Waste of time last night

[Fay]

Tried the Horsehead with the Canon, last night. Everything went ok setting up etc. Did 25x300, & it is complete rubbish.

Gradients, amp glow, vertical banding, you name it, I got it! I cannot bring out any detail. I think I should not have used the Focal Reducer, as the HH is too small. Next door made a cup of coffee & then left 75 lights on the rest of the night. The sky was very light, & Orion was heading in the direction of  the Moon & next door's kitchen.

Afterwards went to Rosette, it was in very good focus & sky area was not quite so light. I only got 3x300 before clouds rolled in. I stacked the 3 with darks, flats etc & it would have been a better image than the HH. I could not do more than 300secs & the subs were a very light pink anyway. I know 300s is not long enough for nebulae.

Thanks for your help, Chris.


Fay 

[JohnP]

I added another 20X 5mins to the Jelly - I now have something like 50 frames... My longest image ever... Will try & process later...

[Fay]

I just restacked HH. It came out a bit better, better than first time & not so long. It is still nothing to wrote home about. I have used noels actions etc. I think it is too small, using fr & too noisy, but sky was very light. Hope your jellyfish is much improved, although it was good anyway. At least Gemini was in a better position for imaging.

[MarkS]

Agreed, conditions were not at all good last night.  I also tried to get some Horsehead data using the Canon and the CLS filter.  I got 30 frames before the clouds rolled in but they are very noisy - in fact I can't even see the HH on each sub - it is drowned out by the background

Mark

[Rocket Pooch]

your all nuts, I went out froze, thought sod it the skies were only mag3 anyway, came in and watched a file, your mad!

[RobertM]

I think you'd be better off watching a film or television Chris ! 

[Rocket Pooch]

I live a boring life...

[Fay]

I'm glad about that, Mark, I thought it was me!!

[Daniel]

I had a crap night too, took the gear out, set up, tried to align and was stopped by my RA grinding to a halt every time it went through the 6 O'clock position, so had to give up and looks like I'll be sending it off to be repaired!

That said, Chris's comment that the skies were only mag 3 made me chuckle, my limiting magnitude here is about 3.4 on a perfect night at zenith.

Daniel
:O)

[Fay]

Oh, hope you get that fixed quick, Daniel. So all in all a bad night was had by everyone.....................except Chris   

[Rocket Pooch]

I had a crap night too, took the gear out, set up, tried to align and was stopped by my RA grinding to a halt every time it went through the 6 O'clock position, so had to give up and looks like I'll be sending it off to be repaired!

That said, Chris's comment that the skies were only mag 3 made me chuckle, my limiting magnitude here is about 3.4 on a perfect night at zenith.

Daniel
:O)

Whats the mount Daniel?

Also 3.4, that would be nice when the gym lights are on but 3.4 without lights wow you must have really bad pollution.

[Daniel]

Hi Chris, my mount is a CGE (which turns out is a pain in the arse to get serviced)

On a perfect night I can just about make out the dimmest star in cassiopaea with averted vision which is about mag 3.39!

Daniel
:O)

[Rocket Pooch]

wow how does that mount carry that scope, and wow thats light pollution!

[Daniel]

wow how does that mount carry that scope

Not very well apparently!