'Star, star teach me how to shine, shine'
From the Webb Deep Sky Society 'An Introduction to Visual Deep-Sky Observing'
The scale below has been reversed from the Webb Society scale which puts excellent values at 1 and poor values at 5 in order to match Meteoblue. However the exact decriptions may not tally exactly with the Meteoblue astronomers’ forecast. To be monitored.
Deconvolution settings for sharpening the surface of the Moon
9th October 2022 After lots of tweaking and testing on Windows 10 and 11, the issues with the focusser finally seem to be resolved. I wish I could say definitively why the focussers hadn’t worked on either of the rigs but the common factor in the solution in both cases was new, high-quality micro USB to USB A cables and connecting to USB 3.0 ports rather then USB 2 ports. The takeaway from this is not to swap equipment between set-ups in Windows for fear of upsetting the flaky and…
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Tips from Damian Peach and Christopher Go
From the Astrofarsography Youtube video at Practical Astronomy Show 2019 in Kettering.
Operating platform: Astroberry v2 Capture software: EKOS Processing software: PixInsight v1.8.9
9th July 2022 I recalibrated PHD2 on the EQ6R-Pro last night which worked fine. I then successfully guided to an acceptable standard. Unfortunately high cloud affected to whole evening’s imaging so only a few poor subs were captured across both the scopes. At the moment I am putting recent guiding woes down to poor transparency. To be monitored however and I will run PPEC at some point to see if guiding is improved further.
