Recent Posts
Hello Joe!When I review my notes, I see that the work was completed while I was using the color Horizon. Horizontal banding caught my eye to the right and left of really luminous stars. One of the power sources, I've heard, had a circuit tweaked to make it more stable. Therefore, the problem is no longer present.
Welcome to the forum. My experience with dedicated astro cameras is limited to SBIG and Atik. I have owned three Atik cameras...the Infinity, Horizon 1 mono and Horizon 1 color. Save for one adjustment that was needed for the Horizon mono and covered by the warranty, the Horizons have performed as advertised night after night. Build quality and consistency have been great.You are correct that Atik service work is handled, to my knowledge, exclusively in the UK but my experience with the warranty work that I mentioned was among the best customer service I've ever had. When my adjustment was completed, it left the UK on a Wednesday afternoon and I had it in my hands in northern Michigan, without any return shipping cost, on the following Friday morning!!! Pretty darn amazing. mario games
As they say...your mileage may vary but I hope this helps a bit with your decision. Let us know what you decide to do!
Cheers!
Craig
The original Horizon OSC and ZWO ASI1600 have identical sensors. My understanding is that Atik Horizon and ZWO simply use a different (x10) graduation for gain, as one is in whole units and another is tenths. Hence, 10 in Atik Speak = 100 ZWO and 30 = 300 etc. I found this very useful when I migrated from Atik Infinity software to Sharpcap because although Infinity was brilliantly simple for beginners given its presets, it lacked many features (but I believe Dusk has since remedied). I followed the gain (divided by ten) and exposure settings that were being used by ASI1600 users when posting images in more active forums.Sensor-wise, both the original Horizon OSC and the ZWO ASI1600 are interchangeable. Since Atik Horizon's gain is measured in whole units and ZWO's is measured in tenths, the two systems presumably use different (x10) graduations for gain. Therefore, in Atik Speak, 10 is equivalent to 100 ZWO, 30 to 300, and so on.
However, I still struggled with finding correct exposure and gain without such comparisons until I discovered the Brain and Smart Histogram functionality in Sharpcap. I hence did a Sharpcap Sensor Analysis on my Horizon and have never looked back. It guides you to the best settings. I don't use Dust or Artemis so can't comment about those, but tools do exist in Sharpcap that can assist. slime rancher 2
Due to bad weather conditions, I couldn't photograph this object even more but in the end something came out and I'm happy with it!The flats are so wrong - exposure of 0.001seconds does nothing. Then you have to see what you use to make the flats, maybe the light is not homogeneous. When I flat with various filters I use homogeneous plexi to put the light in front to decrease intensity or I move the panel farther away from the optical tube .
Apo Tecnosky SLD 152/1216
Atik 414 Ex
Gemini G53F kipas guys
Ha-4,5h
O3-5h
Here is a sample flat mentioned in the previous post. word hurdleThese flats are completely inaccurate; a 0.001 second exposure has no effect. When this occurs, it's time to examine the materials you're working with to create the flats; perhaps the lighting is inconsistent. When flattening with many filters, I either place a homogeneous plexi panel in front of the light source to diffuse it or I move the panel further away from the optical tube.