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eek! Not as good on the software side. and.... The atmosphere acts as a large prism, hence the red at bottom and blue at top. There's software workarounds, that I hadn't gotten into, and there's additional equipment and lenses I hadn't bought yet.
Telescope: Tasco 114mm x 900mm focal
Filter: ICE Lipo, Neewer Yellow
Date: 23Sept2019
Barlow/Reducer: 2x
Camera: ZWO ASI294mc
Telescope: svBony sv503 80mm x 540mm focal length
Filter: Optolong lExtreme
Gain: 150
offset: 15
binning: 1
Date: 2022-1-29
Barlow/Reducer: 0.8
Exposure: 300 seconds
Uploaded on Sun, 06/11/2023 - 12:13 by dzucker in ngc 2264 Cone Nebula 176 visits Login to post comments
Getting better at that software wrangling!
Camera: ZWO ASI178mc
Telescope: Tasco 114mm x 900mm focal
Gain: 319
offset: 110
binning: 1
Date: 23Sep2019
Exposure: 0.028seconds
Camera: ZWO ASI178mc
Telescope: Tasco 114mm x 900mm focal
Filter: none
Gain: 319
offset: 110
binning: 1
Date: 11Oct2020
Exposure: 0.028seconds
Camera: ZWO ASI178mc
Telescope: Tasco 114mm x 900mm focal
Filter: ICe Lipo
Gain: 281
offset: 110
binning: 1
Date: 11Oct2020
Exposure: 0.12seconds
Got and Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector (ADC) - a rotating pair of prisms that compensates for the prism effect of the atmosphere. Getting much better image quality!
Camera: ZWO ASI178mc
Telescope: Tasco 114mm x 900mm focal
Filter: svBony CLS
Gain: 349
offset: 0
binning: 1
Date: 30Sept2021
Barlow/Reducer: 3x
Exposure: 127ms
ADC
Camera: ZWO ASI178mc
Telescope: Tasco 114mm x 900mm focal
Filter: none
Gain: 510
offset: 0
binning: 1
Date: 3November2021
Barlow/Reducer: 3x
ADC
Exposure: 4.2ms
cellphone held up to the eyepiece
2019-06-22
cheapo camera
Telescope: svBony 60mm x 240mm focal Guidescope
Filter: nd100000
Gain: 1
offset: 0
Date: 18May2020
Exposure: 0.0156seconds