60cm Venor dobsonian telescope
We were wondering through youtube this morning and came across some nice videos of an Australian astronomer Dylan O’Donnell.
This one was particularly nice:
We use some of the software he mentions are are almost in complete agreement with his 20 tips.
In summary the 20 tips are:
1) Get a Big F(*&^@#$ Telescope
2) Use barlows/Powermates
3) Wait for Opposition
4) Get High
5) Seeing
6) Firecapture and Autoalign
7) Get Lucky
8) Region of Interest
9) Use a monochrome camera
10) Autorun RGB sequences
11) Good initial levels
12) collimation
13) Focus on a star
14) Drizzle with autostakkert!2
15) Lucky Lucky Imaging
16) Luminance
17) Auto colour balance
18) topaz denoise
19) sharpening
20) advanced: derotation