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Skywatcher USA Star Adventurer mount with Canon 1DxMkIII/Canon 500mm f/4 for closeups- 30sec exp at ISO 200 Gitzo Gimbal tripod with Canon 1DxMkIII and a Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro for widefield using 4 second exposures at ISO 3200 single images no stacking still haven’t figured out PixInsight after ow...

what sort of camera and white light filter are you using?
camera choice is very important and should be a high frame rate monochrome astronomy camera for the best sharpness and resolution.

we would need to know exactly what devices are in your imaging train to give you the best advice.

thanks Pedro

Pretty astounding that we could see any Northern lights from almost the tropics but here is about 8 hours of them from last night in the GA Marsh.
3 hurricanes and 2 Northern Lights evenings so far since we moved here....

I have also announced this on our Facebook group and hope to bring hundreds of anxious customers your way.

I have also announced this on our Facebook group and hope to bring hundreds of anxious customers your way.

I am super excited and happy to support the introduction of this device as I think this is the future of solar imaging.
Thank you for announcing it on our forum and I have already placed my order with all accessories.

Cant wait to try it out between the Hurricanes!

I am super excited and happy to support the introduction of this device as I think this is the future of solar imaging.
Thank you for announcing it on our forum and I have already placed my order with all accessories.

Cant wait to try it out between the Hurricanes!

dont know. moving on unless someone wants the thank you mod removed. that’s the only option.

It worked for me too. Not sure why it doesn’t work for others.

OK, the thank you mod is no longer supported and the author has not provided any updates so I’m sure that has something to do with the error you’re getting. I refreshed the mod, synchronized the counters, and did everything that could be done to the existing mod to see if it makes any difference. Le...

i’m gonna move this post over to the forum support issues topic and I will look into this issue now.

Attention cbsap supporters: We will be postponing our fall fundraiser until November 1st. The regional devastation and massive need caused by hurricane Helene up and down the Eastern US, including our own home, is a much more pressing need and I just don’t feel right starting a fundraiser right now ...

OK. I’ll consider it case closed then unless I hear otherwise.

Alexandra asked me to look in to this. I moved the post into Forum Support Issues. The Board is divided in to various Forums. Solarchat! is the main forum. The Forums have topics of discussion inder them and they are called “Topics” Each topic has a series of “Posts” under them from different users....

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Andy,
I’m not sure what you mean about the server error but like Mark said, copying and pasting occurs on your computer only and has nothing to do with our forum server.
Can you elaborate or have you already resolved the issue?

there were several problems getting onto the site today because our SSL certificate mysteriously ran out even though it was set to auto renew…

Anyway, I purchased a new certificate and it took a little time to get everything back to normal but the forum should be working good now.

Beautiful job, mark.
My mother-in-law is turning 80 and a few days also. What to do, what to do?

in 40 years of doing this hobby I have never seen any respected scientific organization put out an accurate forecast for the upcoming solar cycle.

Hi Luca!

Hi Luca!

Meade went out of business a couple months ago.

double stacking should have no effect on your ability to focus. Based on that image, you are having a definite problem with the 2nd etalon. Take the etalon off and look through it at a fluorescent light. You should have clear concentric circles. It almost looks like there’s some sort of oil or subst...

some android users were having difficulty getting past the cloud flare verification screen so we tried to turn off the attack mode on August 6 to see if we could help them get logged in. We were immediately inundated with millions of requests from Russian spammers and the forum slowed to a halt agai...

Believe me, That was just the tip of the iceberg of that horrible situation.
I generally don’t complain too much online about the horrible things people are capable of doing but that one took a lot of restraint.
Don’t even get me started on International Sunday…

i’m glad you asked about SPODs. When I started this forum in 2010 I had several goals in mind after being treated so poorly on cloudy nights and other forums for simply asking questions. One of the goals was to highlight the very, very small group of people worldwide that had put the effort in along...

welcome to the group, Hermann! You should use the diagonal the way you are instructed in the manual for the best image and also to protect your eyesight from infrared light. You must be a glutton for punishment if you are voluntarily going to use pix-insight to process a solar image. You must alread...

im on it

we are still using our cloudflare security provider in the denial of service attack mode so you should still be getting a page to verify you are a legit user before you are allowed to login. If this is causing any undue issues, please let me know. We are still getting about 20 million requests a day...

Amazing stuff Minhlead!

let's work out a special solar chat zoom meeting on your time zone to promote and help this product to market.

I had to enable the Cloudflare "under attack mode" today on our paid service that tries to slow down bot attacks as we had gotten over 1.3 million requests in the last few hours. This causes massive delays, et... and overwhelms the server so no legitimate users can get in. Then malicious c...

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these are the wavelengths that penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere

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(1 micron equals 1000 nanometers)

It was a very emotional week filled with meetings with national politicians and city leaders. It was also brutally hot with temperatures at 38c or higher and skies filled with Saharan dust. Somehow, we all worked together and pulled it off! Astronomy Outreach of Kosovo, led by Pranvera Hyseni comple...

OK everybody, my bags are packed and I’m ready to go. I’m leaving for Istanbul this evening and will arrive in Kosovo 20 hours later tomorrow afternoon. The President and possibly Prime Minister of the country will be attending the ceremony on Wednesday to open the first observatory and science cent...

short answer-no, not without significantly modifying the LS80 and making the LS35 unusable afterwards.
A doublestacking etalon made for the LS80 would be the way to go.

Here's a couple more test images with a total rethinking of my imaging gear and techniques. These are single exposures.

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awesome. So you are clearly on a much higher level than I am. I have had this forum running under three different types of forum software since 2010. I did the big export and import of all the databases into different packages twice, with moderate success :), and don’t want to ever do it again. I kn...

Rudi, how would you rate your skills in advanced forum coding to fix problems, cosmetics and database structure/access?

about 2200.

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Anyone who joined but has not signed in since January 2019 and has also never posted anything was removed today to speed up the database a little. I did a search for spam emails and there were hundreds of suspicious emails registered. In order to maintain the safety of the forum, these users were re...

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hi welcome to the forum! You may not believe this but we get almost the exact same basic question about four times a month here. A person buys a small h alpha scope to start because they don’t know what they are getting into or for financial reasons and then starts adding every accessory on Earth an...

Orion is currently suing Celestron for the same reasons. Celestron is equipped financially to fight back, Meade wasn’t. There is no telling what’s going to happen to the Coronado brand. I stay out of all the retail nonsense on purpose and will continue to do so. I have 3 old Coronado telescopes left...

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