Hello and welcome to my channel. My Name is Russell, I'm a deep sky astrophotographer who takes photos of space from my back garden in the UK. I use numerous different telescopes including the Askar FRA400, the Celestron Edge HD8, the Redcat 51 and the Askar 80PHQ and I capture images using either my ASi 2600mm or 294mm pro camera.
I'm constantly amazed by the beauty of space, and I hope to share that passion with you. If you want to see how I capture these images, please subscribe to my channel. I hope you enjoy the videos.
NICE and very good presentation. In about 1 month I will have a similar rig set up, so happy about this final confirmation of purchase! Thank you for sharing!!
Hello, I got to the Mosaic by Coordinates step and I input my two files but it only gives me 1 in return.. why?? 2024 version of Pixinsight. Please help me
I just purchased a red cat 51 and am about to buy the ASI 2600, So I am looking forward to capturing shots like yours. I am down near the bottom of the learning curve but every day I am adding to my knowledge base thanks to videos like this.
The first part, plate solving worked and gave me 9 solved files. However, when using mosaic steps, keeps asking to overwrite files, doesn't want to give me a good output. 2024 version of pixinsight
I've got 6 panels cropped, gradient removed (graxpert), deblured and denoised. Assume from here I can try this? Each panel looks good but current using image composite editor. And whe done there is a difference between the panels as I have to stretch each one. It's close bit not 100%. Further stretching makes it worse too! Can hide in the shadows but not ideal. Hoping this method leaves it good for stretching and further processing.....
Hi Russell thanks for this, on a slightly unrelated question I note how far out your guide camera is on your 50mm WO uniguide, you dont have the "spacer" attached or seem to have adjusted the front element for focus ... wondered why ... looks like the guide camera is barely attached to the rotolock?
Really excellent, Russell! I am contemplating purchase of the EdgeHD 8". Have you measured any tilt (mirror flop) when using the EAF with it? I assume you cannot lock the mirror when using the EAF.
Hello Russell, Excellent shot and use of the scope. I am thinking about pulling the plug on one of these and have a question for you if you don't mind. I will also be using the WZO EAF focuser and was wondering how you handle the mirror locks, do you leave these unlocked so that your focuser can adjust the focus as needed when switching filters or do you go through a focus routine with each filter change? I know you are using ASIAIR where as I am using NINA and it has a setting you can use to focus after each filter change. So just wondering how you deal with the focus lock if at all? By the way, congratulations on your first light with the new to you scope. Fantastic shot if the galaxy.
Superb, exciting, awesome to watch--all I do is look through my vintage Classic C8/C5s with my aberrated old eyes :-) and even that is still thrilling...
Hey Russell, enjoyed the video but it gave me a question. I just received my MN190 and was setting it up to image last night but the focuser was not holding the camera securely. Not that I thought it was going to fall out but it wobbled side to side pretty badly. Have you had this issue? How did you overcome it? Thanks!
Thx for this. Can i ask why you just don’t go to Live mode and select the flats and darks to be autocalibrated and made directly into master flat and master dark fits?
Thanks for this...I am relatively new to this, and what I have been able to glean from other YT videos is that "darks" is accomplished by placing the cap over the scope and exposing for the same length of time your lights used. So, if your lights were 180 seconds, your darks would be 180 seconds with the cap on the scope/lens. Are "dark flats" the samw as "darks?"
