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Hello, I am a relatively new landscape astro shooter located in the Boston/Cape Cod area of the US. I would love nothing more than to meet other amateur landscape astro photographers in the Cape Cod area. It's been a pretty solitary experience so far. I am also new to this forum, if I posted in the wrong place I apologize.

My 25mm A-T Paradigm (Starguider) has 17mm of usable eye relief with the eyecup all the way down, so identical to the 24mm UFF with eye cup folded down. I've not measured the eye cup up eye relief of either.

Place a bright star at the edge of the field, then look direct at the center of the field. If you can catch the bright star in your peripheral vision, you are seeing the whole field. If you want to look at the edge of the field with direct vision, and you simply move your eye to do so, and the eyepiece is wider than about 70°, you will move your eye's pupil away from the eyepiece's exit pupil. In order to look directly at the edge in an 82° eyepiece, you need to roll your head over and look through the eyepiece at an angle, whether using glasses or not.

Sounds about right. The eyeglasses view in the 22mm Nagler is still wider than the Redline 22mm 70 degree by a few degrees.

I bought the SV zoom for £80. The Nagler is over £400!

Some double stars and the moon with my 70mm F/6 ED this evening. Seeing not so great through. Moon was behind the house later so it was worth at least trying for some brighter DSO's. Despite the paltry aperture, I did manage to see M 65 and M 66 of the Leo Triplet group. NGC 3628 was not visible though, perhaps unsurprisingly given the small scope. As Meatloaf sang in 1977, "Two out of three, ain't bad" 🙂

Another first for the PaulSky Camera tonight, a short burst of Aurora, either that or the reactor's alight.... The forecast has a broad but not highly intense Auroral Oval oval for the period so it certainly looks like it. Other frames, though not as intense, show more definite rays. North is to the left. The red at the 8 o'clock moved around and spread over 20 minutes or so and faded.

I have taken quite a few images of Double Stars. I haven't done anything recently as I have been focused in other areas. They are not super hard to image but the biggest challenge is getting the balance right if you want to catch fainter field stars as well.

It looks like I didn't Piero as I have just checked the 22mm Nagler and it comes out at 656 gms.........my apologies to Neil.....

I was given one of these to "play" with some years ago, it is a "Bird-Jones" type. It actually looked quite well made and finished but the performance was pretty sub par. After faffing about with the collimation for ages I managed to get a fairly decent image out of it, good enough to please a complete beginner but not worth spending any extra money on it. Quite a bargain for free. 🙂

I don’t regret buying either. I have not done an in depth comparison or a non-biased opinion between the two. Some of the things that I have noted so far are: the SV is a little bit taller than the TV. the ‘extra’ lengths… ie 7 and 8mm. wider FOV… 56deg. [SV] v 50deg. [TV] the twist-grip for changing focal lengths on the SV is about twice the height of the TV - the diameter is about the same. the SV twist-grip is ‘smoother’ when changing to other focal lengths than that of the TV. build quality… the TV is solid. I can hear slight rattle if I shake the SV. I think other SGL’ers [and astro-forums] have commentated on this issue, but I don’t think it’s going to disintegrate or come apart that easily… unless I do something drastic or stupid to it. both are optically very good. I find the relief isn’t to bad either. I wear glasses/spectacles, but not when observing. Some have said the SV & TV planetary zoom e/p’s are a bit tight in that department. the SV is about two-thirds the price [or less] than the TV.

I was working tonight but managed to get outside for a short session with the 15x70's. The Moon looked spectacular (again) 😀 with plenty of detail on the terminator. M44 was more washed out by the moonlight. I did manage to spot M67 and M53. I think I also spotted NGC5053 which is a Globular Cluster very close to M53. Cheers Ian

If you are doing visual you can always flip your AZ-EQ6 into Alt/Az mode. This will keep the eyepiece in a respectable position for observing with your Newtonian.

I had a nice session last night observing in Canis Major with my 10 inch dob. Tried splitting Sirius but was unsuccessful this night. Nice views were had of M41, NGC 2362 and the lovely double star HR 2764. The highlight of the night was catching the supernova SN2024ggi in galaxy NGC 3621 in Hydra. I couldn't see the galaxy itself but spotted the supernova as a clear dot! I estimate it to be around mag 11.5. Just my second ever observation of a supernova so pretty chuffed!

Very nice Kon, I've just come back in doors after a disappointing session, windows 11 decided to update and configure plus I was unable able to get good image runs without continual buffering.. Maurolycus gives me a smile under this illumination, such a happy looking crater 🙂.. your seeing looks to have been better than mine. Mark.

I think OP has already told us what the 'scope is when they say, " I found this site, along with some delightful reviews of the Seben Big Boss 1400-150. Oh well, I guess it was free... " Amazon reckon : "Seben's Big Boss 1400-150 reflector telescope is, because of its perfect workmanship and enormous performance data, the unquestioned top telescope of Seben's astronomy series. Undreamed of possibilities become true for the ambitious user of Seben's Big Boss telescope because of its huge 150mm aperture and the tremendous focal length of 1400mm." https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seben-Boss-1400-150-Reflector-Telescope/dp/B00692THU2 It's a Bird Jones (or possibly Jones Bird ?) design, which the above ad avoids saying by using the term catadioptric.

The last one that I saw was on a pretty cloudy day as well. I got lucky with a few breaks in the clouds to snap some photos:

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Sorry, didn’t mean to stress you😊. The Pronto’s 2” focuser is great if you’re a fan of very low power wide field. On the other hand the Ranger is half the weight so a lighter mount makes for a very portable travel scope. And with a 24 Panoptic you get 20x and well over 3 degrees field of view, adequate for most!

Another go on imaging craters despite the awful seeing. I opted for an IR pass filter 685 tonight. Maurolycus is showing some details although I could not resolve the small craterlets inside. Aristoteles and Eudoxus had better seeing and I framed them to capture the mountain shadows on the left. 12" FlexTube, GoTo, asi462mm, IR pass, 2.5x TV powermate.

Hi @jp1977 and welcome to SGL. Congratulations on bagging a freebie ‘scope! As per what @bosun21 suggests, post an image of the manufacturers label and SGL’ers can advise what you may need next. For aligning the finder with the OTA, do it during the daytime on a distant object, (ie a TV or FM radio aerial/antenna), and preferably outside in the garden, as setting up inside the house and looking through a pane of glass my cause unnecessary artefacts and reflections, etc. Wishing you and family clear skies & 73’s.

Here’s one for the diary. The next Mercury transit is due 13th November 2032! Almost certainly going to be a cloudy day! 🙃

This is an interesting conundrum. How about something like a Todmorden pier where you can add or remove blocks to suit your telescope? You could start with a height to suit your reflector and add blocks at a later date if you change to a refractor.

Computers eh, what you gonna do? That looks great for a single image though Yeah the weather has been particularly annoying recently. I had to go out tonight but when I got home the sky was clear. It was blowing a gale but my normal observing spot is pretty sheltered so I thought I'd give it a go. However ( you knew that was coming ) I looked in the direction that the wind was coming from and there was a giant bank of cloud moving in - think alien spaceships in Independence Day. So that was that

The Myriad has a somewhat more chunky eye cup design than the APM 100's.