What started as a look around on what would be a good flat panel solution for a new telescope, resulted in a much deeper dive than intended and several tests on the various pieces that go into taking Flats. Today I finally finished the last blog in a series of three with the results. The two earlier blogs got quite some response and resulted in a lot of valuable feedback and suggestions. In this last blog, several of those have been addressed as well. I end the blog with some conclusions of what I think will work best in my situation going forward, but of course YMMV. Once again thanks a lot to all those people who have been so helpful in providing feedback and answering questions.
Flat frames part 3: Bias/Flat-darks and conclusions
excellent post Willem. I'm still digesting a lot of it but thanks for putting something out like this with more quantifiable data. Especially looking forward to hearing about the deepskydad results. CS!
Great articles. I read at least one of the threads over on CN.
First few images with my Askar 120APO
As is always the case, since my 120APO was delivered, there has not been much clear sky time, and it's also been full moon too… However, despite the challenges, I have a few very brief 'between the clouds' test images, and to say th...
Author testing telescope equipment; flat panel solution directly relevant to astrophotography workflow.
Hello from Northumberland, UK
Hello, Last year I took the deep dive into astronomy and astrophotography after years of dabbling and have never looked back - it truly is a dedicated hobby bringing so much enjoyment. A few months ago I built my own garden roll-off roof observatory ...
Technical deep-dive on flat frames; relevant to astrophotography processing workflow.
Hi from Oxford
Evening everyone. I am a new astrophotographer - literally only started in the last few weeks. Just finished a session imaging M13 and M57 this evening. I think I got some decent subs and some darks and biases. I'll make some flats tomorrow and s...
Directly relevant to author's next step of creating flats for stacking workflow.