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In my opinion if you want a starter telescope then a refractor is the best way to go and I would avoid reflectors and EQ (equatorial) mounts. Refractors are more expensive because they use lenses instead of mirrors Around your price range I have found the following: https://www.firstlightoptics.com/evostar/sky-watcher-evostar-90-660-az-pronto.html This will make an excellent starter telescope. I hope this helps. -
Onikkinen In daylight today I followed the guide, connected camera and mount and went to imaging with the camera gain set to 3. The target was correctly entered from the selected target in CDC planitarium program. The first time I started a sequence the scope slewed correctly But on subsequent invocations of NINA, with connect all chosen and compelted, it would not slew, why? Any way, NINA advised that a new version is available, so I installed it and tomorrow I will see how that goes. Chris -
Done and dusted, this time with rightly measured, rightly drilled to the measured places rather than someplace else. Perfect collimation and visually even looking vanes. Looks like my particular spider has a little bit unsymmetric attachment points of the vanes to the central part so may have been on a wild goose chase before with them. Have not noticed this to be an issue in the previous tube so doubt i will care in this one. I will also cover the old holes with velcro tape which i will use to attach a dew shield so nobody will ever know that i had some spider hole drilling practice 😉. Didn't lose any clear skies in the process, as have not had them for more than 5 weeks, and looks like the situation is not changing for this week either judging from the forecast of snow and warm winter weather. Only once winter really sets in with a cold front we will get clear skies here, this almost winter with barely below 0 is guaranteed full gray sky 24/7. -
Thats it all farbicated. I ened up just using firbreglass in the mould. Concrete was not happy for a few re a treat. -
All good. I threw it in all the ground, dumped some concrete in. made the steel tube plumb, aligned the tube square edge approx N/S. No mis-haps. Apart for a bird foot pattern. that was inevitable.
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When Pigs Fly Observatory .. a film· 2 replies
For those who might be interested, I've just completed a 17 minute video about the When Pigs Fly Observatory. The story line follows an introduction to the observatory and equipment as well as tracking the development of an image from capture to processing.
It is not a detailed processing guide, but more of a travelog. Hope it's of interest to some of you good folks.
Cheers,
David Aylsworth, ... WPFO .. Canada .. Earth
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A few rather beautiful rockets of the more terrestrial kind over Lowestoft tonight also a very pretty Jupiter Moon conjunction. Took few stills with my Canon 600d and a zoom lens (f between 200 and 300mm). Messed about with the images to bring out Jupiter's moons Callisto and Ganymede. Io and Europa were lost in the glare from Jupiter. Our Moon was waxing gibbous with the terminator highlighting the 'Bay of Rainbows'. All very lovely and even a few clouds couldn't spoil the view.· 0 replies
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