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It certainly is! My best view to date of Jupiter was achieved one night at Kelling, a few years ago. We had decided the Skymax 180 would be FLO’s ‘planet killer’ but we had arrived late so we’re still unpacking when Jupiter appeared between rain showers. The Mak’ hadn’t had long enough to cool so we quickly setup our old and battered Sky-Watcher 100ED doublet. The view was astounding but it was more a result of unusually good (even for Kelling) seeing conditions than telescope optics. Unfortunately when the Mak was ready to go seeing had deteriorated. Steve -
A lot of air movement tonight Can just make out the GRS -
Feels a bit like cheating, but this is a southern hemisphere object and I get no time with my own telescopes because of work commitments at the moment anyway. Its a good chance to play with some data and keep those processing skills from totally rusting over while circumstance forces my own kit to gather dust not photons. Our southern colleagues are truly blessed with some awesome objects. iTelescope T9 in Siding Springs. 12 hours exposure time. LRGB. PixInsight. -
I've bought a cheap canon 450d with the intentions of doing a self mod for astro and removing the LP2 filter. I intend to image widefield targets with a variety of lenses: Canon ef 50mm f1.8 Canon 24-70mm F4L Canon 70-300 f4-5.6L What I'm concerned about is achieving focus manually using live view. Is this still going to be possible? I understand I'm going to lose auto focus but the camera will only be used for astro so I'm not bothered about that. However, I've read conflicting reports online that I'll not be able to focus to infinity with the modded 450d and lens combo. Has anybody had an issues manually focusing a lens on a modded 450d? Thanks Stu -
By Littleguy80 · Posted
Thanks Mark. Got the GRS and Shadow with the dob now. Seeing isn’t bad. Getting good detail at 170x. Lovely and warm. Just in my shorts and t-shirt. Forecast looking good for the night. Edit: Both clear in the Equinox 80 too at similar magnification
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It's a Hasselblad, used on Apollo 8.
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