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cytan299 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 25, 2025 7:51 pmNice!

Thank you!

Last night finally cleared up a little! Live stacked in ASI Air Plus Tidied up in Adobe Lightroom All done on mobile phone (amazing!) Following gear were used: Maxvision 150/750 Newtonian ASI585MC-Pro ASI Air Plus ASI120mm Guide Camera SVBony SV240 Multi-Narrowband filter Angeleyes 50mm FL190mm Guid...

Airconvent wrote: ↑Sun Apr 20, 2025 11:21 pm Nice..! And on a tiny 5" no less.

Thank you!

While waiting for my budget to get a fast APO, I took my existing 5 inch SCT for a spin tonight.
These are what I got...

Hi Cytan, Yeah, planning to get the Askar 71F once budget allows, together with a cooled ASI585MC. That should do the trick. I've been on-and-off taking night sky photos for donkey years but I've hit the plateau of the learning curve I guess. Got my Darks, Flats, Biases etc down. Even tried using th...

Hi Cytan, Thank you for the detailed analysis of the photo. Yes, I thought that the Nexstar 5 maybe out of collimation but it doesn't seem so from looking at it visually. The fact that there were lots of high altitude clouds may have affected the overall image making it look out of focus. But I did ...

Swee!!! A pleasant surprise capture: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6eBrtNywjy_M6wH8oaMh6iVB2oO_mIVDokMl_3R9geh5cZO0UzISNO-Z9hTSsZiG4ZFjCcjhl1I_oJZnQpchWawUngQg4SbAA6f1ThpEGb8tHdryeqEUEejuFexB5jhkDrVS6XOr0NgKU_Aye38mZ8wJUctt4wfwuQPt8X6yeydTNu-LQqzSXoz6yE9eD/w640-h360/202...

No idea what I'm doing and if it's right or not. Any criticisms, advice or comment would be appreciated. But here's my shot of M42. Details as follows : 54 x 90s Light Frames @ ISO 800 21 Flat Frames Stacked in DSS and processed using PS 2024 Equipment : Celestron Nexstar Evolution 5 Juwei 14 Strain...

20231029_083733.jpg 20231029_083916.jpg Orion from Bt Batok. Info: Date : 27 October 2023 first shot - 0035hrs last shot 0331hrs 300 x 30 Sec Lights 30 Biases 30 Darks 30 Flats ISO-1000 Total integration time 2½hr Stacked in DSS processed in Photoshop and Lightroom Equipment: Orion ST120 F/5 FL600m...

akdwivedi wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 4:39 pm Wow, that's a nice pic from orion 120st.its one of my best visual scopes but haven't tried astrophotography yet.

It's pretty decent for a budget scope. But there's a lot of CA that you have to work on in post.