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Iver, Thanks. I did use those settings which worked just fine. I did run into a number of problems though, not related to the GOTO connection. Initially I couldn’t get a good image from the guide camera, all I got was a black image with no data. I disconnected/reconnected the guide camera a few tim...

Great images!

Joe R wrote: ↑

18 Mar 2023, 03:51

Dunmunro,

Thanks for the replay. Great idea and will try it tomorrow. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Thanks Again

Joe

You can use simulators to test your script during the day.

All, I’m really liking AA8, especially when moving along the learning curve quickly! I ran into another dilemma and looking for a solution. I have an 8 position filter wheel with LRGB and narrow band filters. When auto-focusing I’ve been using 3 seconds exposures for the LRGB filters and 30 seconds...

This is an integration of 8 x 1200sec ( 2.66 hours) exposures using an Orion Starshoot Pro V2 OSC 6MP APSC camera and a 10in F10 SCT @ F7 via a Starizona .63X SCT focal reducer. I autoguided the image with an OAG using Astroart's Full Frame guiding. PreProcessing: Sigma Sum Colour Demosaic = 4 gradi...

This is an integration of 43 x 300sec ( 3.6 hours) exposures using an Orion Starshoot Pro V2 OSC 6MP APSC camera and a 10in F6.3 SCT @ F5 via a Starizona .75X SCT focal reducer. I guided the image with a 50mm F3.6 guidescope using Astroart's Full Frame guiding as I couldn't find a suitable guidestar...

AndrewP wrote: ↑

23 Feb 2023, 11:04

Hi

No just a fixed tripod. The simpler the better!

Andrew

The KISS principle!

Awesome!

So you're using an 85mm camera lens on an equatorial mount?

This is M64 from last night: 10in F7 SCT on a CEM120 mount, 8 x 20min subs, dark subtracted, Drizzle stacked, 20 x LR deconvolution, DDP and a gradient filter in lieu of flats. I'm not completely happy with this image as we had some high, thin cloud, and I didn't get enough subs. M64_8x20minLRx20_DD...

sharky1961 wrote: ↑

10 Feb 2023, 07:43

Good Morning,

can somebody help me to automate my darks library.
for example how can I automate 50 darks with temperature -10°c and 300 seconds?
where can I see the actual temperature of the sensor.

best regards

Rob

Which camera are you using?

That's interesting. Yes, that plug-in is single-threaded. It looks like most of the blurring is caused by image deformations from different wavelengths, not PSF. Maybe after having separated the image into R-G-B channel the new alignment with distortions could attenuate the problem (align R to G, t...

That's interesting. Yes, that plug-in is single-threaded. It looks like most of the blurring is caused by image deformations from different wavelengths, not PSF. Maybe after having separated the image into R-G-B channel the new alignment with distortions could attenuate the problem (align R to G, t...