WILLIAM OPTICS is a great scope I have one my self, but Esprit is far better scope, I would say that Esprit is closest you can get to Takahashi scope!!!!

No links to the products mentioned?

OMG!!!! fantastic tutorial the scripts are amazing thanks Chad

But does it work with the ASI 2600MC Air?

Fantastic tutorial! 👏🏻 Thanks for sharing 🙂

It looks like Bray and the team are killing it. I'd sign up if I had a friend to split the cost. I live in Botle 7 skies with street lights on both of sides of my house. I wonder how long people will keep paying the monthly bill? I wish the best for the Starfront guys. Maybe at some point they will add some rentals or time shares.

Hey Chad! Amazing 15 mins tutorial to make dust visible. I have just tested the tutorial on my own data and your steps finally give me the result that I have been looking for to get the dust clouds to properly show up around NGC7023. I will have to take another night of images but playing with the current data already shows an amazing result to me. Thank you so much for showing such easy but mindblowingly effective processing steps to get more out of the dust that we caputre! Keep on rocking Chad!

Ty for your efforts - nice clip, helped me a lot! Cheers mate 🎉

Hi we don't here anything from you ! are you ok ?

The hobby is growing more than ever with the birth of the small smart telescope like the dwarf and seestar being affordable. It's the gatekeeping by the bitter older people that'll push people out.

FYI if you want to use the new 1x GT field flattener with a GT81 you need an ext tube in order to reach focus, and you have to remove a smalll spacer from the back of the flattener

Many thanks man, this works like a charme.

Thanks for this demo! The darkening rings that came with mine (bought in Europe Oct 2024) don't have the holes in the right place for my 2600MC DUO. They are probably wrong for all 2600 models 🙄. Two were good - across a diagonal. I had to mark them and take a paper hole punch to the ring so I could fit all 4 screws. This left me with lingering doubts that I was doing something wrong. Especially since there isnt any single definitive description, the DUO's M54 aperture puts the cam in the 'full-frame' category for connecting an EFW, and the new rear adjustment tilt plate doesn't get a mention on the ZWO site. Mine looks good now, but there's been a lot of guesswork... I'm just waiting for clear sky now to find out what works. One good thing is that the new M54 filter drawer and the EFW are both 20mm. If you're doing an upgrade, you can reuse the same backfocus solution.

Which star was this, does it matter if the filter is in place, ie: say the Lpro.

Touptek's version with it's HDR (Clear) mode and 16bit of this camera, with option to turn off all the LEDs in NINA makes this camera one of the best cooled astro camera on the market. It over perform even imx571... I mentioned some this facts about this camera in a review that I have made for this camera on this link kzbin.info/www/bejne/imm1c2CQlLGmpKMsi=xCw5_krxzv1P8e--

I have a used HEQ and a small 80mm SD Apo. Some tech around like autofocus, pegasus box, NINA. The HEQ is a bid meh, guiding isn't well. The Apo is not bad, but not what i want. I started with this 3 years ago, but as I'm in Germany, the weather is so shit, 2 Winters with NO chance. So I'm sitting here, have some money to invest. I would like to for a SW Strain wave with a TS/Sharpstar 100Q or a TS ONTC. But i remember why I didn't much on astrophotos last 2 years. All what that costs is lower than Celestron Origin. But, but, if i have one day in November, to setup a "classic rig, I'm a bit on the side "makes no sence". The Origin I can put out in the garden, and I can see something at last. I'm with you with the cam size of the origin, and you are right all habe to work, e.g. focussing is a critical thing, On a classic rig you can do something if it fails, on Origin, no. I would wait how reliable this thing is, and if camera options will come. Basically i like the concept. But I would gp for Seastar, to see if this is something you like. One can see from the Seastar success, the concept works. People are interessted in Space and Deepsky, that is not bad. So they now habe an entry, and thats not bad, and they will not care about the sensor size.

Oh well, my setup worked briefly after I watched your first video. Unfortunately it stopped working shortly after and no matter what I do it will not get to use the GPU again. I have also tried the new CUDA 12.6.2 and cudnn for CUDA12. I wish Pixinsight would use the GPU if there is one on the system.

you refer to another guys instructions, can you post a link to their YT! videos? Thx

Instead of Convolution, couldn't you use NoiseX?

I have a new Origin and am quite disappointed. As I am disabled, when I get a chance to use it time is of the essence and things are not at all conducive for that. 1 Cannot configure many things in the app with the Origin unconnected, when I try to configure it inside with it connected to get ready it for the night it requires an initialization... 2. I tried a nebula filter, the app constantially told me it failed and the dust cover was on, it was not. This is not plug and play, sadly. $4k down the shitter.

You could do all these 1 year ago, just using different tools.

You know nothing. Yet, you complained about the Origin, for 11 minutes. Good Grief, what is your problem?

I’ve had mine for a little over a week and still working out the guide settings. My guiding has been erratic and kinda crappy. Periodic error has been pretty severe so far. I shoot 5 minute exposures and every other image is slightly worse, which I think is from the PE. My chart gave a number of 19+ and I was not thrilled with that.

Agean astro has 16 original am5 for 500 dollars off.

At last!!! A simple Pixinsight walk through that actually works and gives brilliant results - Many Thanks Chad !!!

Excellent review but you miss the mark on who the target market is. While it's an expensive purchase, I don't have the time for a piece-by-piece build of a better scope kit, nor do I have the time to devote to the software side and all the image processing. It's for people like me, who really, really want to capture their own DSO images but need a set-and-forget device. Now, is it better (a full 8x better?) than the small devices that are ~$500? That's arguable and an issue I'm still struggling with.

please where do I download the Combine Images v1.7 script? Thank you

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1 year after this vid and im having issues with the flip 😂. And zwo is still failing with their qc on updates

Would I buy an IMX585 Pro....Yes. Would I buy anything from ZWO.....no absolutely not. Player On Uranus-C - better quality, better performance, better price.

What an incredible workflow. Thanks so much for the tutorial! ❤

Great video thank you very much 😃 this might sound like a stupid question but i am guessing this would replace your dust cover so would enable you to take darks and bias frames also. I did hear you mention dark flats but i have no idea about those at the moment...lol 🤣

That was really quite nice. Wondering if you could apply a mask before adding Orton to protect the areas you don’t want effect applied? Wouldn’t have to un-paint if so. I saw Bill’s comment, definitely want to check out his script. Cheers! Doug

Maybe a stupid question, but do you need to take new flats and darks for every session? If so, why, as long as you use the same setup? Cheers

Dude, you need to kill that smoke, lol

Thanks!

You call this begginers tutorial??? 🙀🤯 I'm at the screen transfer level in PI, haha - bookmarking this for later though

Even if it is not the end of the world that Norton glow (I like it btw) it is always great to have new scripts coming out Thx

You can do this with Image Blend. Put the same image in both layers, screen mode, blur the second image with the blur filter and play with opacity. I will try adding Blur Exterminator. Thanks.

If you want to make your DSO image glow, I can send you a pixel math script I've had for a few years now, but it'll do a lot more and it's drag and drop

Easy? Oh lord, im too stupid for all this

Huge noticeable difference when your process is followed. Do you run this as the very final step before saving the image?

Great tutorial Chad! You have a new subscriber now after your great video on dark nebulae. Recently I also started to present the stars more prominent then before. Good stars make a picture much deeper.

Great start for a channel, greetings from Germany😊 and CS

I was one of the first 30 scopes out there and it is truly an amazing thing. One thing we say is the discord server might be the best thing about it. It’s active all night, people sharing Nina setups, sharing images and the nightly guiding challenge. I’ve learned so much and feel my Astro has stepped up in the month and a half I’ve been out there. I’ve also jumped up the integration time on targets from 3-4 hours into the 15 hours because it’s so available, log into your system, setup your target and let it roll, chill on the discord for a bit and go to bed. You can easily spend 4 nights on a single target and not feel like you are repeating yourself. Highly recommend signing up

$4000 for that? It better mow the lawn,do the dishes,grocery shop for me.

I do all my sharpening whether it be with MLT, BlurX, etc before putting the stars back. Stars r always my very last step because these process seem to affect them in one way or another.

Thanks, Chad. I will give this a try as soon as my sky clears out, whenever that will be. Clear skies

I used to use this method, too, but found BXT affected the stars even if you reduce the influence to 0. This is very likely because BXT simply understands stars as statistics and statistics always have margins of error. You can run BXT without the stars in the image and get great results. It then becomes an AI powered unsharp tool and works great.