I won't be guiding tonight. I'd have to sticky tape my QHY5 to the finder. But I'll post some pics soon. I just finished processing quickly the M8 widefield. 20x30s so 10min all up. You're not gonna believe it when you see it. Problem now for me is going to be that the data is coming in faster than I can process it.
Here it is: 20x30s unguided. The HS is not collimated and focus is eyeballed. So you can see the potential
Holy crap Batman! Dang that is good. Someones doing a happy dance I suspect (until they see all the data they have to process )
Sometimes you just wish you could swear on these forums.....
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man, 50x20sec on M16 is going to be insane!!
Judging by that M8 I guess that the guy in USA was right when he said you could get more images in one night than you would normally get in a month....
To be very honest with you... Right now, I am the Ha in a hubble pallet image.. Yep... GREEEEENNNNN!!!
Sometimes you just wish you could swear on these forums.....
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man, 50x20sec on M16 is going to be insane!!
Judging by that M8 I guess that the guy in USA was right when he said you could get more images in one night than you would normally get in a month....
To be very honest with you... Right now, I am the Ha in a hubble pallet image.. Yep... GREEEEENNNNN!!!
Well I believe it now. The mount is stuck in sidereal rate and I move the C11 manually by hand, then set neb to do 40 subs of 30s, come back move it somewhere else and do it again. You could very easily do tricolor NB in one night. Focusing is also no as hard as I feared and the camera hasn't fogged up yet. Touch wood. Maybe beginners luck?
Another thing is that losing subs doesn't matter anymore. I bumped the mount and had 2 subs jagged on M16. I shot another 5
Have you hit the helix yet just for comparison purposes?
Just for an update, how many targets have you hit, and how long have you been imaging for? These are going to be the questions that make 90% of people wanting a hyperstar converted SCT once answered I think..
Have you hit the helix yet just for comparison purposes?
Just for an update, how many targets have you hit, and how long have you been imaging for? These are going to be the questions that make 90% of people wanting a hyperstar converted SCT once answered I think..
No I haven't. I can't see it . I'll try if I can point to it. I'm definitely waiting for the HH and orion. I might chuck a quick mosaic of the whole area in Ha?
I have 30 subs on M8 and 40 subs on M16. But I have left the scope not imaging at all as well because I have spent all my evening at the PC processing. I'm not even outside. But I reckon if you spend one night at the scope imaging the amount of data you would get could be quite overwhelming. It's information overload. It's only 10:00pm now and I feel like I have been imaging for one whole week-end when I look at what I've captured so far. I think this system is ideal out in the field. You can setup quickly and shoot a lot of subs then sort them later. Ideal to do mosaic I'd say. Even in narrowband. Because the acquisition time is so fast. It's reversed. You don't wait for your subs anymore . They keep coming in.
imagine if you had a 1tb hard drive, running 1min subs all night on a target.. This would be exceptionally adventagous with an equatorial fork mounted scope that could track straight through the meridian.. You could easily get 5~6 hrs of 1min subs... It would take a day for DSS to stack it all up, but the resulting image would be extreme... Megadata to the max!!
I think the big test will be 30~40sec subs of the horse head area... do as many as you can stay awake to do mate.... I really want to see what you can do with this on night one... from the M8 image and what you've said about the M16 shot, I can see this will turn you into one of the most productive imagers around.. a 2 night star party will result in 2 months worth of processing work!! hahaha
imagine if you had a 1tb hard drive, running 1min subs all night on a target.. This would be exceptionally adventagous with an equatorial fork mounted scope that could track straight through the meridian.. You could easily get 5~6 hrs of 1min subs... It would take a day for DSS to stack it all up, but the resulting image would be extreme... Megadata to the max!!
I think the big test will be 30~40sec subs of the horse head area... do as many as you can stay awake to do mate.... I really want to see what you can do with this on night one... from the M8 image and what you've said about the M16 shot, I can see this will turn you into one of the most productive imagers around.. a 2 night star party will result in 2 months worth of processing work!! hahaha
Time to buy a few big arse external hard drives!
I don't know. I pulled an all nighter last night but I wanna wait for Orion. Problem is that it clears my roof line quite late in the morning but I might get some subs in (60 or something like that ) . Mate, I'm telling you, you HAVE TO get one of those. They're wicked. Looking at the data in the 30s subs it looks like 10min subs from my 5" newt. And the resolution is better because of the massive aperture.
When I'll guide I'll try one deep 20min Ha Sub somewhere see what comes up. That should be interesting.
Oh I'd say 12.5.... outer arch in 30s = 12.5 on the 1 to 10 awesometer..
When I received the Hyperstar box there was a note in it hand written from Dean at Starizona "Thanks - enjoy! ... sleep while you can..."
So you're sold yet? Will post M16 shortly.
Dude, I was sold half an hour ago when you posted that 10min shot of M8...
I've since been scouring the forums and other online sources for a used SCT... I'd even consider buying a full setup on forks with a wedge, have hyperstar running Ha lum images while the TMB pulls down colour data.. the focal length of the two setups would be similar, and the results could be outstanding.. Although I'd need to ditch this Orion SS Pro.. Its 5 or 6 inches in diameter.. That would effectively kill the idea... Although a nice little SX H9C or even better, the M25C could be the go... But yes... Im running numbers and sourcing what I'd need as I type this... Like I said.. You are a baaaaad man Marc...
Marc, you're a bad bad man. Really. Bad. You've corruped Alex and he's turning to the dark side of the image. and you're trying to corrupt me as well it seems. I will resist, I will be strong (prolly until I see the images, and then I'll break down and weep). waaa!
Here's M16 40x30s. Was a bit low on the horizon across the M7. All those shots are uncalibrated and unguided so it's just quick and dirty. Just want to show the photon gathering capability of the hyperstar system. Even through a dense filter such as Ha. 30s subs? C'mon!
I use 30sec subs through a 7nm Ha filter to frame the image... I dont see nebulosity, but I can just make out the star cluster to the top left of the pillars... I run 20min subs to get nebula extension that you've captured there.. my scope is 80mm F/6... So clearly, 80mm F/6 gathers less light than 280mm F/2 hahah!
I use 30sec subs through a 7nm Ha filter to frame the image... I dont see nebulosity, but I can just make out the star cluster to the top left of the pillars... I run 20min subs to get nebula extension that you've captured there.. my scope is 80mm F/6... So clearly, 80mm F/6 gathers less light than 280mm F/2 hahah!
I shouldn't say that but to frame the Helix I was in frame focus mode on 5s exp in Neb2 and I could make up the full ring.
You know what. I think I'll call it a night. Too any subs now. I have 80subs on the helix coz I kept shooting while processing M16. That was a good test though. Really happy with it. Another thing is the fan of the QHY8 with the heat extractor kept the dew off the corrector plate. Dry as a whistle inside the dew shield.
But I'll post some pics soon. I just finished processing quickly the M8 widefield. 20x30s so 10min all up. You're not gonna believe it when you see it. Problem now for me is going to be that the data is coming in faster than I can process it.
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. I'll try if I can point to it. I'm definitely waiting for the HH and orion. I might chuck a quick mosaic of the whole area in Ha? 
