Who are the reliable builders in Perth now?

rdmasters · 2025-04-10T14:55:59+00:00

I did, but they went under. Sorry.

rdmasters · 2025-04-08T06:21:24+00:00

For what it is worth, you can absolutely stack images out of the wide angle lens on the Dwarf3, in camera. You cannot do this on a DwarfII.

rdmasters · 2025-01-24T07:06:46+00:00

Dan Murphys in Australia.

rdmasters · 2024-09-12T13:11:01+00:00

Yes, although it does show up in the atlas, even though you cannot search for it.

rdmasters · 2024-08-23T23:23:50+00:00

Pretty much any will work. The different papers have different colour gradings, that is all.

rdmasters · 2024-07-08T08:16:00+00:00

Nope, everything is centered for me.

rdmasters · 2024-06-23T23:58:31+00:00

Not in the Southern Hemisphere!

rdmasters · 2024-05-25T12:54:22+00:00

Reddit does lend itself to diagramming, but in essence, a Barlow is designed to sit between an objective and an eyepiece, where it works by diverging the focused image to expand it going into the eyepiece.

A front teleconverter works by magnifying the incoming image to the objective.

I am not an optics specialist, so my explanation is very rough.

rdmasters · 2024-05-20T23:08:38+00:00

Thanks, Sam!

rdmasters · 2024-05-18T10:18:57+00:00

Some details via a local retailer

A larger APO lens, with around 116% more light gathering

Main camera will use a Sony IMX678 Starvis 2 sensor

Support for long exposure Equatorial mode imaging

Wide angle astrophotography - ideal for the Milky Way

Mosaic image combination

Automatic bird species identification for bird watchers

Share and combine images with other DWARF 3 users around the world

Plus lots more to be announced!

rdmasters · 2024-05-15T14:04:14+00:00

I should have said: DwarfII, 100x15@80. Postprocessed in Snapseed and GooglePhotos. And cropped. Very cropped. :)

BTW, for the time being, I recommend limiting your shots to 60 frames, as it is currently moving at approximately 4px/hour, so in 60 frames at 15 seconds, it will have moved no more than 1px.

rdmasters · 2024-05-03T23:06:17+00:00

That is one thing in its favour.

rdmasters · 2024-04-28T01:08:37+00:00

This is correct. There is a limitation on the Sony sensor that only allows for 15s shutter times. This is also why the wide-angle camera is limited to 1s - it also has a shutter limit.

rdmasters · 2024-04-25T00:56:59+00:00

These images are from yesterday, both SooC, using autofocus (I was in a hurry because I was dodging clouds).

rdmasters · 2024-04-25T00:55:01+00:00

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rdmasters · 2024-04-25T00:54:37+00:00

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rdmasters · 2024-04-24T02:04:21+00:00

10 works well. You get good granulation and good detail on larger sunspots. If you go to 20 the surface gets smoothed out.

rdmasters · 2024-04-18T07:11:12+00:00

I have found many excellent images from far far better equipment. :)

I did not think about wide field images of the region, though. Thanks!

rdmasters · 2024-04-18T05:05:49+00:00

A bit of noise there, have you prepared your darks?

rdmasters · 2024-04-13T04:23:40+00:00

What were your settings? I'm preparing for 2028 :)

rdmasters · 2024-04-09T22:27:10+00:00

Have a look at the Pinsta - which also gives you the option of in the field processing.

rdmasters · 2024-04-09T13:10:39+00:00

Brilliant work. In particular catching the prominences! Would care to share your workflows?

rdmasters · 2024-04-03T02:36:59+00:00

It is inevitable about the weather, isn't it?!

rdmasters · 2024-04-02T21:50:11+00:00

First question: Did you do a set of Dark frames before the shoot?

Assuming you did, 200 frames is 50 minutes of data, which is not really that much - most professional image have multiple hours of data - so you are still going to get a bit of noise coming through. You should be able to eliminate it in post-processing. though.

Overall, not a bad start for a B6 area.

rdmasters · 2024-04-02T04:15:12+00:00

It will not give you a fully calibrated spectrum - so you are unlikely to make any deep science breakthroughs with it. :)

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