Triffid, first "remote control guiding" attempt

[tornado33]

Hi, after purchasing a Phillips Toucam webcam, then getting hit by the massive Newcastle 1 in 30 year storm, the skies cleared last night to allow me to try the camera for guiding, the off axis system doesnt produce good stars, bery comatic, but just enough to see on the laptop display, so I sat down watching it, and making manual guiding adjustments. Image scale is huge, a fraction of a second press of the fast or slow button seens the star move noticably. This was the first try, still a little bit of error, but will try it on other objects and see if I can find brighter guidestars.

Triffid Neb, 3x15 mins ISO 200, Houghys cooled DSLR camera UV/IR filter, MPCC, 10 inch f5.6
Scott

[h0ughy]

very nice start Scott. we hav fog on the lowlands - and very wet under foot

[Garyh]

Thats a beauty Scott....:thumbsup:
Very nice and natural colors as well, me like..:)
cheers Gary

[seeker372011]

looks like it worked very well

[strongmanmike]

Your aaaalmost there with the "auto"guiding huh? ;) Hard to fully let go but you'll get there and never look back.

Very nicely processed, not clipped so the sky isn't unaturally jet black that clipping results in. You have that dusty look too with the browns around the main triffid complex, I like it. :thumbsup:

Mike

[tornado33]

Thanks :)
Yes I try to pay attention to the histogram, always pulling up before it rises, to ensure no clipping. I use the "white" command in Iris on a dark area of sky to try and make sure colour balance is correct, and that theres no colour cast to sky background.
Scott

[Ric]

A beauty Scott, well done.

Cheers

[Dr Nick]

Very nice pic! ;)

[gbeal]

Looks good Scott, and I was wondering how you fared with that garbage that we now have. It isn't flooding here, yet, but it is wet.
So, help me here, why can't you hook the auto part together: surely if the camera can show you on the monitor, and you can correct with the hand controller, why not introduce the two together and go make a coffee or 'summit??
Gary

[h0ughy]

Gary because the "auto guider" is the web cam on the screen and the human hand pressing the button while looking at a superimposed crosshairs and guiding that way.