Dithering to the rescue! North America Nebula 

Sorry to have you all worried! Back on track now :)

Thank you :D That is a good focus, now I need to get my body to auto-focus on that :)

Thank you! And yes the Force (of astro) will pull me through!

Thank you!!

Thanks Claudio, clear skies to you too!

I only recently thought of it as well, actually :D but it makes sense!

@@CuivTheLazyGeek this is why I look at content from a number of sources. I can get some smart ideas from others and incorporate them into my own workflow...and this applies to all things that require skill and knowledge.

Thanks!

Thank you Rowan!

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Thank you Victor!

Thank you so much!

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Thanks Helena! Glad to be back!

Thank you!

Sorry for that! But definitely better now!

More coming soon ;)

Thank you!

Thanks Ollie!

Everyone with a mount even remotely capable of guiding should be dithering!

Thanks! And it's a pleasure to be back!

Thank you!

Thanks Hector! Glad the videos have been helpful!

Thanks Claudio!

Thanks Nick!

It's indeed a neat new look to the balcony :) Thank you!

Thanks Fred!

Thanks!

Merci!

I'm always so happy when I get such feedback - helping others is what I aim to do :)

Thanks Salomon! Will be making more videos going forward!

Good expansion of the equipment here, I hope you enjoy it :)

Thanks Stephen!

Thank you!!

You know I don't think I could bench press an EQ6 even before the accident :D

Hahaha, well you'd only fly out of the window if she noticed the purchase! (hint hint nudge nudge)

Thank you!

Merci JM! La je suis a fond sur la chaine a nouveau!

Thank you! Sharpstar EDPH II with AZEQ5 that I tuned :)

Yeah when beard and hair were wet that additional weight was really bad, it really made my body's periodic error much worse! High and low rejection frames should always be checked indeed, they reveal a lot... Ha, can you send me the Dall-Kirkham and a pair of muscled persons to help me set it up? :D

Hahaha I didn't know I had that power :)

Thank you!

Hahaha, good eye man! MSFS in VR is just too nice, I've been having a lot of fun with it (and the peripherals, including Honeycomb Alpha yoke, which is great!). I will go flying downunder at some point that is for sure!

We have the same setup, soo gooood 👍🏻 I noticed the desk plate, haha sprung 🤣👊🏼 If you want a buddy, you can add me in-game as 'aamsy'. Often fly while the astro is going on in the background. Lol. Keep getting better mate!

@@smatruk Awesome, I will do so, although I'm an amateur at best!

Much better these days, and much more looking forward to doing more videos!

Merci! Et ca fait plaisir de s'y remettre!

Also wanted to say thank you for the video on autofocus in Nina. It helped me a lot.

Thanks Ray! For sure better not to have to wear that thing - although a lot of hardware still in the spine...

Oooh I see! I think! Thank you!

I will stick to it! And keep commenting on VR videos :D

Thank you!

Well that's one way of approaching dithering!

Sorry! I'm back now :)

Thank you! Yeah I'll have another surgery sometime next year to remove all the hardware from my spine, so taking it easy for now!

Thanks Kurt! The WBPP script with its default settings includes those low and high rejection images in the xisf file that it creates, so they normally open automatically along with the stacked image.

@@CuivTheLazyGeek Yes, that right. I turned them off long ago and forgot about it.

Aaah that's a difficult question - I'd say the easiest way would be to use a tilt adapter, IF you have the backfocus distance available to do that...

@@CuivTheLazyGeek My QHY 268C is supplied with something QHY call a tilt adapter but as far as I can determine, it is not a tilt adapter and is only there to rotate the camera. Adjusting tilt is a real pain to consider.

Thanks Robert! I'm not planning on disappearing again any time soon!

Unfortunately out of all the calibration frames, flat frames are both the most important and the most annoying/least lazy to take. You can survive without bias or darks (I only use darks), but with a cooled camera darks are super easy to take, which is why I take them regardless of ROI. Flats on the other hand... I would never go without.

Aha I see! Thank you!

Only in strong wind - more of an issue is where a truck passes down on the street, there is definite vibration then!

Thank you!!

Now that is pro-level lazy dithering. Sir, I salute you! :D

Yeah, my 533MC on warm summer nights will have small dots on the sensor after cooling, until I wait like 20 minutes or so. Others have reported that, but not sure what proportion of the cameras is affected

Yes people explained it to me, now I can see it, thank you!

It's in the sensor, and what I usually do is refresh the desiccant tablets in the micro wave like ZWO recommends, and then close up the camera while I'm in a room with the aircon in dehumidifier mode - but it's not enough apparently!

I am the BOSS, you are the BOSS, we are all BOSSES! Woo! Thanks :D

Sounds like some heavy duty meds are kicking in!! Lol

@@astrogadge2276 No meds needed to get the Cuiv high :D

It's not! Guiding gives you the ability to dither, but you need to specifically tell your control software such as NINA to dither in between exposures!

Mostly MSFS general aviation! And in VR only.

I started out using X-Plane and even tried VR, but wasn't happy with the result. I am trying out MSFS 2020 and it seems rather constrained compared to X-Plane. If anything, it's a challenge to make that first 50 hours.

I have a desiccant under there - it's a compromise between equipment lifespan, and time spent using the equipment. I'm confident that with a setup always ready to image, I will get far more actual use time of the equipment, even if it fails sooner. Yes, catalog number will be easier, no need for imagination :D

Well, PixInsight is expensive, but it is well worth the cost, even if it means having to sell off all your clothes :D

Good question! The flats are applied to the light frames before registration/star alignment. So prior to the registration, the artifacts from the flats will all be in the same area of each image (say top right quadrant of the image). But, as the light frames are flipped by the flip, the part of the target that is in the top right quadrant of the image changes pre and post flip. So after registration (which rotates the flipped images to the reference frame), pre-flip will have the artifacts top right, but post flip bottom left. And so we get that pattern. Does that make sense?

Hi @@CuivTheLazyGeek , I got it now, it makes sense for me. If the flat frames “failed” to remove sensor spots, they will appear flipped after integrating images taken from both sides of the meridian.

Thanks Ed! Others have also chimed in, and I see the why of all of that now!!

@@CuivTheLazyGeek no worries buddy, glad you are back and keep up the good work. 🤩🌌🤩