Hi Stefan, I never heard the word ‘vertorama’ before. And I thought this was be a snapshot taken with your smartphone
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. Usually I’m not that naive
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. A great image, I too will try to do something like that.
And yes, I still have fun doing AP here at my location. In fact it isn’t too bad, I think. I even managed to get some decent full spectrum images here – at least I think they are quite OK. And I’m sure, I’ll be doing AP for many more years. It’s so fascinating, challenging and I really like it. So I will go on to be a pain in the neck for the folks here on the ST forum
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Since you opened the ‘low declination’ challenge
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here is my try on the Lagoon Nebula. Ridiculously low at about 14 degrees I guess and only half an hour of light (62 x 30s), because I failed to set up the guiding. Due to excessive PE of my EQ5 I had to discard about 2/3 of all images. The teapot was barely visible on the horizon. Nevertheless I was surprised of the outcome:
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If I remember correctly, I used FilmDev instead of AutoDev. I have the impression that FilmDev does a better job with such very weak data sets than OptiDev, which I use in almost all cases. I like the stars of the embedded cluster. Being not so small they underline the nature of the cluster in my eyes. I only used SV Decon, but not Shrink.
Best regards, Dietmar.