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Bravo, Bravo, Bravo

Bloody brilliant
Cheers
Karen

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Hi All the parts are coming together the for the PST Mod. I have the 75mm blocking filter, mounting bracket and pst attachment as recommended from http://www.teleskop-austria.com/ Proposed Donor scopes: I have an ED80 which is f7.5 - which will give me an F8 scope with the 75mm ERF. I just picked up...

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Merlin66 wrote:Karen,
I can probably help you.
Drop me a PM or email and we can arrange a phone call/ skype.
Ken

thanks Ken
will do
Karen

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Honestly I am not the right person to listen too but I know that when folks do PST mods they remove the gold tube from the front and have the body left over as a spare part. Would it be possible to buy or get for free this spare body part to screw your gold tube on to, then the problem would be fix...

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Hi Mark

thanks
this is the only pic of it I have plus a screengrab - though the video does show the whole mechanism moving.

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Hi All my Pst has decided to put itself out of alignment - and I don't mean the parallel to the top alignment that people often talk about. The prism seems to have shifted internally such that it moves from forward to back - i.e it is rocking left to right while in the slider. (I have not dropped it...

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love this set
well done

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Hi All

Just taken. First frame in what i home will be a timelapse.
processed in AS2. thats It,
PST double stacked. DMK21 2x barlow

enjoy.

Karen

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Where is the best place to buy it and your other book in Sydney please ??

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Brilliant.
Great and informative post too
thanks
Karen

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Thanks Valery If I make the Pst mod stage 1 Presumably I can return the Pst back to original for use when double stacked couldn't I ?? The stage 1 is reversible isn't it?? Also where do I find details on the Aries erf please? Or could you PM me some information about it please. Cheers Karen Brillia...

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I agree. I think you will find better uses for the $.
I also housed a vbulletin forum and know exactly how hard it is to deal with robot spam and the rest. You have Titan like strength and perseverance for doing it.
Thanks again for this great site.
Karen

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Thanks Valery

If I make the Pst mod stage 1 Presumably I can return the Pst back to original for use when double stacked couldn't I ??

The stage 1 is reversible isn't it??

Also where do I find details on the Aries erf please? Or could you PM me some information about it please.

Cheers Karen

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Thanks for the reply I'm too chicken to make the Pst mod :shock: And though I have a few skills would not like to test them out with the scopes at stake... :lol: I've had a look at airy thanks Karen Karen, You can order a 265mm D-ERF from us and a telecentric system from Airy Lab. I believe, that i...

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Stunning

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Thanks for the reply

I'm too chicken to make the Pst mod

And though I have a few skills would not like to test them out with the scopes at stake...

I've had a look at airy thanks
Karen

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Hi all, At the moment I'm running a Pst double stacked with the zwo174 or dmk21 I'd like to get in much closer on the sunspots I have an ed80 and a 10' lx200 I'm interested in your opinions on how I should go about using the 10'. Or possibly the ed80 might be more viable. I've looked around I can't ...

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Very good catch! A flare and a surge prominence. There's probably an official classification for the event to be found here: ftp://ftp.swpc.noaa.gov/pub/warehouse/ BTW, looks like Stackistry could work well on this material. Hi, Thanks for the Stakistry tip. I've downloaded it but it says my Avi fi...

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Very well done. The only thing is I believe you have some dust bunnies fluttering about. Have you tried using flats to get rid of them? -Charles thanks yes i think there are dust bunnies. There's also quite a bit of high cloud too. Cshahar can you point me to a tutorial on flats for HA? How exactly...

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Brilliant
Both the images and the mod

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These are stunning congrats

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Hi All It's been a while since i had both time and a clear sky to do any solar. Good to be back. Here are 2 timelapses of 2565 the second with a small flare. Pretty poor seeing and late in our Sydney winter afternoon. taken with a PST on EQ3 mount, unguided, with a DMK21AU04. (640*480pix) 15sec AVI'...

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wow lovely

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love the details on these solar images

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Hi All, Here is the first image from the PST / ZWO174mm combo in rubbish seeing. The ZWO does NOT reach focus in the PST and a Barlow is needed. I used a barlow lens that has a filter thread and screwed it directly into the ZWO 1 1/4 nose piece. Autostakkert2 used with the sharpened setting ticked. ...

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thanks all. :-)

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thanks

I shaved the nosepiece but i don't think i shaved it far enough. I may have to shave down the tube assembly as suggested by eroel.

thanks
Karen

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Hi all, I've been reading through previous posts about the best cameras for solar. The DMK21au is on the small chip side and I am thinking about upgrading. The suggestions for best camera - in the thread Alexandra started - appear to consistently be the ZWO174mono (Point grey is out due to high ship...

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Hi All, This is a timelapse of the sunspot 2470 from Sunday. It's not very interesting until you spend the 40 seconds (compressed from a little over 2.5 hours) looking at the inside edge of the blackness of the sunspot. I hope you find it interesting enough. https://vimeo.com/149617935 I processes t...

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love the transit
very cool
Karen

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thanks guys
Ive been taking your advice Alexandra.. :-)

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Hi Everyone Here is a prom animation from Sunday's sun in Sydney. It is quite a large file as it runs about a minute from a 4 hour session. The prom is quite small but there is also a surface flare at about 40 seconds which is worth seeing. https://vimeo.com/149607225 For this I am using a pst (sing...

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On Sunday the sky was very beautiful and I don't know how I had it as Sat24 was cloud everywhere except the blob of nothing I was sat under. So emergency imaging was activated and out came the Quark. I only expected to get the ARs if possible before cloud but it just stayed clear. So I started taki...

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Oh my.

Brilliant

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Hmm
Not a clear winner in batch mode. Still a lot of flicker
Anyone have suggestions for post processing remedies?
Is there a way to do this in pix insight or photoshop
Cheers
Karen

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Hi
Slightly different answer regarding pix insight
If you're doing time lapse ... It has a nice blink setting so you can see easily frame by frame what's come out of your batch processing. I find it very handy.
Cheers
Karen

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Thanks
I have just done a little test. It's much more even so far. If this keeps up I may go back and reprocess a few other timelapses as well.
cheers, Karen

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Hi Everyone, I'm just wondering what people are doing to even out the background lightness when using registax to batch process Solar Avis I seem to get quite a bit of brightness changes in the processing that I don't know how to even out. is there a more even way to batch process these files to get...

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Karen, I remember you were using imgalt. Its frame alignment functionality is now included also in ImPPG , in a probably easier to use graphical interface. As for Sun tracking, I set up during the day and point the mount (non-GoTo) only approximately at the north, so I have to manually correct ever...

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My HEQ5Pro is pier mounted, controlled by EWMod and will keep a small area of the sun in the fov for hours. The only 'secrets' are good polar alignment and choosing SOLAR tracking rather than SIDEREAL because, yes, the sun does follow a different path. There are solar guiders available but I can't ...

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sensational. wonderful animation - what gear did you use?

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unbelievable. Brilliant - thanks for posting.

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Thanks so much everyone.
much appreciated.

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Thanks for the reply. Id say my problem is polar alignment. I think tomorrow will tell. Ive spent a few hours getting the polar alignment perfect so lets see how it goes tomorrow.

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Hi All, kind of newbie qn for those in the know I try to take solar timelapse over hours but i have trouble getting the mount to follow the sun. i have an eq6 at the dark sky site which does a reasonable job, a meade lx200 which does a terrible job and I now have a new eq3 (second) for the pst at ho...

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HI all,

lovely proms today from sydney

enjoy

cheers
Karen

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Hi

Yes it was quite quick to go
I was impressed by how tall, thin and vertical it was
Usually it's loops etc
Clear skies for all of us !!!!!
K

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HI All
Just an FYI
there is a tall vertical prom now - worth a look
i have too many clouds here so can only see it faintly. too faint for imaging

cheers
Karen

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Great comparison. So surprising the correlation of features. I wouldn't have expected it to be so close.
Thanks for sharing. I've really learned something new here that I can share with others.
Cheers, karen

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:band Hi All A little late with this one but unfortunately the framing was not right because of the unexpected energetic outburst from this prominence. The lesson learnt is to give yourself plenty of head room for such animations :) Animation consists of 79 frames at 2 minutes apart. There is a 30 m...

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