It was too windy for mne last night. The night before was okay until midnght-ish, then the wind came up and even with the heavy tripod and an NEQ6 on top of it, it moved enough to have an effect on the images. So, last night I had an early one instead.
Those imaging in Melbourne last night/early this morning how did you go? I had trouble focusing between 12:30 and 03:00. My HFR value was over 3.8 and i couldn't get the V curve at all.
Was thinking seeing conditions or my focuser might be having an issue?
I left mine to run on it's own last night, letting APT shut it all down for me. So far the images look okay. I'll probably do more tonight using the scripts to kick it off when I'm asleep. I really only have NGC2070 and M42 at this time of the year.. between my house, my neighbor's house and some really tall trees, it all gets hidden pretty well as soon as it gets dark.
Now it seems the lockdown is over, I will start traveling to somewhere with a decent view!
I left mine to run on it's own last night, letting APT shut it all down for me. So far the images look okay. I'll probably do more tonight using the scripts to kick it off when I'm asleep. I really only have NGC2070 and M42 at this time of the year.. between my house, my neighbor's house and some really tall trees, it all gets hidden pretty well as soon as it gets dark.
Now it seems the lockdown is over, I will start traveling to somewhere with a decent view!
Yep looks like tonight will be pretty good as well. Will do another session. Hoping I can fix my focuser issue if there is one.
Haven't got around to ordering the adapters I need to use my QHY462C so it was all visual tonight ... and what a night. I was able to use a Tak Hi-LE 3.6 to produce 311X on Jupiter and Wow what a view so I imagine conditions for imaging would have been ideal.
Oh ... Surgical Mask reduce COVID ..... and Mosquito attacks. Just I secondary effect I am investigating.
