 mc pro, ASI 120mm mini, ASI 220mm mini , IDAS LPS D-1, Optolong L-Enhance, ZWO UV/IR Cut, N.I.N.A., Green Swamp Server, PHD2, Adobe Photoshop CC, Pixinsight.
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Hi Ratskrad. A nice pair of images from you here. Very good details and color on these. Thanks for sharing these captures with us Ratskad, and a big welcome to the forum.
Marshall
Sky-Watcher 90mm f/13.8 Maksutov-Cassegrain on motorized Multimount
Orion Astroview 120ST f/5 Refractor on EQ3 mount
Celestron Comet Catcher 140mm f/3.64 Schmidt-Newtonian on alt-az mount
Celestron Omni XLT150R f/5 Refractor on CG4 mount with dual axis drives.
Orion 180mm f/15 Maksutov-Cassegrain on CG5-GT Goto mount.
Orion XT12i 12" f/4.9 Dobsonian Intelliscope.
Kamakura 7x35 Binoculars and Celestron SkyMaster 15x70 Binoculars. ZWO ASI 120MC camera.
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ratskrad wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:35 pm
Finally got some no clouds, snow and moon nights and collected some photons on a couple of objects and surrounding areas. Have been suffering the curse of spending money and the weather goes away but than again I do choose to live at 5500' in the mountains of Utah.
IC434 and area with my WO GT81, AT2FF, and Orion G26 OSC.
NGC4631 and NGC4656/7 and some really small and fainter galaxies. Plan is to get more subs and see where they go. Astro Tech AT152EDT, ASI2600 running on the CGX-L all being guided with a WO Uniguide50. Had some issues with tracking on the 5 min subs so some egg shaped stars and like I said working out the kinks in this rig. And mind you these are low rez jpg's.
Welcome to the forum. Nice images for a start. Hopefully, you are ok with some questions and critiques.
1. Never complain about being at 5500'. The higher, the better, when the weather cooperates. That's why all the major observatories are built on top of mountains. Last summer when Comet Neowise was high in the evening sky, I took a trip to Brian Head Peak at 11,300' and was absolutely AMAZED at the clarity in the sky overhead. Sadly, about two hours into imaging we had a front move in with clouds. But for 2 glorious hours, the sky was amazing.
2. How many subs and did you shoot flats and darks too? On the galaxy image, you have an odd reflection or dust mote in the center that flats might eliminate.
3. Regarding your guiding, you may need a bit more focal length on your guide-scope. That little WO UniGuide 50 (200mm fl) is in my opinion only good for guiding the main scope up to about 600-700mm fl. Even if you have a .8x reducer/flattener, which you didn't mention, you would be shooting at around 850mm fl.
