Well yesterday I had a number of firsts that I have managed to tick off my list. It was my first night of unmanaged imaging (still checked it numerous times throughout the night but it was largely automated). It was first light for my ASI1600 which arrived at 8:30 am yesterday morning (first light 13 hours after delivery). It was the first time I'd used a holographic attachment for focuser alignment and it worked remarkably well after I figured out what I was actually looking for.
It probably wasn't a good idea to be amalgamating the first use of the camera (took about an hour to get it to talk to software via ASCOM, no issues connecting to the computer), was the first time I'd used Sequence Gen Pro in about 6 months and the first time I'd ever attempted to set up an all night imaging platform. Actually the second or third time I'd used my FLI PDF in aggression after the final adapter arrived for that a week or so ago.
Thoughts on the ASI1600... Brilliant, even though I accidentally plugged it into the USB2 port on my USB hub
I had wondered why it had 5s downloads, figured I just needed to fiddle with things in software at a later date.
Buggered up the OIII data though, SGP struggled with focusing the OIII frames even with 5s exposures so my next clear night will be spent figuring out the Offset from L of all my filters. It did a good job with the Ha though so I have a stack of 1.91" FWHM at 1.15"/pixel.
Ran at Unity Gain as I was too willing to go to bed to fiddle with anything else! Uncalibrated, took flats but they NEED to be calibrated. So far all I've done is an AutomaticBackgroundExtraction, Stretched and increased the contrast a bit with the curves.
31x300s so ~2.5 hours of Ha on NGC 2020.
Anyway, off for another 8 hours of work so I'll post a larger version at another point
High Res Ha version on AB
High Res Bi-Colour