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View submission: I’m totally cheating and I know it.
Yeah, I like to process my own, but I understand that point of view. But my limiting factors are currently time and money as well as having something that my boys could do. My 6 year old isn't interested in capturing 300 lights at 30 seconds and then processing in siril,so this way for the next few years they could be actively involved and have pictures that they "took" themselves. Plus, I could build from there and get a dobsonian or something that we could look through in real time. So, for me, it's more of a positive thing in my life rather than trying to be pure astrophotography.
Comment by DrPat1967 at 09/03/2025 at 15:00 UTC
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I like it, it’s easy to set up and use. The only drawback I have found is that it only saves images in fits or tiff format. I like raw images. But I can still download and manipulate the images in Gimp. So it’s only a minor problem.
I’ll still use my refractor and camera set up because I enjoy the challenge. But I think for trips not dedicated to Astro, this would be easy to take along instead of packing all my gear. Like camping at the beach or whatever.
I shot the rosette nebula last night, I’ll process today and upload the images.
I took some solar images yesterday, something I haven’t done before which was fun.
Overall I think I like it for the convenience and the speed. But it won’t replace my 14” DOB and camera