The Lion Nebula is much more faint than I thought. So I spent the last 2 nights for it. It’s a very star rich region. More than 4 hours integration. Each session is calibrated for it’s own, then registered and integrated all at once. Details Shooting impression:
Finally again clear skies 🙂 This time only 4 out of 79 lights were unusable due to slight DEC trails… still searching for the ideal MGEN settings. Details
After my polar scope disaster and recovery I captured NGC 7822 last night to check if everything works fine again. It was a very warm night. More than 20°C even at the end of the session… Drizzled 2x and resized to original resolution. Details
Still not happy with DEC performance, but at least I can setup the mount in the darkness without light now 🙂 This image contains only 75% of the lights… On the other 25% there are clouds or DEC error 🙁 Details
Again testing the gear mesh adjustment… and I’m still not done 🙁 So far I adjusted the gear meshing 4 times in the range of 1/8 turn counter clockwise and 1/8 turn clockwise, since the manual says not more than 1/4 turn in total. I contacted iOptron again regarding this issue and they told me […]
I still looking for the ideal adjustment for gear meshing… this time around 15% useless subs. The other subs resulted in this image: Details
Next first light with the iOptron GEM28. OK, the coming moon is annoying, but so far I’m really happy with the result. Even 6 minute subs were no problem at all. Since my apartement’s lights were fully illuminated, to be able to read my notes and statistics, there is a faint reflection in the right […]
Finally the sky was clear last night, so I captured once again the Wizard Nebula. With my last results I never was really happy. It is a difficult object for 400mm focal length… f/5.6, 2x drizzled and resized to original resolution. Details Cropped:
First light for my new UV-IR block filter. I want use it instead of the CLS-CCD filter, mainly to gather light wavelengths that are blocked by the CLS-CCD filter. 2x drizzled, resized to original resolution, almost no color manipulations except of calibration. I’m really sursprised about the result. It looks more dynamic to my last […]
Once again I captured the Cygnus Loop during the last two fantastic nights 🙂 The first night I’d to fight with wind… half of the subs were unusable…Yesterday was perfect! No wind and absolutely clear sky… Unsure how much star size reduction… I chosed this “medium” version 😉 Details
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