A clear Moonless night tonight and I am imaging the Coma Cluster of galaxies (yes that’s the cluster that Zwicky used to infer the existence of Dark Matter way back in the 1930s).
Hyperstar 4 on a C11 with an ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS camera and 5-minute subs. Looks like some thin high cloud on a few of the subs so I hope I get enough to be able to throw those out.
Need to manually rotate the south dome every half hour and on the last venture into the garden I saw a very nice meteor.
Damned computer decided to reboot itself twice before I started the imaging session which slowed things down a bit and I am watching progress on a monitor indoors with bated breath and praying I don’t get another reboot. If I do get another reboot I will call it a night.
I was very fortunate in that the computer didn’t reboot again so I managed to image until 1 a.m. Got 27 x 5-minute subs out of which 19 were good. So as I need a few more subs to get a pretty noise-free background I intend to spend any more imaging nights this month on the same target.
I gave the computer the once over tomorrow, reset the RAM, and it behaved itself all day. So if I get some more clear skies the Coma Cluster it will be.
