Melotte 15, fully unattended

Your Shot with Voyager
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Hi,

Finally after months of work I have fully automated my home observatory. Now the only things between high quality data are the weather and windows updates :wink:

I am super happy to achieve this milestone! I just have to create the target and keep track of the progress.

The image is composed of 50hrs of data captured over several nights, with a TOA150 and a Paramount MX+ from my home in northern Mexico.

Let le share the result with you.

Thanks Leo for developing Voyager!

Cheers,

José

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Absolutely great José! Congratulations :clap:

Roberto

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Thanks to you José.

Great image as always.
Leonardo

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Beautiful color and detail. Excellent work!

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Thanks for the kind words! I am super happy with the way my equipment is working.

The stars of the image turned out harshed (deconvocultion?), I have tried to fix them but they always ended up worse, more thing to learn :slight_smile:

Stay safe,

José

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Magnificent!!!
incredible details and colors. Great job

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Tons of details. Superb!

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Just fantastic!

Miguel

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Amazing image. Well done Jose!

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A lovely image.

If windows updates in Windows 10 are giving you reboots at unwelcome times, you can change the “Active hours” when windows does not do automatic restarts, I have my imaging machines set with active hours of approximately 6PM to 9AM so they do not reboot during a run.

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Thanks for the tip. The main problem with my observatory PC is that not always get back online after the updates. It is a very old system 2GB atom laptop and usually I have to manually reboot several times after a major windows update. Very annoying that you cannot disable once and for all the autoupdates.

Cheers,

José

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There are ways to fully disable Windows updates: https://www.easeus.com/todo-backup-resource/how-to-stop-windows-10-from-automatically-update.html

Blue’s solution is what I do also as I’d like to keep my computer updated (I don’t have one in the observatory but connect through Alpaca and using an Icron LAN extender). I also have an IP switch so that I can reboot anything that is unresponsive.

Roberto

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Beautifully done Jose


Jon

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That’s just lovely! My goal is eventual full automation. Just have to convince the hubby that what we really need is an observatory at our house