NGC1499 California Nebula (Most of it)
Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 3:25 pm
Hi
Well miracles never cease we actually had a clear night forecast and it actually stayed clear. Installed the new version 4.1 of SharpCap as well to give it ago and enabled the built in plate solve option. Slewed to target plate solved and thought the mount had gone wrong as the solve was stunningly fast and the offset issued to the mount before I even saw it so well impressed with that .
The session was 154 3min subs and the image below is the best 139 of these so dropped the worst 15 / 10% ish.
Image Info :
Imaging kit : APM-LZOS 130/780 + 0.75x MR Reducer/flattener, ASI2600MC-Pro + Esatto 4" Focuser
Mount : M-UNO Synscan
Guide : Skywatcher ED72Pro+0.8x reducer Altair 290M guide camera
Software: SharpCap, GSS Mount control software, PHD2, Stellarium, AstroPixelProcessor, Affinity Photo 1.9
Image 139 x 180s at 100g -10C / 25 180s Darks / 50 2s Flats / 100 Bias
23.11.10_NGC1499_California_Nebula_139_x_3min-session_1-lpc-cbg-csc-cbg-St by Nick Davis, on Flickr
Cheers
Nick
Well miracles never cease we actually had a clear night forecast and it actually stayed clear. Installed the new version 4.1 of SharpCap as well to give it ago and enabled the built in plate solve option. Slewed to target plate solved and thought the mount had gone wrong as the solve was stunningly fast and the offset issued to the mount before I even saw it so well impressed with that .
The session was 154 3min subs and the image below is the best 139 of these so dropped the worst 15 / 10% ish.
Image Info :
Imaging kit : APM-LZOS 130/780 + 0.75x MR Reducer/flattener, ASI2600MC-Pro + Esatto 4" Focuser
Mount : M-UNO Synscan
Guide : Skywatcher ED72Pro+0.8x reducer Altair 290M guide camera
Software: SharpCap, GSS Mount control software, PHD2, Stellarium, AstroPixelProcessor, Affinity Photo 1.9
Image 139 x 180s at 100g -10C / 25 180s Darks / 50 2s Flats / 100 Bias
23.11.10_NGC1499_California_Nebula_139_x_3min-session_1-lpc-cbg-csc-cbg-St by Nick Davis, on Flickr
Cheers
Nick