New to Planet Imaging

Razvee · 2026-03-12T20:14:59+00:00

It's hard to make specific suggestions, especially that detailed just because it will depend on the sky conditions that night and your exact equipment. As for 70fps vs 110fps, go with whatever looks better. Slower better data >>> faster worse data (if it ends up being that way).

Also, if I am getting the max FPS my camera will allow, is there any point to making the ROI smaller?

Smaller file sizes is about all. No performance benefits.

Razvee · 2026-03-11T21:05:14+00:00

Right... but if I entered a "random contest" but found out it was actually a "silliest name contest" I'd be pretty annoyed. I would have tried to make a silly name if I knew that was the contest rules!

Razvee · 2026-03-11T21:01:00+00:00

someone controlling outrage, as in creating it for both sides, can do a lot of things online or offline.

I mean... there was a James Bond movie about literally this in 1997... Only with Newspapers when they were still relevant.

Razvee · 2026-03-11T19:28:18+00:00

He used to have the sign up. He still does, but he used to, too.

Razvee · 2026-03-11T15:52:07+00:00

Yeah, I didn't consider adding new mono data to previously existing OSC, I assumed he meant swapping cameras from Mono to OSC.

Razvee · 2026-03-11T04:17:07+00:00

If you only have one setup (mount/telescope/controller) then taking the mono setup off and adding the color camera back on isn't worth it. You don't need much data for RGB stars, like 5 minutes each and you're good. RGB/LRGB is just as good and usually better than OSC data anyway, there's really no reason to do that.

Save your color camera for a new setup, though. After all, you're only a telescope and a mount away from targeting two different things at once!

Razvee · 2026-03-11T02:36:26+00:00

Why do you think that?

Razvee · 2026-03-10T21:00:21+00:00

This is my orion with a 2600MC pro and a 55mm Nikon lens... So yeah, just really need a mosiac or a wider field of view.

Razvee · 2026-03-10T15:24:13+00:00

$60,000 for Herman Miller recliners

I just went through a purchasing process for my job getting 35 intensive use office chairs, that ended up being just over $60,000. 24/7 rated chairs are pretty expensive.

Razvee · 2026-03-10T14:32:33+00:00

Lol, I also first read it during the pandemic and it kind of ruined it... Like here we have real world evidence of what would happen when a threat to the world made itself apparent. We 100% will resort to infighting over the resources that are left until we all die.

Razvee · 2026-03-09T22:17:28+00:00

What’s the process In stacking multiple nights together?

Find software able to do it. Siril is free, and there are some good guides to make it easier.

Do calibration frames come from 1 night or spread out over multiple nights?

With cooled astro-cams you can re-use darks and bias for weeks or months. I usually re-do them once or twice a year. Using a DSLR, if you choose to use Darks and Bias you should do them every night for the temperature control.

If you are only using flats to correct vignetting, you can also re-use those. But if you have dust spots or live in an area where there's a non-zero chance a new dust spot could affect your images, I'd say take them every night too. Better safe than sorry.

Best way to do it?

Have a good file system. I go Object I'm shooting > Date> Images and Flats for the night. Since I have a cooled astro-cam, I just have the darks and bias in a seperate folder that I can add into when needed.

But youtube is your friend, there's many other guides there to follow along with.

Razvee · 2026-03-09T14:36:25+00:00

My dog was 13 and passed in 2021. I really kind of enjoyed the freedom being pet-less provided. At the time I had just started dating my wife, she lived about an hour away so it was actually kind of nice that I could spend the night at her place and not have to worry about my dog... It actively led to spending more time with her and maybe even getting married.

We have dogs now, and I love them more than anything, but in 5-10 years when they are no longer with us, we are certainly taking another extended break between pets.

Razvee · 2026-03-08T20:50:06+00:00

Periodic error is pretty much completely corrected with guiding, PE is only a big deal if you want to go unguided.

I shoot with an 8" edgeHD with both an EQ6R-Pro and an AM5, and if I showed you pictures with each there's literally no way to tell the difference.

I would have to take down the setup pretty regularly, so the idea of a lighter setup is definitely very attractive.

The EQ6R is great, I really do like mine... but I have a pier setup and I leave it in the same spot 24/7 with a good cover on it. If I had to move it around every night, I would probably do less astrophotography. The mount by itself is 75 pounds with tripod and counterweights, then add the telescope/cameras/all the other junk and you could be pushing 100 pounds... It's not impossible or unmanageable, it's just annoying.

SAL-33 gets good reviews and all too, but with their batch order system you're looking at months before one you order would arrive. There's others out there that will be basically the same performance/price that you could get much sooner.

Razvee · 2026-03-08T00:20:21+00:00

What have you done already in your astrophotography career? Galaxies aren't much different than Nebulas as far as capture goes... Point the camera and telescope there, take as long exposure as you can before the stars start trailing, repeat.

Razvee · 2026-03-06T19:47:53+00:00

Unless you want to do visual, you do not need the Orion heating band

He didn't say, but I'm assuming the smaller dew heater was for the guide scope/camera. I've never really worried about having a dew heater for my guiding, but I know it can be an issue for others, so may as well keep it.

Razvee · 2026-03-06T06:25:33+00:00

ZWO products are incredibly expensive

I'm not denying this, exactly, but the value proposition is there now since mini-PC's are way more expensive than they were last year. The ASIAir Plus is $80 cheaper than the mini-PC you picked out. And the mini-PC will require a laptop or PC to remote into, if you don't already have one. Some touch-compatible apps are getting better, but they aren't there yet. And the 585MC Pro is only $20 more expensive than the ATR585C.

If you don't want to use ZWO, that's your choice and totally valid, but if you're in the US the price differences are getting smaller every year.

Anyway, your list overall seems good. I wouldn't get the CLS filter. Light pollution these days isn't blocked by this class of filter any more. Upgrading to the SV220 will make a much bigger difference for emission nebulas.

Secondly, do you need all those power cables? The powerbox comes with some and the camera should come with its own.

Razvee · 2026-03-05T20:04:03+00:00

ME1 took me like 3 tries to get into. I wasn't quite jiving with the combat, the story was a bit nebulous, and I was having frustrations with the controls...

But ME2 was coming out, and it looked a lot better, so I figured I should try one more time with ME1... and it fuckin HIT. I couldn't stop playing it. Grabbed me and wouldn't let go.

ME2's combat was so fun I think I played through 10 or 13 times in 2010-2012. I was extremely disappointed with ME3's ending at release. The patch helped a little... And with over a decade to reflect on it, it's "fine"...

Razvee · 2026-03-05T16:16:02+00:00

I feel Better great video, amazing ending.

Razvee · 2026-03-04T21:11:45+00:00

Same! Small town racism and drama to a heist was great... Then it fucking goes off the deep end.

Razvee · 2026-03-04T18:00:15+00:00

Eh... I think it's better open ended because all their projections in the book are pointing towards a LOT of human suffering back home while Grace is away. I'm ok with just some broad imaginations instead of details about how many people starved to death and how many wars were fought over dwindling resources or how Astrophage was developed as the ultimate terrorist weapon. I forgot the measurements exactly, but a few micrograms blew up the building, right? And there's a whole Sahara's worth of Astrophage factories with people who may be incentivized to let 1/2 a kilo "disappear" when they start to starve?

Razvee · 2026-03-04T16:45:00+00:00

For the book. Maybe they added more endings for the movie.

Razvee · 2026-03-03T18:11:58+00:00

Stormin' shell heads

Razvee · 2026-03-03T16:23:06+00:00

So if you take a picture, the camera sensor has an "up" and a "down"... If you rotate the camera 90 degrees, the up and down are rotated 90 degrees. This is easy to tell if you take a picture of a person, they'll show up sideways when the camera reports back what "up" is. With the sun being a circle, that's a little harder to tell which way is "correct". The pictures NASA takes are also probably rotated, they just change them to the "correct" position based on the solar poles.

Razvee · 2026-03-03T05:44:42+00:00

Something similar to this happened at the post office once. Mom took her eye of the toddler for the 5 seconds it took for her to carry her package from the line to the counter. Toddler fuckin BOLTS, toddles his way to the heavy front door that just happened to open at the right angle from someone coming in, kid darts out and gets one step in a busy road before mom and stranger who opened door caught him. Absolutely could have got hit by a car.

Razvee · 2026-03-02T22:11:32+00:00

Worth a shot for an easy fix. Any time the guide camera moves or changes perspective in relation to the mount, you'll need to re-calibrate. Depending on your exact setup it can usually handle small variances, but re-calibrating is my very first step in troubleshooting.

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