A new shot of The Horsehead (NGC2023) & Flame (NGC2024) Nebula's using the little Sky-Watcher 50ED Evoguide 242mm, guide scope with a Starizona field flattener as my imaging scope. I'm really liking this little wide scope to capture things I couldn't get much of before.
Was only able to get 38, 3 min. exposures on this target and now the moon is up and near it.
Bill Gass wrote:
Beautiful...
What file size do you end up with ?
Raw or Jpeg ?
I finally bought the PS/LR sub this year and a new comp from Falcon Northwest and have been diving into Raw again.
Each 2 min shot is about 51mb in a raw .fit file format. The final images I've done can vary from 500mb to 2gb!
gerov wrote:
Thanks for this clear explanation, as well as the pictures of your setup, Leah. I assume you have a long extension cord and power strip for all of this. Amazing stuff and it sounds like a fascinating learning curve. Please keep adding to this thread - Mark please do same as you are original poster - as this is really cool to look at. One question on your Andromeda shot - do you know what the red spots/fringing are on the periphery of the galaxy?
M_Wales wrote:
A new shot of The Horsehead (NGC2023) & Flame (NGC2024) Nebula's using the little Sky-Watcher 50ED Evoguide 242mm, guide scope with a Starizona field flattener as my imaging scope. I'm really liking this little wide scope to capture things I couldn't get much of before.
Was only able to get 38, 3 min. exposures on this target and now the moon is up and near it.
Mark, if that is only 38 exposures, I can only imagine what 15 hours would look like. This is incredible!
Bill Gass wrote:
Krazy Kool images...Would love to see your setups.
I fought with guiding on this setup and ended up going back to my old Sky-Watcher EQM-35 mount (I don't have images of them together) for much better guiding.. The mount, wedge and tripod are not being used right now in these images. The scope and all the cool stuff on top is what I moved to the older mount.
I have another EAF on order for my Astro-Tech AT65EDQ Quad APO scope
Rig breakdown:
Sky-Watcher 50ED Evoguide 242mm scope with a Starizona field flattener & clamshell holding the scope
ZWO ASI533MC Pro cooled one shot color camera (round red thing at the back of the main scope)
ZWO ASIAIR Pro (red box) everything plugs into it and it controls it all.
ZWO ASI120mm guide camera (small red round thing) and SVBony 120mm guide scope (to the right of the main scope)
ZWO Electronic Automatic Focuser (EAF) (red box on top in the middle)
ZWO Electronic Filter Wheel (black thing sticking up aft of the EAF and in front of the main camera
The orange wraps around the 2 scope are electric dew heaters to keep the glass from fogging up
The green cat5 cable plugs into a wifi extender (white) on the tripod leg.
This is all control from an 8" tablet running the ASIair app.
Oh thanks for the setup pixs Mark, really neat to see. I see your little belt drive as well.
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I see the bigger round red camera on the bottom scope...
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What is the smaller round thing on the ( I guess ) other scope ?
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And with the stars and earth and all moving, sunrise as well, how is a 16 hour shot possible ?
Bill Gass wrote:
Oh thanks for the setup pixs Mark, really neat to see. I see your little belt drive as well.
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I see the bigger round red camera on the bottom scope...
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What is the smaller round thing on the ( I guess ) other scope ?
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And with the stars and earth and all moving, sunrise as well, how is a 16 hour shot possible ?
The small red one is the ASI120mm mono guide camera in the guide scope...
You would shoot the target over multiple nights to get as much as you would like...
