Well, there's little point in having a colour camera but posting lowly b&w pics. Same data as before, but a different processing method.
Again, feel free to click it to go large.
Note to self: ZWO ASI174MC on RC6, undebayered raw in FC, debayer RGGB VNG in FCdeb, satsx6 in vdub, K3x1, Reg5, PS merge RGB and L.
Seeing was better, decided to try out the ASI174MC on the RC6, this is a two-panel stitch. Feel free to click it.
Note to self: ZWO ASI174MC on RC6, undebayered raw in FC, debayer RGGB VNG in FCdeb, K3x1, Reg5, PS.
Seeing was bad, not much chance of imaging galaxies or nebulae, so I went for the Moon instead:
Note to self: ZWO ASI174MC, undebayered raw in FC, debayer RGGB in FCdeb, K3x2, Reg5, PS.
I thought that my recent unscheduled stay in hospital would mean missing this morning's ISS Solar Transit, but I was let out yesterday after only 10 days.
There were hardly any gaps in the cloud cover, but I got set up anyway. Luckily, a small gap appeared at just the right time and for just long enough to get the job done. The recently-acquired ZWO ASI174MC made light work of capturing full-frame (1936 x 1216 px) raw .avi data at 160 FPS.
Here's a clip, slowed to 4 FPS. It's best viewed in full-screen at 1080p.
And here's a cropped stack of the ISS. I think that it's a reasonable first effort:
At 02:56:15 UTC on July 21st 1969 Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon.
It seemed fitting to get an image of the Moon at 02:56:15 UTC on July 21st 2019.
It's not the best lunar image I've ever made, but I was trying out a recently-acquired second-hand camera with a recently-acquired second-hand PC and a recently-acquired new SSD. Being able to record full-frame (1936 x 1216 px) raw .avi files at 160 FPS with no skipped frames and no write-lag is a real improvement which should be useful for capturing ISS Transits:
Still wading through the backlog of astro-data that I'd been meaning to either process or bin.
Here's another result from way back in November last year, I think it's much better than my similar images from 2008 and 2017:
M45 - The Pleiades, in the constellation of Taurus. 2nd November 2018.
Subs: 25 light @ 300s, 50 dark frames, 50 bias frames.
QHY10 on the C80 ED-R Frac, guided with PHD.
