TenChain new moon nights

pmrid (Peter) · #1 06-09-2013, 12:41 AM

Sorry I've been a bit slack this month. Saturday nights is looking good. Any takers?

Peter

RickS (Rick) · #2 06-09-2013, 06:26 AM

I'm heading out to Glen Aplin for a couple of nights. Hope we both get some decent conditions!

Cheers,
Rick.

ozstronomer (Geoff) · #3 06-09-2013, 06:43 AM

Hi Peter, looks like we should have good skies, so count me in.. I'll be up Saturday arvo.

Cheers Geoff

Clancy Lane (Phil) · #4 06-09-2013, 09:45 AM

Peter,

I'll be there.....maybe 4pm or so.

See you then,

Phil

pmrid (Peter) · #5 06-09-2013, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by RickS

I'm heading out to Glen Aplin for a couple of nights. Hope we both get some decent conditions!

Cheers,
Rick.

Take your woolies Rick. We got down to single digits last night, and just wonderfully clear. Humidity crept up to about 50% so condensation became a bit of an issue after that until ground mist started to form about 3. All in all a terrific night.

Tonight and Saturday should be very similar so good luck to us all!!

Peter

RobF (Rob) · #6 06-09-2013, 07:06 PM

Hoping to get there Peter. Wife not well so fingers crossed - will drop a line tomorrow to confirm if coming. Guide cam has been misbehaving. Have to get a new QHY5II working too before tomorrow - better hop to it - looking good outside

pmrid (Peter) · #7 06-09-2013, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by RobF

Hoping to get there Peter. Wife not well so fingers crossed - will drop a line tomorrow to confirm if coming. Guide cam has been misbehaving. Have to get a new QHY5II working too before tomorrow - better hop to it - looking good outside

Rob, I have a QHY5 I'm not using if you need a loaner.
Peter

RobF (Rob) · #8 07-09-2013, 10:48 AM

Thanks so much for the offer Peter. I won't be able to come. Absolute shocker of a night with software/hardware issues. I just don't trust it at all at the moment enough to go bush, and not fair to leave my wife at the moment. Sigh. Was really hoping for my first 10Chain visit of 2013

ozstronomer (Geoff) · #9 08-09-2013, 10:06 AM

Thanks for your hospitality last night Peter, skies were great and nice to catch up with Phil and Brett.

Phil, there was a Skyfi cable near where you were setup, I assume it is yours, I left it on Peters OB's desk.

Cheers Geoff

Clancy Lane (Phil) · #10 08-09-2013, 11:05 AM

Thanks Geoff...the cable was on loan from Peter.

and thanks also to Peter and Brett and yourself for a great night of learning some tricks of the trade.

Peter is a great host and made it a very enjoyable night.

regards,

Phil

ozstronomer (Geoff) · #11 08-09-2013, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Clancy Lane

Thanks Geoff...the cable was on loan from Peter.

and thanks also to Peter and Brett and yourself for a great night of learning some tricks of the trade.

Peter is a great host and made it a very enjoyable night.

regards,

Phil

No worries Phil, glad we found a home for it

Spookyer (Brett) · #12 08-09-2013, 12:37 PM

Yes thanks to everyone for sharing their knowledge and gear I learnt a fair bit in just one evening and probably got accurately polar aligned for the first time ever.

Thanks to Peter for having us over and providing me with some gear to let me try guiding.

I must say I find classical music playing in the background while looking up at the stars makes one feel quite good about the universe.

Brett

RickS (Rick) · #13 08-09-2013, 02:51 PM

Glad you had a good night, chaps! Sorry I couldn't be in two places at once.

We got two crisp, clear nights. The seeing was a bit iffy on Friday night, at least at 2760mm focal length, but last night was fantastic! I got some LRGB on the Helix Nebula to add to my long running narrowband project and about ten hours on NGC 253 (sorry, yet another one...)

Cheers,
Rick.

pmrid (Peter) · #14 09-09-2013, 08:35 AM

Thanks guys, it was a pretty good night socially and imaging too. Nice to see Brett and Phil on deck too. Even though these cool clear nights are an absolute blessing, I wouldn't mind a bit of rain now to settle the dust. It's been too long.
Peter

Clancy Lane (Phil) · #15 09-09-2013, 12:59 PM

Peter,

Here is the fruit of my labour in between glasses of red.

The Jpeg has stuffed up the stars...In the original Tiff, they have colour and no artefacts.

30x3 min images, stacked in Maxim, a small levels stretch and only a tweak with saturation in CS5.

Quite pleased with this as the STF 8300C has been giving me subs with a lot of background noise.

Maybe the convivial atmosphere made the difference!

Cheers,

Phil

ozstronomer (Geoff) · #16 09-09-2013, 02:46 PM

Looking good Phil, plenty of detail. Noise looks ok to me

Clancy Lane (Phil) · #17 09-09-2013, 04:20 PM

Thanks Geoff!

30 subs seemed to make all the difference.

How did your nights effort turn out?

Phil

Spookyer (Brett) · #18 09-09-2013, 06:34 PM

Phil, looks pretty good to me, well done

Clancy Lane (Phil) · #19 09-09-2013, 08:54 PM

Thanks Brett!

Did you get anything that you liked?

You seemed to be going great and really having fun.

Loved your gear!

cheers,

Phil

pmrid (Peter) · #20 10-09-2013, 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Clancy Lane

Peter,

Here is the fruit of my labour in between glasses of red.

The Jpeg has stuffed up the stars...In the original Tiff, they have colour and no artefacts.

30x3 min images, stacked in Maxim, a small levels stretch and only a tweak with saturation in CS5.

Quite pleased with this as the STF 8300C has been giving me subs with a lot of background noise.

Maybe the convivial atmosphere made the difference!

Cheers,

Phil

Hats off to you Phil. I haven't managed to get back to my images yet. That's looking good ins't it? My gut feeling is that there's room there for a bit more stretching and tweaking. My own prejudice is to try to bring up the blue channel in the Lagoon. That probably comes from too much red ned though.

Peter