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by mAnKiNd
Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:18 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: January 2020
Replies: 13
Views: 3449

January 2020

January is not entirely over, but with no clear skies in sight, I though I'd post a few targets I've enjoyed acquiring through Live Stack in Sharpcap. All frames saved individually and post processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop. Full rez and details in the links: https://www.astrobin.com/9j3re6/?nc=...
by mAnKiNd
Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:24 pm
Forum: Deep Sky Imaging
Topic: OSC camera single captures
Replies: 9
Views: 3155

Re: OSC camera single captures

Thanks for the shoutout Dave. Stacking of live stacks was a fun experiment that worked out better than I expected. One of the reasons I believe that was the case, is that each individual live stack, already has a very good statistical representation of signal intensities in each pixel, having averag...
by mAnKiNd
Wed Oct 23, 2019 12:33 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: M33, Vixen 81s + Atik 314E, LRGB filters
Replies: 3
Views: 1663

Re: M33, Vixen 81s + Atik 314E, LRGB filters

Nice one Dave :)
by mAnKiNd
Fri Oct 04, 2019 3:54 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: M33, Vixen 81s + Atik 314E, LRGB filters
Replies: 3
Views: 1663

Re: M33, Vixen 81s + Atik 314E, LRGB filters

Very interesting and really nice result! I wonder what the colour balance would look like without the luminance layer (at the expense of SNR), as I always find that when I integrate luminance on emission nebula RGB, it pushes my data towards "Salmon City Pink"! :s Very interesting read fro...
by mAnKiNd
Tue Aug 13, 2019 1:03 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: M42 chronicles
Replies: 48
Views: 25817

Re: M42 chronicles

Super thread! keep it up :)
by mAnKiNd
Mon Apr 15, 2019 12:17 pm
Forum: Deep Sky Imaging
Topic: sticky exposure length or sticky gain/offset for sky-limited exposures?
Replies: 41
Views: 16859

Re: sticky exposure length or sticky gain/offset for sky-limited exposures?

Hi Carl, cheers! always good to hear that my ramblings prove fruitful to someone :)

Most of the credit though must go to Robin and Sharpcap, best acquisition software out there imo.

Clear skies!
Minos
by mAnKiNd
Mon Jan 14, 2019 11:30 am
Forum: Feature Suggestions
Topic: Record {FocuserPosition} in filename
Replies: 0
Views: 1092

Record {FocuserPosition} in filename

Hi Robin, when you have some time, would be great to have the ability to input the focuser step position into a filename under the filename templates settings i.e. {FocuserPosition} This could for example, help serve as a recorded reference point for taking flats at the right focus point for each pa...
by mAnKiNd
Thu Nov 08, 2018 12:10 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Limited Support Nov 2018
Replies: 9
Views: 11829

Re: Limited Support Nov 2018

get well soon Robin, all the best

Minos
by mAnKiNd
Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:22 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: M42 with Atik 314E
Replies: 2
Views: 1685

Re: M42 with Atik 314E

Very nice! How come it only gives you 0.5s?
by mAnKiNd
Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:20 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: NGC7000 with Ha filter
Replies: 3
Views: 2078

Re: NGC7000 with Ha filter

nice one here too! Did you figure out what was causing you the banding? 50Hz?