27.02.2022 Imaging

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 Sunday 27th 36F. Hard overnight frost. Second sunny day in a row. Though with a SE wind. Small clouds floating past at times. Too busy to image yesterday.

 

 Had to set-up from scratch after securing the telescopes for the last storm. 

 

 ASCOM [AWR] still cannot find COM3 despite buying a new USB serial adapter. ASCOM don't list the ASCOM[AWR] DRIVER from Tigra-Astronomy. Tim Long of Tigra has now changed his business name to TimTek-Astronomy. 

 

 Not having a functioning ASCOM connection means other software throws up notices. Which I have to repeatedly Ignore. I updated to the latest ASCOM platform without change.

 10.47 [CET] AR2954 & 5. First useful image today. Though with the usual PST sweet spot. Seeing conditions fairly steady. Shows promise in the detail. The usual struggle to be rid of dewing of the optics.

 Later images show heavy grain after processing! Even when I reset ImPPG to default and updated SharpCap. Weird!

 

 12.30 Stopped for lunch. I am wasting my time trying to image!

 

13.51. First image after lunch. That's better!

 

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