Epox75

Do you know meteoblue? Best website for forecasts and there is a section dedicated to astronomical seeing https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/forecast/seeing/amsterdam_netherlands_2759794

And anyway: here it is, arrived today. That chip is huge compared to my DMK. Unfortunately they sent me the wrong filter wheel and counterweight. Not a big deal since they will replace them, but my plans of setting up Sequence Generator Pro and create the first sets of Bias and Flats has been postponed.

When I got into astrophotography I was also thinking about getting a color camera. I still thank the day I decided otherwise If I were you I will buy an ASI120MM or a camera like my DMK21AU04.as plus a set of filters. ZWO has released a set of multicoated LRGB filters at a reasonable price. You will spend more money (but not so much) and you will get not only more quality but also a know-how about filters and image composition that you won't get with a color camera. And I totally agree with @MaxPeck a crappy telescope on a decent mount performs better than a decent telescope on a crappy mount, yet planetary imaging doesn't require a perfect tracking like deep sky so if a wedge helps to avoid the rotation of the planet and you'll be able to keep the target in the FOV for the required time of recording, you will be just fine.

Sorry to hear that, I hope you can return it. Anyway if I will ever find myself in need of a wedge I would probably download a design and get it done by a carpenter/blacksmith. Prices are just insane for two metal plates and some screws. http://www.skymtn.com/mapug-astronomy/MAPUG/WedgeDesign/Wedge_Design.htm

I ordered an ASI1600MM-Cool, an electronic filter wheel, a focal reducer/flat field, a finder to attach my planetary cam for guidance. Finally, after 4 years of dreaming about it, I will do some serious (hopefully) deep sky imaging. Next dream: build a little observatory in my garden

Keep it covered!

The angular resolution is just an indicative number. A Telescope may have the angular resolution lower than 1 arcsecond but unless you are in places like the Atacama Desert in Chile is almost impossible to reach that resolution because of the atmosphere. What matters in my opinion is the seeing, the optics quality, the camera (monochrome CCD cameras like the DMK21AU04.as that I own and the ASI120mm are in my opinion the best you can find at a relatively low price) , the recording phase and the post processing. I personally don't like registax, which I use only for its RGB alignment function and I use a process which is called deconvolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconvolution through DStation Deconvolution Software. When I process an Image I take into account many things, like the wavelenght of the filters I've used, the focal length, focal length reducers or multipliers, the camera pixel size and the atmospheric distortion at the time of the recording.

O_o I am the one who should grovel and bow for your research on exoplanets

I didn't know about this thread. Good reason to upload some of my pictures on Imgur . Here's some pictures of Jupiter and the Moon I've taken the night between 8 and 9 April, the Jupiter opposition night. Jupiter and Io with no Barlow: With a 2x barlow: With a 2.5x barlow: The Moon, Southwestern Oceanus Procellarum: Crater Tycho area: Crater Copernicus: my setup in action: And last the link to my outdated gallery on Astrobin: http://www.astrobin.com/users/Epox/

Italian and its Roman dialect, English, Spanish and a little bit of French.

A picture of Europa from EJO (Epic Jupiter Orbiter), Amalthea is also in the picture. Credits E.S.A. (Epox Space Agency)

A new transposition, docking and this time i can say it: Extraction!

1) A Venus entry with a lunar rated shield is possible even from an hyperbolic trajectory. I usually set the periapsis above 100km (trajectories mod helps a lot for this) but still a lot depends on your speed and on what your are trying to land. 2) You can do that, you can do a lot of things with Venus atmosphere you can even enter the atmosphere on the dark side and aerobrake until the illuminated side (I think venera 9 and 10 did something similar) 3) Yes, yet you may just need a flat surface to brake you down. Venus atmosphere is very thick. 4) See 1

Some landing footage! Everything went smooth until the parachutes cut. Basically I forgot to apply the cut settings to both parachutes so one did cut at 50 mt as I wanted, the other one did not cut at all. So I found myself with a totally unbalanced probe with engines on at 50mt from the ground. Very luckily the attached parachute and the engines on didn't flip the probe and the touchdown was slow enough.

These are not the most important things I have learned, but with 626 answers to this thread i'll try to give some advice hoping it hasn't been written already. 1) If you plan to launch a solar powered spacecraft in polar orbit, launch at sunrise or sunset. You will enter orbit along the terminator and the Sun will not be covered by the body you are orbiting. 2) If you enter orbit on an atmospheric planet you can stop your engines as soon as you enter orbit and once you reach the apoapsis, you can lower a bit the periapsis in order to reach only the upper part of the atmosphere and use it for aerobraking (see Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). This way you will lower your apoapsis without using fuel. 3) If you are approaching a planet with a moon big enough (Duna, Jool or Kerbin if you are coming back), you may want to flyby this moon with a retrograde inclination (as close as possible to 180 degrees towards the equator). The moon will "steal" some speed from you and lower your orbital speed.. it may even put you into orbit if the gravity of the moon is strong enough and if you flyby it at the right time.

If you use RO and Test Flight mod then it's maybe the engine that reaches its maximum burn time, becomes unreliable and fails. Another possibility is the ullage.

Hello Everyone! Here's my launcher for a Mars Lander, payload 1686 kg

KSP should create a backup folder with the 5 past autosaves.

Peekaboo, I drill you!

Thank you a lot! I will try it immediately Edit: I found Precise Node but it doesn't give me the info about the inclination, I believe you meant Precise Maneuver, that is exactly what I was looking for. Edit2: Nevermind, tried both precise node and maneuver but none gives this info. It looks like this fuction was implemented after 1.2 release while i'm still playing 1.1.3 with RSS RO and RP-0

Hello! The title says it all more or less... i am looking for a way to see at which inclination I will approach a body before entering its SOI. Mechjeb or KER give me this info only after I enter the SOI of a body. This is a bit tedious when it comes to plan missions with gravity assist. I am looking for a tool like TransX for Orbiter here in this video (right side display, I can see all the information about the target body approach). Thanks in advance!

Going Home....

From what it see in the picture, the vessel must stay in orbit for 4 days in order to complete the mission.

If you have already set all the graphic options to low, the only thing to try to boost are the physics. This means that the only way to achieve more fps is to overclock your CPU if it's unlocked. If you aim to save memory I suggest you to try Autopruner, you can delete and undelete parts like fuel tanks, fairings, wings very easily and use procedural parts instead. This mod truly saves a lot of RAM.

KSP is a game that goes along with size of your brain... the bigger the brain is the bigger the game is.