I captured the HEART NEBULA from Tokyo - IN A SINGLE NIGHT!

[@vedranb8706]

For anyone interested, in the NINA framing assistant there is a button shown here called "Determine rotation from camera". This will make a short exposure and determine exactly the rotation of your camera and update the view accordingly.

[@realmcerono]

And set the rotator to manual and you will get a window which tells you to rotate your camera how much in what direction, its brilliant!

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

That's awesome indeed :)

[@jerryg7157]

I have to say it is GREAT to see you regularly again! Thank you for your time and brilliant videos. For me you have made astrophotography an enjoyable hobby and i wish you all the very best!

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Glad it's been so helpful :)

[@matthewjhicks]

Thanks

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Thank you for the support Matthew!

[@matthewjhicks]

@@CuivTheLazyGeek I always learn so much from your videos, thank you!

[@shinyparts]

Always love your videos! Can't wait until its clear skies here to get out imaging!

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Hope you get those clear skies soon!

[@theambient1]

Soooo happy you are back!!! another amazing video!

[@marvinwhisman3333]

Great to have you back Cuiv. I really have missed your videos.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

More to come! :)

[@Tony-Elliott]

Another great video Cuiv thanks for sharing your work mate

[@Sidecontrol1234]

Looks good, glad to see you back!

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Thank you!

[@rickbohart6788]

Thanks for a great vidio Cuiv, very glad to see you back

[@szilardm8482]

Hi Cuiv, thanks for the amazing video and I couldn't agree with you more, NINA is absolutely mind-blowing! It makes me smile every time I just assign a new target to my sequence template, this software is pure joy to use! I learned so much from you and your channel, but learning about NINA from you definitely made this hobby even more enjoyable. Even with very modest (or slightly inappropriate 😅) equipment it works like a charm and I am getting very good results 🙂

[@dumpydalekobservatory]

Outstanding image of the Heart nebula I've tried for this a couple of times this year & they are no match to what you've produced, great to see you back & look forward to watching more, clear skies!!

[@larrydrum1842]

Another good one Cuiv. Glad you went through NINA... showed me a couple instructions I need to start using. Thanks

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Glad it helped!

[@CoolCoinsandCollectibles]

Cuiv YOU ARE the Lazy Geek! Love you!!

[@jeffhorn7072]

Great to see you back at it Cuiv!

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Thanks Jeff!

[@larryhibbitts2099]

Cuiv, that's fantastic! Thanks for the NINA tutorial - I've been really curious about it, so this was great!

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Glad it's useful!

[@theastrostream]

Thank you Cuiv, your videos have reignited my excitement and energy for the hobby. I am working on processing the heart nebula myself (with poor results in photoshop) and I cannot wait to try the methods shown in california nebula video with a trial version of PixInsight. My only hope is that my image will come close to this one. Thank you as well to everyone involved in creating the scripts and software like NINA that allow us to perform work like this. We stand on the shoulders of giants.

[@robertvanvugt3371]

One night, one target is me too! Keeps it fun! Especially in locations where the weather just does not cooperate. I prefer this approach over having to wait weeks to shoot the next filter with NB and stretch a project into weeks! But that's just me! Came out great! I would be happy with that result!

[@lukomatico]

Great work Cuiv! as always mate :-)

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Thanks Luke!

[@alexandrefilion4480]

Great work as always! Every time I watch your videos, I learn something new.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Glad to hear it! thanks!

[@gnashermedia]

Holly Crap...Cuiv.... That's fantatstic!!!! Thanks for taking us with you in your process. That's sooooooo coool. Can't wait for clear skies finally here at my location.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Hope you get those clear skies soon :D

[@ricklaird2218]

Great video Cuiv. Thanks. Where is the instruction for "Disconnect Equipment" is it an installed package? Thanks

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Sorry it's in one of the plugins (I think it's called Connector or something like that)

[@ricklaird2218]

@@CuivTheLazyGeek Awesome thanks, Super helpful. I am really grateful to watch more of your content.

[@kamilkp]

I already knew how you do stuff and my workflow is very similar but I watched and enjoyed watching this video anyway 😊 - can you share a link to that video about weights vs. stars for preprocessing in Pix?

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

I should do another videos, the WBPP script has gotten much better

[@OptiquevideoFPV]

Glad to see you again cuiv !! Actually started using Nina from discovering it on your channel and it's real good ! Keep up the work 🤘

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Glad my videos helped!

[@EMAINC3]

Great to see you back! I like your comment at 9:30 about Disconnecting the Camera. Is this a Plugin command? Can't seem to find it in the standard NINA Utility commands (V. 2.0 HF3). Thanks Cuiv - appreciate all your work to put these out again. NINA is great!

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

You're right! I forgot about that, the plugin is Connector!

[@jonkjon]

Good to see you back at it Cuiv. Wonderful image and thanks for sharing. How are you guiding your C6 with the Hyperstar?

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Using an old QHY5L-II with QHY miniGuideScope

[@deep_space_dave]

Excellent video and image of the Heart Nebula! Now I kind of want to image it again myself 😀

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Go for it!

[@alexwignall7314]

Amazing work & thank you for sharing! I’ve not imaged for years and the heart was my first serious image attempt, and it took me a LOT more effort back then. Just got mini PC and I will be installing NINA.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Good luck! Make sure to do as much of the tests during day time, and take advantage of the full moon for the rest :)

[@Spaced_Out_Bill]

I love your one nighter videos! I usually have a single night at a time to image and only have OSC cameras so this is fantastic. I'm still a little afraid of the Advanced Sequencer but I'll get there. NINA is super awesome, I couldn't imagine doing Astrophotography without it. Thanks for another great video.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Just play with the advanced sequencer during the day and during the full moon. In a couple of hours you'll have your favorite template, and it will just work (tm)

[@basfinnis]

What a lovely image. And in the city as well. Great stuff 👍

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Many thanks!

[@uschi414]

Another great video! You really should start a ONOT (one night one target) series!

[@cjuk81]

Another good video Cuiv :)

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Thanks Chris!

[@cjuk81]

@@CuivTheLazyGeek im so tempted to look at doing the hyperstar now, i did consider it last year but put it off for lack of funds! i currently use a either a dslr or the asi224 when doing planetry, and i have the celestron reducer too along with the focus motor, but the hyperstar is tempting!! Id also need to upgrade the camera too though from the 224, so would see need to see what my options are on that!

[@davidjennings2733]

Hello Cuiv, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this information with us. Excellent shot of the Heart Nebula. Take care and please keep sharing the great wealth of information and your dedication to Astrophotography.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Thank you! Glad it's helpful!

[@markhelton8032]

Hi there, Love your videos, and have learned a lot from you. I am currently switching from my Celestron AVX, to a recently purchased used Iopton CEM40 EC mount. I have never used a mount via my computer that did not come with it's own computer program, as did the Celestron...I do not like that software, but I was able to do all of my aligning with it. So, that being said, I have switched to using NINA to run my new mount. From what I understand, and please tell me if I am wrong, as long as I am polar aligned, and I do have the Ipolar on the new mount, NINA should be able to find targets based on the GPS info that the mount is providing the NINA program...is this correct? I am so use to doing an alignment procedure that I am not sure if what I understand about NINA is correct. Do I have to plate solve when I get to an area of the sky?? SO much to learn. I have been watching yours, and Patriot Astros videos on NINA, but it is so deep it is hard to know where to start. The fact that I can get everything to talk to NINA, was a win!! Wish I could talk to you offline as I know that this is a long note! Thanks again for your very helpful videos!! Mark

[@fenice319]

Hey Cuiv, thanks for showing the full process of starting up the imaging, it's not something that everyone shows. I wanted to ask you a thing, is the hyperstar as bad to collimate as everyone says? I guess that if you keep the setup outside it won't be as susceptible as if you took it off every time

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

For me using Hyperstar's default technique of using plastic shims to achieve initial collimation worked great. On many SCTs though the corrector is not quite perfectly centered, so the best thing to do is to center the corrector prior to using Hyperstar (tons of tutorials on that, although I don't think the C6 can be adjusted in that respect - my C6 is just good optical quality from the get go).

[@Maxastro59]

Great clip and compliments for the beautiful image. I have a question regarding the first PHD warning "timed-out waiting for guider to settle". It is not related , in my case, to clouds or other PHD guiding issues; I have this warning ever but PHD and NINA continue to work well during the session. I read thsi is a PHD setting issue into NINA and I tried some settings but without success. Any suggestions? Thanks

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Means that after dither PHD2 isn't able to stabilize the star within a certain threshold in pixels/arcsecs (user-defined) within a specific time limit (also user defined). Both settings can be changed in NINA (Guider connection tab)

[@aradani3]

This is AMAZING! Up until now all my imaging has been done with a mirrorless camera, that cannot be connected to anything (that's a shame Canon EOS-M3) And now I'm trying to work with Astroberry and a dedicated camera (which is a PlayerOne Saturn-C, so no ASIAIR for you!) So I think I'm going to move to NINA! Just need to get one of those mini PCs + somehow get my home wifi accessible from the rooftop of my building (3 floors upstairs) Ah and a focuser?

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Good luck with everything!

[@jfn480427]

I hope that when you are able to overpass the laziness to make a detailed video is absolutely amazing!

[@grahamwhite75a]

Amazing how much astro photography software has developed from whe you were last active on KZbin. Love Start Exterminator and Hocus Focus.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Yes indeed!

[@delphys75]

Hello Cuiv! 😉 Merci d'avoir partagé avec nous ta mise en route de NINA. Je suis quelque peu allergique à ce logiciel, mais j'essaie de me soigner. Comme tu le montres, ça a l'air facile, mais j'imagine qu'il y a un paquet de réglages préparatoires à faire avant (chez moi, C9 hyperstar sur CEM70, sur colonne, moteur de focus Celestron, déjà faudrait que j'arrive à lui faire faire la mise au point : pour l'instant, je passe par SharpCap, qui fonctionne tout seul)... Bref, ça m'encourage à avancer sur le sujet, car ça donne envie (sous mon ciel parisien, un poil moins pire que le tien).

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Il faut vraiment conquerir cette allergie! La pleine lune approche, profite de ca pour faire tous les reglages. J'ai le meme moteur de focus et ca fonctionne tout seul. Essaye le module Hocus Focus!

[@jonkjon]

Pulled the trigger on the Hyperstar and hoping I get lucky with my L-Extreme....Also picked up the C6 for my EQ6-r Pro. I have seen some others who have had good luck with 7-8nm bandpass filters with mono cameras so I also grabbed a 2" to 36mm unmounted adapter for the filter drawer/slider. My L-Extreme is currently on my ASI533MC Pro and my mono camera is the QHY163M. Keeping my fingers crossed!

[@ati3x]

I also switch to NINA, not so long time ago... And i still use only basic sequencer. But NINA works amazing! Great plugins, ande features. I really like 3 star polar aligment, 3-5 minutes and i can get around arcsec accurancy for polar aligment, without any extra assecories, only the telescope and camera. And also "determine rotation from camera" also a very great feature! The automatic meridian flip also working well.. So I can say NINA is a very great tool!

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Absolutely agree!

[@BPPDan]

I just did IC 1805 last week myself. USB for my 533 snagged on the mount after slew to zenith for flats. Thankfully I think just the cord is screwed. The camera seems to be OK. Waiting for clear skies o7

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Augh, I hope switching the USB cable will be fine, and that clear skies will come soon!

[@Fast_Astrophotography]

Curious why you went for just the C6/HyperStar setup. FWIW, the only setup I have is the EdgeHD 11 + HyperStar.

[@davidserquera3331]

Hello. Nice video. I would like to know if you have encountered problems with the time of your mele mini PC and your mount time. This results in not syncing accurately the mount.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Not for now - but on my CEM60 I do the meridian flip 10 minutes past meridian to be sure!

[@davidserquera3331]

@@CuivTheLazyGeek thanks. I think my mele pc does not comes with the right UT in the bios and causing all the troubles with Nina, Cartes du ciel, Avalon StarGo2Pro. In remote it is no easy to change the bios time…

[@davidserquera3331]

@@CuivTheLazyGeek does N.I.N.A get the windows time as UT from Bios?

[@spodzone]

Another great result. Funny you should mention GreenSwamp. I wasted an hour with hassles over EQmod last night - for no obvious reason it started thinking targets in the NE and NW were both somehow sub-horizon in the SW - swapped to GS for the first time (helps if you remember to tweak PHD2 as well) and suddenly everything started working and I got a tonne of data on a couple of targets. I’ll have to investigate it further :)

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Glad GSS rescued you!

[@chrisjames5223]

Loving the RisingCam shots! Great video as always. Do you ever adjust the offset? Or just run HGC 100 and default offset

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Nah offset is a value that has very little ROI on optimizing. Ideally you'd get it as low as possible, but the dynamic range you lose by having it too high is insignificant. So I leave it at default offset + gain 100!

[@N4GW]

Great video. We both do all the same things. I even have the RisingCam IMX571

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Excellent :) It's a really good camera!

[@michaelonair7782]

Did he really just did that? "One night with NINA" and then 2:25 😂

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Well no better place to be amirite? :D

[@michaelonair7782]

xD

[@travelthetropics6190]

This is awesome for Bortle 8-9 skies!

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Thank you!

[@samfurnos5852]

Woow!! Nice!! thanks for the informative video...

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Most welcome 😊

[@LogansAstro]

Superb result from a single nights imaging. Those scripts of Bill's are magic. I have the same issue with my CEM60 where it was not slew in either RA or Dec at the beginning unless I restarted it and then it works fine. Odd. No such issue with the CEM120 though.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Glad to know it's not just me on the CEM60. Not a big deal of course, but a bit annoying

[@ysl109812]

Hi Cuiv, welcome back. You may want to check out Bill Blanshan's recent video (back in September I think) on how to add stars back. According to him, Star XTerminator's unscreen star option still changes the color and luminacity of the stars. He has a new tool that works extremely well and is very easy to use. He went into details on how the pixel math script works that is all Greek to me but you may find them interesting.

[@realmcerono]

I think this is more relevant to real mono SHO images but not so much to OSC HOO images. If you extract the stars before you go into HOO processing the star colors are fine.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Thanks for the tip! Star colors in narrowband images is one of the things I don't agonize over, but I'll have a look!

[@ricklaird2218]

Cuiv, I have the 533MC-Pro and L-Extreme. I am wondering if you ever use an IRCut filter, in addition, to be a LUM filter when shooting nebula? I have been doing this but I am thinking of stopping because it makes for a longer workflow and does not seem to add a lot to the result.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

The Lum filter is a UV/IR cut filter, so it should be fine on its own!

[@ricklaird2218]

@@CuivTheLazyGeek just curious, do you shoot both a l-extreme and a ircut filter when capturing a nebula on an OSC? Or do you usually only use the l-extreme like you did in this video? Thank you for your help and time.

[@AstroDragon33]

Great video! Do you have a link to a video on how to make the Hubble pallet style images on a OSC camera with L-Extreme? All my images are blue and magenta. Period and it's getting boring. I have the same set-up (C8 Hyperstar w/L-Extreme).

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Bill Blanshan's script in my previous video!

[@starwatcher]

Some of the instructions or plug ins are not available to me. Such as disconnect equipment or send to pushover (edit-it's in Ground Station and connector plug in). Can anyone advise me on how to access these? Love all you videos. Thanks for the help.

[@josephluciani5531]

Bortle 7-8 sky here outside of Manhattan. Thank you for sharing the optimism. Maybe one day LP will be a thing of the past (my lips to god’s ears, huH?)

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

If we all run out of power in the winter we could get some pretty night skies ;)

[@dbakker7219]

Hi Cuiv, great showcase of imaging with NINA. One question though, why a Hyperstar f 1,9 and an L-Extreme, I guess your Hyperstar will be actually more like a F6 due to spectral shift. I guess Idas NBZ would be a better option for this scope? I use a dual rasa8 with NBZ and now switched to mono with the latest SHO UHS filterset from IDAS. Not tested yet though...cloud over the netherlands for weeks unfortunately.

[@realmcerono]

Cuiv did measure his Lextreme and he got lucky, its perfect for his fast hyperstar.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

As McErono said, my L-eXtreme is one of those rare samples that's perfect for hyperstar (e.g. the bands are effectively preshifted to the red)

[@astrocapetown4955]

You are right. NINA is incredibly. Took me a while to transition, but all three rigs are now controlled by this amazing software 😀

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Yes indeed :)

[@Thunder_Dome45]

That looks great. I wonder if your NINA framing wizard will let you click add target to sequence and clicking send to simple sequencer, will it open the simple sequence? Mine used to but suddenly recently it won't open the simple sequencer. The advanced one is way more complicated than I need. Now it just says it's added. But it never is. So I try to add it again and it asks me if I want to replace sequence, because it's already written. But it's not anywhere on my hard drive and it doesn't open the Simple Sequencer either. I'm curious if it's just me and my 2 computers or if it's a bug. I asked in the NINA facebook group and of coarse it can't be a mistake on their part.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

I'll try later, but best would be to ask on the NINA Discord!

[@bobschock]

Cuiv is on fire!

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Aaaaah it buuuuuurns

[@stephanebiggs2918]

Hey Cuiv, your mouse is a dot when screen sharing. When you start Chrome Remote Desktop, there is a box that says that says you are screen sharing. Click on this box and drag it somewhere. Then your mouse glitch is fixed. Thank me later :) Awesome video by the way, and glad to see you enjoying astro again.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Good tip! Thank you!

[@ferenc-x7p]

I laughed out loud regarding the ASI533 and whether it's gain 100 or 101. On facebook, on cloudy nights, everywhere. 😂😂

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Mwahahaha it's all totally intentional and according to plan :-)

[@ferenc-x7p]

I've seen people go into arguments about it, with hard math and illustrations, trying to prove one group using 100 vs the other doing 101 who is right or wrong. 🤣🤣

[@viniguez487]

I am curious. Why not upgrade to the ASIAIR Pro? It's the ultimate in lazy setups. Great pictures btw!

[@viniguez487]

Nvm, watched a bit longer and found your rationale. Lol.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Besides not having ZWO cameras to be honest compared to PC-based setup with NINA, the ASIAIR is a bit of a downgrade, as I'd lose quite a bit of functionality (from auto-sync of files to my network to more advanced debugging in case of issues, etc.). It's a great device, but not as powerful (or lazy) as a properly set up NINA :)

[@Klyress]

I have similar gear and condition to yours but never get similar quality, you must be loved by the goddess of astrophotography. BTW, would you mind sharing the typical setting of the camera? Like the exposure time for this target, the gain, and the offset?

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Typically 300s (L-eXtreme), Gain 100, offset 50 (e.g. default camera settings)

[@Lumber91]

Will you be making a video on the new Radian Telescope?

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Didn't know there was a new Radian telescope :-) probably not, unless someone sends it to me ;)

[@dexterisabo3137]

New to astrophotography so this may be a dumb question but are hydrogen and oxygen the only gases found or can be imaged from a nebula? Are helium, nitrogen or other gases just not visible? Is it that they just don't glow when a nearby star shines on them? I mean I would think and I'm probably wrong, but I would think that there would be more helium around after a star exploded than hydrogen. I mean isn't fusing the bulk of it's hydrogen into helium and other elements why the star exploded in the first place? Again, I'm very new to this hobby and though it's very cool that one can separate the hyrodogen and oxygen in a nebula I thought it would be way cooler if one could see ALL the gases.

[@JVRost]

Сuiv, please tell me, I noticed that you have an offset value of 50 for this camera, this is the default, because on the forum who is in the woods, who is for firewood, from 50 to 300, or simply does not cycle on that and calculate for yourself during processing optimal value? Between this video and the previous one, I ordered myself such a camera)) So Tauptek owes you money))

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Offset is a value that has very little ROI on optimizing. Ideally you'd get it as low as possible (but too low has a really bad impact), but the dynamic range you lose by having it too high is insignificant. So I leave it at default offset + gain 100! Hope you enjoy the camera, I wish I got kickbacks :p

[@JVRost]

@@CuivTheLazyGeek Thanks for the clarification, kickbacks are a holy thing)) They already owe me too, two comrades followed me, and multi-level consumer networks are being built.

[@JVRost]

@@CuivTheLazyGeekThanks for the clarification, kickbacks are a holy thing)) They already owe me too, two comrades followed me, and multi-level consumer networks are being built.

[@padraigfarrell7150]

Great video Cuiv Can hyperstar for the c6 use a 1.25 filter, and is the filter drawer worth it. I have a c6 and a 1.25 L extreme. (Anyone with this setup please chime in )

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

You'll want to ask Starizona about this - if you have a 533 or other small sensor camera, it might work with the correct filter adapter.

[@padraigfarrell7150]

@@CuivTheLazyGeek Will do, thanks for replying.

[@cucubits]

Is Chrome Remote Desktop the best option for this type of setup? I've started with UltraVNC but it's not ideal. It is very slow to refresh the screen and strangely it only does it faster while I'm moving the mouse...

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

It's my preferred option - I had TeamViewer before, which worked better, but they suspected commercial use so I wasn't able to use it anymore...

[@cucubits]

@@CuivTheLazyGeek funny, that's exactly why I had to stop using TV. I only used it for my computers and to help my mom... I tried Chrome Desktop now and it seems to work great. Thanks again for the tip and for including these details in your videos.

[@Phillyo118]

Hi Cuiv, have you had any issues with your risingcam producing random images throughout the night that have horrible lines on them?

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Mmmh no, does that happen to you? If it does you could try reaching out to the shop?

[@Phillyo118]

@@CuivTheLazyGeek yeah I lost 6 frames from 115 the other night with just random lines. I'll speak to Eddy at risingcam. Thank you.

[@MaciejWiniarczyk]

Clean my sensor - guiding camera says :).

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Too lazy - cuiv replies lazily. Plus you're pretty as you are. *pats guiding cam*

[@MaciejWiniarczyk]

@@CuivTheLazyGeek Ha, ha, I am no better, that's how I know what dusty sensor looks like 😂

[@andyrawlins]

Just wow! This would have been science fiction not that long ago.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Right?! It's all amazing!

[@ctyragdoll]

The "good old days of astrophotography"... Just 30 years ago I was manually guiding with an illuminated reticle and using a Nikon F (film) to capture. That's like a cave man using a fire to cook a mastodon compared to a microwave oven and cup noodles. Astronomy has made some huge advances, especially for the amateur, in the last two decades.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

I'm glad I didn't start during that era! At the time PHD1 had been released

[@ctyragdoll]

@@CuivTheLazyGeek I twas just as fun then as it still is now. I'm sure the younger generations will be seeing some great technical advances as well.

[@Oxizee]

NINA is awesome!!! And Cuiv also...

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

why thank you :)

[@tedr35]

Thank you for your work on N.I.N.A.. Yours are the shoulders I stand on to get even a passable set of data. Again, thank you.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Glad my videos have been helpful :)

[@washy934]

Astrophotography has come a long way since the good old days of 2018....

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

We were all so young and naive back then :D

[@AllRedLFC]

Gain 101 on my 533 and I call it Cuiv special!! 😂😂😂

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Mwahaha now that's a good name for it!

[@jfn480427]

Wooooow!!

[@xee1429]

Oddly enough your Nina Autofocus works better with my setup…. Kudos

[@TheMje1963]

Please explain to me why everyone seems to thing taking Flats is such a pain in the A. I myself take a set after every session of imaging and I don't think it's a pain. Its actually very easy and I think it's necessary.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Because it's a pain in the A! At least for me. It takes time when I'm already tired, I need to manipulate the scope, get my flat panel out, etc. Sure it's not difficult, but it still requires some time and effort. If it isn't a pain for you, then great! Definitely not necessary after every session in my experience, as long as the setup hasn't been moved!

[@hoshizoraclub_]

こんにちは。私も街灯に悩みながらも自宅で系外銀河撮影(超新星捜索)を試みています。 お互いに撮影する対象は違いますが街灯の洪水を掻い潜りながら目的を果たしましょう。

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

超新星捜索は非常に難しそうですね。たまに街灯の洪水から脱出し、呼吸したいです！頑張りましょう！

[@alneid2707]

Haha Cuiv, I expected you to be bouncing with excitement, and yet you seemed rather blase (pardon lack of accent). I always hated trying to get a nice looking Hubble palette manually. Bill's script removed much pain from my processing flow. I also need to give in and learn the advanced sequencer.

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Just at a loss for words ;)

[@Awsimilate]

I had a night with Nina once too !

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Mwahahaha a torrid night I assume!

[@Awsimilate]

@@CuivTheLazyGeek indeed :)

[@BrokenPik]

Good job, i just happen to be working on IC1805 this week. kool. trying to get 30 hours over 7 days . lol (L-Xtreme)

[@CuivTheLazyGeek]

Mwahaha that will be a LOT of data :)

[@BrokenPik]

@@CuivTheLazyGeek i will send you a kinda finished effort.. lol