{"id":466,"date":"2020-11-21T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coochey.net\/?p=466"},"modified":"2021-02-15T08:55:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T08:55:10","slug":"last-outing-with-the-startravel-120t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Last Outing with the StarTravel 120T"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">So we had a brief night of viewing, and as this is likely to be the last time using the StarTravel 120T I thought we would end where we started, with Andromeda.<br>The results are not great, it is a Luminence only capture, with a mono camera, a mosaic of three panes, and you can clearly see the egg-stars caused by the chromatic aberration that the StarTravel exhibits. The StarTravel gets really good results with Narrowband imaging, but not when trying to get true colour. I intend this to be the first target with the Esprit soon, and hopefully we will see quite a difference to compare the two against each other &#8211; you need to be reminded that the Esprit costs probably around 8x more than the StarTravel, and everything I&#8217;ve posted here so far was achieved using the StarTravel.<br>I have not bothered to perform much post-processing on this image, as I feel more compelled to focus efforts on new equipment, and hopefully better results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/coochey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/M31_Lum.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coochey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/M31_Lum.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coochey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/M31_Lum-300x103.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coochey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/M31_Lum-768x263.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coochey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/M31_Lum-624x214.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We can compare that, with my first ever astrophotography photo, although I believe this was LRGB at the time, so avoided the worst of the chromatic aberration by re-focusing for each colour filter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"770\" src=\"https:\/\/coochey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Andromeda-2020-01-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coochey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Andromeda-2020-01-19.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coochey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Andromeda-2020-01-19-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coochey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Andromeda-2020-01-19-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coochey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Andromeda-2020-01-19-624x469.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Created with GIMP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we had a brief night of viewing, and as this is likely to be the last time using the StarTravel 120T I thought we would end where we started, with Andromeda.The results are not great, it is a Luminence only capture, with a mono camera, a mosaic of three panes, and you can clearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[149,27,26,148,118,79],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-andromeda","tag-astronomy","tag-astrophotography","tag-m31","tag-skywatcher","tag-startravel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}