After
helping mow the lawn and smooth out the parking lot, I got my telescope set up. The guide camera was being super noisy,
however. Tons of noisy banding in
PHD. I tried focusing to see if it would
go away, but I couldn’t get it focused, so I decided to just try and image
Saturn using FireCapture (the noise wasn’t showing up there) with the new QHY5
and the filter wheel I got from club member Randy.
After that, I put the DSLR on the guide scope and imaged M81 and M82
together, and got a non-terrible result, but the FOV is so large isn’t not that
interesting either.
M81 & M82, Nikon D3100 on my Orion ST-80 atop my C11
82x15s, ISO-1600, no flat
However,
the telescope was tracking rather terribly, which is why I had to go the 15s
exposures. I didn’t even really try
anything on the scope since tracking was so bad. My image also turned out a little on the
green side – and this is without flats (I’m wondering if my daylight flats have
too much blue and if that impacts DSS or if DSS makes them grayscale first).
I
only stayed out till about 1:30 AM, as was my plan – I didn’t have time to get
my camping gear together that day, so I went home to sleep.
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