GazAstro

Get well soon Stace 🤞🏻

Isn't there a tick box to make it auto refresh on PA ?

Looks promising 🤞🏻

Blimey, that's come out well 👍🏻

Long shot but does a neighbor have a security camera ( they use IR leds for night vision) as I get weird artifacts on my guide images if I forget to turn mine off ?

If your mount tracks reasonably well, try longer exposures maybe. Experiment to find out how long you can go before stars look eggy then back off a bit.

HEQ5 or the AZ-Gti, depending on how strong I'm feeling !

Looking good 👍

Hi Peter, if you're guiding and not trying too long a sub length the ASPA feature on the AVX might do for a reasonable polar alignment ... run it twice and see how it works out maybe ?

That's looking nice !

That's looking good Dan 👍 No criticism but I prefer the Heart turned 90 degrees clockwise as It makes the Fish head look less 'phallic' 🙂

Probably best if you tell us your capture details, ISO - exposure length - amount of subs (images). From what I can see you are using an Alt Az mount so best to not go over maybe 10 to 20 seconds each capture but experiment to see how far you can go before stars start to go out of shape. The barlow will make things appear bigger but also even harder to track accurately.

Curves and level tutorial here

Good start ! Hope you don't mind but I cropped slightly - adjusted curves and levels in photoshop and generally fiddled a bit. Your image but edited a bit.

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/187034-eq6-latitude-lug-modification-or-how-to-avoid-bent-bolts/