Friday, March 7, 2025

Startrail with Star Adventurer 2i

Update Star Adventurer 2i:
After my colleague, Walter, fixed my issue on the bad "snap" connection, I was able to take again some images of the nightsky. 

First I completed the polarallignment; next I opened my app "SA Console" and connected with the mount. I selected Astro-Time Lapse and took 200 images of constellation Orion.
Postprocessing was done with Startrails and CS4.

When looking in detail, the mount is not always very accurate. But I found out I did nog fixed the altitude bold; not sure if this was the cause.



Setting
Nikon D7500 10mm f/4 ISO100 200x30s
Mount Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2i
Startrails and CS4

Moon Venus Mercury

Nightscape of Venus, Moon and Mercury.




Sunday, March 2, 2025

Sol'Ex CaIIK Line Stack

After re-adjusting my Sol'Ex time to test. Seeing was very poor but still, I made some images in CaIIK line. The 10 images were made using INTI and stacked uising AS4!.The result was edited in CS4.



Setting
Solex Pro version on TALAPO60/360 and ASI678MM
2nd Gen Slit
Herschel Wedge
SharpCap, INTI and CS4