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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?
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But ever so fleeting!
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Lovely sunrise this morning
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NGC 6946 single ISO 3200 30 secs
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Cloud looking West from Turf Hill at Dusk on the 30th July
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Cloud looking West from Turf Hill at Dusk on the 30th July
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Cloud looking West from Turf Hill at Dusk on the 30th July
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Cloud looking West from Turf Hill at Dusk on the 30th July
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Cloud looking West from Turf Hill at Dusk on the 30th July
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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.
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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!
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Stack 07 06 11 crop 16 bit part processed
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Saturn 1 - taken by 40sec movie from a Philips webcam then processed through Registax
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