Nice! I was hoping to capture the bat and squid at a star party last weekend in August, but was positioned too close to the tree line. A couple of others were trying to image the squid and bat as well, but weren't having much luck with it. It's not an easy target. I think those images turned out well! Check your focal length settings in PHD2 - you need to enter your focal length in order to show the measurements in arcseconds. Clear skies!
Great Video, having that set in North instead of Auto will mean it will only send corrections on DEC in one direction, so normally for that to work well you need a bit of misalignment, so it only needs pulses in the north direction, normally you would have that set in Auto, that would be the correct setting really….
Hi Dave! First, a very belated Happy New Year! I hope 2025 will bring you & yours good health & much happiness! I have been subscribed to your channel for a while, but I just noticed that the notifications setting "All" which is what I always use...strange. Anyway...so that's why I am just catching up on your video now! Regarding the video..well done, and kudos for getting a really good result for roughly 12 hours of integration! All you need is more data, and you will have (perhaps already have?) a killer image! I am curious....what is the Bortle Rating at the location you used? What narrow band filters?
Happy New Year to you as well. If I remember well, I think it was around bortle 3 skies, but next time I go I will get an SQM measurement to know for sure. As to the filters, I use Antlia 3nm Ha, OIII and SII filters.
@@walterhaase I Urban I hope this helps Urban and that it improves your guidance. Glad to have been of service Good sky and looking forward to your next videos Patrick
It seemed to dither OK, but I need to review the guide logs and check my settings. I obviously overlooked something, but I didn't want to waste imaging time troubleshooting something when I thought I could limp along until I got home to do some proper troubleshooting. That is on my agenda this week. 🙂
Nice image, it´s a good reminder of how faint the Squid is, considering how bright it appears in many images! I like the faint look of the image
Well done for such a dim target
Thanks for sharing. 👍🏻
Great image BTW, excellent…👏🏻👏🏻
Nice! I was hoping to capture the bat and squid at a star party last weekend in August, but was positioned too close to the tree line. A couple of others were trying to image the squid and bat as well, but weren't having much luck with it. It's not an easy target. I think those images turned out well! Check your focal length settings in PHD2 - you need to enter your focal length in order to show the measurements in arcseconds. Clear skies!
Great image!
Nicely done. That target is super faint, especially the OIII. Hopefully you can sought out the PHD2 issue
Great Video, having that set in North instead of Auto will mean it will only send corrections on DEC in one direction, so normally for that to work well you need a bit of misalignment, so it only needs pulses in the north direction, normally you would have that set in Auto, that would be the correct setting really….
Hi Dave! First, a very belated Happy New Year! I hope 2025 will bring you & yours good health & much happiness!
I have been subscribed to your channel for a while, but I just noticed that the notifications setting "All" which is what I always use...strange. Anyway...so that's why I am just catching up on your video now! Regarding the video..well done, and kudos for getting a really good result for roughly 12 hours of integration! All you need is more data, and you will have (perhaps already have?) a killer image! I am curious....what is the Bortle Rating at the location you used? What narrow band filters?
Happy New Year to you as well. If I remember well, I think it was around bortle 3 skies, but next time I go I will get an SQM measurement to know for sure. As to the filters, I use Antlia 3nm Ha, OIII and SII filters.
I Urban
Have you tried Pec Predictive in the PHD algorythms tab? It works very well.
good sky and nice captures.
Patrick from France
I did this after fighting with guiding. I went from over 1 to .45/.48 just by changing this one setting.
@@walterhaase I Urban
I hope this helps Urban and that it improves your guidance.
Glad to have been of service
Good sky and looking forward to your next videos
Patrick
Also you won’t be able to dither properly without it set on auto…👍🏻
It seemed to dither OK, but I need to review the guide logs and check my settings. I obviously overlooked something, but I didn't want to waste imaging time troubleshooting something when I thought I could limp along until I got home to do some proper troubleshooting. That is on my agenda this week. 🙂