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XRaySpex
SPCC Seestar filter drop down now available
I was just watching a tutorial on the Pixinsight Utube channel about processing NGC7000 (check it out). It announced that there is now a drop down sensor selection for R, G and B filters called Seestar-LP-R in SPCC. Haven't used it yet but nice to know and I'll give it a go the next time I run it.The video also covered using Fast Batch Pre Processing instead of WBPP. Very interesting.
Maic
Review failed for SWAG PD … so i cancel the request for the new Group
We need to comply with this and i accept this. We move on from that project and we continue with SWAG as we did before🫡. Thanks ZWO for the response ! Best !
deshda
Two Objectives Tonight, blahblah, curse you the 30 character minimum title!
I’m back home and have two objectives tonight. Gather more data on the Seestar S50 for the Bubble Nebula and work on obtaining focus on my Apertura Carbon 8 RC, now that i have the “missing connecting ring” and know more! Unfortunately, I have to have 300 characters here. I now have the backfocus on my reducer and the needed 1 mm male to male connector!
JC AstroPR
Tiff or Fit file on the S.W.A.G. share pit?
Hello everyone, on the share pit, did someone use the .Tiff file at all that I drop in? Or better question can I only leave one of the two, Fit or Tiff? Which is the preference I look forward to your feedback.
Syzygi
Suggestion to have a naming standard
Hey everyone! I've been looking through the WAH folder to see if maybe I have data on a Caldwell or Messier that hasn't been uploaded yet, but it's kind of difficult to easily just find stuff in there😅 Would anyone maybe be up for setting a naming standard to make it easier to find stuff? My suggestion is simply put the name of the object, then space dash space and username of the uploader. So for example if I upload Caldwell 14, it would be: Caldwell14 - Syzygi I mean instead of folders with out nicks and then all our stuff dumped in one. What do you think? :) Wishing everyone a great saturday/sunday(/monday?!)!
XRaySpex
Statue of Liberty data dump NGC3576
I've placed the stacked data for this beauty in the MISC file on the drive if you'd like to have a go at editing. Xisf and Fit downloaded. 947 30 and 20 sec subs attached, RGB aligned and drizzled just a 1 x.
DILCHSKY
Animated SWAG ASTRO POLICE DIVISION.
🤗 Send the animated version to maic lets wait until he reveals the video
deshda
Star Aligned and Cropped Bubble Nebula
Dear All, Under the September Challenge in a new directory called: Composit Star Aligned - Deshda I have uploaded star aligned and cropped images, incorporating most of the data on the bubble nebula uploaded to the server to date. The files are in xisf and fit formats. Unfortunately, with the star aligning and cropping I lost track of which image came from who. Feel free to use the data as you see fit!
Sun Tzu
ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 awards ceremony
Zwo Astro Photographer of the Year 2025
Sun Tzu
Seti Astro Suite Pro - New Tool for Astro Processing
Greetings all. A new tool for astrophotography processing has been made available from Seti Astro called Seti Astro Suite Pro. The Pro version includes layer based editing, drag and drop short cuts, drap and drop masks, cloning and duplication and many other new features including those that @XRaySpex mentioned previously that are available in the regular version. The link below provides a brief overview. I think it's amazing that one guy with a full time day job is putting out a product like this...for free. Seti Astro Suite Pro
XRaySpex
SWAG police make arrest - headline
Front page News @StuartTheAlien👽🖖 @Maic and anyone else. I just received a DM from Astro Boy (did he just single me out). I put in a complaint this morning and I'm assuming you did as well after your post Stuart. Anyway I checked his account and it's blank. Looks like he's been wiped 👏. ZWO must have listened? This was a great pick up Stuart and you even went so far as to notify the author of one of the images. Great work Commish 🥳 🎉
XRaySpex
The Caldwell dump - Folder update
I've started dumping a heap of Caldwell files in the folder. They have already been stacked, xisf and fit, whichever you prefer. Grab whatever you need SWAGs.
Maic
I present to you our Astro Police Division of SWAG 🚨
🚨Fake accounts ? Stollen pictures ? Bad behavior ? AI generated pics? Who do you call ? Ghostbust .... ahh wait, sorry, SWAG ASTRO POLICE DIVISION 🚨 With this badge you can reply to any infraction, just put the badge on their profile and they know we are watching ! Be vigilent, SWAGs
DILCHSKY
Just because I feel bad that all of you are doing so much work and dumping the data. This is for you.
Because My Eq doesn't work and I don't want to drop altazimuth data here is something for all of my team members went Maic makes more badges for the remaining members I will put them in the video hope you like it. Go check the drive. 🤗
StuartTheAlien👽🖖
why do people bother.....FAKE ACCOUNT?
Why do people bother , creating accounts and posting others people work , not 1 image is his, And yeah he will never work for nasa. He should learn the phase , would you like fries with that , and would you like to go large for extra 20p
XRaySpex
Feeling nostalgic - digging up the past
I was going through some old boxes and came across some keepsakes from my youth. Yes that was some time ago and I was thinking how things have changed since then. These books were influential on my love of astronomy especially the first addition of the Messier album which I acquired in a decade where disco was king ( not for me) and flared jeans were everywhere. If you ever get a chance to read them make sure you do. Back in those days film was king, Ektachrome 400 was the film to use and they used to treat it in gas to make the film more sensitive. These posters hung on my wall and I gazed at them wondering if I'd ever get to take similar images. They were stunning to me then and still are. Taken with some of the largest telescope on earth at the time how could they ever get better and how would I ever get this chance. In such a short time look how far we have come. Now I'm taking images from a small robotic telescope controlling it with my phone. Developing and editing these images without film, gas and developing fluid and getting results equally as good and sometimes better than those images. I guess my dream has come true. I'm also seeing friends producing amazing images (just look at the latest Orion images from @Maic and @HAL-9000 . No matter how good you are just think about what you are achieving at the moment, what will it be like in 10 or 20 years. I also thought I'd share where I currently get my outlook on life. 😂🤣
deshda
Bubble Nebula - Combined Data up to today
Hi fellow SWAG's. I had hoped to get more data on the bubble nebula tonight from Albuquerque, but the weather isn't going to cooperate. I've uploaded the data that I have thus far to the September Challenge directory. Not able to image tonight, I had fun downloading the data that has been contributed thus far and combing all the data together for a single image.I've attached the image, plus a second version adding star spikes generated with the Seti Astro Suite.Let me know what you think.
DILCHSKY
ARE YOU AWARE OFF THIS Data breach in Zwo?
I was trying to transfer the data of the seestars and I couldn't login so I go to my Keychain and found out that is being a Data breach in ZWO were my password was compromised. Did anyone else have this massage.
Maic
On Drive - > Messier / Caldwell requests - Excel File
Hey SWAGs, i made an excel on Drive to help us keep track of what Caldwell / Messier targets we need each of us, i think it will be cool for us to fill the data there and see what everybody is missing and etc. So please feel free to add yourself in a colomn there and tick the missing targets that you need. If a target is fulfilled by someone please color it and make a not there ON DRIVE. I already did this for @XRaySpex and i see that @JRB48 helped him already with some missing Messiers. If you have any advice how to improve this feel free to discuss. Maic
deshda
First nights data on the Bubble
I think it came out well and creates a good foundation to continue adding data to. Over the next few days, I'll get the fits uploaded. I look forward to trying to combine everyone's different data on the Bubble nebula. This one was from the Seestar in equatorial mode with 30 second subs. I'll be in Albuquerque for the next few nights but hopefully will have an opportunity to add more data.