Starry Starry niiiiiight

Brave

@Jogort am I missing something fundamental or is it bugged?

Look at the angle indicator for my target in the sky atlas compared to the angle indicator in the scheduler interface?

Brave

Ok my bad. Unless I’m missing something you still need to use Stellarium to plan it out. The sky atlas will really only show you where the object is now.

According to Stellarium Delta Cygni does drop that low at that point. 80 degrees is where it’s at now.

Edit: ok wow. Plug the thing in and you could get almost a good 12 hours of light gathering this time of year.

Test schedule below.

Jogort

Brave yeah looks like sky atlas is current time and planner shows the timeline through the night. A shame you can’t update/change the time in the sky atlas like you can in just about every star gazing app I have does.
Stellarium really is the top dog for it though.

Jogort

Brave I’m sure Scottish weather would have something to say about that length of schedule 🤣🤣
It’s missing a lot of functionality in the plan compared to dedicated PC software like N.I.N.A. but it’s certainly a good start, they should have the know how from their own asiair systems so I expect it to improve a lot.

DrDamn

Brave I was thinking I can’t really afford one of these, but … where is it you live again? 😉

Brave

Jogort looking like there’s a chance of clear skies from 8ish all the way through to dawn on Saturday. But that’s like 3000x too far ahead for an accurate prediction round here 😄

Brave

DrDamn was thinking I can’t really afford one of these

ONE OF US, ONE OF US…

DrDamn

Brave I’ll wait for you to get a Dwarf 3 and let me know which one’s best. No sitting on the fence, I want a clear winner 😊

Brave

DrDamn that’ll be a long wait I think matey. The Dwarf is selling faster than they can make it. So it would be March at the earliest before I can get one I think.

I do wonder if these updates to the s50 will change that though. Planning and equatorial were the main differences. Although I think the dwarf does have some more advanced options for exposures that I would still like.

Jogort

Brave Try Seestar_alp, there’s way more settings you can change in it I believe
Seestar_alp

DrDamn

Jogort

DrDamn Cuiv is good, I watch a lot of his stuff for Astro

Jogort

Duplicate, damn slow internet tonight

Brave

yeah I’ve watched his entire seestar ouvre ;] and his processing videos.

I’m happy to wait and see what seestar implement before I start buying EQ mounts etc. If they implement it like dwarf have I might be able to get away with a decent pan and tilt head. But yeah he has it at a decent angle and it seems ok. I’d probably hang a sandbag under it though. I have a couple lying around for potentially unsteady tripod arrangements in the studio.

Brave

Processed in siril. i also did a tiny bit of topaz, but i really don’t like what it’s become. I feel like it’s adding detail rather than enhancing it.

Brave

So things have… developed.

I didn’t intend it this way but I’ve somehow talked myself (and my tutor) into using the telescope for the project I’m doing this term on the MA.

I started to think about space trash more and more as I became aware of how many satellites fly through the frame every night. So I’m making work about that. It’s really about space/future archaeology (which is a genuine thing) and sustainability and surveillance I guess.

So here I am. Not using my bloody medium format Fuji that I know inside out and instead using a smart telescope that I very much do not. And praying for some clear skies before the end of term 😬

Anyway. I spent a good bit of time learning the 60 ish step process that I need to do get the images to a quality that I’m happy to even take them into what I would call editing software and away from the maths nightmare generator that astrophotography software is.

Here’s the latest result. A globular star cluster.

The annoying thing is that I want satellite trails in these images and all the software out there is dedicated to getting rid of them. There’s actually one in the 195 image stack that created this image but it just gets averaged out.

Need to find a way to get around that.

Jogort

Brave Do you have your S50 set to save all individual files also? Then after you do your stack could you take a couple of them with satellites and then blend them in with Photoshop etc?

Jogort

Brave Do you have your S50 set to save all individual files also? Then after you do your stack could you take a couple of them with satellites and then blend them in with Photoshop etc?

Jogort

Brave Do you have your S50 set to save all individual files also? Then after you do your stack could you take a couple of them with satellites and then blend them in with Photoshop etc?

Brave

Jogort I’ll pick one to reply to😉

Yeah, I do, but especially with mosaics the issue will be making sure it’s in exactly the right place and dealing with the huge amount of noise I’d introduce that way. I have a few ways to do it, but ideally I’d like whatever method I use to be/look as “natural“ as possible.

I might be able to use the maximum stacking method in Siril and play with pixel rejection as well. If that doesn’t work I might end up stacking the satellite image so that I can see where the trail is, then just adding a trail in manually on another layer, before removing the noisy original satellite image.

To be honest, if I want brownie points from my tutor I’ll end up slicing prints along the path of the satellite with a scalpel and rephotographing that and then coming up with some phd level explanation of the trace of reality and how it’s reflected in the images we make. Or Freud. I hate him, but he still gets points in art school. 🤫

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