A DOH! moment

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

After a big 50th Birthday bash last night (for moi ) I was looking forward to recovering with some image processing . Just sat down to put together about 15hrs of data...and after doing all the preprocessing...wondered why my brand new set of flats wasn't working properly for my OIII calibration, then I realised when I had re loaded my Astroart software recently after a hard drive failure, I must have assigned the wrong labels to the filters in the filterwheel control panel? Lo and behold when I used the SII flats (collected before the software reload) my OIII data flattened out beautifully. So my 6hrs of OIII was actually 6hrs of SII ..Dang! it was OIII that I wanted because it is a tiny Planetary ...I wondered why the OIII data looked so similar to the Ha .....now I need another night...and the Moon as growing fuller and the weather isn't looking good over the next three days, I need no Moon for OIII...fun hobby

Mike

[lazjen (Chris)]

Yeah, been there, done that - I mixed G & B one time. It was a bit of a pain to realise and unravel.

[RickS (Rick)]

My commiserations, Mike

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by lazjen

Yeah, been there, done that - I mixed G & B one time. It was a bit of a pain to realise and unravel.

Originally Posted by RickS

My commiserations, Mike

Was really looking forward to nursing my (only slight) hangover after my 50th bash last night , with some image processing therapy...

I'm gunna do the RGB anyway...that'll be some consolation at least.

Mike

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

Sometimes things like that can help us discover something new. I'm sure you will find a way to put those 6 hours of SII to a good use Mike

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Slawomir

Sometimes things like that can help us discover something new. I'm sure you will find a way to put those 6 hours of SII to a good use Mike

Quite right Suavi, quite right, I should now end up with a full SIIHaOIII and may well finally crack the elusive 20hr exposure mark with the AG12 ...I'm just impatient

Mike

[DJT (David)]

Awe now, no one said congrats on the big 50. Many happy returns

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by DJT

Awe now, no one said congrats on the big 50. Many happy returns

Cheers Dave

Mike

[LewisM]

Blah blah blah 50. Now go get that data