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Old 03-09-2019, 07:40 PM
wayne anderson (Wayne)
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M27 dumbbell Nebula

It has been around 2 years since my last effort at imaging, i almost forgot how to do the
setup for astrophotography and image processing.

The guiding graph looked like a tour de france mountain elevation map so many steep ups
and downs i was not sure if it would work, i keep getting calibration error warnings and
total RMS error reading was high at 1.2 to 2.8

10 x 1min subs iso 1600
10 x 2min subs iso 1600
10 x 4min subs iso 1600

Scope: 12 inch Meade LX200 at f6.3 (alt/az de-rotated mount)
Camera: Sony Nex 5n DSLR (full spectrum modified)
Guiding: Off axis Orion starshoot autoguider with PHD2

Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Startools, gimp
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Old 03-09-2019, 07:57 PM
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Nice image considering your absence from the hobby and a difficult target too
Well done and welcome back
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Old 03-09-2019, 08:15 PM
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Nice work Wayne. As is often said, it’s nice to have good guiding numbers but it’s better to have nice round stars and you’ve definitely got them ! And at focal length of nearly 2 meters ! Keep them coming !
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Old 04-09-2019, 03:32 PM
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Thanks Martin and Ryan, yes i hope to have more time now for astrophotography, M27 is a particularly difficult target for my position in the back yard as there is only a 1 hour window of opportunity to image it in the gap between my house and a row of large palm trees in the neighbors yard.
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Old 07-09-2019, 10:07 AM
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Looks great to me!!!
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Old 11-09-2019, 01:49 AM
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Welcome back to AP Wayne, that's a decent M27.
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