Quick Corona Australis

[BruceG]

Saturday and Sunday night was spent dialing in Astro Tortilla. I am very excited to say it works great!
During these pointing trials I aimed at at NGC6723 Globular Cluster in Corona Australis - once again the target was dead centre in the frame after AT did it's nudge job. I decided to take a few subs while I was there. Here is 12 x 2 minute subs with 5 darks at 1600 ISO with the 1000D. Processed in Nebulosity and played with in Star Tools. Needs much more time to get rid of the noise and show more dust.

[rustigsmed]

nice one bruce, very nice start!
its on my list if the weather ever improves!

[raymo]

VERY nice Bruce, but what happened to the colour? It looks almost
monochrome.
raymo

[Somnium]

Very nice effort Bruce , I was looking at some of the bright stars and there seems to be some sort of Aberration , any idea what that is ?

[BruceG]

Thanks Russell, hi Raymo - the colour - yes subdued perhaps - I think it just needed more time as it is VERY stretched, I kept the saturation to a level where the colour noise was not overbearing. I may try to get some more data on this in a couple of weeks if the weather permits the next 2 weekends will be spoilt by the moon.

[BruceG]

Hi Aiden - not sure about the aberrations you speak of, perhaps just stretched too far without enough data?

[nebulosity.]

Looks like a great start bruce!

Cheers
Jo

[dylan_odonnell]

Wonderful region .. How cool is astro tortilla?!? I did fist pumps in the air when I got it working :)

[BruceG]

Thanks Dylan, yeah AT is a real hit once you get it working reliably, definitely worth the messing around in the beginning. It's helping me realise my dream of spending a few minutes setting up and balancing the scope and running the entire nights work from inside using team viewer.

[Somnium]

+ 1 to everything, i love AT

[dylan_odonnell]

Yep! Just in time for winter. I got mine going but last last time I used it the mount seemed to be going in reverse from Stellarium so not sure what I've screwed up, I had to put the hand controller back in for my session. Hoping to get it sorted on a cloudy night :)

EDIT : Silly me. I wasn't hitting the "current target" button before "slew to" in Stellarium so it was heading to 0 0 0 ... Everything works!

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