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
Gum31 IC2599 Galactic Nebula and NGC3293 The Little Jewel Box - 6/3/2022 (Processed stack)
Imaged at Perth Observatory, semi-dark sky site, using 'Nebula Booster' filter. Not quite focused, and slight collimation error (double spikes) and some occasional wind gusts made the stars less sharp than ideal.
DeepSkyStacker 4.2.6 Stacked 75% (19) of 25 Images Gain 100 @ 180 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
Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with ASA Reducer/Coma Corrector (at 65.1mm backfocus) for F=568mm f/2.84, Rigid collar with no extension tube, IDAS NB1 filter, QHY 268C CMOS camera field 90' x 134', 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.
Galactic NebulaGumGum31 IC2599 Galactic NebulaICIC2599 Gum31 Galactic NebulaNGCNGC3293 The Little Jewel BoxNGC3324 Open ClusterOpen Cluster
