M31, 100x60s, Altair 183C

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M31, 100x60s, Altair 183C

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Captured 8th Sept 2021 just after midnight.
Celestron AVX mount, Vixen 81s refractor, Altair 183C. Unguided, focus with Bahtinov Mask. SC 4.
Camera Settings: exposure=60s, gain=300, black level=30.
Lights 100x60s, darks 50, flats 50, bias 50. Astro Pixel Processor stack best 80 of 100, GIMP, Neat Image for mild denoise.

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I managed to retain (not destroy during processing) the stars near the central core, so am happy with that. Just need some weather now to capture another ~200 frames.

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Re: M31, 100x60s, Altair 183C

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Nice one Dave. Central stars are indeed there.
M31 always is a balancing act, especially with slower telescopes.

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Thanks Menno. M31 is well placed for me this month. I want to try to push up my integration times. I have an Altair 183M that I could use to add some Ha frames as well.


Same camera, 3 years ago, some improvement:

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Re: M31, 100x60s, Altair 183C

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Hi Dave,

That is a massive improvement over the earlier one! Nice detailed image and colour. Weather seems to have been more of a problem this year than usual.

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Thanks Tim. I am keen to add another 2 sets of 100 frames to see the effect. This was captured at home (North East of Manchester) under Bortle 6 skies.

3 years ago my main processing skills were:
  • over stretch (because of poor data) and destroy colour
  • introduce large amounts of noise
The weather has been poor - I only got back to astro darkness in early August and opportunities have been few.

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Re: M31, 100x60s, Altair 183C

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Hallo

Hast du die Daten der Kühlung , oder ist die Kamera Luftgekühlt

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‎Do you have the data of the cooling, or is the camera air-cooled ‎
The Altair 183C has an internal fan which can be OFF/SLOW/FULL. It is not TEC cooled. The images were captured with the fan running at FULL speed.

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turfpit wrote: Sun Oct 17, 2021 11:46 am
‎Do you have the data of the cooling, or is the camera air-cooled ‎
The Altair 183C has an internal fan which can be OFF/SLOW/FULL. It is not TEC cooled. The images were captured with the fan running at FULL speed.

Dave
Danke für die schnelle Antwort habe mir die Kamera letzte Woche Gekauft , und versuche jetzt die ersten Astrobilder zu machen .

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‎Thanks for the quick answer I bought the camera last week, and now try to make the first astro images.‎
Good luck, This viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2552 may help you get started.

Dave
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