Hi Guys, well before you go to the image have a listen to this short tale of woe, I shall keep it as short as possible.
I'm off to Vic/South next week, so I had already removed the imaging stuff from my set-up, ready for the trip.
Than the night cleared, and I just could not help myself and attached it all again for a bit Helix Imaging.
All was working well, so I sat down in my trusty chair and dozed off, hell, I have done the plenty of times, the scope is quite happy on It's own.
Woke about 2 hours later, better check the guiding I thought, ah bugger, the Lappy has shut down,
I had forgotten to turn the Hard Drive, turn off in 1 hour setting.
Stopped the scope and figured I had better check the images, as I was doing 8 mins subs with ICNR on, so 16 mins shots.
Well, the first had a nice big bug, smack in the middle of the frame,
the next three were Ok,
the next one had a sattelite right across the frame,
the next 2 were Ok,
but the next 3 were stuffed when the Lappy shut down, and the guiding had stopped.
So all in all, I lost 5 x 16 minute frames, after a few choice words I decided to just keep going and did a couple more.
I had had enough and packed it away in disgust at 2am, and whilst walking across the lawn to the house, admiring the great night, looking up I had forgotten about the sand pit i built for my little Grandson that afternoon and triped on the edge and feel face first in the sand.
This imaging is becoming dosappointing/dangerous work I reckon.
yea I can laugh about it now, but I was not impressed at 2am, glad I wasn't carring anything, like a 5D.
Anyway, I did get some frames and this is the result of only 7 @ 8 mins @ 400 ISO through the Tak and modded 5D, ICNR on, and Flats applied, processed in Image Plus.
Have a sticky and see if all the pain was worth it
Leon