Polls 3.0

[stuck lily]

send image

the link isn't sending me to it

[earnest quarry]

https://app.astrobin.com/explore/iotd-tp-archive#iotd it keeps redirecting to here

[magic nexus]

https://www.astrobin.com/54u5p4/

[gusty jungle]

the background extraction isnt the worst thing there lol

[magic nexus]

the fact that its on a cdk24?

[gusty jungle]

i mean that is a lot of galaxies

[magic nexus]

it is, defo lot of galaxies but apparently money doesnt but the ability to process an image

[gusty jungle]

also why are you treating a top pick as the main feature of astrobin lol

[hoary rapids]

i don't mind any if theese things i also have a smart scope sooo ohmmmmsmmama

[hoary rapids]

it doesn't

it's like you gave give someone the tools but if they don't know to use it.. it's as good as nothing

[gusty jungle]

that isnt the most cooked image ive seen on astrobin though

[magic nexus]

no but i was too lazy to scroll forever

[hoary rapids]

i've seen some interesting.. things on astrobin

[magic nexus]

okay, look at what this guy did to his blacks https://www.astrobin.com/2qaf04/0/

[hoary rapids]

Is it just me or is..

black too black here

[gusty jungle]

you just gotta search for comets

[magic nexus]

thats right

THEYRE CLIPPED

[hoary rapids]

AHH

[gusty jungle]

meh

[stuck lily]

gone

[gusty jungle]

bad practice but the rest of the image makes up for it i feel

[hoary rapids]

Nicve spikes tho..

oh

[stuck lily]

huh

Discord ate your message😿

[gusty jungle]

https://app.astrobin.com/search?p=eJy72VeSWlFiq2rupGpkVJaYU5oKpFWNHYFkcn5uaomqkYGhUQFIzMgZSOYmliRnhFQWIFQ5%2BvjAZfPzciqDUxOLkjM880IyS3JSix3zUlxSi5OLMgtKMvPziiG60hJzilNVzV3UChLTU20NwVRwZhWQaWAAAHVoLM4%3D&i=l8lv03

[hoary rapids]

OHHH MY GOD

i can see the

BADNING

BANDING

AND AND

OH It's HORRIBLE

[gusty jungle]

thats all denoise

[stuck lily]

it's just a smart scope user who hasn't learned how to process yet

[hoary rapids]

i only set my Denoise to like 60% usally

i like some noise

gives it depth

[stuck lily]

ban him

[hoary rapids]

it gives it DEPTH

[stuck lily]

traitor

[hoary rapids]

and makes it look real

not some noise but some..

i think it looks kinda empty without

[magic nexus]

yeah cause he is also using a CDK24

WHY DOES NOBODY WITH A 63 THOSAND DOLLAR SCOPE AT THEIR DISPOSAL KNOW HOW TO PROCESS

[hoary rapids]

oh my gofd.

WHAT

i think he did the buy the best scope first

not like everyone else and me who slwoly like level there way up or at least i do

[vestal bramble]

I know. But like 5-15 bucks bro. A YEAR. (Also I think i would know. I have one)

[hoary rapids]

https://app.astrobin.com/i/nmz32b

it looked god

until

i zoomed in

is it just me or.. is something off

[magic nexus]

yeah

THE WHITES ARE CLIPPED

[hoary rapids]

i thought SO

ijust picked a random image from the same guy

[magic nexus]

ITS ALL CLIPPED

[gusty jungle]

https://app.astrobin.com/search?p=eJy72VeSWlFiq2rupGpkVJaYU5oKpFWNHYFkcn5uaomqkYGhUQFIzMgZSOYmliRnhFQWIFQ5%2BvjAZfPzciqDUxOLkjM880IyS3JSix3zUlxSi5OLMgtKMvPziiG60hJzilNVzV3UChLTU20NwVRwZhWQaWAAAHVoLM4%3D&i=a2w8fr lol

[hoary rapids]

the images look ok..

until you look closer

[gusty jungle]

yea just noisy

although he actually rented equipment out lol

[hoary rapids]

hmmm

that looks

to me anyway oversharped

or just me

[scarlet mica]

funny looking stars

[hoary rapids]

yeah are they like out of focus at all

[frosty coyote]

there appears to be a lot of non-poll activity going on in here

[gusty jungle]

https://www.astrobin.com/2kurqw/ lmao look at this

just didnt background extract at all???

[hoary rapids]

[frosty coyote]

everyone prepare for polls 4.0 when the mods end this one XD

[magic nexus]

wait a second

[scarlet mica]

I thought this was called Polls 3.0 because it was just funny

[gusty jungle]

nope there https://discordapp.com/channels/794642864218439681/1230216213901082744 and https://discordapp.com/channels/794642864218439681/1314792940778033152

[frosty coyote]

nope this is the third polls thread. The other two were deleted by mods because people were doing everything BUT polls there

[hoary rapids]

hmm

[scarlet mica]

oh

[gusty jungle]

hey whos that

[hoary rapids]

idk seems like a cool guy

[gusty jungle]

image is terrible i dunno

[stuck lily]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-pizza-cool-gif-13646919458751093032

[hoary rapids]

Yayy

[scarlet mica]

You skipped 2-3 Holmes

[copper sparrow]

No

Just vote

[modern sparrow]

(added another target just next to statue of liberty, sorry if this is to many images lmfao)

[copper sparrow]

no

image the actual statue of liberty

[copper sparrow]

well idk any of those target names but i like this one with the open cluster

[modern sparrow]

wishing well cluster which is right next to statue of liberty

thinking ill shoot that

would look really nice with rgb stars

[random tartan]

Glad to be able to answer in the affirmative since I moved to my new place in 2021!

[copper sigil]

Nice!

[random tartan]

Funny part is that I was in a slightly darker sky at my previous house, than what this one has.

[copper sigil]

Oh, what bortle was your previous house?

[modern sparrow]

Every night

[copper sigil]

Very nice! I’m hoping to see it in the summer

[random tartan]

Lower end of B4; current is upper end of B4. Went from being on 2 acres on the outskirts and not a lot of streetlight interference, to being on 3/10 acre and suburb.

Though the setup of this house is actually a little more favorable because most of the trees have been cleared for a good east to west transit, and between where some buildings are and considerate neighbors, I have a good "dark pocket" in my backyard.

Oh yeah and on my other house the backyard consisted of trees on a hill so ... they got in the way a bit.

[copper sigil]

Yeah trees can get in the way a lot, I have some tall trees around which extends up to 20 degrees high in the sky but they are in the southern sky which is not really a problem. I live in a bortle 8-9, and I’ve seen over the course of a few years that the light pollution has decreased a bit.

[agile cloak]

No but will go to a bortle 2 in the summer for the first time.

to image

[copper sparrow]

Light pollution has decreased? Damn

[copper sigil]

Yeah, its a small difference but kind of noticeable

[gusty jungle]

1 week of clouds to you

[golden spoke]

Al quaa? Lets gooooo

[agile cloak]

YESSIR

U scared me a sec when u recognized the place

Then I realized u went there before

I’m actually going to a Astro place there

People go there to image

A pic from google maps

Expensive ahh rigs

[modern sparrow]

It's Dubai probably pocket change for them

[agile cloak]

Lmao

No ur actually right

People with these rigs are usually the Arabs

[golden spoke]

Yoooo

Do u know the astro place?

[agile cloak]

Emirates astronomical society

On Google maps

They have a website top

[golden spoke]

Alright thx

[agile cloak]

Too*

Np

Has a bathroom too

And visual scopes for use

It’s not only for AP, also for families who just wanna stargaze

Also has snacks lol

Entry fee is 50aed @golden spoke

it’s a day pass

[golden spoke]

Yooo

Thats fire

[agile cloak]

Also has a subscription I think

Frfr

Good price

[golden spoke]

Wish i knew this earlier

[agile cloak]

2 hours 30 mins from Dubai

[agile cloak]

Yeee

Especially in the summer

Cuz there are snakes and spiders and scorpions

I encountered scorpions last spring

So fricking scary

Highly poisnious ones btw

They were walking right next to us

[golden spoke]

Ouch

[agile cloak]

We didn’t even notice

Until my mom saw something moving

☠️

Thank god my rig was small

Cuz my family urged to drive away from the place

Bruh

Only 15 mins of data

[sage herald]

I made this poll 3 days long because it get covered up by others

[sudden wave]

dafuk

[indigo cape]

stay up until 4am

[exotic gyro]

TMR I will stay up till 11:30-12 because clear skies

[indigo cape]

17 hours

[frosty coyote]

yk everybody is gonna choose the longest int time, right?

[indigo cape]

and why stay up for so short

[exotic gyro]

hmmm

[indigo cape]

pull an all nighter

have some fun

[exotic gyro]

My parents put an alarm on at 11, and I have to convince them to keep it up so I can use my scope

[exotic gyro]

[indigo cape]

https://tenor.com/view/clone-clones-buzz-lightyear-toy-story-gif-21609842

[magic nexus]

20 min of data is the longest you will go?

[inner pine]

only twice, both in I'd say bortle 4/5

[exotic gyro]

its a manual dob, it takes a long time to get a little data, but that data has lots of signal, like this is 7 minutes of data, but it took me 3-4 hours to get

[magic nexus]

thats not how data works

[exotic gyro]

idk, it was a way of saying it has lots of light gathering power

[magic nexus]

what you said was that it has really shit light gathering power
if i takes you 4 hours to get 7 min of exposure

4 hours should get you roughly 4 hours of data

[exotic gyro]

it mas more like 2-3 and I take .5-second exposures, and I may have been on my phone for alot of the time

[magic nexus]

yea but you should be taking 2 half second exposures per second so
the math doesnt math here

[agile cloak]

LMAO

[exotic gyro]

it's a manual dob, so the amount of data I gather is a little different, also its a old camera, and only 70% of the data is useable, I need to wait a little bit for the shutter shake to calm and for it to be able to shoot again, its more like 1 exposure every 1.5-2 seconds

dont question it iI' still figuring out my intervalometer

[magic nexus]

ive done untracked mate
once did 17k quarter second exposures

[exotic gyro]

cool

[magic nexus]

thats probably gonna be ur issue yeah those things are great

[exotic gyro]

im not as efficient

[exotic gyro]

calling it 20 minutes

[jagged igloo]

It be being flooded out by others

[exotic gyro]

how long did this take you

[magic nexus]

i think in total i lost about 6k frames of the 23k (iirc, its been a while) originally recorded due to drift and such, so around, hour and a half on that target that night?

[exotic gyro]

what target was it on, and what aperture (I'm just wondering)

[magic nexus]

was just ring nebula
standard 130/650 newt

[exotic gyro]

oh cool, thats one of my summer target plans

[magic nexus]

i didnt do a super good process on it but, i could always redo it at some point

still pissed tho that even a quarter of a second wasnt enough to free me of trailing

[modest sage]

My dad’s disappointed I spent $2820 on circles of glass.

I think he would rather I buy “useful” stuff like a house or a car.

[stuck lily]

zamn everyone else is mostly supportive

ig i just got unlucky

[modest sage]

But neither of those things improve the sharpness of my scope

[modest sage]

What makes them unsupportive?

[stuck lily]

get an observatory and live in it

house 👍

[stuck lily]

read conversation below that poll

and the link i sent

[magic nexus]

my parents are supportive, but concerned because they have no idea what the hell anything i am doing is

which is fair
not many people are buying random correctors for broken SCTs

[stuck lily]

i thought you hated scts

[modest sage]

Are they hating it because you are letting it affect your life, no sleep or whatever?

[stuck lily]

no

[modest sage]

The space it takes up?
What other things you could spend money on?

[magic nexus]

of course i do
why do you think its broken 😈

[stuck lily]

no they literally just dont like it because they dont see what there is to like abou tit

and to my dad, anything he does not like is something nobody should like

idk man he just doesnt understand other people like doing other things

[stuck lily]

😨

[magic nexus]

it will be... reborn
as the hypershit cassegrain
with prototype light field optics for, something, i guess

[stuck lily]

wait youre actually making the hypershit

why 😭

[modern sparrow]

like ur gonna get a house or car for 2820 bucks ?

[earnest quarry]

You can get a car for free

[hoary rapids]

yo hiii

[earnest quarry]

All you gotta do is steal keys

[modern sparrow]

just gotta win a mr beast challenge

[hoary rapids]

yeah it's free

[magic nexus]

are you accusing me of not committing to the bit?

[hoary rapids]

can we make collectivly the worst telescope possible

physically

but still can be used

[stuck lily]

dw celestron already did

[hoary rapids]

which one you talkin

the hobby killer bunch

?

[earnest quarry]

The power seeker obv

[hoary rapids]

yeah thought so

i have one

i mean it isn't working

i got a 6" dob!

[earnest quarry]

My condolences

[hoary rapids]

yayy

[magic nexus]

yeah
thats the hypershit

[hoary rapids]

my area Makes it so shining extra bright lights gives you fines and at night the bills for electricy are usally higher

per like watt of cost

[agile cloak]

Excessively supportive

[earnest quarry]

Lucky bastard

[agile cloak]

Fr

[modest sage]

Only if getting a lot of RGB too. Narrowband should be secondary

[copper sparrow]

I’m curious how it’ll be with only narrowband

[modest sage]

Not great. Lots of broadband leak but no way to subtract it.

[tulip halo]

I have ton of streetlights nearby but they have a design that the light only goes downwards but still soo bright

[hoary rapids]

Yayy

to the first part

[stuck lily]

lucky

[frosty coyote]

Here are my FOVs on all of them

[velvet shore]

Get the tidal streams on hamburger, it’s also imo a more interesting looking galaxy than m82.

[mortal sonnet]

If you want to do a long project I suggest a mosaic of the hamburger's tidal tail, it's quite long

[mortal sonnet]

Wanted to say the same thing lol

[frosty coyote]

A mosaic is gonna quadruple how long this takes lol

[mortal sonnet]

As you can see it's way bigger than the galaxy itself

These were taken with multiple 16"+ scopes so don't expect this level of details lol

[exotic gyro]

whoa, yea you gotta try hamburger, even if your not gonna get that detail

still should be pretty good with a 130mm

[frosty coyote]

bro that's gonna take so long to get all the data

[exotic gyro]

you wanted a long project

[frosty coyote]

long ish

as in like 20h

[mortal sonnet]

Oh

I would consider 20 to be average lol

[exotic gyro]

go for 40-50

[frosty coyote]

ON EACH PANEL?

[exotic gyro]

oh hell naw, prob like 30 each panel

30 or bust

[frosty coyote]

bruh

[exotic gyro]

lol

do like a 2 panel

or a 4 panel

[tulip halo]

Wth I never knew this looks sick 👌👌👌👌

[mortal sonnet]

I should specify that all the images I sent are not made by me

[velvet shore]

It’s f/5 btw.

[stuck lily]

either m64 or m51

[frosty coyote]

anything but a galaxy

[velvet shore]

Why?

[frosty coyote]

nebula better

[velvet shore]

Heavily disagree.

[frosty coyote]

nebulae have so much color and varied shapes. Apart from slightly different swirls, all galaxies are the same

I'm dying on this hill

[velvet shore]

M106, and M51 look vastly different. You can also get lots of cool looking Ha in galaxies that makes them look especially nice.

[velvet shore]

Also some galaxies are irregular, some are lenticular, some have dozens of rings. You wouldn’t say Lmc looks the same or similar to M101.

[magic nexus]

galaxies have multiple nebulae in them, thus even if you value nebulae, galaxies still always top them

[eternal topaz]

"multiple" is a massive understatement

[golden spoke]

But then arent most of the nebulae in galaxies too small to properly appreciate. Like other than andromeda, LMC/SMC, triangulum, m101, m51 and m81/82, its pretty hard to see proper star forming regions in most other galaxies. I might be wrong though 🙂

[frosty coyote]

Only in your dreams will a couple of pixels of Ha M33 nebula beat a full detailed image of lagoon nebula or something similar

[mortal sonnet]

no

[slate spoke]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/794651916646350859/1342611145789542481/IMG_1459.gif

[agile cloak]

no

[exotic gyro]

no

[modern sparrow]

There was a no thread ?

[mortal sonnet]

no

[golden spoke]

no

[tulip halo]

no

[modern sparrow]

i feel like the answer is obvious here

[copper sparrow]

Yea the EF adapter

Just look at this FOV. With a dual narrowband filter at f3 or something omg itll be amazing

[hoary rapids]

@opaque depot

[agile cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/cant-believe-youve-done-this-punch-ouch-gif-9605268

(Predicting what fin will send)

[modest sage]

I think you’ll be very disappointed with using that lens.

[copper sparrow]

why

[modest sage]

The 50mm 1.8 Nikon I used was already limited at anything below F4 ish with 6 micron pixels and dslr spectral response.

So expect not super sharp images.

[copper sparrow]

Mine is pretty good at 2.4. I’m not expecting a super sharp image, it’ll be under sampled. It’s mainly for Cygnus and Orion with my dual narrowband filter.

I don’t have any other way to get a nice wide field shot of them

[modest sage]

Fair enough, I just wouldn’t invest too much money in to it.

[copper sparrow]

Ig I should prioritize pix but it so much money

[modern sparrow]

Buy once cry once purchase

[velvet shore]

What if it’s a pencil on tv?, or is it only in person?

[stuck lily]

what happens if i look at a pencil

do i die or does the esprit disappear

[vestal bramble]

You just physically cant

Like you cna try to to look at it, but your eyes cant

[vestal bramble]

Only in person

[indigo cape]

I am not going to make contact with a refracting telescope. Ever.

[frosty coyote]

why do people keep doing these "how much int time" polls here? 😭 obviously people are gonna choose the longest one

[random tartan]

Should have put something labeled " @frosty coyote's Option"

[stuck lily]

0 only because it's too late

[frosty coyote]

0 because overrated

[copper sparrow]

what is moonrise

[magic nexus]

dawg it says right there its a 2025 ONA

[copper sparrow]

i dont know what that is

[agile cloak]

It’s a 2025 ONA

[copper sparrow]

thats why im asking

[magic nexus]

its on netflix

[copper sparrow]

i dont know what 2025 ONA means

my god

is it that hard to ask

[magic nexus]

released in 2025, and its an Original Net Animation

[agile cloak]

it’s a 2025 ONA

[copper sparrow]

Netflix makes gay shit

[agile cloak]

[magic nexus]

yeah it has like 4 homiesexual relationships deal with it
its got murder its based

[scarlet mica]

huh

[copper sparrow]

yea gay shit

all bad

[scarlet mica]

it's 2025 bro are you really using gay as an insult

[copper sparrow]

nothing netflix makes is good

yea

[scarlet mica]

I thought you were alright tbh

[copper sparrow]

its not homophobic

just language

[magic nexus]

you act as though that would matter given i am comparing it to moonfall of all things

[copper sparrow]

moonfall sucks

[magic nexus]

yeah

[copper sparrow]

it was funny

comedically bad funny

[magic nexus]

which is better at sucking
watch and find out

[copper sparrow]

netflix makes a lot of gay stuff so its not really an insult

just a fact

but a lot of netflix stuff is bad

not because of the homo stuff

[agile cloak]

[agile cloak]

[indigo cape]

Is that even a question?

[velvet shore]

Then why say it?

[velvet shore]

Like what are you 14?

[mortal sonnet]

I know but who cares

[mortal sonnet]

Alr, I'll get 150 hours then

[indigo cape]

Not enough.

[jagged igloo]

What is moonrise?

[dusky nimbus]

Damn Marc your polls took a turn huh

[agile cloak]

Lmao

[golden spoke]

Tax the rich cuz they been stealing big time (billions). Toooooo much corruption in Pakistan. Also I chose regulate light pollution. But honestly most of Pakistan is rural areas. Regulating light pollution may make economic development harder, which is NOT what Pakistan needs. But I'll figure that out once I become the prime minister.

[solar pebble]

Correct

[jagged igloo]

Your right

[jagged igloo]

If I had control of the U.S government. I would regulate light pollution and force the rich to pay taxes and force them to stay untill they pay all of thier taxes. I would get rid of financial inequality and make the poor peoples lives much better and i would remove all tarifs.

[dusky nimbus]

Give the order comrade Marc

[copper sparrow]

Soviet Marc

[copper sparrow]

Regulate light pollution is the only reasonable thing on there

[indigo cape]

Vote

[copper sparrow]

Little brother’s organs?

[indigo cape]

Yes

[copper sparrow]

I’d sell all his organs

[golden spoke]

why not sell him as a whole 💀

[indigo cape]

You get less money

Selling a body as a whole is way less than organ by organ

I will get detained by the police in 5 minutes

[golden spoke]

nahh but actaully selling pancreas and bone marrow is the best. cuz u can remove them without substantial damage (and other than the fact that ur brother gon use insulin for the rest of his life)

[golden spoke]

thats a risk. police can catch you. selling him whole as a slave somewhere in africa or asia will atleast secure YOUR safety (i bet dubaiastro gon screenshot this)

[indigo cape]

Pacreas does other important functions too

Selling both kidneys will put him onto dialysis

[frosty coyote]

can't wait for polls 4.0 💀

[golden spoke]

why is there a 3.0 tho??

what happened to 1.0 and 2.0?

[frosty coyote]

people messed around and yapped and barely any polls happened so mods nuked it

[jagged igloo]

bruh

[golden spoke]

What can u see with >5000 focal length other than planets and tiny galaxies with little/no detail. And seeing is also a problem then

[stuck lily]

very small dso

[golden spoke]

Yea was just editing my message lmao

[indigo cape]

85mm and 715 goes hard

[stuck lily]

lemme change the poll 5000 was too much

[eager gulch]

ye thats WAY too much

only planets are visible wiith that fl lol

[stuck lily]

(first option includes 135mm so roki is allowed)

[frosty coyote]

2000 is still just too much for reliable tracking and platesolving IMO

not that it can't work or anything but it's just a headache

[scarlet mica]

Built different, dw

[mortal sonnet]

2000+ and it's not even close

[copper sparrow]

135mm is a good FL i like that FL

[mortal sonnet]

You just need big pixels like a fat 9μm sensor.

And big pixels + long fl is better than small pixels and short fl.

Cause usually more fl means more aperture.

[golden spoke]

Uhmmm ☝️ ☝️ Usually. Or maybe you could get those ultra old f/45 refractors. It isnt specified 🤓

[eager gulch]

@stuck lily forgot to include the mount part

[stuck lily]

yeah

[frosty coyote]

true but still platesolving is annoying at long focal lengths

[stuck lily]

mine does it fine at 1500

that's also with a bad quality barlow

native is 750

[frosty coyote]

what platesolver do you use

[stuck lily]

astap

[frosty coyote]

How did you get that to work lol I couldn't even get astap to work at 450mm (granted it was a tiny planetary sensor with the minimum resolution requirements)

[stuck lily]

well that's probably the issue

i use an imx585

[frosty coyote]

I switched to platesolve3 and got much better results

[stuck lily]

yea ik I'm the one who told u to lol

[scarlet mica]

Astap works for me at 200mm but a DSLR sensor, it has a really hard time with smaller res sensors

[stuck lily]

I should switch but rn it isn't the thing giving me frustration so i wont

[frosty coyote]

several other ppl recommended it to me before I switched

[frosty coyote]

300-500 best focal length change my mind

[copper sparrow]

Ayo

Who is it

[golden spoke]

nah my bad i polled by mistake

[copper sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/you-sure-about-that-gif-6823241795540399689

[golden spoke]

wait

[copper sparrow]

no

He should be banned

And reported to discord actually

[golden spoke]

facts

but just wondering on what others think

[copper sparrow]

If you even joke and say you are under 13 you get banned on discord

They take it seriously

[golden spoke]

hmmm i didnt know that. well he about to go soon then 😦

[stuck lily]

Galaxies

[frosty coyote]

Andromeda big

[stuck lily]

other than the biggest 5

[frosty coyote]

boring

[tulip halo]

Uk

[indigo cape]

not US

[golden spoke]

Uk (im not british)

[dusky nimbus]

Spain without the S

[modern sparrow]

Aussie land

[indigo cape]

[modern sparrow]

Wat

[indigo cape]

[magic nexus]

my friend google is ur friend

[vestal bramble]

Skin

[solar pebble]

All of the above

[jagged igloo]

Man, it is being flooded out.

[modern sparrow]

Noot

[eternal topaz]

Unguided

[modern sparrow]

gotta love 0.24" guiding at 4" pixel scale

[agile cloak]

United Arab Emirates

[agile cloak]

I’ll be able to answer this soon

I can’t wait

[random tartan]

Manual tracking. 💀

[frosty coyote]

newt

[solar pebble]

Schmitt Newtonian

[golden spoke]

UNGUIDED LETSGOOOOOOO

[golden spoke]

wait so by manual tracking do u have to spin gears or smth lmao or does it just not track and only work as an eq mount?

[random tartan]

Yes. 😆

My EQ mount is not motorized (yet!) so I have to follow whatever I'm doing by hand. I have a couple of gears to spin for RA/Dec to keep up with what I'm imaging.

Right now it's all planetary except for when I was imaging A3.

[golden spoke]

thats kinda cool

[golden spoke]

We definetely need a part two of this

[indigo cape]

Part two and im getting banned

[velvet shore]

I’ll just do it then.

[frosty coyote]

I don't have a little sibling but if I did he wouldn't be worth a dime

[velvet shore]

The brain may not be worth much, but the kidneys???

[agile cloak]

Little sibling nice but anoyying

Depends on their mood

😭

[golden spoke]

I need a reference price. Like how much would a complete dummy cost

[eager gulch]

didnt vote but from greece

[eager gulch]

no mount

[eager gulch]

i joined this server when i was 12 from an older acc i didnt know it wasnt allowed back then, found out abt the age limit when i was 13 and now im almost 15 lol

[copper sparrow]

everyones so young in this server. weird

[velvet shore]

Half the people in this server are younger than me 💀💀💀

[agile cloak]

I was 12 too when I joined lol

[eager gulch]

the difference from my case is that you got caught

we are not the same

[copper sparrow]

How do you get caught...\

[eager gulch]

bro got banned for a while

[eager gulch]

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-shrug-idk-i-dont-know-who-knows-gif-17348455

[eager gulch]

how did people find out?

did u straight up tell m

@agile cloak

[agile cloak]

They didn’t lmfao

[eternal topaz]

we found out

[agile cloak]

No u didn’t lol

[eternal topaz]

we figured it out on our own

[agile cloak]

Ok u but nobody else suspected

[eternal topaz]

zegery

[agile cloak]

No?

He would have banned me if so

[eternal topaz]

he had a suspicion

[agile cloak]

Oh what

[eternal topaz]

you made it easy for us to know you arent 13

for example: go look at your previous messages and compare to now

[agile cloak]

Lol

Yea

The day I took that horsehead image was the day before I turned 13

[eager gulch]

my bday is in the summer so ill be in b4 imaging

with the mount

[agile cloak]

Wohooo

Happy early birthday

[eager gulch]

im thinking of face reveal on bday

[eager gulch]

thx

[agile cloak]

Yoo

Give me early access pookie /j

[velvet shore]

M101, and m106 seem to be clipped.

[hoary rapids]

mine isn't even on the Scale 😭

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/pinwheel-galaxy/en/#:~:text=The Pinwheel Galaxy is a,binoculars or a small telescope.

this is great btw

[eager gulch]

nope

[tulip halo]

All

[jagged igloo]

power sucker

[jagged igloo]

My poll is being covered up by so many people. 1 day left.

[indigo cape]

I cant select all, so i am not voting at all

[solar pebble]

I was gonna put an all of the above, however I need one solid answer

[indigo cape]

im voting

[candid salmon]

as the youngest i can say that whoevers buying me would be paid to do so

[copper sparrow]

why isnt this multiple choice'

[earnest quarry]

💀

[eager gulch]

y should it😭

[earnest quarry]

Bro categorizes his siblings

[agile cloak]

huh

[copper sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/gato-naranja-confundido-gato-naranja-confundido-wtf-gif-27617513

[eager gulch]

y are you confused😭

[eager gulch]

ima submit it rn

[scarlet mica]

Funky stars

Too bad Orion's not in season for a few more months

If I'm lucky I'm going by the ocean tomorrow and I'll get an hour's data on the horsehead

[copper sparrow]

hey this is your lens too lol

[scarlet mica]

I like the funky stars, wasn't negative

Kind of prefer them over spikes

[copper sparrow]

yea i like em too. I could do without the halos tho

[scarlet mica]

Bought a mono cam for guiding btw

[copper sparrow]

I think this len might make open clusters look good. which is a miracle to do

[copper sparrow]

youre doing guiding now?

[scarlet mica]

yeah it was a really cheap thing

[copper sparrow]

I got a color planetary cam for guiding and then planetary

[scarlet mica]

plus the mono cam doubles as a lil planetary camera for my newt

it'll be black and white but i don't really mind

[hoary rapids]

Power Wreckers

[hoary rapids]

Star spikes remind me of looking at a light house with my DSLR

[gusty jungle]

what bortle and seeing do i have

[tulip halo]

Any

[copper sparrow]

The hassle a 20” dob causes is crazy

[tulip halo]

Red cat only wide field tho

[copper sparrow]

It’s a bit too wide field for me, I prefer around 490 but still I prefer AP over visual anyways

Easy choice

[agile cloak]

I’m already doing imaging with a redcat lol

If I was in a b4 or darker maybe I would choose dob

[tulip halo]

I chose ap cuz I just really tried and got good results

Visual can still b amazing

[copper sparrow]

Whos Paride

[eternal topaz]

@golden sail

[golden sail]

?

Why ban me

Why did yall want to ban me?

Please say smt

[dusky nimbus]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1234168415103484040/1361067899615445102/2k9YXjipVURULHflfL8KqHw835gX340UtP9lZIs7F_k.gif

[golden sail]

Bro just say it🙏🙏

[earnest quarry]

This is hard ngl

[tulip halo]

Yh small aperturs

[modern sparrow]

Easy 20" dob ngl

[agile cloak]

Real

[stuck lily]

so i can pick bortle zero true dark skies and constant excellent seeing?

[tulip halo]

Yeah ig so even for ap

Snd visual

[stuck lily]

20" dob easily then

[tulip halo]

It'll be such a hassle

[stuck lily]

idc

[tulip halo]

But yeah it's opinion

[stuck lily]

i already run into many issues

[tulip halo]

Atleast you have better fov

[stuck lily]

setting up a big scope is the least of my concerns

I would use it every single clear night

[tulip halo]

Polar alignment focus collimation levelling and it goes on

[stuck lily]

it's a dob

there's no polar alignment

for visual you don't really need accurate leveling

and focus is the same as anything else

[tulip halo]

You need a ladder to get up

[tulip halo]

Nah for a0

Ap

[stuck lily]

you said only visual

[tulip halo]

I still chose ap it's sick icl

[stuck lily]

I do ap mainly for one single reason

[tulip halo]

For me visual was meh mb it was me

[stuck lily]

Bortle 7

And no access to dark skies below b5

[tulip halo]

I see

[stuck lily]

If I had access to b3 or smth I'd be all visual

Most objects where I am just aren't visible due to light pollution so I am forced into ap

[tulip halo]

When it comes to galaxies you have no chance

[stuck lily]

no galaxies also

[tulip halo]

Its soo dim

Not even visible

[stuck lily]

if you're in a b0 then you'd see it easily

[stuck lily]

❌

[tulip halo]

Maybe

Andromeda looked sad even in b5

I still blame light pollution

[stuck lily]

i see what veloren always is talking about and his dark sky is only a b3 and he uses a 150mm rc

he sees all the spiral details and stuff

[tulip halo]

Naww what

[stuck lily]

in a true b0? No chance I'd take visual

Maybe it'd even look like this idk

Could be

[tulip halo]

By eye?

[stuck lily]

Yes

[tulip halo]

Damn

[hoary rapids]

without alot of the colour however

[gusty jungle]

he never said you get any eyepieces though

or the quality of them

[stuck lily]

never said i can't use my own

[gusty jungle]

never said a lot of things

[copper sparrow]

I only get 4-5 regularly

[agile cloak]

I don’t sleep

I’m awake as long as my rig is awake

[summer obsidian]

You are always awake

[agile cloak]

🫃

Wait does he mean how many hours u sleep on imaging nights

Or when ur rig is imaging

I’m confused

[summer obsidian]

On imaging nights

Like your telescope is imaging

Or you are imaging

Then after you finish or whatever

For phone ap and regular or smart ap is different

[solar pebble]

When your rig is imaging

[agile cloak]

Yea I don’t sleep if my rig is imaging

[solar pebble]

I don’t to sleep when my rig is imaging because clouds have come in for the last 3 times I’ve tried to image

[golden spoke]

Same

[tired flint]

1

2

[summer obsidian]

Details 2 colors 1

[indigo cape]

i'd say its the opposite, but its your opinion.

[tired flint]

personally i agree with tyking

the m51 pic nowhere near as sharp as the leo triplet pic

[velvet shore]

I agree, both look great. But I prefer 2.

[jagged igloo]

At least this is stable

[agile cloak]

[summer obsidian]

Omg you are right i wrote it wrongly sry

[tired flint]

ok imma make this kind of poll for the last time

[agile cloak]

I would say it depends on ur focal length and ur preferred fov

The smaller pixels on the 585 can be helpful if ur using a more widefield scope but again, ur losing fov

[mortal sonnet]

Eat a kebab, eat it again, eat it again, eat it again... you get the point.

[jagged igloo]

That is a time paradox

[copper sparrow]

I’d show Galileo my astrophotography rig and watch him have a brain aneurysm

[sage herald]

alright

[agile cloak]

Real

[golden spoke]

W

[golden spoke]

Id show people in victorian era our current day brainrot and watch their minds self implode.

[agile cloak]

A Victorian child needs to see this

I have better vids in my iPad tho bruh

[frosty coyote]

bro are you even 13

[agile cloak]

Those who know: 💀

[jagged igloo]

This is madness

[candid salmon]

1. give a viking some chocolate and disappear before he tries to kill me
2. travel as far back as I can and see if my mere presence at that moment changes anything here
3. other idk I forgot

[copper sparrow]

This is one of the lamest videos I’ve ever watched

[agile cloak]

That’s the point dumbo

[jagged igloo]

Here is what I would do. Bring back a person from the year 2100 that is stranded in our current time and bring them back to their time of origin. Their tech is so advanced that is transcends out tech and minds.

[scarlet mica]

That could be me, I'd be 98 years old but it could be me

[eternal topaz]

Fix my screw ups in life

[earnest quarry]

i hate myself so much for chuckling at this

its so dumb its funny

[mortal sonnet]

This is NOT funny.

[agile cloak]

ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY ITS SUPPOSED TO MELT UR BRAIN

[agile cloak]

Real

[golden spoke]

People about a 3000 years ago (i know its not victorian era) would look at this and would consider these 'men with glowing eyes' their gods

[agile cloak]

Real

[earnest quarry]

By better do you mean better or worse

[golden spoke]

Bro is probably an ipad kid so worse

[earnest quarry]

[agile cloak]

better because it’s worse

I have this abomination

Pretty similar yea

[golden spoke]

Wtf lmaooo

Btw tate released and back in dubai

[agile cloak]

It’s who I am know

[agile cloak]

Wtf

Again

[golden spoke]

Got a green pagani huyura and his brother got grey ferrari 812 with yellow stripe

[agile cloak]

[jagged igloo]

I'm getting flooded out.

[agile cloak]

Scamming money woah

I’m so inspired

[golden spoke]

Honestly i dont care as long as he minds his business. But when he starts influencing children into "school is useless" dropshipping etc then its disgusting

Like bro ur rich just shut up and move on

[frosty coyote]

the circus called. They want their clown back

[agile cloak]

Sigma comeback

Top 10 Cold moments astrobiscuit

[frosty coyote]

thunking?

[golden spoke]

My bad LMAO. Thinking*

[copper sparrow]

The canon 500d will be fine for the foreseeable future,

your lens is old and a zoom so that’s not great.

Guiding would help with walking noise and get you longer exposures.

Either get Guiding or new scope/lens

[frosty coyote]

yk you can dither without guiding right?

[copper sparrow]

nope, well yes but I’ve never tried it

[golden spoke]

Manually?

[frosty coyote]

direct guider in NINA lets you dither without guiding

basically you connect to it like you would any other guiding system but it's like a "dummy guider". You can use a "dither after exposures" trigger in your NINA sequence and you can choose the frequency and size of the dithers

[golden spoke]

One question though, how will i connect my laptop to my mount? Like rs 232 to usb cable?

[frosty coyote]

I'm not exactly sure what mine is called but I think it's some sort of serial cable? It plugs into the "hand controller" port on the mount and the other end plugs into a usb port on my laptop

I have a heq5 too btw

[agile cloak]

Search EQMOD cable on Amazon

[frosty coyote]

oh yeah duh eqmod cable that's what it is lol

forgor

[golden spoke]

Alright. So when i attach the cable to my laptop that means i cant control eith handcontroller right?

[frosty coyote]

correct. NINA can completely control your mount without hand controller

[golden spoke]

17 pounds for a cable? Wow i was not expecting that

[frosty coyote]

there are manual slew control buttons and it can also platesolve and GoTo slew to an object

[frosty coyote]

wow that's a heavy cable

[golden spoke]

Pounds as in GBP

[agile cloak]

I was confused too

I’m not even American lmao

I use KG

[frosty coyote]

ik just messing around

[golden spoke]

Lol

@agile cloak 17 pounds is like 70 dirham like bro wtf man

I can eat 4 shawrmas with that

[frosty coyote]

I'd argue that it's very worth it. Using NINA to automate your rig is the best upgrade ever probably

not sure why it's so expensive tho

[golden spoke]

Now i will definetely look into it.

[agile cloak]

More lmfao

U can eat like more than 10

[golden spoke]

Oh shit yea 70 dirham. Thats like 20 shawarmas if u get them in deira

[frosty coyote]

what the frick is a shawarma

@agile cloak

[inner pine]

he does not know...

tragedy

[inner pine]

33 shwarmas for 17 pounds here lol

[frosty coyote]

just googled it and it looks kinda good ngl

[golden spoke]

U havr not experienced life if u havent eaten a shawarma

[inner pine]

ong

[frosty coyote]

do they even make them in the US?

[golden spoke]

Idk. But US missing out big time

[inner pine]

if your city has a large middle east disapora prob yes

like ottawa (ik its in canada, but close enough)

[golden spoke]

Hypothesis testing funny (not in a good way)

[golden spoke]

Or vancouver ive heard has lots of muslim population

[agile cloak]

are u mentally stable

how do u live without shawarma

??????

[frosty coyote]

corndogs

[agile cloak]

EWWWWW

[frosty coyote]

https://tenor.com/view/case-caseoh-your-banned-you'e-banned-get-out-gif-7698576230662898937

corndogs are the best food to ever grace this planet earth

[agile cloak]

dough and sausage with 10 kg of cheese fried in sunflower oil thats been used for 200 years

[frosty coyote]

😋

[agile cloak]

heart attack on a stick

[frosty coyote]

so good

[golden spoke]

Corndog might be a food, but a shawarma is an experience

Every shawarma has a memory behind it

Like ask me a regarding any shawarma place i've been to and there will be memories associated to that, even if the shawarma is not good (impossible)

[agile cloak]

[agile cloak]

this is so real

whenever u eat shawarma it becomes a core memory

[stuck lily]

How can it be someone's main hobby when most of the time you're unable to do it

[visual verge]

Is Linux considered a hobby?

[velvet shore]

In what way would linux be a hobby?, I’m personally learning cyber security, but I’m not sure if that’s a hobby.

[visual verge]

You know, ricing distros, casually learning Linux and it's related topics, etc.

[velvet shore]

I guess you could consider that a hobby,

[copper sparrow]

At least 2 will be a quick death

[stuck lily]

scare him away by talking about ios

[earnest quarry]

2

[stuck lily]

1, move him to the wolves and you get the left side to yourself

[visual verge]

ios ain't that bad imo. I still prefer to have full control over my hardware/software, but a laptop already suffices that requirement. At least ios is a bit more private and secure than android.

[stuck lily]

os and brand wars are dumb

you buy what fits you best

[visual verge]

Definitely, and I was explaining my case above. I was not just blatantly saying that "a is better than b", but instead that because freedom isn't a factor for me on a smartphone, I value ease of use, security and privacy, in which case ios wins for me.

[stuck lily]

real

the only thing that matters is the app stores tbh

android has some great apps ios doesnt and same for ios

[visual verge]

True

[scarlet mica]

Don't say this in front of the "I gotta hate to fit in" crowd,that use 10+ year old outdated arguments

[velvet shore]

Tbf the only thing most kernels of Linux are good for are things relating to programming, servers, or pretentious people whom think they’re better for using Linux as their main OS.

I do use Linux btw so I can say this.

[stuck lily]

i use windows only because of compatibility, if something was somehow made that allowed all windows apps to work perfectly on linux id switch instantly

i dont like windows

[velvet shore]

Windows is my main OS but I use Kali for cyber security but only because it has a ton of built in tools.

[stuck lily]

i just want smth better optimized

windows hogs everything

30% cpu and 8gb ram usage idle, and no my pc isnt slow and yes i factory resetted it

[jagged igloo]

Did you mean by boredom?

[opaque depot]

https://tenor.com/view/airplane-boring-story-dead-bored-yawn-gif-19769545

[modern sparrow]

Autumn easy

Good weather and with astro has Orion still somewhat shootable and mw core rising at a decent time

[eternal topaz]

This is excluding astro.

[brazen sundial]

https://tenor.com/view/florence-by-mills-specsavers-millie-bobby-brown-you-should-have-gone-to-specsavers-florence-by-mills-x-specsavers-gif-5833894859808727104

Uh oh discord ui bug

Made me send it a million times

Uhhhh

[summer obsidian]

Easily spring

[gusty jungle]

the tail end of fall where it hasn't quite snowed yet

[summer obsidian]

Best weather overall everything is starting to be green school is ending

[quiet pilot]

spring bc you finally start winding down and there is no extreme weather

[copper sparrow]

Does it snow down under?

[eternal topaz]

In some places

It's snowing atm but not where I live

[agile cloak]

winter always

nice weather

[inner pine]

winter

warm climate be like

[visual verge]

Winter is almost always so quiet and dark (because daytime is shorter). Very atmospheric, and the liminal spaces during winter go hard

[frosty coyote]

I have better things to do lol

[jagged igloo]

What is it?

[frosty coyote]

what is what?

[jagged igloo]

The thing you are doing

[frosty coyote]

speedcubing, music, geometry dash, that sort of thing.

[golden spoke]

I dont but just followed that forum cuz now it seems lowkey interesting

[modern sparrow]

Spring is literally storm season here

[modern sparrow]

I said good weather

[eternal topaz]

imma be real
i never learnt about cloud types

[copper sparrow]

What cloud touches the ground and becomes all spiny spin spin

[scarlet mica]

I never learnt about their shapes so I'm voting for the funniest name

[solar pebble]

Cumulonimbus clouds I believe, it is not included there because this list would be way too long

[copper sparrow]

What’s the point then….

Bad poll

[solar pebble]

These cloud types are more common

And I picked the ones you would most likely see on a day to day basis

[stuck lily]

stratus clouds move SO SLOWWWW

and they're so big

[copper sparrow]

@solar pebble @stuck lily what kind of cloud is this

[stuck lily]

Idk i barely know clouds

All i know is like 2 types

[solar pebble]

Could be either cumulus or stratocumulus

[jagged igloo]

still on going

[visual verge]

What do you do in GD? I’m personally more of a player than a creator.

[slate spoke]

those are the cool clouds

[agile cloak]

All of the above. I only approve cumulonimbus and nimbostratus

[summer obsidian]

Idk the ones high and thin

[golden spoke]

Speedcubing? Whats ur pb?

[eternal topaz]

Yipee

[frosty coyote]

I just kinda do the default levels for fun

[frosty coyote]

16s

21.5 Ao5

[golden spoke]

Sameeee. But thats was some years ago

My ao5 nowadays is like low 30s because i barely do it (once a week) but in my prime my ao5 was 22 ish

[modern sparrow]

My Pb is 12s but haven't done any in a long time, avg of 100 is about 22 Rn

[golden spoke]

Whoah 12 seconds

I couldnt beat the sub 15 barrier

[modern sparrow]

Super easy scramble was pure luck lmao

[golden spoke]

Luckyyy. My 16s pb was also lucky, cuz i skipped pll

[modern sparrow]

Most my good solves are fast f2l cuz I know all of pll and 90% of oll still

[frosty coyote]

I think my pll is my weakest part. I just know a few algs and they suck

[modern sparrow]

All the homies hate e perm

Worst one easily

[candid salmon]

stratus of all types
cirrus depending on amount and placement

[candid salmon]

e perm and the g perms are the worst by far
still only know one (I think Gc?)

[copper sparrow]

Is this even a question

[frosty coyote]

some people on the r/ap server are trying to say that "polar scope is more accurate" and that when it's not, it's because "it's not aligned and it's user error." Absolute garbage lol

[scarlet mica]

All it takes for a polar scope to not be accurate is for it to be slightly off, tppa (or other software) won't have that issue

Therefor tppa is accurate

[tulip halo]

I'm used to polar scope I always get goated performance alignment can be issue tho

[dreamy badger]

You have to remember the sources of error in tppa

Mount cone error, configuration, and slew error

[scarlet mica]

You're right, I didn't think of this

[dreamy badger]

Polarscope is solely dependent on polarscope alignment and paying attention

[copper sparrow]

For beginners TPPA will be leagues better than manual polar scope.

[dreamy badger]

That's not the question though

[copper sparrow]

Unless you’ve done polar alignment thru a scope for 10 years, I can’t see it being more accurate

[copper sparrow]

I still think TPPA is more accurate

[dreamy badger]

Unless you've empirically tested the accuracy of the PA with something like drift alignment it doesn't really matter what you think

People have tested TPPA and it's less accurate than sharpcap

[scarlet mica]

Polar scopes are also faster to align if you can see polaris

In my case I don't have a choice while I'm here

[dreamy badger]

TPPA is free and fast and easy

That's what it's for

Polarscope is not easy and sometimes not usable if you can't even see polaris

[scarlet mica]

Huh, I was told a polar scope was easy to use? What makes it hard

[copper sparrow]

It takes practice

[scarlet mica]

Other than of course not being able to see polaris sometimes

[copper sparrow]

You’re looking thru a mini telescope basically. If your eyes are bad it’ll be difficult

I found it hard to be accurate with the polar scope

[scarlet mica]

My eyes are horrible so maybe I don't have hope to use a polar scope

[dreamy badger]

There's an entire procedure to make sure you're level before using it

Then you have to place it smack dab on the correct marker

[copper sparrow]

Didn’t cuiv make a video showing that being level doesn’t matter

[dreamy badger]

People don't like crouching

[dreamy badger]

When imaging yes

It's important to know where level is so you can put polaris in the right place

The mount doesn't need to be level the polarscope needs to be

[dreamy badger]

Also aligning the polarscope

[copper sparrow]

Isn’t that the same for a lot of mounts

[dreamy badger]

What

[copper sparrow]

Like if the mount is level the polar scope is level

[dreamy badger]

Polarscopes are often free to rotate

The RA axis is also obviously free to rotate as well