Re: Was told this is Drift...
Separate guide scope, Les. Size in Degrees? Heck if I know.
I did do a run at the Eagle Nebula, 30 second exposures, End result: Same funny anomaly. 12,000 seconds of data (June Gloom closed me out.
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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Re: Was told this is Drift...
Hi Sonny,
I try to avoid meridian flips....and if I image through a flip, I label my
sub images slightly differently, and stack them separately.
I can then stitch the two final images together in
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Michael Herman
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Re: Was told this is Drift...
Haha that's super not true. I use oags on all my refractors including the
sky 90
wrote:
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Brian Valente
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Re: Was told this is Drift...
Funny you should mention that Michael, I did try for an entire month, with 2 different OAG's to make OAG work with my refractor.
Never got it to work. But damn, I sure tried.
Because OAG makes
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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Re: Was told this is Drift...
Thanks All!
As far as my stacking, I have very little control over it, that I'm aware of, anyway.
The stacking is a part of the Atik Infinity camera software. The only options I have are to delete a
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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Re: Was told this is Drift...
As the others have said ¨C that looks like drift to me too.
You can simply get rid of it by using ¡°Intersection¡± mode stacking (DeepSkyStacker for one offers that).
David
Sent: 01
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David C. Partridge
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Re: Was told this is Drift...
The guide scope and imaging camera don¡¯t need to be pointed in exactly the same direction, if he has an equatorial mount that¡¯s reasonably well-aligned. The size of the border here looks too big
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Les Niles
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Re: Was told this is Drift...
It's not a shadow, it's from your autostacking software.
You must be using a piggyback autoguiding system. The piggyback scope and
autoguider are centered on a spot not exactly the same as your main
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Michael Herman
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Was told this is Drift...
Is there a way to correct it?
And is it a mechanical thing?
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/714964-advice-on-this-off-set/?p=10298236
Really, it isn't so much a bother to me because I simply crop
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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Re: The NEW Losmandy Press Newsletter
I already deleted it, but there was a link in it, I think to reply. But it only opened a home page on my computer.
Not even a Losmandy page. But hey, there may be glitches.
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SonnyE
Sonny's Youtube
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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Hi John
that sounds like my driveway!
I hope you'll be able to get back out there and see the night skies
Brian
[email protected]> wrote:
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Brian Valente
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Re: The NEW Losmandy Press Newsletter
Thanks Brian, I have a Gemini level 4 that because of health and age has not seen the night sky in about 5 yrs and it is getting hard to haul all the stuff for imaging to a dark sit, because of poor
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John Hobbs
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Re: The NEW Losmandy Press Newsletter
I enjoyed it. I thought it was great! I have about decided to swap my mount for some scuba gear. Here in Eastern NC the weather does not cooperate. But I do enjoy reading and learning new stuff
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Greg
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Re: The NEW Losmandy Press Newsletter
Hi John
Thanks for asking - this newsletter is not linked to the usergroup
it's the losmandy newsletter - you can sign up for it at
http://store.losmandy.com/
look on the lefthand side for
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Brian Valente
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Re: The NEW Losmandy Press Newsletter
Brian:
As a member of this group I get most of the emails sent, however, I did not get the email link for this new newsletter and would like to be sure I am receiving it.
John
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John Hobbs
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Re: The NEW Losmandy Press Newsletter
Hi Sonny
which link did you click on? we can check it out
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Brian
Brian Valente
portfolio brianvalentephotography.com <http://brianvalentephotography.com>
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Brian Valente
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Re: The NEW Losmandy Press Newsletter
Thanks Les, i'll pass the feedback along
any and all feedback is welcome. the Newsletter is new for us, and we want
it to help you get the most from your Losmandy gear, so any suggestions
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Brian Valente
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Re: The NEW Losmandy Press Newsletter
Me too!
But the link to reply didn't work...
Bugs to fix, Brian.
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SonnyE
Sonny's Youtube Channel ( https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sonny+edmonds )
(I suggest viewed in full screen)
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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The NEW Losmandy Press Newsletter
I just wanted to mention, mainly for Brian so he can pass it on,? that I liked the new newsletter. I normally hate spam because I get so much of it, but this just read more like an actual newsletter
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Les Green
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Re: Gemini 2 Unable to Connect Telescope via Direct Ethernet
Astronut:
Just wanted to report on my latest *Desktop PC* W10 fix.
I downloaded the latest mfgr's driver before using a new Ethernet to USB Adapter. The TAP interfaces were useless. Network
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Motorfix
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