Radman40

I see WO have brought out a limited edition black and white version of the RedCat 51. Whatever next.....tabby cat perhaps? A dog range maybe? A chihuahua 50 at one end and a Great Dane 156 at the other. Personally I would go for something in the middle like Retriever 81 (in gold).

Great image!. Which camera did you use and what exposure?

Well who could believe it last Friday night. One of those rare nights. I was not knackered from work, it was actually clear in the NW, the seeing was not too bad at all, various members of the family were not demanding my attention and it was not too cold or windy. Incredible! I was able to make one of my few trips into the garden to enjoy the moon. Here are a few images. All taken with ASI385 10% of 2000 The first one is Mare Humorum with 250mm VX10L Second and Third are Aristarchus and Schroter's Valley, first with an 80mm frac and then with the 250mm Newt. Both are about the same focal length. Thought the resolution would have been better with the 250mm TBH. I am sure there is a reason but I am not knowledgeable enough to know why. Final image is Aristarchus and Schroter's Valley using a 2.5x Powermate. Interesting looking at all the features around the valley as the emerge from the morning gloom. 250mm prime 10% 2000.tif 80 mm x3 10% 2000.tif 250mm prime 10% 2000.tif 250mm x2 10% 2000 x2.tif

A very well put together image. Thanks for posting. I note the relative lack of colour in many of the stars. I have this trouble. I think it is a DSLR saturation thing with long exposures. I wonder if stacking short exposures taken with a higher camera speed would help at all?

We watch, wait (and save) with interest!

Very nice. Any plans for 100mm? I will be in the market for one of those before too long.

I was just looking at a really good picture of the moon taken with a smart phone. It caused me to reflect back on when I used film with an SLR and my newt 35 years ago. The phone image was better than the images I used to take then and there are no trips to the chemist with my roll of Ektachrome 400 and then the wait for processing. We get an instant result now. All much better but I do miss the sense of excitement and anticipation when waiting and going to collect my slides. For all the gains there are some losses!

Extraordinary. This is far better than what I was producing with a SLR camera on a telescope using film 35 years ago. So much has changed in that time. Best thing is you don’t have to send the film off for processing though I do miss the sense of excitement and anticipation when going to pick up my slides.

Sinus Iridum is always a crowd pleaser. The shadow at the northeastern end of the Jura Mountains is caused by a mountain feature called Cape Laplace and is 2600m high.230121 20% 5000 Prime.tif

Beautiful!

Like the opening to a Star Wars film!

I tried to buy a set of pans the other day and had the same problem. Everywhere out of stock. Roll on the vaccine. This is our only way out of this.

Just wondering how you would look through the polar scope to align🤔🤔🤔 My eyes were on stalks when I saw this. Looks like they would need to be to look through this unless I am missing something (which is more than likely).

Thanks....I will have another fiddle with the software and see if I can get anymore out of the image.

Amazing image. I am totally blown away. That fullerscope is a total beast. I have been so impressed with your images of Venus and now this! I have been trying to get some decent images of the apollo 15 landing site for years and I have never come close to getting anything like this. I was out last night also using a 250mm f6,3 newt and this is the best I could come up with. Like you the seeing was poor and the wind was blowing the scope all over the place. This was taken with a 2.5x powermate, 10% from 4000 frames using an ZWO385MC and a filter. I wonder if i should acquire more frames? I see you gathered 10K. I used 10% from 4000.