no longer have the epsilon

i had to sell it to buy the dream machine

the epsilons are still in production but the DMs are not and neither are the
sensors in them.


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This guy is like M42, you really need two exposure times, one for the
nucleus and one for the rest then blend them together, my skills aren't
there yet. The flattening of the ABG gate cuts in at about 25,000 ADU but
you can live with it to about 40k or so. After that it squashes too much.
I can adjust that and likely should. I just haven't done so. You have to
take out the power supply to get to the adjustment. Even though I've
worked with digital circuits for years I hate even simple surgery on
something this expensive. I'm not as steady as I used to be! Anyway the
core was in that squashed range making it difficult for me to process with
my limited skills. I learn each image but seem to forget as much as I
learn.

Longer subs with this size field of view is to satellites what a trailer
park is to tornado's. Even at 10 minutes I had one on nearly every frame
at that high declination. Lower down I average 2 per frame. If two cross
on separate frames, even with sigma reject, I get a diamond shaped star.
Sometimes they have intense color and are easy to spot. Until my
processing skills improve (I've only had PS CS since Christmas so learning
and forgetting at a high rate right now) I'm limited in what I tackle
successfully.

The other night one frame had a super bright satellite that left a braided
twisting trail that looked a lot like Saturn's F-ring. I need to see if
it was bright enough for Heaven's Above to have it listed. Never seen a
wide trail with a single pixel trail running parallel with it before.

I'd think the wide field of your Epsilon would be a spider web of trails
to deal with.

Rick



Richard Crisp wrote:
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Actually it was sort of a pun as it is a drunken looking galaxy but it
did get sloshed about most of the arms are on one side of the nucleus for
now. Come back in a quite a few tens of millions of years and it should
be on the other side. From the literature I was reading it really is
sloshing back and forth as it orbits M101.

I doubt much more time would help much unless I went to your extremes. I
already have 60 minutes in with 18 micron pixels. This is one faint guy.
Though the nucleus is very bright. Any longer subs and it would have
saturated too much to get any detail there. It was burned in using


What sort of ADU counts did you measure in the core region in a
subexposure after exposure but before processing?
It looks to my eye that you could go a lot longer on subs without
saturating the core but you do have some brightish stars that may
saturate but they are comfortably away from the main galaxy so even if
they get ugly they will not damage anything.





the ST-7 on my 6" f/4 scope. Sorry, I still think in film terms.

Rick


Richard Crisp wrote:


here I was expecting to see a drunken galaxy.... that's what I think of
when I hear "sloshed".

but this is another that is distorted due to gravitational interaction:
how interesting.

looks like this one could have used a bit more exposure time.

but it's way better than anything I've been able to do lately


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A few hints of spiral arms on the "missing" side can be seen in the
photo. This one is "sloshed" by interaction with M101

14 LX200R @ f/10, L=6x10' RGB=2x10' all binned 2x2, STL-11000XM,
Paramount ME

Rick
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