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
Messier 38 - NGC1912 Open Cluster in Auriga - 3/2/2022 (Processed cropped stack)
Field flatness testing with camera orientation 180 degress to minimise flatness issues in the corners.
DeepSkyStacker 4.2.6 Stacked 55% (19) of 34 Images Gain 100 @ 60Sec, 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 2" TeleVue 2X PowerMate for F=1600mm f/8.0, PowerMate with 42-48mm expansion ring into the QHY268C camera for 55mm back focus. The PowerMate is threaded into a Hotech Self Centring Adapter (SCA) with 19mm length. Astronomik L2 UV-IR filter, QHY 268C CMOS camera field 34' x 51' , Ambient ~30C, 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.
CollinderCR67 M38 Open Cluster in AurigaMessierM38 Open Cluster in AurigaNGCNGC1912 M38 Open Cluster in AurigaOpen Cluster
