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Re: M42 from my future observatory site

Robert Chozick
 

It is 25 miles from Comanche Springs - 3RF.  It has a Texas Tech University Mesonet weather station on the property, which is great to have.  The link is below.


I will not be doing remote.  I am getting a 40 foot container cabin with a 12 foot heated air conditioned observatory control room overlooking the scopes.  I like to use minimal software and do everything manually - just using image capture, guiding and TheSky.  I will have a comfortable place to live while imaging.


On Dec 19, 2020, at 3:27 PM, Kent Kirkley via groups.io <kgkirkley@...> wrote:

Robert

So a little west of Crowell and probably not all that far from
the observatory complex. Probably a good choice if they
chose the area too. That would be a good hour further than
Ft. Griffin. Do you plan on having it be remotely operated?

Kent



-----Original Message-----
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Hi Kent. Well it had rained an hour earlier.  It was not a good night.  The property is between Paducah and Guthrie east of Lubbock. 

Robert 


On Dec 19, 2020, at 3:12 PM, Kent Kirkley via groups.io <kgkirkley@...> wrote:


Robert

Out of curiosity, where is the property located?
The fact that you had so much humidity is concerning but
even Ft. Davis can have high humidity.

Kent Kirkley



-----Original Message-----
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 Because of the high humidity there was a lot of moisture in the air. Must of the subs had high thin clouds making the brighter portions glow. I left in some that messed up the brightest stars.  If not it would have been only 10 subs. I threw out 20 subs. By the time I stopped the sky was full of moisture  The new land is high bortle 2 with a ranking of 21.99 on the light pollution map. 

Robert 


On Dec 19, 2020, at 1:51 PM, Clement Elechi <celechi@...> wrote:


Hello Robert,

Wonderful shot.  Just curious about the subs you threw out because of high humidity.  In what way were they so much worse than the others?

I have been eyeing the ASI12600, so I need to remain on the CFO's good side for a while yetEmoji

Clem

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My flickr gallery:


On Saturday, December 19, 2020, 2:37:06 PM EST, Robert Chozick via groups.io <rchozick@...> wrote:


I am buying some property in West Texas and this is my first light.  I have not purchased yet and just went out there with my portable setup one night.  I lost most of my subs as the humidity was 90 percent but I managed to use about  an hours worth.  I did get shorter exposures for the various parts of the nebula.  I will redo this later with 4 or 5 hours of exposure.  I really love my 16 bit CMOS ASI2600.  It is a great camera.

https://pbase.com/rchozick/image/171286041

Robert
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