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I spotted a new Astrobin member (Gary) from Yorkshire - there must be at least five us on here from this fine county so I thought time to set up a group ![]() |
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Just joined this group and I am looking forward to participating if the weather allows. |
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Brilliant 👏🏽 I'm in |
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Nice one urmymuse, great idea |
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Cheers Gary, Abdul and James ! Lets seek out other Yorkshire based imagers on the site and invite them in! ![]() |
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Welcome Des and CountZer0 ! Clear skies in Leeds tonight at least till midnight - neearly new moon as well ! so am just setting up How about everyone else ? |
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I want to image from home tonight but looks im going to a dark location tonight. I have been collecting data on IC1318 for the past 2 months or so and I just want to get it done now. Weather has been poor. I have about 4 hours of imaging time before it goes towards the house. And I still have about 18 hours of data to collect so if I go to a clearer horizon I should get about 6/7 hours |
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Just started image the Forsaken nebula and hoping that my guiding settles down, it ![]() |
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Complete wash out here ! Computer problems ... very annoying , good luck with your sessions |
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Slight improvement - got one rig going - on the wizard |
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Tonight has been a disaster for me. Try again tomorrow |
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So there are other imagers in Yorkshire after all! Had a reasonable night last night just outside Otley with a couple of hours on heart nebula with @Des McMorrow imaging too. I was also running my Rumak for some GRS action but clouds said Nope at about 11.15 sadly. We still managed a proper visual look at Jupiter (eyepiece! eyeball!), but seeing wasn't brilliant. Thanks Jetstream :/. Results of heart just posted tonight after some hefty processing, well worth the social. |
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Hideous vertical banding testing out my Canon R6 on M31 - but discovered there’s even a script in Pixinsight just for this. How poor from Canon that they haven’t addressed such a fundamental issue with their cameras. Think I’ll stick with just my astro cams in future. At least I got some decent data on Arp 273 the same night (with ASI2600MM) even if an hour or so lost to cloud. Not had time to process fully yet. |
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James Clark: I cannot begin to describe the annoyance of the horizontal banding on the Canon 750 I sometimes use, caused by the Phased Detect Auto-Focus (PDAF) pixels. It IS fixable with flats from every session where the rotation angle may change, so a total pain in the backside over multi session imaging. Its the main reason I changed to the ZWO 533 instead and aquired the apropriate canon lens adaptors to keep using the Samyang 135. I learned a lot the hard way in this hobby I suppose, but you only tend to find this things out after the event, not knowing on quite what to look out for or expect when you're new to a hobby as technically demanding as this can be. Not to say the canon was a write off since it did send me down the rabbit hole and some of my earlier images were actually OK imho but it's a pile of money I'd never have spent if i'd started off again knowing what I know now. ![]() 5 pairs of lines covering roughly 1/2 the sensor width & height. This is massively stretched to show them, but they show up like a bad penny in processing. |
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Luckily for me I didn’t buy it for astro (except for Milky Way shots) but it would be useful to be able to use it. This is how it came out. I was on manual focus but I think I left the image stabilisation switched on. I might experiment further if I can be bothered ![]() |
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James Clark: * Out of curiosity, how did you do the flats? I was reading that you can get amusing interference patterns using 50hz led lights and some shutter speeds. I used to use a laptop screen pressed against the white sheet in front of the scope, but tend to use GraXpert AI now for gradient removal |
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They were 3s flats using a Geoptik flat field generator. They look ok when stretched strongly but who knows |
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I use graxpert ai too, but in addition to flats. Graxpert more for the additive gradients |
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Hello there from Silsden! I was a bit surprised to find this group when browsing around Astrobin... With the weather lately this group could be renamed 'Masochists Anonymous'! ![]() I do my imaging with what many would regard as totally obsolete gear these days - a mono KAF8300-based QHY9 CCD but it still works and all the new processing tools keep the processed images still looking half decent versus the newer stuff.. I struggle with my spine so I just image from my backyard in narrowband or LRGB depending on the conditions and may yet switch to a smaller scope if my 102mm triplet gets too much to handle. I'm well set up for lazy imaging though - once set up I can image from inside with a glass of wine pure to reduce vibration of course ![]() Best regards Pam |
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Hi Pam, welcome aboard. I’m with you on the lazy imaging….especially this past week with -6C but lovely clear sky for a few nights … best controlled by wifi sat in front of the log burner with a glass of wine and the cats snuggled up. I’m still stacking the 132h of data I got last week (with 4 rigs…it’s not that clear in Harrogate) so that should keep me busy until we get another clear night. |
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Thanks James! I could do with a few hours of Ha for one project but might be waiting a while...... I used to live abroad and imaged in both the US and Switzerland as well as here so I imaged in some prety chilly conditions - but that was when I was younger. Being older and more sensible I've now fully embraced lazy (and warm) imaging ![]() |
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Welcome to the group Pam 😀 |
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Ooh, where did you live in Switzerland? We lived in Grandvaux, near Lausanne for a few years and used to have a holiday home in Wengen until a few years ago. All pre-astro for me, though I did do a snowy mountains and Milky Way shot from Gornergrat above Zermatt a couple of summers ago. I don’t think I posted it on astrobin, maybe I should. |
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James Clark: I lived in Brugg (not far from Baden). I was closer to the Jura mountains than the Alps but I went hiking in the Bernese Oberland on most Sundays (including winter!). I miss being able to get around as easily as I could there - I had a GA pass so was able to go pretty much where I liked |
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Abdul Thomas Jnr: Thanks Abdul! ![]() |