'Sing to the Moon and the stars will shine'
Integration time:
* SII 75 x 300s (375m)
* Ha 86 x 300s (430m)
* OIII 53 x 300s (265m)
* Total: 1070m/17h50m
Integration time target
* Target: 20 hours
* Progress: 89%
28th April 2023 I recently acquired a more capable processing PC which has opened the door to re-processing of lots of old data which was languishing untouched due to the unreasonable length of time required for the old PC to run Pixinsight. Nine months after the initial acquisition, the…
Integration time:
* 291 x 120s (9h42m)
16th September 2022 Whilst monitoring the observatory imaging this evening I had the chance to process the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula from last month. Processed as SHO from an OSC image.
Integration time:
* SII 38 x 300s (190m)
* Ha 50 x 300s (465m)
* OIII 134 x 300s (670m)
* Total: 1325m/22h05m
9th August 2022 Gathered more Ha data to take total integratime time over 20 hours. Only two dropped frames on a night of varying transprency where I nearly closed the observatory prior to imaging because of the amount of approaching cloud. I decided to let it run and let NINA handle re-centring etc should it be required. Now ready for processing.
The two nebulae - Heart and Soul - in widefield
Integration time:
* 111 x 120s (3h42m)
* Total: 3h22m
13th August 2022 A small number of frames gathered before clouds rolled in once more.
The new wide field target for the current period of good weather is NGC7822 / SH2-171, an HII region in Cepheus.
Integration time:
* 165 x 120s (5h30m)
10th August 2022 Five and a half hours of data gathered last night. Compared to previous targets the nebulosity of NGC7822 is quite faint.
Integration time:
* 319 x 120s
* Total (10h38m)
8th August 2022
Another five hours’ + data gathered on a new target in Cygnus.
Integration time (running total):
* SII 25 x 300s (205m)
* Ha 21 x 300s (175m)
* OIII 23 x 300s (200m)
* Total: 855m/14h15m
Integration time target
* Target: 20 hours
* Progress: 71%
From latitude 52° North this target is at it optimum altitude now and will continue to be available for several hours per evening well into the darker nights of autumn.
2nd July 2022 I ran the 200PDS on the Cave Nebula in narrowband and the Askar on the Cygnius Loop in OSC. Amazingly my tweaks to the AZ-GTI mount seem to have made the guiding work and although the guiding standard deviation was horrible the result was very tight round stars on the Askar. The guiding on the Newtonian was awful too and I think that the extreme humidity was affecting the seeing quite badly.
