Originally Posted by RNajarian (Post 10500534)

AFTER
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1561266129.jpg

I haven’t been able to try out any of your suggestions because it has been cloudy in the Los Angeles Area every night for the past week . . . As if the light pollution wasn’t bad enough.

I have been able to do a little post processing with a little success. Thanks for all the help

Originally Posted by Pazuzu (Post 10501318)

Since we're here...
In the last 10 days or so, I have:

Bought a Vixen 102mm refractor for myself (Relabeled Orion, with an adjustable front lens housing).

Finished tearing down and rebuilding the Super Polaris mount that I bought, for myself (except the legs, they need refinishing).

Finished tearing down and rebuilding a CG-5GT mount (Celestron Advanced GT). It moves, but the GoTo electronics are buggered. I might end up converting it to a regular dual axis powered CG-5 and flip it.

Continued to get my friends birthday present put together, a 6 inch Celestron Evolution with the StarSense autoaligner, and an Orion StarShoot imager that I had lying around. Found him a solar filter, a 45 degree diagonal so he can birdwatch with it, upgraded the firmware for both scope and alignment scope, and scrounged some sky charts. I still need to get the backlash dialed in and make sure that everything works, we've been pretty socked in lately. He'll be able to run it from his Ipad, which is pretty cool.

Finally sat down with my 1.5 CGE mounts. Put them on the workbench, grabbed one of my random NexStar hand paddles, found a power supply that came with my CGEM-DX, and...everything freaking works! I have the parts needed to complete the second mount coming, then I'll have 2 actual full CGE mounts that WORK! I fully expected that both of them would be basket cases that got sold for parts. I bought one out so someone's living room (that's a story, imagine a CGE on the tripod sitting in your living room for 3 years when you DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE THINGS WAS...The 1/2 mount I got from an Ebay recycler in Baton Rouge, it was from the University and must have been some sort of research project (I took the Megabus out there and back in one day, and smuggled about 90 pounds of telescope parts in my luggage).

Originally Posted by RNajarian (Post 10505109)

I picked up a Celestron StarSense auto aligner yesterday . . . Wow it makes getting started a lot quicker/easier. It centers the target pretty well even with a 4 mm eyepiece in. However, when the low power light illuminated on my powertank, it seemed to lose its alignment.

Anyone else notice this?

Originally Posted by RNajarian (Post 10505402)

I am not running a splitter, will a regular phone jack splitter work?

I’m studying how to do this . . . May start with the original hand controller first and see how that goes before attempting the StarSense . . .

Originally Posted by RNajarian (Post 10512515)

. . . Oh and speaking of AUX ports . . . My new Celestron StarSense autoaligner is incredible!! Amazingly accurate. Once I get my six pin splitter for the AUX port I’m going to try and track/photograph satellites using the Starsense, WiFi, and the SkySafari software.

I’d love to see Kosmos 482 before it reenters the atmosphere.

https://www.universetoday.com/141742/spot-a-failed-soviet-venus-probe-in-earth-orbit/

Originally Posted by Eric Hahl (Post 10538265)

Captured 2.8 hours worth of Hydrogen Alpha and Oxygen iii over the last 2 nights on the Crescent nebula and surrounding area. Shot with Takahashi FSQ-106 telescope and Atik 16200 mono camera cooled to -30C below ambient temp.



https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/jsF7...0_wmhqkGbg.jpg

Originally Posted by flatbutt (Post 10538339)

Very nice, how are you cooling the camera, N2?

BTW speaking of H alpha my new new Lunt Solar 80 is on the way! I'll try to post some solar pix for youse guys.