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| the gso203 workhorse |
Finally put the refractor to rest and got out the 203. Still galaxy season so after the galaxies swung west, the big globulars rose. Good seeing with guiding rarely above 0,4"rms.
Big callout too for Frankin at setiastro.com. His SetiAstroSuitePro software should take most of the credit...
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| globular cluster m13 in hercules atr533c on gso203 (best of) 70x4min @ hcg100 |
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 26x4min @ hcg100 |
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| a bit more outer halo |
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 @ 2.50-3-30GHz in a z420 museum piece: 12 cores, 24 threads. Not fast, just brute force with 128Gb DDR3 to play with. It beats my Ryzen 7 Beelink for astro processing at a fraction of the cost; and it does it while you wait. It also weighs thirty times more!
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| integration using 24 threads |
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| z420 settings |
