Reddit mentions: The best automotive ac switches & controls

Check out the Work In Progress topic on /r/spaceonly. You can try your hand at processing the filtered images in that topic.

• Total exposure time : 23.5 hours
  
• Red zone for light pollution (this is a narrowband filtered image, so no fucks given)
  
• Orion ED80T CF
  
• Stock focuser replaced with MoonLiteFocuser + High Res Stepper Motor w/ MoonLite Mini V2 Controller
  
• Orion Atlas Pro EQ Mount
  
• STF-8300M CCD - FW5 -20c Temperature
  
• Astrodon 3nm HA - Here is a topic I made comparing the 3nm HA Astrodon filter to a 7nm HA Baader filter
  
• Orion Field Flattener for Short Refractors
  
• TheSkyX Pro with Camera-Addon for image acquisition and automation
  
• PemPro v2 for getting an accurate drift align (drift aligned explained here)
  
• 10 x 15 minute dark exposures at -15c
  
• 11 x 20 min & 24 x 10 min of OIII
  
• 11 x 20 min & 24 x 10 min of SII
  
• 49 x 10 min of HA
  
• 30 SII and OIII Flats for 3 nights each
  
• 50 HA flats
  
• Total 230 flat frames using Spike-aTM Flat Fielder
  
• 50 bias frames
  
• 2 pixel dithering
  
• SBIG ST-i CCD for auto-guiding using OAG-8300
  
• Pixinsight for basic histogram stretch and curves adjustment - They have a Free Trial, use it!
  
• Dew Heater with heater band
  
  
  Processing was basically:
  
  
• PixInsight PixelMath to combine roughly (Red: 85% SII 15% HA) (Green: 85% HA 15% SII) (Blue: 100% OIII) , which gives the colors a bit more pleasing look compared to straight 100% maps
  
• Color calibration and DBE to fix the purple background caused by the 20 minute subs for OIII and SII
  
• Curves Transormation to bring out the colors and more clearly show the different bands. HA is fairly dominanent in the area it shares with OIII, so OIII is bumped up to compensate
  
• The pixelmath formula posted here in order to remove most of the purple stars caused by the OIII and SII subs
  
• Basic ACDNR for a bit of noise reduction
  
• Resampled to 1920 pixels wide because the original size is too large for imgur
  
• Because I messed up on rotating the camera properly one night, I had to patch up the bottom left corner of the sky in order to make up for the missed data
  
• Here is the non-patched up version at 90% size
  
  My thoughts on the image:
  
  Overall I'm very pleased with how it came out. I know I could have done a better job with the processing aspect of the image; however, this is an area I have a lot to learn. In general I'm pleased with it though.
  
  The actual exposure stack came out really, and I got a lot of clean data; which allows me to process this again at a later date once I'm better at Pixinsight.
  
  I learned a lot during this process, so I'm confident my next image will be even better. I've come to find there is a ton of liberty in how people process these narrowband images, causing them to each look different. Please feel free to provide your criticism or feedback :-)
  

I’ve got a sport sedan. I’m considering getting katzkins for mine and definitely YES on the console liners. I bought the red trimmed ones and I love them. They look great in the car and help keep it clean.

I also got this for the steering wheel because I don’t like that giant weird solid black spot and these . They feel nice and look great.

Check out these AC knobs, they match the RCD330's chrome accents quite well! They're cheaper on AliExpress or whatever, I'm sure.

I picked these up a few weeks ago. I like them for the most part. They look really cool at night, but are a bit hard to see which setting you're on during the day.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XXC462M?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf

Dew heater straps. They're basically cloth straps wrapped around nichrome wire. You need the strap and the controller.

Lots of examples on the market those are just the first to pop up on amazon.

Edit: They might be called dew straps/strips/bands ect. but they're all the same thing.

Simple solution and only a couple bucks to fix. Go to the passenger side on the low side line and look for the low pressure switch. Going to look something like this.

Link

Take a paper clip and jumper the plug between the two prongs in the connector. Then turn your trucks ac on and see if the compressor stays running. If it does then replace that little switch. You dont need to recover the system to do it.

The mod is the AC control knobs. $15 on Amazon.

Thor-Inst Pack of 3 Interior A/C Air Conditioning Heat Control Switch Knob Button For Toyota Tacoma & VIOS(2002-2006) Vela Vitz YARI, Replacement for Lost or Damaged Knob (Ungraded Luxury Black) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077QRYD39/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_MwYcBbJC7DRW5