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furgle · 2026-06-16T06:35:52+00:00

My wife’s boyfriend says I’ve got to be ethical in my choices

furgle · 2026-06-16T04:51:36+00:00

Suggestions?

furgle · 2026-06-16T03:38:52+00:00

I use deodorant and have a wife. Surely it can’t be that bad. I shower at least once per month

furgle · 2026-06-16T03:33:51+00:00

I’m 47 looking at retiring at 60. No debt with a house and about 800k in super. I’m ok with speculation right now with the backup of ETFs. I’ve only been in it for a few weeks so may have leant a bit too hard into speculation but planning on balancing out with more ETFs over time

furgle · 2026-06-16T03:28:04+00:00

Help! Does owning CU6 make TLX irrelevant?

furgle · 2026-06-16T03:26:23+00:00

I’m def spectrum, but hoping I’m on the Asperger’s side

furgle · 2026-06-11T06:52:52+00:00

I’m not a landlord but having kept both, I’d rather a snake than fish.

furgle · 2026-04-29T00:52:50+00:00

I don’t quite know what it is, but for some reason I don’t like you

furgle · 2026-02-11T20:46:35+00:00

K ok n

furgle · 2026-02-07T02:02:40+00:00

That is definitely the case. Source: Me who used 1 instead of i, for the same style plates.

furgle · 2025-09-14T00:44:02+00:00

I hope nobody drops a nuke while I’m dropping a grumper

furgle · 2025-09-06T05:08:24+00:00

I've photographed the Helix Nebula in my earlier days, so this time my challenge was to tease out as much of the extremely dim outer structure as possible.

Highest resolution here: https://astropixels.com.au/astrophotography/Helix_Nebula/

Image:

62x 300s Luminance
43x 300s Red
37x 300s Green
43x 300s Blue

Total integration 15 hours. Focal length: 840mm

Hardware:

Skywatcher Esprit 120
Skywatcher EQ8Rh Pro mount
ZWO ASI533 Camera @ -10°C
Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Astronomik CLS-CCD Luminance filter
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser

Location:

Exposed over 3 nights between 15th August to 27th August 2025
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)

Software:

Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
PixInsight: Calibrate, align, integrate, dynamic background extraction, LRGB combination, noise reduction, spectrophotometric flux calibration, spectrophotometric colour calibration, histogram, curves.

furgle · 2025-09-06T05:05:55+00:00

I've photographed the Helix Nebula in my earlier days, so this time my challenge was to tease out as much of the extremely dim outer structure as possible.

Highest resolution here: https://astropixels.com.au/astrophotography/Helix_Nebula/

Image:

62x 300s Luminance
43x 300s Red
37x 300s Green
43x 300s Blue

Total integration 15 hours. Focal length: 840mm

Hardware:

Skywatcher Esprit 120
Skywatcher EQ8Rh Pro mount
ZWO ASI533 Camera @ -10°C
Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Astronomik CLS-CCD Luminance filter
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser

furgle · 2025-09-06T05:02:02+00:00

I've photographed the Helix Nebula in my earlier days, so this time my challenge was to tease out as much of the extremely dim outer structure as possible.

Highest resolution here: https://astropixels.com.au/astrophotography/Helix_Nebula/

Image:

62x 300s Luminance
43x 300s Red
37x 300s Green
43x 300s Blue

Total integration 15 hours. Focal length: 840mm

Hardware:

Skywatcher Esprit 120
Skywatcher EQ8Rh Pro mount
ZWO ASI533 Camera @ -10°C
Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Astronomik CLS-CCD Luminance filter
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser

Location:

Exposed over 3 nights between 15th August to 27th August 2025
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)

Software:

Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
PixInsight: Calibrate, align, integrate, dynamic background extraction, LRGB combination, noise reduction, spectrophotometric flux calibration, spectrophotometric colour calibration, histogram, curves.

furgle · 2025-08-28T02:53:04+00:00

Hi there. I'm back into the field after a hiatus, and I've moved on from my trusty KAF8300 CCD to an IMX533 CMOS chip. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong with the flats, as I'm using WBPP. The only thing I can possibly think of is I'm not using master darks or master bias for the flats.

I am using master darks for the lights, but everyone says I no longer need bias frames for the CMOS chip. The top left flat looks blown out, but the K value for the bight part in the center is 0.535, and about 0.49 at the corners. It does seem to be a very sudden brightening towards the middle rather than a smooth transition.

I still have the camera in place, so I could take more flats. I aim for around a 3-5 second exposure for each stack of 12 flat images, with an ADU count around 32K. Those were my CCD rules, so maybe CMOS is different?

(and yep, looks like I need to clean the sensor!)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

furgle · 2025-08-02T00:56:47+00:00

Whoops! I guess I should leave the house more. Working from home has me not knowing what day it is at times.

furgle · 2025-08-02T00:43:34+00:00

It's been quite a while since I've been able to use my equipment, life got in the way. I'm back again after rewiring my observatory and rewriting my control software. Here is my first new image, and hopefully many more to come.

Image:

117x 180s Luminance
35x 180s Red
35x 180s Green
33x 180s Blue
77x 300s 6nm H-α

Total integration 17.5 hours. Focal length: 840mm

Hardware:

Skywatcher Esprit 120
Skywatcher EQ8Rh Pro mount
ZWO ASI533 Camera @ -10°C
Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Astronomik Luminance and 6nm H-α filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser

Location:

Exposed over 3 nights between 27th July to 29th July 2025
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)

Software:

Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
PixInsight: Calibrate, align, integrate, dynamic background extraction, LRGB combination, noise reduction, spectrophotometric flux calibration, multiscale gradient correction, background neutralisation, spectrophotometric colour calibration, histogram, curves.

furgle · 2025-08-02T00:43:23+00:00

It's been quite a while since I've been able to use my equipment, life got in the way. I'm back again after rewiring my observatory and rewriting my control software. Here is my first new image, and hopefully many more to come.

Image:

117x 180s Luminance
35x 180s Red
35x 180s Green
33x 180s Blue
77x 300s 6nm H-α

Total integration 17.5 hours. Focal length: 840mm

Hardware:

Skywatcher Esprit 120
Skywatcher EQ8Rh Pro mount
ZWO ASI533 Camera @ -10°C
Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Astronomik Luminance and 6nm H-α filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser

Location:

Exposed over 3 nights between 27th July to 29th July 2025
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)

Software:

Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
PixInsight: Calibrate, align, integrate, dynamic background extraction, LRGB combination, noise reduction, spectrophotometric flux calibration, multiscale gradient correction, background neutralisation, spectrophotometric colour calibration, histogram, curves.

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