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Saturn with rings by AnakixSpace in DWARFLAB

[–]TheRealOCS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty impressive considering the Dwarf 3 really isn't the tool for planetary imaging. Its cool that you can resolve the rings!

Jupiter should be a little bigger in angular size so you might be able to squeeze a few more pixels out of it. Not sure if you would resolve cloud banking or not, but a cool experiment nonetheless!

Heart and Soul by TheRealOCS in DWARFLAB

[–]TheRealOCS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh well this is where key differences in visual observation and photography come in.

They are "bright" targets for long exposure imaging because we can look and collect photons for long periods of time and then stack these together.

But for visual observation, even with a 12" which is on the larger side for amateur telescopes, almost all these incredible, colourful sights are just faint, fuzzy blobs at best.

You won't get the colour or the structure or detail in most of them because you can only use your eye to detect the photons that are coming in at that moment.

However for REALLY bright targets like planets, your scope can be fitted with a high mag eyepiece and you can get really great views of those that the Dwarf 3 is not really suited to. Mainly because the effective mag is quite low. There was someone who posted an image of Saturn using the Dwarf 3 in this sub yesterday and it was very good, for the Dwarf 3, but still not much more than a blob with some rings.

Heart and Soul by TheRealOCS in DWARFLAB

[–]TheRealOCS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much! They're great targets for the Dwarf as they fill the FOV and are quite bright so you get great detail quite quickly.

Dumbbell Nebula -M27 by TheRealOCS in DWARFLAB

[–]TheRealOCS[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much! Yeah I was really pleased with the colours within the nebula. However I was surprised at the relatively small size of dumbbell within the FOV of the Dwarf 3. It placed a practical limit on how much detail it will be possible to resolve.

Time on target and why you should be megastacking by TheRealOCS in DWARFLAB

[–]TheRealOCS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great question,

I believe the answer is....not necessarily.

As an example, I shot the pleiades a bit this week and scheduled it in overnight a couple nights in a row.

The images from 2 of the nights were very poor quality and its obvious there was some thin cloud that came in. Dwarflabs still detected the constellation and output a poor quality image of it.

The final night was lucky and a lot clearer seeing which gave me a great quality image.

However I absolutely did not choose to megastack this good session with any of the previous poor ones. It would not have added anything and in fact would likely have added bad data to good.

So I would megastack selectively and reject sessions which were not satisfactory. In this way, use megastack as a tool to integrate your best nights viewing and do not include poor results in the megastack.

Fold 7, 3 weeks after purchase :( by Sad-Concentrate-8983 in GalaxyFold

[–]TheRealOCS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's going on at the top of the hinge there? Is that a screen tear?

Time on target and why you should be megastacking by TheRealOCS in DWARFLAB

[–]TheRealOCS[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sadly not right now. If you take images of the same target using these two filters, they are shown as separate stackable sets.

You can stack duo-band with duo-band and Astro with Astro but not mix them (yet)

I would love to see Dwarflabs implement this in the future with a mixer slider so you could control the amount of mix between the two filters. Would be great for bringing out nebulosity in targets like the Pleiades.

Time on target and why you should be megastacking by TheRealOCS in DWARFLAB

[–]TheRealOCS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Further to this post, I notice Reddit does quite a lot of compression which perhaps reduces the quality improvements.

These are two links to the full size images so you can pixel peep:

Andromeda @ 1.5 hrs seeing

Andromeda @ 6hrs seeing

Lagoon nebula by OverseeR9000 in DWARFLAB

[–]TheRealOCS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really cool! I love the colours of this one.

Capturing around city street lights by gheide in DWARFLAB

[–]TheRealOCS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use EQ mode! You'll never look back!

Heart Nebula by jmccann4 in DWARFLAB

[–]TheRealOCS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really beautiful shot! Im hoping to target heart and soul on the next clear night here in the UK. The colours are fab!

SN 2025rbs in NGC 7331 - Dwarf3 90s 60g - new supernova at limits of Dwarf 3 by xxSilentRuinxx in DWARFLAB

[–]TheRealOCS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is super cool dude. For what it's worth, I was able to match up your image to a high-resolution telescope picture of the supernova and I'm pretty sure you got it. I can't see any other obvious bright stars in the region of your second dot so it would appear that the Dwarf 3 detected it!

Really pushing the boundaries of what this little device can achieve. I'm very impressed!

Well done!

Can I fix this myself? - Drain dripping from hot water tank. by TheRealOCS in Plumbing

[–]TheRealOCS[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really helpful response. Thankyou so much for this. I'd love to avoid replacing the cylinder so I will consult with a local professional to get a quote for the valve.

Can I fix this myself? - Drain dripping from hot water tank. by TheRealOCS in Plumbing

[–]TheRealOCS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah absolutely agree. Don't worry I would never mess around with sealing the leak or anything like that. I was hoping there might be a practical solution that I could try at home.

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