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
Uranus and 5 Moons - 16/1/2022 (Processed stack)
Near Full Moon - testing StellarMate automation. Coma visible in TL,BL but little TR/BR implies skewed L-R focal plane.
See cropped version to see the 5 Moons - Umbriel; Titania; Miranda; Ariel; Oberon
DeepSkyStacker 4.2.6 Stacked 80% (15) of 19 Images Gain 100 @ 90 Sec, 35 DARK Gain 100 @ 60 Sec, 35 BIAS Gain 100 @ 1/1000 Sec, 19 FLATS GAIN 100 @ 1/2500 Sec, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2022
Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with 2" TeleVue 2X PowerMate for F=1600mm f/8.0, IDAS NB1 filter, QHY 268C CMOS camera field 34' x 51' , 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.
