My latest offering,
First real image with my TOA-130 - taken over two nights at Leyburn last new moon. I took Ray's advice and pushed this to 10min subs - have lost some of the star colour as a consequence, but there was definitely more data to work with. Processed after attending Rick's PixInsight Tutorial - unfortunately, much of what made sense during the tutorial no longer makes sense... (my fault for not putting it into practice sooner, not Rick's) I did take his advice on rejecting dodgy subframes and threw out a lot of data. The Green & Blue channels were very noisy, so I may add some more data this new moon.
Had a lot of computer issues last month, or was it the port / rum?
Have since rebuilt the telescope control PC with an SSD and all seems to be working well in the backyard so far. Hopefully I'll get a chance to do some more testing the weekend, before heading up to Leyburn next weekend. Fingers crossed this weather holds!!!!!
All up, L:R:G:B = 140:70:90:60mins. Threw out another 210mins data.
Comments and criticisms welcome as always.
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