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Captain Tweaky

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  1. Someone recently recommended the ZWO ASI120MC camera and the only supplier I could find was Tring Astronomy. Ordered online - received next day. I had been considering one of these DSLR star tracking devices and decided to look at Tring Astro again. After a very helpful, friendly and informative phone call with both Jane and Neil, I changed my original idea from the Skywatcher Star Adventurer, that seems like a lot of equipment for the money, to the iOptron Skytracker. Theirs was supplied with a ball head and was consequently the best value available. Received next day with a couple of other small items. Very pleased now that I know I made the right choice of device. They had the Celestron SkyScout on as a very good offer - 50% discount! As I still cannot find my way around the sky after 5 years this seemed like a good plan. Ordered one day, received the next. BUT, after having it for about 2 weeks and trying it in different places, I could not get a reading from the GPS, so I called Tring and spoke to Jane. She could not have been more helpful and understanding. I sent the item back and they were going to check it and see if the only other one they had in stock was any better. It was but only marginally and Neil was quite upfront and honest about it. He gave me the option of trying the marginally better one from stock or have a refund without any pressure or sense of obligation at all. I took the refund and the amount was registered and the return postage also refunded to PayPal within half an hour. I shall use Tring Astro as my first port of call in future because I know they care, they are very easy to talk with and they can be trusted to look after you - what more can you want?
  2. Another cracking shot. Martyn are you going to be joining us on the dark-side at http://southcoastastronomers.freeforums.org - hope to see you over there. It looks as if the current controllers of SGL will be doing away with the social groups like SCAG for some obscure reason.
  3. We here at Rookwood generally agree this is a magnificent image - but what on earth were you doing up at that time in the morning?
  4. A very impressive set of images.
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    M51 1200

    Still a very nice image - well done
  6. Martyn - I've just set-up a small WinXP machine, gone to the thread and bingo - no images - hmmm! Most peculiar and I've no explanation!
  7. Ah-Ha - curiously that link to me straight to my post with images - seriously spooky!
  8. If I understand you right - there is just the one at the very bottom of the thread with a link to the originals covering the word 'here'. Many thanks for the comment as well! :-)
  9. Thank you kindly Martyn - it was taken with a Canon 550D and Sigma 150-500mm lens hand held - nothing very astronomical! :-)
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    Taken in Southampton on a Meade 125ETX with a Canon 450D
  11. IMHO there is little to choose between the two - just personal preference. This one has a clarity which gives definition to the nebula and is a style that I personally prefer - as a consequence I think it's freakin' brilliant! Whether or not I shall ever have the patience, expertise or equipment to achieve something even remotely similar, only time will tell. But these images will remain the target and when I've succeeded in getting close, I'll be one very happy chappie! Good stuff Shaun.
  12. Absolutely fabulous - a very impressive image. A Few Days Later: Having now seen many more images of the nebula taken by some seriously sophisticated equipment in professional observatories, I am even more impressed by the quality of this image. There have been few, if any, that have such clear rendering of the nebula without certain stars dominating the image. This is certainly amongst the best of the images I have seen. If you don't mind I shall be using this as my Laptop desktop for both inspiration and aesthetics!
  13. Captain Tweaky

    NGC7000 ha

    A very impressive image - nicely done.
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