paulgrover68 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 The clouds took a couple hours off last night. I really wanted to shoot the Leo Triplet, but as it wouldn't be optimal to about 10ish I fired in a 34 x 4 minute subs on the Monkey Head. I was a bit worried by how close The Moon was. I got some moon blotchyness in the final subs and I may have been a little heavy handed removing it. How good was it to be out again? Bloomin' brilliant! Also when I hear Monkey Head, I can't help but think of the Chilled Monkey Brains in Temple of Doom. Oh and the Leo Triplet... Clouds were back on duty by 10:30. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padraic M Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 38 minutes ago, paulgrover68 said: Oh and the Leo Triplet... Clouds were back on duty by 10:30. Yeah - I managed to get 20 minutes of Red on the Leo Triplet last night before the clouds came back. What good is that to me? 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgrover68 Posted March 21, 2021 Author Share Posted March 21, 2021 It's been the story of my nights since mid November. Either broken cloud or clear for a short period and then solid cover (or in a more recent twist, fog When I was upgrading from my tired DSLR to a CMOS camera I seriously considered mono vs OSC. I went OSC with a view to going mono in year or so. I'm kind of glad I made that decision as I would not have achieved anything in months. As I'm only a year or so into the AP journey acquiring usuable data is my primary aim 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinS Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 20 hours ago, paulgrover68 said: As I'm only a year or so into the AP journey acquiring usuable data is my primary aim A very nice image. A valid point for anyone starting AP, the latest OSC cameras are a great enabler for achieving complete colour images here in the U.K. where the weather conspires to prevent a complete set of mono frames with no guarantee when the next opportunity will be available. In the first 2 years, my setup consisted of mono CCD camera’s and 20min frames and my notable achievement was a lot of LRGB frames, mostly incomplete sets preventing the production a quality colour image. Adding the complexity of a mono setup on start up is not necessary, and can be destabilising as frustration overturns achievement. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkAR Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 Excellent work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgrover68 Posted March 22, 2021 Author Share Posted March 22, 2021 Thanks guys - this was one of those targets I never knew existed until recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrobdlbug Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 It’s definitely been a winter when the overriding objective was to achieve something representing the target with very little integration time. So your monkey head is a great achievement in the short time you had available and it has all the salient features of that object. ‘Going deep’ is a luxury we don’t get in this country unless you only want to create a very few images each season. I went narrowband this season and it’s worked well for me - but going back to LRGB filters with mono camera looks a daunting task when new OSC Sony sensors deliver images with an hour or two of subs. I would define agree and say you made the correct choice moving DLSR to OSC and this image delivers and gives you satisfaction that you’ve achieved a result in face of adversarial weather Keep going and see what Galaxy season offers in terms of clear dark sky and interesting targets 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter shah Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 a super rendition 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 Nice work Paul. Which scope did you use? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinS Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 Very nice Paul. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgrover68 Posted March 26, 2021 Author Share Posted March 26, 2021 17 hours ago, TerryMcK said: Nice work Paul. Which scope did you use? This was the Skywatcher 200P-DS, reduced to 900mm with CC. Camera ASI294MC-PRO and the filter was the L-eNhance. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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