From: Ray Byrne <ray@in4media.co.uk>

Date: September 29, 2011 4:25:38 AM MDT

To: astro_iidc@yahoogroups.com

Subject: The good, the bad and the ugly

Hi Guys,

I have had my PGR Chameleon for a couple of weeks now and I'm really pleased with the promising results I'm getting. Both times I've used it it was in poor seeing (a rising moon and a setting sun) the Solar images I took yesterday are obviously the best I've ever taken I'll post a processed image when I get around to processing probably at the weekend In the meantime I'll be out at a more favourable time to take more images of the sunspot group 1305 and have a go at Ha as well.

I've been doing imaging of Jupiter over the past few nights and had rather disappointing results due to poor seeing. I'm not sure if the poor seeing is local to me (I image out of an observatory dome) or my location in the UK I'm in the West. A guy I know has been getting great results but he lives on the South coast (near Patrick Moore) and is further east and claims his seeing is very good?!?

To make matters worse last night I was getting messages from AstroIIDC saying that it can't stack and align most of the movies I'd taken? I'm using a new set-up called EQMOD with my EQ6 mount where Im running Windows under Parallels on my Macbook to control the mount. I wonder whether this is causing the problem with the movies? I've tried processing after the event i.e. when I'm not running Parallels and Windows but I get the same problem. This is with my DMK21AF04 camera and an older version of AstroIIDC BTW... any ideas on this? It would be a bummer if I can't operate both systems at the same time.

I look forward to any comments and advice.

ATB

Ray Byrne