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Orion Nebula - Canon 1100D, Sigma 70-30mm

Hi Guys, After a little while of intermittent viewing due to work commitments I finally managed to get outside for a few hours last weekend and had a decent viewing session. At the tail end of the session I hooked up my Canon DSLR to the HEQ5 mount (provides very nifty steadiness) and fired off 160 subs @ ISO 3200 and 1.3s so a totla exposure time of roughly 3.5mins. The image post processing (i have alot to learn here) came out as: This is compressed of course but that doesn't account for the
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Ipswich/Suffolk based buddy

Hi Guys, Further to my previous post where I came to the admission that I need some real astronomy guru help I am reaching out to anyone suffolk/Ipswich based who would be interested in coming out for a few sessions 1. to have a laugh and 2. to offer some advice to a truly keen but rather perplexed newbie! Get in touch!
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Second Time Out

So I had a spare evening and thought I would put it to use by taking my skywatcher Explorer 200p and HEQ5 mount out again with my 1100D Canon with the aim of getting some good snaps/video's of the moon and Jupiter. Once out however i realised that despite my meticulous planning following the astronomy shed video's on mount/scope setup, i couldn't polar align. The reason was that i couldn't see the reticule against the backdrop of polaris!!! has any one else had this problem and am i being a comp
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Example View database...Needs you!

Hi All, After trowling through numerous ‘Example View’ tools online for various telescope set-ups I have decided to start an on-line database that will utilise real webcam views taken through different telescope set-ups of different objects for existing and new enthusiasts. This will require an epic amount of short/medium/long videos and so I am calling on anyone interested in helping me to get in touch! If you have any old or new video’s taken through a standard webcam and have to hand or can r
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My first REAL session

So, a little history first... Around August 2013 I picked up a Celestron astromaster 114eq, got it out a couple of times to view the moon but really couldn't use it, it had one of the axes controls broken and I found it very difficult without the motors to keep anything in the field of view. This of course will no doubt be down to my inexperience of using any kind of telescope! Anyway, with 4 months of research and learning and about 5 books later I took the plunge and bought my 'REAL' first tel
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