M20 Seestar

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Hi all,
The Bortle 2, clear skies of Clayton Bay serve it up again!
Captured this Triffid Nebula image over 2 nights (Fri 6th/Sat 7th Sep) on a weekend away in the caravan with friends.

Stock Seestar S50, 1078 x 10s exposures, LP filter on
Processed from go to woe in Pixinsight.

Big version...
https://astrob.in/e0v61w/0/

For those interested, Clayton Bay is part of Alexandrina Council's Smart Lighting scheme to help preserve those wonderful dark skies.
https://mysay.alexandrina.sa.gov.au/clayton-bay-dark-skies


Cheers
Doug

[sharkbite]

Hi Doug - thats an absolute cracker!

Well Done!

[Nikolas (Nik)]

this is where the seestar shines, in really dark skies and bright targets, nice work!

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by sharkbite

Hi Doug - thats an absolute cracker!

Well Done!

Thanks

Originally Posted by Nikolas

this is where the seestar shines, in really dark skies and bright targets, nice work!

Truth, difference from Bortle 4 (home) to 2 is marked on the brighter DSO 'greatest hits' - I'd love to set up the big rig for an astro holiday!
Might have to look at travel kit



Doug

[leon]

That sure is a beauty Doug, I really must get one of those things, well done mate.

Leon

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by leon

That sure is a beauty Doug, I really must get one of those things, well done mate.

Leon

Cheers Leon
Just been reading on the Seestar FB forums that beta testers seem to be having great results with an upcoming Mosaic mode upgrade.
That’ll certainly expand the usability of the little fella!!

[foc (Ross)]

Hard to convince a friend to buy an equatorial mount and an ASIAIR/other when you produce such an image with your Seestar!

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by foc

Hard to convince a friend to buy an equatorial mount and an ASIAIR/other when you produce such an image with your Seestar!

Thankyou Ross - the clear Bortle 2 skies helped with this image a lot!
Skies like those make me want to lug my EQ mount and the rest down there to image

[gaseous (Patrick)]

Great shot Doug! I too am looking forward to the mosaic mode rollout for the SeeStar.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by gaseous

Great shot Doug! I too am looking forward to the mosaic mode rollout for the SeeStar.

Cheers Patrick - yes, framing and cropping out field rotation effects has been frustrating sometimes with the Seestar - hope Mosaic mode helps with that (and retains the device's amazing simplicity) 🙏🏼

[gaseous (Patrick)]

Originally Posted by dugnsuz

Cheers Patrick - yes, framing and cropping out field rotation effects has been frustrating sometimes with the Seestar - hope Mosaic mode helps with that (and retains the device's amazing simplicity) 🙏🏼

They have a couple of mosaic scripts which are quite good at letting you crop out the rubbish and maximise your available frames, but being able to plan your mosaic will be great.