One of those nights-NGC4945

[allan gould]

I thought I would have the first serious attempt at imaging with my new DSI II Pro on Saturday night.
What a disaster - 3-3.5 hr of frustration with my HEQ5 mount. Suddenly it would not initialise properly and gave "NO connection to MC - stand alone mode only". WHAT THE??????!!!!!!
Then it would appear to be OK but gotos were all over the place and then the damned thing would not communicate with the planetarium program. Fiddled with everything and was contemplating digging a big hole and throwing the lot in there when I swapped the handset cable end for end and all became sweet and nice. Bloody thing must have known how close it came to permanent fusion.
It was getting late, so I decided to image NGC4945 as it was overhead but the clouds kept rolling in and so I only managed to get 14x 2min shots before I started to pack up at 3 in the morning. What a fiasco - not the camera but everything else. Anyway here is my first real effort with the DSI II - but need a lot more data to smooth it out and get more detail.

[toryglen-boy]

sorry to hear about your grief Allan, even so, its a very nice image

;)

[gregbradley]

Good shot after a night of frustration.

Don't forget to give your mount a good thrashing with a willow wand every now and then when it gets naughty.

Greg.

[leon]

Yea, Allen, Have been there myself at times, when it all just goes pear shape, however a pretty good result never the less.

Leon

[multiweb]

Looks pretty good given the small amount of data (and the frustration). Good start. :thumbsup:

[allan gould]

Marc, Leon, Greg and Duncan thanks for the kind words.
Its the frustrating aspect of merging electronics, dew and telescopes that sometimes can really get to you

[peter_4059]

Looks a lot better than my first attempt with the DSI Allen.

[CoolhandJo]

Great contrast and good star shape. I like it! I cant tell if it just Lumiannce or you managed RGB as well?

[allan gould]

Just luminance and not enough of it. See Peter_4059's posts for what a good setup and data can accomplish with a DSI II . Deep down I'm beginning to envy his abilities [and he's modest too].

[spearo]

pretty good stuff
well done
frank

[strongmanmike]

:doh::doh::doh::doh::doh::doh::doh: :doh::doh::doh::doh::doh::doh::doh: :doh::bashcomp: :mad2: :mad2: :mad2: :mad2:

Is that about how it went? :shrug: :lol:

Had those nights too, really piss you off

At least you found the problem so can rest easier and you even got an image to boot :D

Mike

[allan gould]

They say "He who dies with the most toys wins". I got all the toys but I think they die early because of the stress of getting all the toys to work, so it should be........
"He who dies with the most working toys wins"

[pgc hunter]

sounds like "one of those days"!

but still that's a nicely detailed image so your efforts were not in vain :thumbsup: