#Polls 5.0
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I'm more concerned about the fact that the dark is crushed and clipped
why does it look so weird
This isn't truly unprocessed RAW
Open it in PixInsight to be sure… My master dark in PixInsight looks like this:
55s iso 800
In the phone gallery, it looks a bit clipped.
what
how is this not understandable
58 + 12 is obviously 60
and since 23 + 37 is also 60 the answer must be 35
basic math vro
HOW are you not understanding this
im sorry you are right mr human calculator
yeahhh now you get it
Yeah it can be like that
will check PI when I get a moment
I also noticed the more you image w phone it gets hotter and produces crap ton more hot pixela
Pixels
Good poll
what's sorta big
I voted refractor but simply because I would sell it immediately
YES GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE RAHHH
that's pretty big brain ngl
get frac -> sell frac -> buy RC10
if i had both id use the refractor, i hate on fracs for their price
Takahashi Epsilon 6">>
Get Refractor > Trade it with stupid frac lover for different refractor > sell traded refractor
No trading
you didnt specify such
for reference
nice Ha Solar Telescope means Lunt40 - 60 level
beyond that is professional in my eyes
It’s implied in no selling
Not my fault you’re braindead 🥀
nah ah just capitalistic
Poor eqm35
well it's only 3kg overloaded
and the eqm35 can do some overload
There a polls 5 now? 💀
Genuinely what even is the point of mods closing the polls channels when every time someone just creates a new polls channel 
how much do you desire to image in the opposite hemisphere
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I would really want to be there.
I cant image in swir, mir, or lwir with a silly refractor
bc sometimes they calm down and last longer
this one has lasted a while
6" refractor is all well and good, until you have to mount it
My gti can handle it trust
sure thing 
0.5-0.7 as lowest is crazy, u guys need better mounts
I get impatient w PA 
Brother it takes 5 mins to get within 10 arc seconds 😭
Just gotta get better 😔
Ts pmo
Skywatcher is hit and miss
pathetic
imagine having clear nights... any time in the last month
You can magically store and lift it I guess
f2 
The 36" has a spherical mirror
frac gang
Lmfao
heard spherical and dipped
f2 spherical primaries are literally useless
that is almost as bad as the hypershit-cassegrain im building
Yea once you give me a few thousand dollars
heq5 ?
I need my 2 photons of DSO color
2 meter f/15 spherical reflector
bad idea
Slow
circle aberrations
At f/15?
i think so
Not much of an issue for a 24" scope at f/15
Spherical 114/900mm > All achromatics
actually, the askar doublet, its extremely well corrected for its focal length
isnt that a apo tho
its not a true apo since it isnt a triplet but still
Askar has a doublet?
by achromatic refractor, i dont mean any doublet since there are really good doublets that are classified as apochromatic, i mean the real "cheap" achromat ones
but you can get a fat slow one so it isnt as big of an issue
Was supposed to be cloudy last night.. I check satellites and WOAHH CLEAR
2018 Internet trend
fr but i still think people are lying that they hear yanny
like i know theres those auditory illusions where you'll hear whichever word your thinking of, but i tried to thinky of yanny and still heard laurel, i read text on the screen that said yanny while listening and still heard laurel, IT MAKES NO SENSE
can you subtract 23 from 58 in your head
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yea
i can hear each word on command its not that hard idk how people only hear one
i cant make it do it on command even though i can with most auditory illusions
one word is on the low frequencies the other is on the high frequencies
if you get the audio, put it through something like audacity and isolate some of the frequencies you can hear yanny
There are youtube videos on it
What do i order
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Chicken sandwich
Thanks
Getting doordash while polar aligning to keep yourself focused on the imaging session, what is your favourite sandwich
im too poor to polar align
@quasi cedar please keep it at least tangentially on-topic
same for you, please keep it on topic
Can we make an offtopic poll thread then
i'll bring it up with mods/admins. I don't think discord allows per-thread settings for this so it would have to be in some other way, but we will think about it
alright
Ok, please use #1411387988776058891 from now on for anything off-topic. Happy polling!
Sharpless is being peak for me lately
Atlas of peculiar galaxies
That sounds like a sci-fi book
Biggest number best
its a 0.33MP camera lol
I'll have to go for the 455 but I'm never gonna be able to afford it
@cold moon the 455 is a criminal pick
Oof
Full frame with 3.76um pixels, decent QE
it can see up to 1800um though
wait till this guy hears of the IMX411 which has 150MP
And also has decent QE and 3.76um pixels
150MP???
66.7mm 😭
yeah.
A corrected 12" RC should be able to handle that actually
my friend
ben offered me to take an image using his 20'' Dall-Kirkham and one of those sensors

Wooof
(it has a LARGER fov than my 130pds with 585)
Unless I'm confusing scopes I think this is it
Cinema
its a CDK20 from Planewave
Idk this feels bigger
6.8
Faster than I thought
Does phone ap havw potential
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Defo
i pick the cheapest option
Sorry someone did a donuts or doughnuts spelling poll so I assumed there wasn't really a general topic
(i can buy any of these for the exact same price)
all the same price
fat dob tuen
Would you rather get...
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A nice Ha Solar Telescope
If you could have either one for FREE, which would you choose?
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6" Refractor
You can get one scope for free but you can’t sell it!
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6” Reflector
Do people actually know what IMX990 is capable of?
nope
most people dont even know it exists
Well, i do... imo that's the sensor supremacy right ther
sharpless objects being sh instead of s is disgusting
You know why it's called Sh and not S. Because in English, the pronunciation of the letter S, sounds similar to ass. So Sharpless is not an ass catalogue 
Lowest guiding error you've achieved?
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0.1-0.3"
How is it spelt
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Donuts
The people who said "Doughnuts" have been blocked and ignored.
Depends
Imagine guiding
Literally me
"Guiding? What's guiding?" ☑️
Put them into the player one camera names and I can answer this poll
Uranus Pro
Ares Pro
Artemis-C Pro
Artemis-M Pro
Poseidon Pro
Zeus-455 Pro
others dont exist
What about like the planetary line
so no 411, 990, 460 or 410
not a mainstream sensor since theyre not widely used unlike the cooled ones
besides they dont fit
Prob the Artemis c
id agree
Best Deep Space Object Catalog
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NGC
Hands down most superior sensor!!
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IMX533
I like how it's unanimously IMX294
It is a bad sensor after all
Would you rather...
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Purchase a 12'' Goto Dobsonian
anyone who picks hot and humid is a psychopath

I'm fine with all of them, id prefer the cold weather, but the hot weather would be a good change of pace
hot and humid = death though
humidity makes a massive difference, 19c with 99% humidity is harder to handle that 30c with 10% humidity
What's the minimum amount of clear night sky time you need to make it worthwhile to set up your gear?
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1-3hr
why are they all specific galaxies then there's starburst
Im more of a 2MASX J16403758+3555092 guy
I'm a LEDA 3501401 kind of guy
can't believe you missed the Magellanic Clouds, Barnard's Galaxy, IC 10, IC 1613, and IC 342
actually that might be IC 10 but idk
cold and arid, good for astro 
NGC 4038 or NGC 2442
How is your guiding on average?
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.6-.4
1231830046491152424
wholesome
He did indeed remember but it’s not done
Hands down WORST Mainstream Sensor!?
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IMX294
Bruh I should just turn this thing into a Google forms
Like them youtube survey ads
It's a 5 minute unskillable ad
Holy AdBloxk takes care of them
NGC 4753 obviously
Which process is better?
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Left
🇱
Almost one
I was so close
Best Galaxy
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Triangulum
Code it in Java, for no particular reason
Doing it in unity
I have hope, though I’ve only coded in C++ so
Cooked
I’d do python
ChatGPT will do the majority of heavy lifting
you seem like the type to watch 4 programming tutorials, got 1/4th the way through making a pre alpha and give up not long after
I absolutely despise unity
Interesting
Can't figure out how to use it for the life of me
I was thinking of making a horror game related to astro 
the bears are coming
Foxes 
Too complicated, I'll take my homebrew any given day
Pygame...loop hell
I need to get back into programming Wii homebrew.
So many people doubting that I can do it, anyone willing to help or offer advice lol.
We need JustEat out of development NOW
I can make sprites :)
I don’t have much coding experience however
This should call for a development forum
Unity development forums sound a lot like scratch
Aka 13yo plebs getting sassed by grown ass men
This would be huge, I’ll dm you and keep you updated with what to do.
Sounds good 
icant code in java
What?
Good for you
Would you rather use a: (you can choose f ratio)
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achromatic refractor
1022874584309039184
telescope
voices of the void has entered the chat
not to my knowledge, i dunno
Try, have fun and learn. Holy negativity in here
I know right lmao. Thanks!
Code it in C++ and build your own ray tracer for nice graphics
Code a light ray simulator from scratch too
you will fail and instead make a large 2d astro game
because of feature creep
Wait, that gives me another even better idea...
Code it IN Scratch
fun fact about scratch
thats where i first used the name topcode
Ray traced graphics in scratch for a first timer? Sounds amazing lol
Hahaha
We got a road map so should be fine
if u say so
is java easy to learn
like hypothetically lets say little timmy didnt have any coding experience at all, and wanted to learn java, would little timmy struggle learning java
does this little timmy happen to be in a very similar situation to you
little timmy is not real and totally doesnt represent anyone here and is totally just hypothetical
little timmy is completely hypothetical and totally does not represent my situation in contrary to how similar that situation may be to mine
Will my Physics teacher have remembered to 3d print my Cheshire eyepiece?
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Nuh
timmy should choose a better language than java
what if little timmy wanted to mess with minecraft and therefore requires java to do so, hypothetically, of course
little timmy should see if mayhas mcreator would suffice for the task
little timmy was not aware of mcreator but little timmy is thankful for your recommendation, hypothetically of course.
ofcourse
little timmy now just needs to come up with ideas on what to make first then make bigger and bigger things as little timmy goes on, hypothetically
The cylinder must remain attached to the larger structure
SOMEONE GOT THE REFERENCE WITHOUT ME MENTIONING IT
LETS GOOOOOO
Elite reddit knowledge
fun fact: i installed reddit because of that reddit post

that was a year ago and now its like my #1 most used app on my phone when im bored
90% of that screentime is the silksong subreddit where i study people losing their minds
java sucks
code it in scratch
Bro you get one bug that chatgpt cant fix and its over
java and minecraft modding is pretty difficult and annoying ive tried it before and it genuinely blows ass
there are no good documentations so you’re kind of just at the mercy of youtube videos
also before you do any modding your java knowledge needs to be considerably advanced to understand whats going on
Yeah but everybody on scratch is a racist 12yo maga-nut
no theyre not man
most of its users probably dont even know how to multiply
what are you talking about
Do you have a ChatGPT subscription?
yes, why
Good, likely you’ll succeed with that helping you out then
fingers crossed
i am good with the art side of things, i can draw and also have @cedar dome helping out with sprites
just need chatgpt to carry the code side of things
for 2d I think godot might be a better option than unity
famous last words
chatgpt unfortunately SUCKS at godot so stuck with unity, already started now. going well.
doesnt make many mistakes other than telling me something is somewhere when its not (trained off old data but corrects itself once reminded of the version)
its good at C#
More than 2000
it will explode in 15 minutes
Yeah you right I saw a live on yt
Surely the guy can't be wrong right?
cant be
fr???
yeah, you missed the once in lifetime opportunity
fk clouds
fixed my guiding and got my best images this summer but damn the clouds
Dang😭
No astro dark and mostly rain.
no astrodark
no camera
no friend
no time
nothing
What? We ain't your friends?
6 months ago was alright 😔
Very windy with and without clouds and rain 😵💫
Seems like summer wasn't it
winter was really good
I spent less time getting long integrations compared to just exploring the skies with snapshots, but it has been one hell of a time.
what would you say your average int time on targets was because these are pretty good for low int
The lowest was the Swan at 6 minutes lmao...the Orion Nebula was 9 minutes, the Crescent was 27 minutes, NGC 7331 was 40 minutes, and M24 was just under an hour per panel
what bortle?
Mostly shot from Bortle 4/5 for broadband, and narrowband up to Bortle 7
Though the NGC 7331 image is just infrared (though a lot of smoke)
The Lagoon was 2 hours 30 minutes, M13 was 2 hours 50 minutes, and NGC 206 in the Andromeda Galaxy is 4 hours
aint no fault in that, you got the supernova, thats what matters with 7331
bortle 4/5 is nice, im moving from a b8 to a b6 soon
it's also on Wikipedia :)
(though I encourage anyone else here to replace my image...)
NGC 7331, also known as Caldwell 30, is an unbarred spiral galaxy about 13.427 megaparsecs (43.79 million light-years) away in the constellation Pegasus. It was discovered by William Herschel on 6 September 1784.
The galaxy appears similar almost in size and structure to the Milky Way, and is sometimes referred to as "the Milky Way's twin". How...
this was 6 hours on 7331 from b8, the data was honestly not very good, and i didnt have my uv ir cut filter for this soo
and i was using old flats so bad bg
but my fireworks galaxy at 9 hrs was much better
(still no uv/ir cut filter for that data either)
Just over 6 hours on IC 10 (just RGB)
that seems like a difficult target to pull detail on
It's the only starburst galaxy in the Local Group, but it's behind a bunch of galactic dust in Cassiopeia
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You saying I/game is trash or the haters are trash
Same with you lol
I think your gonna succeed!
Thanks
Follow progress in the thread
sell the gti 🗣️
sell the gti 🗣️
sell the gti 🗣️
ok ok ok
when will betelgeus explode
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500~2000
K and T don't have their place here. K can get confused for Kelvin and T for Tesla.
nah Kelvin and Tesla are units while K and T are symbol sin this case
god dammit i forgot KE as an option
not to be confused with kiloelectrons lmao
That's ke⁻
Or keV
yeah ik
Yes, that's why I wrote it as ke⁻
are you okay?

no
@hybrid echo why do you have a fish next to your name? Why? Nobody told me what the fish means. 
we both know im never tell u that
im not allowed to tell u it
Fair. Is there anybody that can tell me?
you will know it in your heart when you are ready
Ain't got a heart mate
Not in the metaphorical way
crazy talk right here
How was imaging during summer?
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Absolute horror
2000 dollar budget and buy both
btw worth noting
buying the Solar Telescope does not make buying a 16'' impossible, just delays it
if there is any small gaps in the clouds or if they arent super thick take photo
but if its just giant wall, sleep
Look at my photo from a previous one and sleep
your 3 inch inch altaz frac
your 3 inch inch altaz frac
Go all in
3rd option. Sell the GTI and buy an EQ6-R
no
Bigger is better
Option A:
Downgrade all my planned filter and filter wheel purchases to 1.25” removing my ability to upgrade from an IMX533 to an IMX571 + not get pixinsight so that I can buy a good pc
Option B:
Keep my filters at 36mm for future-proofing and also get pixinsight but not get the pc (my current computer is just a small laptop)
What’s the PC for? What’s your currency pc specs
i want the new pc mostly so i can process data faster and have a better, longer-lasting pc
For the specs
Wait i have
An image
I need to find it
All i know is that the cpu is integrated
Alright integrated is all I needed to hear tbh
Your laptop sucks
And a lot of processing software requires a good GPU…. Or at least A GPU
i basically use it for everything so thats why i wanna switch
The performance is alright, but i know its generally pretty lowend
You won’t be able to run most denoise or sharpening tbh
Or it’ll take like 10 hours
idk about the filters though
You literally have no GPU
if i buy 1.25” then theres no way im upgrading my camera for a loooong time
it still works
Is there a reason you’d want to upgrade cameras anyways? You have a 533
You need a new pc
I dont have a 533 i plan on getting it alongside the filters
But a 571 would be a lot better
a 533 is fine for majority of people. I love mine
You can always sell it and the filters to upgrade
Oh yeah
Actually i have an idea
ill check good pre-built pcs that are discounted
and see if i can buy a good one alongside everything i plan on getting for the telescope
how much does one usually cost
not extremely high end but still like a good pc
Probably $800-$1200 USD
Idk euro prices. I do know a good bit from PCs though. DM me a link and i can tell you if it’s good or not
alright if i ever find a pc ill just dm you for feedback
thx
Most procressing software doesn't need a discrete GPU, even blurX etc. you can run without one
Like Pix or SIRIL literally don't use the GPU for preprocessing, aligning, stacking or any non-"AI" processing
The bottleneck for stacking is I/O speed, so what helps most is a fast SSD and lots of RAM
I gambled a lot and can almost buy a Ragoll 17 Pro. What should I do?
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Sell my GTI - Would give me enough for the Ragdoll 17
Yea but hardware acceleration helps a lot. No GPU means like 40 minutes to run stuff
I remember GraXpert ignoring my GPU going for my integrated GPU, it took like an hour to run. With my GPU it’s like 2 minutes
Yeah with Blurx it legitimately took minutes to run just on my cpu vs a few seconds with my gpu
My point is it only helps for certain operations, but won’t help at all with stacking (which is the biggest time sink)
Best symbol for kinetic energy?
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K
What to do?
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dont buy and save up for used 16'' dob for 1200
would your pick change if the coronado price was knocked down to 400 - 300
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no
❌
should i sleep while lunar eclipse cos clouds or should i attempt crappy photo
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take photo
Should I motorize my 3" inch alt/az frac
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Yes
Dead
Realistically, will ashen be successfully in making a small 2d astrophotography game (he’s never coded before)
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No
heheh
It wont fit the text just look at what i sent
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Option B
Should I keep the dev of Project Nova a secret or keep it public
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Keep posting updates
I am not super interested in doing it myself but I want to drag my artist friends to a dark site with me and see what kind of magic they work
we have control over money constraints
we can't control our time
(i mean like clouds and stuff not being busy)
i mean both kinda go hand in hand, no?
Should I ban everyone who voted no on if I will succeed in making a game from the game.
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Yes
holy hell
how much int would you get
Bruh
fwiw elephant needs more int than the others
what’s it about
https://discord.com/channels/794642864218439681/1412439465158381608 here's more info but the thread is getting pretty crowded lol. Its like, an astrophotography tycoon almost, image, get gear, minigames, build and customise your area (and your rig), move to new locations and get insane gear.
(you start with a phone)
hoping to just continuously keep adding depth to the game, i started it a few days ago, never programmed before, its going well though
might have a demo by the end of next week potentially
it will be very limited, but a proof of concept to the community 
i really want it to be fun
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/892466401/ so basically this but like, good
Damn doesn't sound bad
At least 10h Ha, 15h Sii and 20-25h Oiii for the SHOs. And for m31 id go to a bortle 3 and get 20h of BB and 10h of NB
telescope tycoon 2!?!?!? id hate to see what 1 looked like 
but yes, it will be that but much better and deeper
telescope tycoon 1 was a main menu with a start button. when you pressed the start button it all disappeared. that is the entire gameplay
Buying telescopes off of Amazon smh
Only if it has a film astrophotography feature.
Heart in SHO. The elephants Trunk Nebula is gonna age you two years
@mint talon why did you not ever take this further
idk i was like 10
schoolday ended
maybe I'll update the 2nd one
planetary is
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opinion on astro sketching
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its cool
Yeah the few clear skies a year i seem to get is the reason why I dont do long integration, dont want to spend 2 years to get 30 hours and thats 2 years of nothing but shooting the same thing every clear night i dont have that patience for that
i get like 5 clear skies a month max
usually less
id call that almost always
Im lucky to image once a month
same
at one point i went 5 months without a usable clear night
Same
exactly 😭
whenever i do get a clear night i always end up getting like 3 hrs max on any one target
since i dont want to waste the opportunity only doing one when i might not be able to do anything else for the whole season
Yeah i still only have 8 hours on my na nebula, still waiting for a clear night to get more but its already been how many weeks..... might switch targets i can only look at the same thing for so long before I get "bored" and want to go to something else still showing clouds for the foreseeable future oh a few clear skies during the day but going back to clouds by night so typical
also its like the moon is a cloud repellant
the skies only ever clear up when its near full moon
Oh i actually never noticed for myself, I just ignore the moon dont care if its full if its clear I have to image regardless ill just go to the opposite direction from the moon
well yeah im still going to image, clear skies are too rare to not image when the moon is out
but what i meant is its just annoying
Oh yeah for sure it is
if it was gonna clear up why not during any other moon phase
its code is also horrible so probably not
nah i don't have much interest in coding
Lmao
I haven’t written a single line 🤷♂️
Or like developing in general, or is it just the coding you don’t like
development in general
nice game ashen did your mom (chatgpt) make it for you
Chats does the scripts I want it too yes
booo hater
im gonna vibe code ur mom
What
Can't wait to brutally pick your game apart by playing it wrong
gonna speedrun it
Hahahahaha
damn you're unlucky
I get like 3 clear nights a week
sometimes 4
Look at you blessed with more than 3 a year
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i said max
if i am EXTREMELY lucky i can get 5 in a month
usually it is 0-1
fr it was coded by chatgpt
there gonna be some mad exploits
Made it 3 days because I don't want a ping on Sunday
@restive fiber how about a ping on Saturday evening?
Honestly I reckon the code will be / ish pretty solid
Pre alpha should find most of the big exploits and if there’s anything big I might wipe before beta/full release, we’ll see
ashen do you have any coding experience beyond chatgpt
Very little lol. Why?
Pretty much, I’ve been there lol. I know enough to be able to debug but depending on the issue (generally ui based stuff) it can take a while
I leave it out overnight while I sleep so normal
same
What do I shoot next at 520mm
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Elephants trunk neb SHO
I just set it up and then remotely program sequence and maybe check on the first few subs. Can easily do this from inside the house on my phone or iPad. Can even do EAA while idk sitting in the bathtub.
Same but when astrodark lasts for 4-5 hrs there's not much sleep I can get while imaging :')
Finish setting up at 10, stay up until 1 to make sure guiding and focus are good, go to sleep, wake up for meridian flip, then wake up at 5/6 to pack up and go back home before i get kicked out
Set up by 7:30(winter) stay out until 11:30
mydogiscutemeow is an amazing username
Hahaha ask @mint talon
its bobs username?!
yea, it was the main one i used before i came up with bobjonesisthebest
thats highly silly
i think i was in like 4th grade when i made it lol
you will never guess what my main username before my new one is
well yea i dont need to guess, its in your connections
damn, what was it
ateagod lol, unless you had one before that
damn, you got it
i was ateagod before i became a cool person
Orion doesn't have statfislds
You guys make me sick
who the hell is voting super moon
moon glazers
super nova on the betelgeus please
AAAAAA
ehehehehehehheheheehehee
ORION FANS ASSEMBLE WE MUST TAKE DOWN THESE CYGNUS LOSERS
Cygnus is better and it's not even close
its a low bar to be better than orion tbf
bro cygnus and orion are like the only two S-tier constellations everything else is mid
All other constellations dont even have 3 or more well known objects in them
When i say orion is better than cygnus im not saying cygnus is bad im just saying orion is slightly better
The objects are just better idk what else to say
The reason they are well known is cause they have bright, large targets. Everywhere else has smaller, and more interesting targets
virgo is the best constellation because it has ngc 4753
still dont rlly get what you like about that lil guy so much
You need to stare at it for 5 uninterrupted minutes to understand
tbh we need someone to shoot LDN 43
no thanks
your loss
People who don’t vote for meteor shower have never seen a good one
I have yet to even see a "shooting star"
Don't know how badly light pollution affects how much you can see them naked eye, but I'm willing to bet it's a big part of my problem

One we saw a few years back was so bright it lit up the inside of our house in reds and greens
i saw tons of bright shooting stars but they don't compare to the other events
it's just a super bright white streak
and done in an instant
I can't tell if this is a joke or not
It is not
Is this something I'm too high bortle to understand or too stupid to get
Shooting stars aren’t the same as fireballs
I see more fascination in supernovae, eclipses and aurorae than meteor showers
It makes you feel immersed
It makes astronomy feel real
october 10 man
Yeah that’s a fireball
Those are cool
was so crazy
It was during a meteor shower
A meteor shower doesn’t guarantee a fireball it just heightens the chance of one
A lot of fireballs happen outside of meteor showers
ive seen hundreds of meteors never a fireball
Also if you have meteor shower with a visible shppting star every few seconds is spectacular 🙂
Like the one in Portugal that plunged in the ocean
What I find spectatular is seeing the bright one which leave smoke
Thats cool
Otherwise they are kinda interesting but not something I would compare to the otherw
too bad i was doing anything but looking at the sky that day
was this a satellite or a meteor
Cepheus is goated
Ive defo seen good one they bit overrated cuz news say you see up to 100 reality you'll see like 20-30 per hour still sick tho
This is what I want to see some time
Dang
Ohh its the great leonid meteor shower
Would i be able to take good lunar eclipse pics?
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Yes
What weather would you tolerate? You will not be affected
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41
2
Cold and airid
i will knock the sygnus wall over and onto your head
...bruh did you forget Sagittarius, Carina, Vela, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Virgo, Perseus, or Monoceros
They are second, a good shooting star can be really exciting, especially if it breaks into multiple pieces
I once saw a shooting star I presume, but it was super fast and it left a lingering very colorful trail, way faster than other shooting stars
What is that?
Why so many clouds?
Hydra
Leo
Canes venatici
Cassiopeia
Literally any constellation along the milky way
Orion is only talked about because it's the brightest and the only one non-stargazers know
How tired are you usually after a session?
7
23
2
Bit groggy but able to work/study

Multiple times a month
Which one is better
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22
2
Cygnus
🎏
right now: can't because weather, and it's been bad since almost the beginning of year. otherwise: 3-5 days/week
fine assuming you have very good weather most of the time
Aurora
Oh, you have the same role as me
Its never clear raaah
Best events?
20
82
6
Supernova (i wish)
however often i can
Both
I mean the ASIAIR stored to a microSD, but I'm transferring it to my computer via Wi-Fi and then store a backup on a my NAS
even on regular times i see them
"Never"
Will you be playing my game (currently known as Project Nova) when it drops?
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15
1
Yes
How often do you image
4
19
I just dont wanna regret anything 
My gti has real good guiding, I get sub 1rms nearly every single night that I shoot
Even if you had a perfect GTi, I'd still take a EQ5 with Onstep
I'd swap mine out in an instant without second thought
I’m totally not bias at all. Please buy my gti
:3
If i cant find a seller for the eq5 within a week or two ill get the gti
Ill make that two or 3 weeks since everyone is voting against it
you can negotiate the price too lol
eq5+onstep will be 300-350 for him and have double of the gti's weight capacity
think u can top that
horrible decision
Impatience doesn't get you far in astrophotography
are those 2 weeks gonna be the difference between you getting really good images and not getting good images?
Just wait for a good deal @lofty jetty
Don't hold yourself back with a bad mount because you wanted to take images 2 weeks sooner
the gti is a good mount and I’m including accessories 🙁
The gti is a good mount for dslrs and low weight lenses
Have you seen my rig
we're talking 300-350 USD for a EQ5 with goto vs a GTi that has a max load capacity of 5kg and planetary gearing
And thats what im gonna be using for a while, the gti is only temporary
But ill follow the crowd and get the eq5 I guess 😭
Its a fact, idc what rig you have
well it works perfectly fine on my 10 pound rig sooo
Clearly not a fact then

it's fine to wanna sell your GTi but don't go out of your way trying to convince someone who's about to get a good mount to buy your GTi instead
10 pounds is less than the gti's load capacity
the eq5 is rated up to 22lbs
I just don’t see how people sell EQ-5s for that
Because it's a cheap mount without tracking
Has anyone actually tested it
yes
Zeg has one, a lot of people on cloudynights get them for that cheap too
he paid 150 for his
Bump #1379949653990309978 message
But then why are gtis going for $500
because they are overpriced when bought new
people don't wanna lose 70% of the money they paid for theirs
would you get rid of your gti for 150?
no lol
I’d just use it for a 2nd rig at that point
I don’t WANT to sell it. It’s just to help me get closer to the ragdoll

Not trying to offend you or any other star tracker users but I only see copium around them
Exactly, EQ5's sold for much cheaper and there's a LOT more of them compared to GTi's
@late summit @zealous cloak if I get the eq5 + onstep, would that reduce the need to get a ragdoll later on? Is the ragdoll that big of an improvement?
Yes and yes
Harmonic would be a lot lighter and convenient
No counter weights needed for most rigs
True
Sorry guys, im buying this
What Hugo said, the EQ5 will actually serve you for a good while
You won't be stuck to 10lbs max payloads
Nice
Does the EQ5 have any electronics i should worry about or is it just gears?
In what way?
Use for Skywatcher EQ5, Meade LXD75, vixen gp, Skyview pro, Celestron Advanced GT (CG5) and Celestron omniXLT Series.
www.terransindustry.com
This is for the Exos 2 but essentially the same thing
Internally, unrelated to onstep
I doubt it does, just making sure
you don't gotta worry about that
check the video though so you know beforehand how to install onstep
I will, tysm
Absolutely not
tea is dangerous
Yes very
How common are cloudy days for you?
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28
5
Almost always.
What do you use for your data
5
10
alright gang, so im probably not getting my $300 soon and certainly not tonight but I remembered that I have $200 left to spend so
im weird i use my lan network
I'm gonna negotiate it down anyway, i just want to know how much lmao
@late summit @tender hollow
I trust your guys' opinion on this the most 😭
I bought mine new for $700. She's done well
You don't even use polar scopes in 2025 for astrophotography, so it's good
How much is the shipping fee, or is that with everything included already?
^What Zegery said
I don't think I used the polar scope on my mount once
Ill ask about shipping, if I cant get a better offer within a day or two ill contact him
And I can always just buy a polar scope for it
My main problem is if I dont have a minipc, I cant polar align
what do you intend to control your rig with now?
Ill probably be able to get a minipc so thats what ill control it with, otherwise an app (perks of being broke)
actually what is your rig?
Nikon d7500, ioptron skytracker (the OG one, its OLD), and a roki 135
Oh and a remote shutter release
I've got my use out of the mount and am going to crash out if I deal with it any more lmao
If you have at least a Onstep.
you can drift align with no mini pc
and some folks swear by drift aligning and even say its better than software
Ill look it up, ty
UPDATE: the guy said he could drop it to 125 if I had a "ups account"
It's a legit thing. Not sure I'd want to do it for $25
Does it cut shipping costs or? Doesn't make much sense, if I'm the one paying for and printing the label then why would he give me a discount
Not sure to be honest. I know it exists, it's something that UPS offers me whenever I'm tracking a package from them.
It's worth it to the seller to cut $25 off of the price, the real question is if it's worth a $25 cut to you. Unfortunately I don't know. I would think that they'd want to offer more attractive rates to the folks who sign up with them. 🤷
A bit confusing but ill go with it lol
Bandpass shift?
the filters i have are for f5, so f4 might shift them
Where is the glorious Ritchey–Chrétien?
Preshifted filters aren't really necessary for f4 tho
Eh, f/5 to f/4 shouldn't be a huge deal
i wouldn't have money for new filters brother 😭
That's what I'm saying?
I'm saying it's not necessary so don't switch them out
Fair
A friend has the Q150P and uses the same filters as me, and he said that he only noticed the shift with far objects. I'm assuming it was the redshift of the object, plus the bandpass shift of the faster telescope
Should Tea be locked in a padded room
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13
1
Yes
How many rubber bands are on your rig?
17
22
1
0
🚮
TS-Optics 8" ONTC 
Nope
@static sapphire what your opinion?
I think he kind of was the major contributor in this whole thing
That's what a brokie would say 
Can I have $5
Damn I'm gone for a day and there's server drama? Tell me everything immediately.
I am broke. I got... 2.50€ on my name
Ok well you know how Charlie Kirk was murdered, well good old Thomas was passing it off and calling him a Nazi
Diminishing him postmortem
And when we pulled him up he defended himself
And banned phunky diabetic
i think he eepy sleepy
america eepy sleepy i thinks
I don't agree with most of the political views he had but I don't walk around talking bad of the dead
"only", what astrophotography does to a man
I haven't done ap since mid August, I am just up for the sake of insomnia
Yep
I don’t care what he believed, Charlie didn’t deserve to die
Bob sleeps?!
i wouldn't even talk bad about Terry the terrible
Are you referring to Ivan the terrible? The guy that dracula is based off of?
nooo
terry a davis
Ivan the what?
Dracula is based on Vlad the III-rd. also known as Vlad Țepeş or Dracula (mainly named so by foreigners)
Should Thomas get the boot?
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13
1
Yes
😄
Wtf is this all about?
So you know how Charlie Kirk was murdered?
And then he doubled down
And banned someone who called him out
Can someone explain who Charlie kirk is?
Just a dinglewad that liked to debate
Didn’t agree with him but he didn’t deserve to die
Gonna get polls closed once again
Not on my watch
Its a simple question that lets people know how the community feels imo...

Humans are not pawns to eliminate for political ideologies. End of...
I see a lot of hypocrisy around this topic tho
moving it to gen chat btw, easier
People shouldn’t be killed at all and especially for there political views
I deleted the comment that I was refering to
Maybe stop or move this convo
Damn, I forgot to vote NO on the poll
Yes but I’ve never done visual with it
Do you know the reason of it?
I have the utmost condolences for his family. I don't wish death on him, and if I'm shitting on him it's not because he died, it's because he was a horrible person in life
wish this poll was open because I support blaspheming all fascists, Charlie Kirk included.
Yep
Saying "he had it coming" isnt the same as saying you think he was a bad person
Hi
Its literally saying you think he deserved to die
He did
So this is where the action is taking place
To be clear, you think he deserved to die?
What was being said was relevant to the poll posted. I will not police that. I will police people making inappropriate jokes.
Poll was apropriate?
Yes. Community input due to a abhorrent comment made by a fellow moderator is fair and open for discussion.
Tbf, it shouldnt even be necessary with a poll.
A person stating that someone deserves to die due to different opinions should not be in any mode of responsibility of other people. Thomas has himself said he enjoys "artful trolling" and he does actively bait people into topics with pure intention of banning or giving time outs if they disagree with his personal opinion.
Opinions are great but acting on it as it is the truth and give consequences to those who disagree is insane, and he's been allowed to do it for ages. It's manipulation and abuse of the role. He should have been yeeted by the staff ages ago.
Wtf
If this particular topic is considered off-limits for the server, I fully understand (we are an astrophotography server), but any semblance of "neutrality" regarding Charlie Kirk, his openly racist, sexist, homophobic, and transphobic views, and the immense harm he has done to the society I live in is a terrible position for a moderation team to take.
Tbf... fck politics. Why are we discussing this?
While I agree with everything you have said here, I also believe in members voicing their opinions on this matter. It is putrid behaviour
Because it was brought up by a moderator in a way that isn't appropriate in my opinion.
As a part of the community I am stating that I disagree with that behaviour...its quite simple...ignoring it doesnt help anyone
Which is also very fair and what makes a community balanced and not a dictatorship. But the harassment from his side has been ongoing for very long and it has been proven time after time that stating your opinion gets punished, so I would believe alot of people dont want to take the risk of voting and get yeeted due to it.
dammit what idiot made a poll about that
I will stand up for and protect those people, for soever long I have the power to do so.
at least put it in off topic polls
Do not start about polls Bob. You are not in a position to judge
That idiotnhas a name
im just worried about this thread being locked for the 5th time lol
Again, with your history, you do NOT get to judge
I both prefer higher aperture AND lower magnification so this is easy
fair
Basically "would you like a faster scope?"
bob'l shut up now
I swear this guy wasnt mentioned once in this server until today
@split tinsel any chance Thomas will leave or get kicked out?
I’d understand these types of talks if this was a political server
But its an astronomy server
I cannot say with any amount of certainty what will happen
Oh god what did I open up, why are we hating on Thomas now?
This should've been kept in broken biscuits.
brudda didnt you see what happened 12hrs ago?
Its not hating on, it is discussing things that were said
Is he gone already?
I cant find his name
I don't think so?
What's broken biscuits?
No
o
Oh nothing nothing
What Thomas said should not have staid in bb
Now? This behaviour was brought up multiple times
People deserve to know what one of the most active mods is saying
I'm not saying otherwise
Or fixed biscuits
He acted stupidly
The pro biscuit lands
what behavior 😭
yeah he is gone
Yeah it looks like he left
I can still see him
Not his first time doing this, he’ll be back again
Should we invite him to the small indie server
NO HES GONE
no.
Lol
“He had it coming”
(/hj)
yea screw him
Stating his political views constantly violating the rules of the server while banning/timing out people that disagree? Yeah, that behaviour
Ok team, Thomas has left. That is the end of discussion
You remember the Wordle debacle
Crazy stuff
That's like, the least important stuff tho
Just shows he likes the power
did you ban him?
Let's end it there
Don’t think mods can ban other mods lol
it does not need to be discussed further
Bag beans
Race

banbag comin in clutch
What would you choose?
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9
3
Sky-Watcher Quattro 200P f4 (bandpass shift)
Yaaayyyy! Quattro it is then
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Ty
What happened?
scat attack
forums have perms
ahh
yea its the pickle me fiddlesticks guy


