[Atmos (Colin)]

Originally Posted by glend

Great first light result Colin. The ASi1600 is so smooth. Make sure you are running the latest camera driver from ZWO (its linked on the downloads page of the product).

http://astronomy-imaging-camera.com/software/

I would suggest pluging the camera USB3 cable directly into your laptop if possible, second choice is via a powered USB3 extension cable. I assume the one you received has the integrated USB2 hub for the filter wheel.

Suggest you set the USB speed at 70 to start with on the ASCOM driver page, which you can access in SGP after you connect.

Have fun.

I don't have a CD Drive in my laptop so I was forced to download all of the latest stuff

At this stage all I have is a powered USB Hub, I'll see how that goes for now. The camera does have the extra USB ports but I'd prefer to keep away from them if possible as it keeps USB traffic away from camera.

I think the default USB traffic setting is 80, will have to double check that.

Originally Posted by Andy01

Looks good Colin!
I love those little LMC nebs maybe framing is a tad tight on the top left?
Nice first light

There is a lot of little knots all over the place, I don't think there is a single good frame

Originally Posted by RickS

Congrats on all those firsts, Colin. Promising results. Look forward to the first real images.

Cheers,
Rick.

I was hoping for a bi-colour, I have 1.5 hr of OIII but it's FWHM is closer to 4" due to focus being a bit off. It looks OK at the moment but I really need to get some calibration frames.

Originally Posted by JA

It Looks amazing - Bring on the colour
Colin, is that imaged from the Melbourne suburbs?

Best
JA

It was indeed shot from Melbourne Burbes, being in the north eastern suburbs I am imaging directly over the Melbourne sky glow. I love the 3nm Astrodon!

Originally Posted by Placidus

Wow! A very productive 2.5 hours, and against towering odds with all those firsts. Well done.

If you had another 2.5 hours, perhaps you could frame a bit to the left, and do a mosaic.

It isn't showing up so nice here BUT there is a decent sized bubble looking thing to the bottom right to which I am curious about! I have a feeling that I'll just keep on finding more nebulosity that needs to be shot :/

Originally Posted by Spookyer

Great start and good effort to get this on a first night.

Thanks Brett

Originally Posted by DJScotty

That's nice Colin.

Some fantastic detail in there.

Glad to see you are liking the ASI.

It does take a little bit to get used to, but well worth it!

Keep chugging along

Scott

What's not to like about a wider FOV and greater pixel density Havent really had much of a play with it yet! Hopefully next week, not sure if I'll find time this weekend.