Juno16 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 02, 2021 12:27 pm
No dew heaters? I know where I live, I would not get very far without them. The only salvation would be if there was wind. I made my first set out of very inexpensive nichrome wire and duct tape using a led light controller. About $25 for both the main scope, guide scope, and controller.
You captured some pretty nice details in about an hour. Nice! I know that you want feedback and I do see a bit of green near the core on both my pc and iphone.
I heard you mention N.I.N.A. Cool. I hope that you are enjoying it.
Thanks, Jim for the feedback and the encouraging words. I really like working with the D5300, since I got a decent flat light source it has become pretty straightforward. I'm happy to report that it has found a good home
Dew heaters - I have been resisting adding that bit of kit, and am not sure I am ready yet. It most impacts me in the Fall for some reason and has mostly plagued my experience with M31 and M33 over the years. I have thought about adding a fan behind the mirror, but the C6N mirror mount looks pretty well sealed up back there when I take the cover off and I'm not sure I could get any decent air flow through there. I may try setting up a fan to one side of the mount blowing air across it and see if that helps at all.
I agree about the hint of green in there. Interestingly the "Max
RGB" view in the
StarTools Color module shows a lot of red in the core and blue everywhere else with just a touch of yellow right around the core - no green at all. It reminds me of M57 more than anything else. I will be messing around with color balance and see what I can do.
I have not embraced N.I.N.A. in its entirety just yet. I really like some of the tools (framing is one, and I like the manual rotator concept), but I recall you having trouble integrating the Nikon, and I am still not a fan of the Discord support model (just an old fashioned guy, I guess). Ivo has been very responsive to whatever issues I come up with using
APT, most recently putting a fix into
APT in a matter of days for its differences with
CdC in reporting camera angle, even though IMO the issue is squarely on the
CdC side of things. I was looking at N.I.N.A. originally as being needed when I moved to a dedicated camera, but using the Nikon has made that move less important to me for the time being.
Hoping to get decent weather next Thursday or Friday, we'll see how that plays out!
Bob
Hardware: Celestron C6-N w/ Advanced GTmount, Baader MK iii CC, Orion ST-80, Canon 60D (unmodded), Nikon D5300 (modded), Orion SSAG
Software: BYE, APT, PHD2, DSS, PhotoShop CC 2020, StarTools, Cartes du Ciel, AstroTortilla