It is a bright spot, although the majority of BSky is still better than the hellscape of Twitter.
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It is a bright spot, although the majority of BSky is still better than the hellscape of Twitter.
What a surprise. Trying out HDR mode on my #Touptek 585 mono and aimed at the squid nebula. Got 2 hours on each filter, Ha-Oiii-Sii and shocked with what I got. This is going to be my next project. I'll aim for 40ish hours with a bias towards the H and Oiii. #Astronomy #Astrophotography #Space
Thank you.
Really loving the nights getting longer. 5 good hours on the Cygnus Wall last night and a quick caffeine fuelled push through Pixinsight gets me this image. #Astronomy #Space #Astrophotography
Dr Zoidberg in the house. Last nights quick edit of the Lobster Claw Nebula. Little too much blue bleeding over but I'll sort that later. Just wanted to see what I could do over lunch. 5h SHO image. I did get some RGB stars that I might swap in later. #Astronomy #Space #Astrophotography
Really should update that pic. Went back to mono in the spring after an extended time using OSC cameras.
I must have done something good today, the guiding gods are smiling down on me. #Astrophotography #Space #Astronomy
Tonight is looking nice and clear. Hopefully no high cloud turns up. Guiding looking good and first sub in. Off to bed for me. Have a great nice astro nerds. I'll push out a quick process in the morning. #Space #Astronomy #Astrophotography
They are a newish Taiwanese company. Nico Carver reviewed it and it performed well against his Tak.Cuiv had a preproduction model and apart from pinched optics it looked good. It's f3.9 so it's gonna be hard to get ultra sharp but the extra speed might be nice and as you say, BXT can sort the rest.
yeah, is it just the minicat or the standard 51 too?
I still find it shocking that the redcat star shapes are so bad that WO put in the literature that you have to use BXT with it.
Forgot I had this Crescent Nebula data from the other night. Again, most of the night lost to haze and high cloud but what's left goes in the bank for adding to the project. #astronomy #astrophotography #space
that's what annoys me about the SQA too and that they make you buy the belt kit as an add-on to something that is designed as an astrograph so is almost definitely going to be used with an EAF. It is incredibly sharp though but the Draco comes very close to it for sharpness.
little bit more aperture and faster too. Also no need for a belt kit for an EAF. www.firstlightoptics.com/founder-opti...
Couple of cups of coffee later and got rid of some green and the magenta stars. Won't spend much longer on it as it's only 2 hours of data. #astronomy #astrophotography #space #nebula
Battled with high level cloud last night but salvaged a couple of hours of data on the Wizard Nebula. Starting to look for a wider scope, eyeing up the Draco 62 or the SQA55. Any astro nerds out there got the Draco 62? #astronomy #astrophotography #space #nebula
Well, 3 out of the last 4 nights it's been clear enough to image the wonders of the heavens. Camera cooler is working overtime, hot out there. Anyway, first sub in so off to bed with a cider shandy with plenty of ice and a plan to watch episode 3 of Wednesday. Night all. #astronomy #astrophotography
There seems to be a significant number of people who won't see it, even when it is there job that gets axed.
Watching from the outside, I start to wander what path there is out of this for America.
Now I've got "Electric Six - Gay Bar" in my head for the rest of the day.
stop teasing.
Starting to feel like that 2024 film Civil War was a documentary sent from the future as a warning.
3 hours last night imaging. Can't wait for the longer nights and more imaging time. Here is the Elephant Trunk Nebula. Need to grab some time getting some RGB stars tonight. #Astronomy #Astrophotography #Space
Imaging the Elephant Trunk tonight, first of the Ha subs in and all looking good so off to bed now. We'll see what the morning brings. #astrophotography #astronomy
I went back to mono in March this year. Been a while as I switched to OSC quite a while ago as they were getting so good, but I have to say, I really do love the ease of mono processing. #astrophotography #astronomy #touptek
Only got a couple of hours on the Western Veil last night but pushed the little bit of data through Pixinsight. I'll add more soon and maybe even make a mosaic of it if I can be bothered. #astronomy #astrophotography
Mono can be daunting but it's actually so much easier to process the images when you get a basic workflow going.
Well, after weeks of waiting. here at 50 degrees north there's finally enough darkness to make an imaging session worthwhile. So to welcome the dark I've gone to visit an old friend, The Western Veil Nebula. First sub in and it's good to be back at the pier. #astrophotograpy #touptek
Lex was a genius. Trump, at best, is one of Lex's failed experiments.
Opinion - Yes . Popular/Progressive - NO.
It's glorious to see you spineless shit weasels being crapped on by the whole of Bluesky.
My Switch backlog is so long my descendants will have to complete it. Last thing I need is a new Switch.
Check out this story, shocking but at the same time not at all surprising. youtu.be/BzMGiVF7dN4?...
Thanks. Just a struggle balancing the dark background and dark dust.
Well I've really had enough of trying to get a satisfactory image of the Iris Nebula for a while. This one has beaten me for a while. Anyway, here is what 20ish hours of data and some hair loss during processing gets me. #astrophotography #astronomy #space #nebula #touptek
and gagged the Washington Post from hurting Trumps feelings.
It's always a struggle as the dust is so dark and the core so bright. It's a pain processing it.
Got a couple of unexpected hours on the Iris Nebula last night. I'll add more with a few full nights coming up. Anyway, here is a quick process in Pixinsight. #Astrophotography #Touptek #Astronomy
Been using the scripts for a while, first time looking at the stand alone app.
Well, 4 nights on the Pinwheel Galaxy and had a play with SetiAstroSuite. Really not sure I've got the hang of it yet. 20ish hours of LRGB and got 4 hours of Ha to add at some point. #Astrophotography #Astronomy
had a nice full night on the Pinwheel Galaxy last night and quickly had a play with the data while eating lunch, I'll have a better go after a few more hours data tonight. #astrophotography #astronomy
I f'ing hate that weasel.
Why is he dressed like Pauly Walnuts?
StellaMira 90mm triplet and a touptek 585 mono
The joys of waking up in the morning to find your imaging session died about an hour after you went to bed. Oh well, there will be other nights to add to the data. Anyway, tried a few different things with the 1.5h I got on the Monkey Head Nebula. Rough data so better to come. #Astrophotography
3x l to everything else.
Had some spare time today so had a better play with my Bodes/Cigar Galaxy image (M81/M82) Not a lot of data, 3.5 hours of LRGB+Ha. Happy with it so far, will add some more at another time. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
I'll give that a go in the morning. Thanks.
Ah yes. Forgot about that and I'd only just watched a SA video on that too.
Ok AstroFam, just tried adding some Ha to my LRGB Bodes data and wondering if anyone has any good workflow tips for adding it. Just seems kinda saturated a little too much but don't want to dial the Ha down too much. #Astrophotography #Touptek #Skywatcher #Astronomy
are they hosted anywhere else?
Any astro nerds out there got a Gemini power box ? I just got one from AliExpress and some reviews say it's controllable within NINA but I can't find any ASCOM drivers. #astrophotography #astronomy
Thanks. Must be a bug in my blue sky app on my phone.
Can everyone see the picture? I've just switched from my laptop to my phone and the phone app just shows a blank white picture.
Well it's Friday night and the skies are clear so it's party time in the astro world. First 180s Sii sub of the evening on the Jellyfish Nebula and looking ok. Hope it stays clear, got 5 hours until it dips too low and might shift to the Pinwheel Galaxy after. #Astrophotography #Astronomy
so where in train do you have the filter drawer at the moment?
you want your filter drawer screwed directly to the camera. What is your setup?
Peter Thiel's pet VP out there spewing bollocks, as usual.
Who the F made the proposal?
Thanks
I had to look at so now you do too, here's the halo I couldn't be bothered to deal with today. #Astrophotography #Astronomy
Just pushed last nights data through pixinsight for a quick and dirty process. Alnitak ruined the image, well my Oiii filter did, massive halo and too frustrating to deal with so dynamic crop went to work. I'll play with it some more when I have time. #astrophotography
My Amiga 1200 had a pcmcia slot. Can't remember if the 500 did. I eventually filled it with a pcmcia network card.
It wasn't that big actually. It was in my Amiga. 2.5" drive but only 80mb. Pretty sure it cost me nearly as much as the Amiga.
My first hard drive was 80Mb and I never did fill it up.
A few hours, not house.
Just watch a video saying they they've stopped deliveries of the CT because bits are falling off at highway speeds.
Getting a few house on the Horsehead Nebula before it ducks behind the horizon. Single Ha sub, raw and a denoised version. Wish my neighbours would move, and take their house with them. I want to shoot the Elephant Trunk. #Astrophotography
Yeah. Nobody needs 5 hours of green. I'll be doing some cable management this afternoon so it doesn't happen tonight.
First mono processing in over a decade. Bodes and the Cigar galaxy, core blown out but happy with first proper night back with a mono camera. Only got a couple of hours LRGB, mostly G as the filterwheel usb fell out so lost 5 hours of clear skies. #astrophotography #astronomy #Touptek #Skywatcher
Hopefully getting a first proper night with my new 585 mono camera. First luminance sub in and looks nice. #Astrophotography #Touptek
it doesn't show up anywhere else, I was wondering if BSky introduced it when uploaded. No sign of it in the raw fits file.
I'm hoping Touptek release a rotator soon and undercut everyone.
it's that pattern over the whole image, but only when I post it to BSky.
ASE?
Yeah, all duties paid by touptek
it only shows up when I post to BSky. I used the SA statistical stretch and NoiseX on the raw sub to create the jpeg. Nothing shows in PI or any pic viewer. Just wondered if BSky doesn't like greyscale jpegs. Here is a zoomed in grab from Bsky. Can you see the grid like pattern?
Okay BSky and #astrophotography nerds. Why does Bsky introduce this pattern in my image when I post it. It's a single 60s Ha sub, stretched and denoised in Pixinsight and saved as a jpeg. Doesn't show up anywhere else.
really odd pattern, just screen grabbed and saved in paint and reposted and it's ok, maybe BSky doesn't like greyscale jpegs.
any idea why BSky introduces this pattern in the pic thats not seen anywhere else?
Not sure why BSky has introduced this pattern in the pic
Wow, single 60s Ha on the Rosette with a denoise and stretch.
Sky has cleared, all up and running but now realised I've got to re-do all of my NINA templates for mono.
The warehouse is a credit cards nightmare. Thinking M101, seems nice even with the reducer.
Might have to take a cycle up to FLO and grab a straight flattener for my triplet to use the full 600mm and try out a galaxy.
An irresistible bargain. Would have had it yesterday but missed the post. clear last night too, cloudy now.
Well the bargain of the year turned up today. £650 early bird special for a cooled 585 mono camera, 8 position filter wheel and full set of LRGBSHO filters. All this was cheaper than a colour ZWO 585 on its own. #astrophotography #touptek #astronomy
When will he release his "Christine O'Donnell" style ad?
Chief procurement officers, Epstein's replacement.
They'll be invited for dinner at Mar-a-Lago.
Free school meals for all, remove any stigma attached to it.
It'll make ZERO difference. They'll still keep voting for the face eating leopards before they put an "X" next to a democratic party candidate.
Consider yourself fortunate and probably not in as much debt. lol
Any #Astrophotography nerds out there own a #Touptek OAG X variant, the larger one? Is that an M42 thread on top? Can you use an older flat/pancake style #ZWO ASI290 on it or do you have to use a thin guide scope and insert it in the tube? Are there any downsides to getting the larger OAG?
