-
Posts
4,388 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
9
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Events
Blogs
Posts posted by RobertI
-
-
5 minutes ago, Lockie said:
Also, he can't half write a book! I really enjoyed his Skies Dark Labyrinth trilogy.
Me too. He's also a big fan of Rush, which makes him a top guy in my book.
- 2
-
Lovely report, sounds like you are really enjoying your visual astronomy and tracking down some very interesting objects. Keep sharing!
- 1
-
These are wonderful captures - I'm jealous of your Trius camera, some lovely detail showing through, and interesting comparison of scopes. What exposures did you typically use?
-
Amazing observations Gav, it must have been wonderful to see the crab like that, and to see the horsehead so easily Must have been a dream!
- 1
-
A great post Bill with some very useful information and links. I’ve learned about yet another classification of DSO - flat and thin galaxies! Nice captures too, those galaxies are small and faint so pretty challenging.
-
Wonderful report Alan, the Ha experiment was very interesting, another plus for NV!
- 1
-
Oh. 😂
-
There appears to be an update on their website, I am assuming it is for November 2019:
https://www.astrotrac.com/november-update
-
Cracking images and with such short subs. This has now become my dream scope for EAA!
- 1
-
Lovely report of what sounded like a magical night. Some beautiful southern objects and I was pleased to note that a few of them are visible from the UK. I shall definitely add ngc247 and ngc1360 to my list. Shame that ngc1365 is just that bit too low though. Impressed you managed to get the HST.
- 1
-
Well done for trying! It can be demoralising to get shrugs and blank looks - had plenty of this those in my time too. You never know, you might have planted a seed.....
- 1
- 1
-
Great report Nick. Interesting to read about the use of an aperture mask to improve colour - how does this work?
-
11 minutes ago, Lockie said:
Darnit! I probably should have mentioned this in the review lol
😄
-
On 19/10/2019 at 16:34, Tyson M said:
My mount is perfectly level, but no, I wasnt ending my movements to the alignment star in up and right directions
I would definitely try ending alignments in the up and right directions, made a huge difference on my CG5, which I was ready to trade in until tried this! Admittedly this is nexstar not synscan, but same principle applies. I only polar align roughly and do a 3 star align and the gotos are within about 1/3 degree on nine out of ten objects.
- 1
-
Great thanks Chris, that adds some useful flexibility to the mount. 👍
- 1
-
They have missed several delivery dates from what I can see, I was told they would be available early February 2019, still no sign. The scope of the mount (excuse the pun) is way beyond anything else they have produced from what I can see and I always felt it was high risk for them - I really hope they pull it off.
-
Cheers Chris.
-
Nice review Chris, that gives a really good feel for what this setup is all about. At £175 that's terrific value IMO. A couple of questions: (1) Does the mount have a standard tripod fitting (3/8"?) and (2) do you think a sturdy camera tripod, like the Horizon, would be any better, or does it need something like a 1.75" leg tripod?
Love the beard by the way! 😁
- 1
-
It's just great to see a well run business continuing to innovate and prosper, and giving us even better astronomical goodies and advice!
- 1
- 1
-
Great report Martin, those clusters are coming out so well with that setup - I love WBL 692 and 685 - outstanding. I really like the eyepiece view btw, makes it seems more real somehow, hard to explain.
-
Fantastic detailed report Alan, quite a session - wish I could have been there, almost felt that I was! Some wonderful objects.
- 1
-
For just 72mm of aperture, you've resolved a lot of stars there, looks promising. I can't answer your question about the cameras though sorry!
- 1
-
That's a lovely area of sky you have captured with some really amazing star colours, so many reds. I am frankly gobsmacked that you have captured an image of that quality with a Lodestar! I am guessing the colour rendition provided by Jocular makes it different (better) to other Colour Lodstar images I may have seen in the past. I never knew about the 'window' btw.
- 1
-
Nice report of some interesting galaxy clusters and nicely presented in Jocular. Good to see you back in the saddle. 👍
- 1
A quick observations with SW 100/500
in Observing - Deep Sky
Posted
Lovely report and great descriptions. You bagged some challenging objects with that modest scope and filter, well done!