2022 Remote Control
2021 Experimentation lead me to a direction of city living and remotely hosting my telescope. I persued greater automation and remote control that with a little more work should prove operable to get started.
Unless stated otherwise, images are from my home location in Leeming, 15 Km south of the centre of Perth, Western Australia. Leeming has SQM 19.00 Bortle 6 skies.
My favourite shots can also be found on AstroBin http://www.astrobin.com/users/scottastrophe
Caldwell 102 - IC2602 - Southern Pleiades or Theta Carina Cluster - 31/1/2022 (Processed stack)
Field flatness testing with camera orientation 180 degress to minimise flatness issues in the corners.
DeepSkyStacker 4.2.6 Stacked 80% (17) of 21 Images Gain 100 @ 15 Sec, 35 DARK Gain 100 @ 60 Sec, 35 BIAS Gain 100 @ 1/1000 Sec, 19 FLATS Gain 100 @ 1/10000 Sec, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 with AstroFlat as FLATS not matched
Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with Baader MPCC Coma Corrector (at 55mm backfocus) for F=800mm f/4.0, 30mm self-centring extension tube for the MPCC, Astronomik L2 UV-IR filter, QHY 268C CMOS camera field 68' x 101' , Ambient ~20C, Camera 0C.
StellarMate on RP-4B with Kstars/Ekos for EQMOD mount control, auto-focusing, plate solving and image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress SuperStar (Mono) CCD Auto Guider and Ekos auto guiding software.
C102 Southern Pleiades or Theta Carina ClusterCR229 C102 IC2602 Southern PleiadesCaldwellCollinderICIC2602 C102 Southern Pleiades or Theta Carina ClusterOpen Cluster
