In this blog I document interesting events around my astro activities. My videos can also be viewed on my pixlimit youtube channel.
Andromedas Parachute or J014709+463037 is a very interesting deep sky object, a Quadruply Lensed Quasar at z=2.377, 11 billion light years away. This video is going to walk through how I make the most out of live stacking using Sharpcap Pro and my equipment.
IC 349 also known as Barnard's Merope Nebula, taken with my Celestron C14 at about 2620 mm focal length, First light with Lucky imaging.
The image test sequence was taken with my new baby, a Celestron C14 at about 2620 mm focal length, without autoguiding with an ASI294MC pro CMOS camera at -20 ° C. Each of the 16 images consists of approx. 180 x 1 second single frames and saved one after another as an animated gif. There is no picture selection, that means no lucky imaging. What you can see very well are two effects, walking noise (looks like rain) and seeing.
Sequence of approx. 3.900 x 1 second exposure time, M 57 stacked with Autostakkert, 1 s. single frames, lucky imaging, approx. 50 % used from imagingsequences, Takahashi Mewlon 210 with focal length 1961 mm, ASI533MC, cooling -10 C.
First light M51 with ASI533MC and Celestron RASA C8 f/2.0, taken with the short exposure method, 18x 60 x 10s.( 10.000 s.)
This video is going to walk through how I make the most out of live stacking using Sharpcap Pro and my equipment. I'll walk through the settings and steps. All shots with Skywatcher Heritage 150p / Skywatcher EQ6-R Mount / without autoguiding/ no cooling ASI290MC Camera and using SharpCap 3.2 Pro.