Starslayer

I will check that out. Thanks. As I said above, I don’t think the glare will be an issue at night. Hopefully one day I will get a chance to test it. Skies have been absolute rubbish here since I bought the scope. No doubt I will be stymied as well on 10th when we get the partial eclipse.

Haha. Pure luck and plenty of error

Ok, I think I am hooked. 😇

Novice question but what filter have you used there please?

I have played around with eyepiece and shroud etc. Also z axis distance. Tried a ‘blanket’ over the assembly but did not do anything. 2x zoom a good call though and I also covered the area around the eyepiece with my hands. Simple thing like that had a benefit. Tiny bit of glare but much improved. I don’t think moon shots will have this issue somehow.

So following advice on here and with thanks to a SGL member I have just had my first attempt using the nexyz mount. Other than the slight focus issue the glare at the top is annoying but hey - first go. Room for improvement. Any ideas on the glare though would be appreciated. Edit - thought. Any good placing a cloth or similar over the whole assembly once timer set on the phone?

Hi. I have the Celestron 6” SCT.

I do have the celestron 2” xlt diagonal. I have played briefly with it but came up against the l / r inverted image thing so went back to stock until I get used to things.

Wish list for now then. 😉😉😂😂😂

Useful thank you.

Ok, I went there and scrolled. Honest. Could not see it. Went back again and had to do a ‘find text’ search and git there eventually. I did try before asking. 😉

Thank you

Thank you. I am not embarrassed to ask though - HTH?

Homemade solar finder is working really well though. 😇

So today I am seeing no sun spots at all. Yesterday just a faint spot at around 4 o’clock. Much less than the day before. Is is the activity at the sun that changes or is it due to our rotation around it giving a different angle? Edit - go back to scope and a couple have now appeared towards 12o’clock. Fascinating.

Trying to get my head around this one. Help please. Been looking at sun during day and had my first play with the night sky yesterday. I have 40mm and 10mm stock eps and a baader zoom. I understand why the 40mm is better using a lower powered ep for the sun and moon etc and that the higher powered ones are better for going deeper but, why does higher power mean also that the view is so drastically reduced in size. Can I not get say 150x magnification but with an eye view the same as using my 40mm with 37.5 mag? Hope that makes sense. Does higher power always mean a great reduction in the width of what I see through the ep?

Haha. I see now you are also in Surrey so you feel my recent pain. 😀

Yes, saw those and that is acceptable and probably likely in time. I really am not into dangling expensive digital cameras off the back end etc. Need to make sure that I have sufficient room to mount one of those with the starsense explorer stuff attached as well.

Thanks Andy but honestly, this was done on the spur of the moment mainly as my youngest daughter keeps asking if I have found any little green men yet. ( she is 29! ). I just got the phone near the eye piece and pressed the button. I hope this is not the start of a journey down another expensive rabbit hole. I really am not in to photography of any sort.

Despite the forecast being rubbish I had clear skies this morning. I had taken delivery of Celestron Eclipsmart 6” yesterday so out I went for a first go. It took me while to line up even using my newly fashioned homemade solar finder. Bit chicken and egg that as I could not rely on the finder until I had located with the scope any way. Got there using shadow behind method then aligned the finder temp secured. Impressed myself from thereon. Great view of the sun with all its spots at 2 o’clock ish. I even tried to take a snap through the ep with my iphone hand held. The attached image is out of focus and not exactly what I was viewing but hey - it has a certain charm. I have no AP aspirations. Just as well. I then swapped out the stock diagonal for the xlt 2” and had a play with different eps including the Baader zoom. Have to say, I resorted back to the stock set up with the 40mm plossal as this gave me the best results. I was just eager to have a play with different things due to a lack of clear nights.

New to this but not the weather. So far for me CO has been rubbish. The weather has been rubbish any way but again tonight CO says green for the last 3 hours until 0900. Still pea soup out there. Not even a glimmer of the full moon. So, maybe unfairly at this early junction I have no faith in it whatsoever. Inaccurate forecasting ahead is just a fact of life. Completely wrong in real time is inexcusable. Have always found Accuweather the best. At least the real time is ok within 30 mins or so. Handy when nipping the dog out. Much to be said for “look out the window”. Edit - so this morning it indicates red red red. Not a could in the sky. Admittedly broken cloud by midday but not a complete “black out” and I have some quality time with he sun.

Ah.. More googling. Is it that the mirror diagonal is correcting the image top to bottom but the stock is an erecting prism that also corrects left / right?

I do like how easy it is to pop off the mount. Hopefully I will have good reason to remove it on 10th June!!!