Brian, Nice capture!

Well, All of this is news to me. I have been in a cave on this one. First, so sad that the owner passed away. My supremely tardy condolences to the family. Also, Wayne was great. He was always there t

That is a pretty cool report Roland!

I have been migrating to Astronomik for my four imaging trains. So far two of them are complete. The other two are Baaders, which I have found do produce halos on brighter stars. However, mine are the

Resolved! I am a fan of Occam's Razor, or at least my interpretation of it. I went back to Roland's initial post advising to check the interface between the camera and the flattner. I figured all thin

Coordinated dithering is a function in NINA designed for multiple scope setups. I think the correct term may be synchronized dithering. So, I apologize if I am introducing confusion by not using the c

Thanks Roland and everyone else, This is a learning experience for me. One thing I am thinking about is that there may be some sort of failure going on with the coordinated dithering. That failure may

One last note for now. The mount is an absolutely flawless AP1600 purchased in 2017 or so from memory that guides without encoders with astonishing accuracy and a well built model. It is a thing of be

Thanks everyone for the guidance. I need to digest all of the information. I am using an OAG, but that OAG is on the 12" GSO RC that is the master of the tandem rig which includes the Stowaway. The St

The interesting thing is that all the color filters are showing the exact same thing while the luminous is not perfect but clearly a lot better focused and with round stars. I also noticed the same th

Eccentricity of 0.28 for lum verses 0.44 or more for each RGB. The trend is the same on all RGB filters. Weird

Here are the lum and Green. I zoomed in at 1:1 and took these screen shots of about the same place. Quite a difference. Blue and Red are exactly the same as Green

Yes I do, sort of. Not quite a short exposure of a mid bright star in the middle of the field, but I can get that when the skies clear. I do have some subs from my Dolphin project that shows the issue

Hello everyone, I need some help. I changed up from my Stowaway with reducer to my Stowaway with a flattner configuration. I never recall an issue with star footballs with my reducer. However, even th

Yipeee squared. Still love that 130GTX From: main@ap-ug.groups.io <main@ap-ug.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bill Long Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 6:02 PM To: main@ap-ug.groups.io Subject: Re: [ap-ug] 13

Very nice image Carl, I would say that I can get near 90% plate solves on the basic level. However, the advanced level is less reliable. Anyways, beautiful presentation.

#photo-notice

Love any star cluster with an interesting field that includes galaxies. Your image is very nice. Any other referrals for clusters with galaxies is appreciated.

#photo-notice

Time for another trip to the Big Island for some R&D? Sounds like a rough assignment. Even though the weather might not be that good there, it most certainly is better than the beloved Midwest at this

Wow Stuart, That is something else.

The sale of a 180 and a 305 is going to make plenty room for the 110. :-)