With apologies to all the residents of m94, note to self to do this properly. It needs loads more time. Hopefully then there'll be colour as well as the outer halo. Alas, the calima hit around midnight, after only 90 minutes.
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| galaxy m94 in canes venatici atr533c on gso203 26xmiin @ hcg100 |
Not the same session. One with sv220, one without. Always wanted to get the Ha of m82. This seemed to do it without the usual processing fight...
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| galaxy m82 el cigarro in ursa major atr533 on sv550-122 70x4min @ hcg100 |
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| globular cluster m3 in canes venatici atr533 on sv550 34x4min @ hcg100 |
Filter |
Step |
Bin |
Expose (s) |
ir/ 260/nada |
17 |
1 |
3 |
220/uhc |
20 |
2 |
10 |
Filter focus routines with the 122/f7 in fields with few stars.
Current focus steps ~3010
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| the barren star field surrounding m82 needed... |
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| ... a bigger hammer than usual this was 8s exposures we settled on 10s |
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| one frame arriving |
Xeon CPU E5-2696 v2 @ 2.50GHz in a z420 museum piece: 12 cores, 24 threads. It's not fast, but it certainly beats my Ryzen 7 Beelink for astro processing at a fraction of the cost. It also weighs thirty times more!
Here we are using 24 parallel processes during star alignment in SetiAstroSuitePro's stacking module.
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| homography star alignment with 24 parallel threads |
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| z420 settings |
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| galaxy m106 and friends in canes venatici atr533 on sv550 60x4min @ hcg100 |
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| galaxy m63 girasol in canes venatici atr533 on sv550 52x4min @ hcg100 |
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| globular cluster m3 in canes venatici atr533 on sv550 34x4min @ hcg100 |
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| m3 with a less in-your-face approach |
