elgol20

Never give up, Rudy, though being down is ok for a while. Yes, getting older ain't easy but surely you are no fool !

Hi Rudy, I am OK, bright nights and riding bike with son, so postponing AP a bit... Hey, great to hear you got too strong again :-)

cool Rudy!! So what 20kg scope will you buy then next to get this mount busy?:-D

for this money you can get better. giro is more stable. also you have some leverage. I made a solution more stable for less invest, see posts some months ago

seen so often always nice. really. maybe for it was one of a few objects i could see as a kid with my tiny scope, rutger☺

30 sec without sternenfresser-issue 😂

700 times 6 sec??? raw? crazy...😏

I was wondering how much longer I need to expose H-Alpha in the city compared to dark sky? I know you can calculate a lot, maybe someone knows by experience. I realize the noise after ...

hi guido, hm, hm, sorry to hear that, never had problems with APP so far, so I cannot help you except trying the usual stuff like deinstall, install etc. The colors/noise looks a bit strange. How ...

Hi, great to see all the new images recently, weather seems to get better over the globe. I finished my first tests with my Lighttrack II with the polemaster and concluded for now that my limit is ...

Hu guys, by the way, in the meantime I restarted my autoguider mount again. Even with polemaster I could only double the time with the lightrack to still get sharp stars at 400mm and fullfame, so ...

Hi anil, APP is in development all the time and maybe you wait a few days till version 1.057 darks, flats and bias are not put into lights, at least I do so. best may be to create masterframes ...

Hi Steve, if you look here you can see the Sigma performs pretty well unless you have a possible decentered version. I chose the Nikon for the wheight, size and weather sealing. I thought "loosing" ...

15 thousand? shi...... 😂

great job! can you tell how many frames you took in total?

from what I see it is a 123mm diameter not 139

this is what the first stack looked like without any pp first stack after some post to my taste in APP some further adjustments to my liking that evening (I usually prefer natural color as well) fi ...

like I said, yes except for the brightest region. I stacked them all together and processeed them. correction only for inside... wait have pics somewhere -- __ _ Stefan

Just the inside area was blown even with 32bit Tiffs, since M42 has great contrast I think using just one exposure will not render what I like. For me I want to see the trapezium, was a problem ...

both :). all stacked plus inside region superimposed with stacked 15sec exposures via PS -- __ _ Stefan