Sept 8th, 2022

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Post by Oak »

Hi All,

Just wanted to share a few captures from today. This was my first attempt at imaging with the ASI174MM. I must say, it was very nice to have integration with the mount via firecapture and feature tracking. There are a few alignment artifacts though that may be related. These are taken with a Quark+Lunt 40mm double stack in a 127mm/1200 doublet with a 2-inch 35nm H-alpha filter as ERF. Hope you enjoy.

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Derek

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Re: Sept 8th, 2022

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Those are beauties Derek!


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Re: Sept 8th, 2022

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Thanks Warren.


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Re: Sept 8th, 2022

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Derek,
WoW!! These are beautiful! Very nice. I think the last one is my fav.

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Re: Sept 8th, 2022

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These came out great Derek !

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Re: Sept 8th, 2022

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Oak wrote: Fri Sep 09, 2022 1:45 am Hi All,

Just wanted to share a few captures from today. This was my first attempt at imaging with the ASI174MM. I must say, it was very nice to have integration with the mount via firecapture and feature tracking. There are a few alignment artifacts though that may be related. These are taken with a Quark+Lunt 40mm double stack in a 127mm/1200 doublet with a 2-inch 35nm H-alpha filter as ERF. Hope you enjoy.

Derek
Wonderfull detail Derek; I especially like those in high contrast color :bow :bow
Thx for sharing
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Re: Sept 8th, 2022

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Thanks everyone. There were some beautiful things up there to photograph.


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Excellent Derek, and very nicely processed !

Have you tried the "cropped" option in AS3 ?


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Re: Sept 8th, 2022

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Fantastic! You could have cropped the second and the third one, as Christian suggested.
What are your color settings? I like them very much.


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A very nice set of images there!


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Re: Sept 8th, 2022

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christian viladrich wrote: Sat Sep 10, 2022 6:52 am Excellent Derek, and very nicely processed !

Have you tried the "cropped" option in AS3 ?
Thanks Christian. These are cropped because my polar alignment was not great. Not sure what is causing the horizontal line in the bottom left. I don't see it in the first image where I did not use guiding but do see it in most others. I will try to reprocess a few and see if anything changes.


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Re: Sept 8th, 2022

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These are absolutely wonderful :bow :hamster:

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Re: Sept 8th, 2022

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Oak wrote: Sat Sep 10, 2022 11:14 am
christian viladrich wrote: Sat Sep 10, 2022 6:52 am Excellent Derek, and very nicely processed !

Have you tried the "cropped" option in AS3 ?
Thanks Christian. These are cropped because my polar alignment was not great. Not sure what is causing the horizontal line in the bottom left. I don't see it in the first image where I did not use guiding but do see it in most others. I will try to reprocess a few and see if anything changes.
I was able to fix the artifact. There is a setting in the autostakkert "advanced" menu called "Detect abrupt horizontal and vertical artifacts" that did the trick. Now, I am quite happy with these.

-Derek

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That's really beautiful Derek.


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Thanks Maurits.


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Re: Sept 8th, 2022

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Fabulous results Derek!

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