hi everybody im looking for help bought a c 10 with cg5 advance mount at christmas for daughter with motor board not working it had burned out so i replaced today connected new board up and it burned stright away the chip on the board burned is there anybody that knows what connections go where and has anybody got pictures really need help with this as the first board cost me 190 dollars and as i live in ireland it took some time to recive part and part very costly thanks regards johnisabelle
I guess its going to be another cloudy night. I feel like I haven't used my telescope in ages! Good to be back though after so long.
I got some good images of Uranus, The moon, a few star clusters, and Jupiter, but other than that, wasn't that eventful of a night.
Comment what you saw!
Hello!
Welcome to the most intuitive guide on beginner astronomy ever!
First of all, if you are even the greatest astronomer ever, please show this to beginner astronomers as this may help them get a good start. I will also post in the description a video explaining everything I just said a bit easier. Other than that, enjoy!
Getting Started
Welcome to the great hobby of astronomy! First off, I would like to say three things about your new hobby!
1st: Don't expe
Hello again!
So, you just got the newest phone, and as an astronomer/astrophotographer/stargazer/sketch artist, want to have an app that shows you what's up that night. But the problem is that there is thousands of apps that show you everything in the night sky. Here are my top ten picks in order, and than after that some honorable mentions:
1. Celestron SkyPortal-ease of use, hooks up to Celestron Telescope
2. Star Walk- ease of use, makes life very easy for me
3. Star Rover
Hello again!
You may have read my other blog posts for beginners on stuff like this as well, and I will soon be taking all my blog posts for beginners and compressing them into a super guide! Other than that, let us begin!
So, you just got the newest phone, and as an astronomer/astrophotographer/stargazer/sketch artist, want to have an app that shows you what's up that night. But the problem is that there is thousands of apps that show you everything in the night sky. Here are my top t
Hello!
Welcome to the most intuitive guide on beginner astronomy ever!
First of all, if you are even the greatest astronomer ever, please show this to beginner astronomers as this may help them get a good start. I will also post in the description a video explaining everything I just said a bit easier. Other than that, enjoy!
Getting Started
Welcome to the great hobby of astronomy! First off, I would like to say three things about your new hobby!
1st: Don't expe
Hi,
Ok, so its been the worst January for Clear Sky that I can remember. But there's still some results!!! My tracking limits me to frames of around 1minute, but at 200mm, f/5.6, that's not too bad. I'll probably do some drift-alignment later this month, as I never really had much opportunity in December. The images can probably have a bit more processing done on them, especially M42, but otherwise, I think that I've more than fulfilled my dreams!!!
I think my favourite bit about
Late on February 10th and in the early hours vof the 11th, I tried out my newly purchased QHY5-11 camera. Whilst awaiting the appearance of Jupiter over the hedge, I had my first go at 'guiding' using ther QHY5-11 as a guide camera and my Canon DSLR as an imaging camera. All went surprisingly smoothly. Orion was loitering in the south-east and although the light pollution was not good , I targetted Alnitak and all the usuaL culprits. I chose a guide star, locked on and started a series of 3
Been busy working on the mechanical side in preparation for its mot and road trip to have the self leveling system fitted , probably in the first week or two of February, a round trip of around 300 miles which should be enough to blow away the cobwebs! As far as mechanical work goes its looking pretty easy thus far, with just a few minor things needing done. Will be replacing the rear discs and pads at the weekend and perhaps skim the fronts I'll see how they perform on a brake test. Also been
After what feels like decades of cloud cover, last night the gods finally forgave me for whatever it was I did to displease them and I had a clear night! I decided to concentrate this rare opportunity on gathering some photons on Comet Catalina. I managed to get 17 x 120 sec guided subs at ISO 1600 (+ flats and darks) with my Canon 1100D shooting through my Orion 80ED. The forecast for tonight looks good again. I think I'll take the opportunity to finally getting around to playing with Plate
The early hours of the 8th of January were not for the faint hearted. Although the ambient temperature was well above freezing the wind chill here on the UK east coast was significant. After a couple of hours outside I needed a hot cup of industrial strength Marmite to thaw out my inner self. On a positive note the sky was clear of cloud and significant moonlight. I thus set foot to first view Comet Catalina through my big bins and then photograph it. The comet was far too low in the nort
Thanks for the all the info guys. Santa dropped a late gift of a Nex Image 5,so the game plan as changed. One arm never was good for astro-photography, and the reviews for the NexStar are bad. But when I was in Florida, I went on a Sky-Safari sponsored MOSI, a guy had a 6inch NexStar with a 3mp camera.The pictures of Saturn was good, not great. So I am going with the TwinStar because it has a equatorial mount. Basically I need practice with the softwear and camera. I will spend the money I saved
My 1000d and 55-200mm lens came through the post last week--I tested it, and everything's working great! I put my own touch on the day's work by forgetting to remove my (only) SD card from the cam when I packaged it up again for Xmas. It wasn't until I had finished a very thorough sticky tape job on the box that I remembered... :BangHead: :grin: :grin: :grin: John
Toot an I have just returned from a short tour of Turkey. Part of the itinerary involved very early pre-dawn starts. Looking out from our hotel balcony on the 4th. December at approximately 04.20 I saw what I thought was a comet . Oh no it wasn't, oh yes it was! At first I thought it was a first glimpse of Comet Catalina. It was approximately south east and close to the horizon. The twin tails appeared to be as they should be pointing away from the sun. But then I returned home to Suffolk
After finding the ideal solution to an observation hatch, the idea of having a large sliding roof system seemed very appealing and ticked all the boxes it was supplied basically ready to fit and could be powered by 12 volts so a push button to open and close sounded very posh. (See American Military unit at 1.38s)
The quotation arrived and I nearly fell off my stool!,, £3500 for manual and £5500 for an electrically operated one, all plus VODKA AND TONIC aka VAT. So that's scuppered the pla
hi im looking for some help if anybody can help ive recently bought a 2nd hand c10 ngt celestron scope 2nd hand for myself and my daughter for xmas and we are looking for a bit of help setting it eq 5 mount up i have the latitude for dublin 53 but im not sure what the other ring dial on the eq5 mount is for could you help me get it set up for xmas night thank you john o donnell and isabelle thanks i know that it has to be pointing north at the polar star for aligment i had a small scope before
I got up at some unspeakable hour this morning, and found that the sky was not only clear, as had been forecast, but also that the seeing was very good! I had some trouble focusing, but I think most of the images turned out ok. I'm processing at the moment, images to follow! The bahtinov mask that I made seems to work, but it sometimes cuts of a bit too much light to see the 'spikes' clearly. However, one function I did find useful was AmCap's zoom tool, as I could focus and watch for the colour
Imaging has always ben a big part of astronomy for me, and part of my imaging dreams were fulfilled last July when I was given an Orion Star Shoot Solar System Colour Imager 4. With this I have taken lots of acceptable pics, however, I want to image DSOs as well. This Christmas, I'm asking for a Canon EOS400d and 55-200mm lens for deep-sky. I'm hoping to post some of my images after then. I managed to get out and image Jupiter on Wednesday:
Well a productive week and weekend, new piston arrived and was fitted and then the engine refitted on Saturday afternoon / evening. A transmission fault, being stuck in reverse gear ( automatic gearbox) meant i couldnt start. So Monday morning the diagnostics was connected and the gearbox error sorted out, much to my relief the engine has started as run up to temperature and all ok. I contacted the supplier and manufacturer of the self levelling system EP hydraulics and i now need copious qu
Last night I took 35 80 second subs using my camera with a 400mm tele lens mounted next to a 70 x700mm scope on my EQ3 mount on an EQ5 tripod. Quick and dirty aligned using the polar scope, no drift align. Over 1 hour 7 minutes, the images offset by a total of 32 pixels vertical, 8 pixels horizontal, but almost all the horizontal drift was on the first two images (presumably taking up the backlash). So the real drift was about 32 pixels or 1 pixel every 2 minutes. Looking at the subs I thoug
Concurrently with the dome assembly, I am cobbling together the potential contents. Initially, I intend to install my HEQ5+250mm f/4.8 Newtonian on a tripod. Have tested mount operations successfully indoors with indilib on a RaspberryPi, remotely connected to KStars. I think indilib (http://www.indilib.org) is brilliant from many points of view. Also working remotely with RPi/indlib are: Xagyl filter wheel,
Atik CCDs (314E, 460EX),
DIY focuser drive,
GPS module (USB connected).
With the platform down, I have been contemplating how to assemble the dome (Pulsar Observatories 2.2m), making sure that it is secured always against the wind; which can gust here at ~100mph. I have designed a stainless-steel bracket, several copies of which are to be bolted to the cupola. This will allow me to anchor the cupola to the concrete platform. I have bought marine-grade, stainless eye-bolts for this purpose. So I can source my brackets could some kind person please recommend
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