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  2. I'd be interested to know: If it is the short FL version, how bad was it at 105mm ? Michael
  3. Thanks @Fir Chlis and @Jeff-Colorado, here you have It with a little bit more stacking and slightly processed (not much, really): Thanks for watching, NV
  4. Hi Anne - 6 weeks in Portugal sounds good! Having said that, in desperation I ordered some data from Roboscopes in Extremedura in December, and the weather there seems to have been pretty poor since then. 15 hours worth, and the last 3 hours are still outstanding with the target fast disappearing for the season! Robin
  5. thanks, yes I will try some tweaks when I get a moment. I use NINA to control everything, installed on a mini PC on the tripod tray, and PHD2 for guiding. NINA works well for me, no issues with that.
  6. The Baader adapter I had fits between the visual back and diagonal - see image below. The scope in the image is a 90mm but I believe the visual back is the same for the 127mm as well. I might be wrong on that though.
  7. Attached the original fits file. 2024-03-27_04-26-29__9.80_120.00s_0002.fits
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  9. Last night it was easy to find it. Bright coma. Hints of the tail averted vision just as the comet deeps under the rooftops. Had to pump up magnification to blacken the background. 4" frac f7; 9mm
  10. I have no experience with Lunt scopes, I have a Daystar Solarscout. By far my favourite eyepiece in this is the Baader 32mm plossl, but I also liked the Vixen 30mm NPL - it just has more reflections than the Baader. I've also used a Televue 25mm plossl (didn't get on with it), Meade 26mm Series 4k plossl ( not that great but useable), Baader 18mm BCO (good in good seeing), and an ES 16mm 68° (good in good seeing). Hope that helps
  11. I visited Liverpool Astronomical Society's Pex Hill observatory tonight and while having a natter, one of the chaps who was demonstrating in the dome ran down the stairs to tell us they had in the eyepiece 12P/Pons-Brooks. So up trotted twenty amateurs forming a disorderly queue. 😄 I managed a good peek through the club's LX200. Very unexpected considering the horrible weather this evening. We were lucky the rain stopped and clouds parted for several minutes.👍
  12. Beautiful detail. I also have an 8SE and I'm getting back into observing. It's a great scope for the Moon.
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  14. Nice images. I'm looking forward to seeing the comet myself.
  15. I wish I could get on with binoviewers. I've tried them a few times, borrowed and even bought a set once, but I just haven't felt relaxed and comfortable when using them 🤔
  16. That’s a great single sub, well done and looks like a great set up..👍🏻 but for us pixel peepers there is nothing to peep as the image is much to compressed….
  17. Very mysterious John, when is the grand reveal?
  18. Anybody got any ideas? For some reason, if PHD2 (Latest version) is running and guiding, it hangs the main camera in SGPro... If I have everything connected in PHD2 and click download in SGPro it works, start guiding and it just hangs, then eventually PHD2 says it cant connect to the camera. Im sure Im up to date with drivers for Ascom etc
  19. Taken at 8.25 pm. Poor conditions, but shows some interesting tail detail. https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/385898-what-did-you-see-tonight/page/215/#comment-4472982
  20. I've dabbled in Linux but don't really understand it. I can't use an ASIAIR as I've Starlight Xpress and Atik cameras etc. I also use SGPro for imaging. The MINIPC is used for starparties etc but my dome isn't motorised so there's no point removing to that as I need to rotate the dome. I always use an old laptop for that. I have used an active usb cable at star parties which worked well. I haven't tried that with my ASI533 as that's usb3 and may or may not work successfully. The mini pc is perfect with that. i just wish i understood what's making the mini pc play up. It's done it two years running after a September update. This time it's different but is seemed crash when asked to copy a zip file over the house network from the laptop removing into it and then when I gave up and copied the file via a usb drive, it copied ok but then wouldn't extract it. I was just about to copy the uncompressed version when the MINIPC wouldn't let me log in and when restarted refused to boot up. Fingers crossed it'll let me fix it tomorrow!
  21. M13 with the 130pds & an Atik 414ex camera. Imaged during an almost Full Moon & not great seeing.
  22. Nothing is mentioned in the features on FLO's website.. But I did find a reverence to servo motors and encoders on one website, but it just mentioned GTi mount ?
  23. I went to Penistone Hill Country Park again as it has a better horizon to see 12P/Pons-Brooks. They all the same pic with a couple of quick enhancements using the camera phones software to bring out some of the detail in the tail. Time and exposure at bottom of pictures. Pic with the Seestar S50.
  24. There are some pretty damn impressive images on Astrobin taken with a Seestar: https://www.astrobin.com/search/?q="ZWO+Seestar+S50"&d=i&subject=&telescope=&camera=&date_published_min=2011-11-09&date_published_max=2024-03-27&sort=-likes Of course its possible someone has not been honest and some other telescope was used, but i find it hard to believe that people would bother doing that.
  25. But that's the point of the device. Quick and easy. You can achieve the quick (data capture) with any setup, but not the easy, and definitely not the cheap.
  26. This is incredibly impressive for such a short time. Think that aperture is really helping.
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