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Thanks for your comments. I started somewhat late that evening when Orion Nebula was around 50 degrees latitude, causing a degradation of the image due to the balcony above. I live in a high-rise and when I photograph celestial objects on my balcony I am limited to 55 degrees or so in latitude. Usin...

Hi Robin, I wish to change my user name...how do I go about it?

Rick

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50883104001_7a19c9a9fa_w.jpg Orion Nebula up close taken on January 23, 2021. I took 17 minutes of exposures (1000 frames of 1 second each) which would be considered very short. Note, the Trapezium (four stars) can be seen when zoomed in. Hardware: CPC 800 SCT 8&...

Hi Tim, I exposed the image for 2.5 minutes at approximately 120 frames per second giving me about 18,000 frames. I took 50% of that total in AutoStakkert3 which yielded 9,000 frames. The QHY5IIIColor is a very fast frame rate CMOS camera with a large 5.86 micron pixel size which is useful for plane...

Mars taken on 11/16/2020, Miami

CPC 800 SCT
QHY5IIIC
5X Focal extender
ADC by ZWO

CPWI to control mount
Sharpcap Pro (64bit) 3.3
AutoStakkert3
RegiStax6
Photoshop/Astra Image

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50680403586_6a56034231.jpg Taken on Oct 30, 2020 of the lunar southwest limb As you approach the limbs of the moon, the central peaks of large craters can be better viewed on their sides which gives you a good perspective of their heights, as seen in this photo. ...

One of the reasons for the enhanced detail, especially the rings around Saturn, was the use of "deconvolution " in the Astra Image program. I now use it for all my planetary images to bring out that final detail.

Hi Robin Thanks for your explanation. Just for clarification, the lower left graft show basically the same length of arrows throughout but the only difference lies in the length of the vertical bars as we move towards the left part of the graph, even though the arrows look slightly longer and less s...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50580541058_3b3691d2db_m.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50581397067_4e6d8c9009_m.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50581397317_127b285d10_m.jpg Hi Robin When observing Mars, I used ADC tool to adjust the corrector. Above are three screen shots of h...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50577814897_47687cf8df_z.jpg M42 taken 02/22/2020. February was when I first started with astrophotography and the Orion Nebula was my first target. CPC800 SCT ZWO ASI 183MC Pro Optolong L-Pro filter Broadband HyperStar focal reducer 1.9 Both camera and reducer p...