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Sep 29 2024 01:03 PM by johnstra. Smack in the middle of the Massacre Rim Dark Sky Sanctuary in Northwestern Navada sits an Airbnb called the Rockin’ TD Ranch. The nearest town is Cederville, CA, population 530, which is 20 miles west down a dirt road. Alturas is another 30 miles west so the term middle of nowhere is apropos.
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi: GoTo, Portable, and ... - Cloudy …
The Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi is a compact and affordable GoTo mount. But does it find and track objects well enough for astrophotography? The Star Adventurer GTi is a small German equatorial mount intended for visual and photographic use. The sample tested was an “open box” demo unit sent by Sky-Watcher USA. Credit: Alan Dyer
The 750 Best Deep Sky Objects (Reachable from the ... - Cloudy …
2024年3月26日 · Page 1 of 3 - The 750 Best Deep Sky Objects (Reachable from the Northern Hemisphere) - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: I have assembled a 16MB 86 page pdf, available for free download at this link, of my view of the best 750 DSOs to be seen and imaged in the night sky from the northern hemisphere. Its purpose is to provide a simplified tool to help …
Sky-Watcher: Introducing the Wave series mounts - Cloudy Nights
2024年4月23日 · Page 1 of 3 - Sky-Watcher: Introducing the Wave series mounts - posted in Vendor and Group Announcements: Introducing the highly anticipated Sky-Watcher Wave series of strain-wave mounts. The Wave series consists of two mounts, the Wave 100i and Wave 150i. Both mounts share features as well as have their own unique offerings. These mounts will be …
AWB OneSky first impressions - Cloudy Nights
2020年3月3日 · AWB OneSky first impressions - posted in Beginners Forum (No Astrophotography): My AWB OneSky arrived today, but I didnt think Id get to use it anytime soon. For one thing, it was cloudy and rainy all day. For another, a civic organization I belong to had a meeting tonight. But on the drive home from my meeting I realized that I could see stars. Still, I …
Deep sky imaging- advice needed- ASI 224 - Cloudy Nights
2021年10月3日 · Deep sky imaging- advice needed- ASI 224 - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: I have been trying to image deep sky objects (nebulae, in particular), but have not been successful, and need your advice. I have a Celestron CPC 800 HD Edge scope with go-to, and an asi 224 MC camera. I use Sharpcap Pro for capturing images, autostakkert and registax6 for …
Seestar S50 and DeepSky Stacker Help - Cloudy Nights
2024年1月3日 · Seestar S50 and DeepSky Stacker Help - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Hey all, new Seestar S50 owner here. I have been enjoying my this little scope for the short time I have it and it has proven to work pretty well considering my skies (I live in NYC) and weather conditions lately. That being said I was wondering if someone can offer some advice regarding …
Arcsinh Stretch in Pixinsight - Beginning Deep Sky Imaging
2021年12月5日 · What I do is take an iterative approach using 3-4 small stretches with Arcsinhstretch, and in between each stretch I slightly stretch with HistogramTransformation. This avoids the weird star cores but gives the benefit of Arcsinhstretch which is deeper colors. 17.5Dob likes this. #5 Whereisclearsky. Apollo.
Sky Watcher Flextube 250Pi SynScan GoTo Collapsible ... - Cloudy …
2024年3月10日 · The 8 inch version is F5.9, which isn’t as good for deep sky Astro photography as it gathers only (4.7/5.9)^2 = 63% the total number of photons from the sky per second, so it's a much less productive machine both on total sky capture and on photons per unit area of sky.