First Light

[Jim]

First light with my new Atik 16ic. I was going to DSC but my back went yesterday so instead camped out in the garden all night.
M57 10 x 60 sec subs and M13 20 x 60 sec subs. Meade 127 Refractor. Using a QHY5 guiding with an OAG. Dark and bias subtraction but still to figure out how to do a flat field

[Mike]

I can't see anything.

[Jim]

I posted a facebook link but obviously did something wrong. Any ideas. Links are

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4526678&l=0213776de4&id=622948196

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4526679&l=f9c7cf068a&id=622948196

[Rick]

You need to put the link to the image itself inside the IMG tag, not the link to the page containing the image.

[Jim]

Cheers Rick, Facebook does not seem to allow that. I'll post them in the gallery and do a link from there.

[Mac]

Easy if you cheat.

Nice images by the way.

ps. straight from facebook

[Jim]

Thanks Mac, now tell me how to do that!

[Rick]

Something like this...

• Go to appropriate FaceBook page
• Put cursor over image on page
• Right click and select "Copy Image Location" (or some such)
• Paste said location between the IMG tags

[Mac]

Thats the beauty.
Right mouse click over the image and you get "Copy image URL".

Told you it was easy.

Mac.

[Rocket Pooch]

A new toy for France then one observation is the guiding is not bang on, but its very close so its a good start.

Chris

[Jim]

Yes the guiding kept going after 5 mins or so and I had to keep restarting it. Need to play around with the backlash settings etc. Looking forward to France

[Fay]

Jim, I'm impressed, good job you have started to get some practice in!!!!!!

[Carole]

Well done Jim.  I hear M57 is a hard one to get, so well done.

Sorry to hear about your back, you missed a good weekend, but glad to see you still managed to do some imaging.  No holding you back now.

Carole

[Mike]

Nice images Jim. Do you have colour filters?

[MarkS]

Nice M13 Jim!  The core looks good and not burnt out.

Mark

[RobertM]

Nice images Jim, the 127 is giving plenty of resolution.  I think there is a slight miss-focus but a bit more practice will sort that out.

Robert

[Jim]

Thanks everyone for your encouragement. I tried again on saturday night but just could not get the goto to work properly. The small chip size of the Atik makes finding the target really difficult. I don't have any filters yet Mike, next on my to buy list! Hope you all had a good DSC.

[Carole]

JIm, I have a filter wheel and LRGB filters which I bought thinking I was going to buy a Monocrome camera.  I paid (I think) £180 for the lot.  Currently I have no plans to buy a CCD monocrome camera, so rather than lie around not being used you are welcome to borrow/buy off me.

Carole

[Jim]

Thanks Carole, I'll PM you.