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By ollypenrice · Posted
I haven't tried M42 with a CMOS. I'm sure you're right about the longer exposures: no need to go beyond 3 mins, but how about the Trapezium and its colour? Olly -
By mikeDnight · Posted
Doesn't it go to show how toxic the name Takahashi can be. Once mentioned there's a tendency for it to dominate a refractor thread. It's a shame really as there are so many other excellent refractors out there, even old secondhand scopes that work just as well today as they did on the day they came out of the factory. Vixen are as good as Tak as far as I'm concerned and I'd be just as happy with an old vixen fluorite or ED doublet, or with one of their more modern incarnations as with my Tak DZ. And I'm talking from experience. I've seen these old scopes kick the living daylights out of Televue's NP101 in terms of planetary definition and contrast, and a 4" Televue costs over £4000 in today's money. And I'm absolutely confident that the Starfield would whop the socks off one too. The bottom line really is that the scope that's likely to get used the most because you enjoy using it the most, is most likely to show you the most. Perhaps the op Littleguy80, might even consider attending the Astronomy Show at Kettering in early March. There he'll be able to meet with other crazy folk, as well as manhandle lots of refractors and perhaps see something not yet mentioned. 😊 -
By Optic Nerve · Posted
Here's a couple with the viewing cap taken off. https://imgur.com/a/H0joaLO I can see the primary mirror and the three mirror clips but should all of it be further "up" on the secondary mirror? There's a lot of empty space up there -
By Red Chilli · Posted
I see only one problem- you don't use flats frames. From me - very quick processing in graxpert, pix and affinity photo. -
By rnobleeddy · Posted
This issue was specifically when using by narrowband filters with the older (gen 2 or gen 1) MPCC filters. So this sounds like a different problem. Have you tried ditching the MPCC to confirm that's 100% the cause?
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