Starry Starry niiiiiight

Jogort

One from the S50 from a few weeks ago, quick attempt at the Monkey head nebula, link to the full post Here

Short 30 min total of the Horsehead & Flame tonight before it goes behind the trees in my garden

And one of the Owl Nebula, which is a bit too small for the S50 I think but it done ok

All are on my ZWO Seestar profile page here
https://www.astroimg.com/user/548182129649913859

No significant editing, just a little denoise and tweak of contrast and saturation

Alex

I get the posting error sometimes too. It seems to have started for me after the most recent upgrade. I could maybe try upgrading the forum again, although I had thought that I probably wouldn’t bother doing it again as it’s a bit of a faff. I will try restarting the server and see if that helps.

Edit: uptime of 98 days, so a restart definitely won’t hurt.

Jogort

Alex I seem to get the error more often than not lately but yeah it works and you know what updating it can be like, not worth the hassle at times.

Alex

Ah, looking in the logs I see quite a lot or errors related to sending emails, via a clodofwar outlook address, which I’d forgotten existed. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten an email from the forum. I’ve turned the emails off to see if that helps things.

Jogort

So had the S50 out a few nights ago on NGC 2359 Thors Helmet. Attached is the quick denoise, adjust & crop on the Seestar and the other is done through Pixinsight (not that I know what I’m doing in that 🤣🤣)
Both converted to jpg so some quality loss I expect.

I have had both my Seestar and main scope on the same target M101 galaxy, still to look through those though.

Gammerz

Who would win in a Thor vs Orion fight?

Jogort

So a comparison between the S50 and my main scope/camera with M101 - Pinwheel galaxy
S50 stacked but no denoise done, around 3 hours of images.

Big scope and cropped down to same size as the S50, my main camera does 3008×3008 images and the S50 is 1920×1080 I think.

Jogort

Decided to set an early alarm to see what conditions were like here for the Lunar eclipse…4am😱🤣
Had to drive up the hill behind me but there’s a nice wee carpark at the top.
Setup the Seestar S50 on a picnic table and sat in the car with the heated seats on 😝
Tracking got a little janky a couple of times, cut out some really bad jumps but overall quite good until the clouds rolled in just before the moon completely set, wouldn’t have seen the full redness anyway as moon would have been below the horizon.

DrDamn

How well do straight photos of the moon come out?

Jogort

DrDamn

Jogort

@Brave I imagine you’ve seen but EQ mode has been added to the latest app update for the seestar.

Brave

Jogort Just days too bloody late for my deadline

Jogort

So I’ve upgraded my telescope from a cheapo visual to one that is built for imaging. A William Optics Fluorostar 91, it’s a triplet so all colours focus back nicely whereas my old one was a double lens refractor so all colours don’t align properly and you end up with blue/purple halos around stars.
First proper night with the new scope last night, damn windy but my mount was solid, here’s the final tweaked image and one I done with my old scope & Seestar S50 for comparison.

Some info about the Eastern Veil Nebula
The Eastern Veil Nebula, also known as NGC 6992, is a portion of the larger Veil Nebula complex, itself a type of supernova remnant. Located in the constellation of Cygnus and roughly 2,400 light-years away, this cloud of heated gas and dust formed from the explosive death of a star about 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. It is a three-dimensional expanding structure, with different elements emitting light in various colours, such as blue from oxygen and red from hydrogen.

Old Scope

Seestar S50

New Scope

DrDamn

Jogort consider my flabber ghasted. Wow.

Jogort

DrDamn That’s only 200 × 30s images then stacked, so about 1hr 40, that’s just a small amount of data, some folks do tens of hours on one target. I can do much longer subs but my guiding software was being a pain last night so those images were all just by the tracking of the mount with no trailing.

DrDamn

What mount do you use @Jogort ?

Jogort

DrDamn Upgraded a while back from my little star adventurer GTe to SkyWatcher Wave150i strain wave mount. It’s soooo much better at tracking with the weight of my scope, camera, guidescope & mini PC. I had it out last night in what was aroub 20mph winds at the house and it was flawless.

This fella

Jogort

Another 1 from the other night, a smaller target and didn’t have as long until the clouds rolled in.
NGC 7331 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus, often called “the Milky Way’s twin” due to its similar size and structure, though it lacks the central star bar of the Milky Way. Located about 40 million light-years from Earth, it is the brightest member of the NGC 7331 Group of galaxies.

In the bottom right corner you’ll see 5 galaxies, that’s the Stephens Quintet, I didn’t know I was imaging them 🤣
Here’s a link to an annotated version of the image.
https://nova.astrometry.net/annotated_full/14047000

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