21:11 – 01:12
Out with the 12″ tonight. Focus on Red was 19,562. I then slewed to M2 and took 30+ RGB frames. I do not need Luminance as it added very little to M15. Position angle for this and M15 was 239.580
Tag: M15
Viewing Report 2nd September 2023
21:32 – 00:58
Using the 12″ in the dome this evening to see if I can quickly grab some frames for M15 the Globular cluster in Pegasus.
I’m capturing 60s exposures due to not wanting to oversaturate the stars. I will attempt to get 30 x 60s for LRGB.
Focus position for Luminance 17,131 and RGB 19,505
I captured all frames with the Moon around 88% waining. Some frames were marred by the noise problem on the camera. I have put a ticket into ZWO to see if we can resolve.
M15 processing
Viewing Report 19th August 2023
20:14 – 23:22
Gingergeek came over this evening with his travel rig to setup and test again before our trip. My travel setup is packed away so instead I will image with the 12″ this evening, the first time since May!
Guiding setup was an issue. I did not need to re-calibrate, however TSX kept guiding on a hot pixel. I realised after a long while this was because there were no bright guide stars in the FOV so used the rotator to find one then everything just worked.
Then had a bug with taking a set of images where the run kept using the blank filter. I added another row in TSX and deleted the original which solved the problem. Cloud came in just after 11pm to shut the dome up.
M15 5 min exposure
Viewing Report 28th August 2021 – IMT3b
22:14 – 00:52
RGB on SH2 – 132.
RGB focus 19,098, Temp -25℃ GAIN 139 OFFSET 21 , Rotator angle 256.020
Changed rotator angle to find guide star, must remember to force a calibration within PHD2 straight after so that the guiding works.
@ 00:45 LRGB on M15.
Lum focus 20,098, RGB focus 19,098, Temp -25℃ GAIN 139 OFFSET 21, Rotator angle 139.520
Left the observatory running at 00:52 and went to bed.
Forgot to set the Very Light safety limit so dome did not close when the Sun came up……
Need to do flats!!