It was certainly over the top ..almost directly above
so I thought lets have a go before the fog settles in
...
I am trying to see if I can get a narrow band image (L,Ha,S11 and O11) all in one night and be in bed by 11.00 pm
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However I just had to resolve why the previous night I could not get goto finding targets after I had done a one star align, having tried twice ..I was using Canopus both nights but made the mistake of selecting the bright star that appeared on screen as Canopus
...last night I realised my silly mistake particularly when Canopus was finally on screen being so huge and bright
...so on the basis that one learns by mistakes my education is becoming rather well rounded
:thumbsu p:.
AND a late start ( I wasted time cooking dinner unfortunately) which put me under the gun to produce something before the fog hit...
so details..
RASA 11 inch, ZWO2600 mono, EQ8r unguided, 30 second subs..gain highest was 500
lowest 300
... focus via Sharpcap which I am still getting used to...but focusing really showed just how bad the sky is for movement I expect due to mist and the refraction effect I suspect to be happening.
Exposure time...Lum 45 minutes, Ha 22 minutes, O11. 32 minutes, S11. 34 minutes...I know a disaster waiting to happen...No darks or flats notwithstanding that I now have my new T Shirts waiting to be tested with the new light panel..to be honest I was very tired and I should not have imaged at all and was falling asleep in the chair over and over and I was cold so my motivation was not strong enough to go the extra mile as they say and do darks and flats (and dark flats
)... So everything was stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, Processed in Star tools and fiddled with in Photoshop which I really had to work hard for a result...
I dont know about the colour with this image but it is pleasing to me as colour blindness has me easy to please... colour probably was going to be a problem due to exposure times being all over the place...but I just try to get the graph in Startools having everything more or less line up and cross my fingers...
I still have so much to do (auto guiding for all scopes, install Asiair (old one and wait for the new one to get here) well I have a long todo list put it that way... and I know my progress is slow but I must accept that I am approaching old age in a couple of years from now and not the smartest person on the planet so I just have to keep chipping away.
Thanks for looking.
alex
