By simonnickydowning on Tuesday, 16 June 2020
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I am so pleased with the data coming through, the signal to noise ratio and detail within such short subs, under a dark sky, is really impressive. Thanks so much M31 finished3.png Roboscopes team. And just so you know, this comprised of 60 subs at one minute long each, using a Takahashi Epsilon 180 F/2,8 astrograph, on a Skywatcher EQ 8 mount with a ZWO ASI071 Pro Colour CMOS camera at Pier 5. Take care all of you. Simon [attachment]M31[/attachment]
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What software are you using to Debayer and stack? your colour balancing is superb....another fine image Simon
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3 years ago
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Beautiful image Simon. It's unbelievable that this is possible in 1 hour exposure time. I can tell you in The Netherlands it's impossible. I have used exposure times in excess of 50 hours from my backyard observatory.
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Yes it is quite remarkable how much detail we are getting for such short subs and a comparison with the Netherlands and here (UK) would also be justified! I actually have a ZWO cooled colour camera and it has massively improved my imaging here, so I really rate these cameras. With the skies in Spain as good as they are, on top of this, we really are on a special curve here. Thank you so much for your supportive words about my image. I try so hard with this and encouragement is really important for all of us... Si
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Phil, Thanks for all your support over recent days. I am grateful for the new data too!  Just so you know, I cannot download the darks, flats and biases for Pier 7 as the pages seem to have gone down. I apologise if I should have downloaded these sooner, and have lost my chance, but I do not know what else to do, than ask! In fact I only downloaded the calibration files for the scopes that were working in the earlier stages at that time, so I may have missed out on others too, so sorry! Take care. Simon
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3 years ago
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Hi Simon, they are now located in the My Data area of the website (top menu members  area.. you can get to the files there regards
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Thanks Phil, sorry I missed it. Take care. Simon
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