Dean, been out of pocket all day, just got to this. LOVE how you've handled this! I am still trying to figure out my own workflow for dark nebulae. Very strange beasts to process I find. Stuart

On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 03:51 PM, midmoastro wrote: Wow, super work Dean. Very beautiful, very well processed.Thank you everyone for the kind words. I had a lot of trouble with this data and the

Wow, super work Dean. Very beautiful, very well processed. Todd

Pretty cool Dean.

I like that a lot, Dean! Plenty of interesting dust detail. Karen AP

beautifully rendered Dean, very 3D and sublime details. It's hard to resist the urge to overdo the contrast in the dust, i think you did it nicely -- Brian Brian Valente astro portfolio

Beautifull ! Christian Le 29/11/2022 à 18:38, Dean Jacobsen a écrit :

It sort of does look like a Woolly Mammoth. :-) -- Dean Jacobsen Astrobin Image Gallery - https://www.astrobin.com/users/deanjacobsen/

A Woolly Mammoth after being extruded thru the fan blades of a 747. Rolando

The clutches on our 1100/1600 mounts act as variable positioning devices for the scope. It's the same kind of action as taking your scope and mounting it sideways or flipping it 180 degrees in the

Hi All, This latest image was from last weeks session. I have been trying to figure out how to process it for about a week or so. My imspiration was fellow group member Andy Ermolli's image of the

On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 01:09 PM, Brian Valente wrote: >>>. Do you know if this (the bolded part) is strictly required if the goal is to help recover a lost mount? "strictly"? if it's a few degrees

Thanks, Brian. Got onto the hobby too late to know I should have added myself to the Mach2 list earlier :-) I now have the 1100AE.

>>>. Do you know if this (the bolded part) is strictly required if the goal is to help recover a lost mount? "strictly"? if it's a few degrees probably not. But more generally it's a good habit that

Followup Q on Home usage. The manual makes it very clear that if one were to loosen the clutches, then we need to re-configure the Home position. Do you know if this (the bolded part) is strictly

Oops, my bad! I missed the remote part. Mike's suggestion will work just fine then. The intermediate park is needed to reset the internal limits to allow the mount to get into the position you

Thanks Karen! And Howard, agree 100% with the plug and play nature of these mounts. I live in a foggy coastal town and bits of fog and low clouds drifting through the image is a never-ending battle.

>>>To establish a "home" position, use the "Homing/Limits" tab in APCC while the mount is "connected". T Assuming you can get this done, the first thing after that is establish your home position, so

Hi Tarun, Since you will be establishing pointing and orientation anyway when you unpark from Park 3, you could also simply: Loosen the clutches and move the scope to the Park 3 position. Unpark from

That's what we like: Plug and Play. Set it up and forget about it, because it just works.