Frank the Troll

21 minutes ago, Freddie said:

Depends on what you want to do\achieve.

Ideally remote control imaging

My  current list - anything else needed or usefull ?

Ascom

Affinity photo

Sharpcap

NINA

PHD2

APT

Stellaraium

Sky Safari  (on iPad)

A little tip I use for the greenhouse

A tealight under an old clay flower pot

1 hour ago, Mick J said:

 

If you own a copy the beta downloads from the forum pages now have an astro import/stacking persona

Useful too know, will have to check out the astro persona  already use affinity photo, do you have a download link to it?

Just 100% lights, ie no darks, no flats, no bias or dark darks or other such nonsense

I want to try a bit of solar

Will be using a mac 90 with a solar filter

need a simple guide to take a few picture's

can I use my nikon or use a basic colour cmos camera

Managed to view last night, only lasted 15 mins, before the clouds rolled in, but brilliantly  good seeing for those view minutes 

really bright and the reddest I seen in years

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Stepping over the dog, who decided at that moment to stand up, between my legs, and me reaching for support of the dual rig, and it toppled over with me,  and taking the full brunt of the 80mm as I fell onto it, catching me in the higher rib cage, very luckily no damage to scope, but did end up with two cracked ribs

And something simple like this will make the dob so much a easier to handle

Decent Barlow, you can cut down on the number of lenses then. 4 would be more than enough, oh, and go for the 8"

1 minute ago, Don Pensack said:

For your 80mm, magnifications from 80x-160x will only be useful a small percentage of the time.

That's eyepieces of 7mm down to 3.5mm.  Obviously, a 7mm would be usable more of the time than shorter focal lengths.

If the Baader Barlow is the Hyperion Barlow, it will turn the 24mm into a 10.7mm focal length (OK) and the 17mm into a 7.6mm 

Yes, its the Baader Hyperion Barlow, cheers for the info.  I have a 5mm X-cell, so will try that out first at some point, but do like the Hyperions

1 hour ago, John said:

With which of your scopes ?

For the time being, I will be using my TS photoline 80/560mm ED APO

 

Quick question, I have the 2.25 barlow, how well will they work with a Hyperion 24 and 17mm lens

Cheers

I'm considering getting either a 10 or 5mm, or would that be too much mag

17 minutes ago, fozzybear said:

Frank

Have a look at http://www.lightzoneproject.org/ or https://rawtherapee.com/

Andy

Thank you Andy, rawtherappe look rarther intresting

 What free NEF to Jpeg converters options are there for win 10

Cheers

Frank

Pretty much most of my kit has breen brought second hand from this forum, and have had no problems

When selling off items I then want to pass on to fund other items, I drop the price from what I paid for it, and some have had bargins, would rather someone made use of it, than end up just gathering dust or rust

I just wish peeps that want to sell stuff I want, not do it so often, my wish list is already long enough

Check Astroboot

Frankincense is a natural anti bacterial and anti viral agent

They have toned it down abit, use to be sold as Balkan 181

3 hours ago, barkis said:

Since many stores have been stripped of their stocks of hand sanitisers, and liquid soaps, I'm wondering how effective Isopropyl Alcohol would be as a bug killer. 

 Alcohol has to be 60%. My IPA isn't that strong, so might be useless in any case.

 

This will sort you out, you can keep it in the frezzer, it doesn't freeze, and comes out thickish, ps, it has quite a kick,

https://www.thedrinkshop.com/item/1700/balkan-bajika-vodka-176

13 minutes ago, BlueStinger said:

Hi, perfect thankyou. Oh and regarding your earlier post. I'm from Southampton originally, but we moved to Bridgwater when I was 7, where I lived a big chunk of my life. I know Taunton fairly well, I went to SCAT and worked in and around the town for a good few years. I've been in Yeovil now for around 15 years.

And another local, Im nr Somerton

I have a choice between a Tamron 70-300 F4.5.6 or a Sigma 70-300 f4.5.6

Is there much difference, which would be the better choice

A little zoom, Nikon 28-100mm f/3.5-5.6

Havn't seen a clear night in ages, my fault for getting a new scope

2 minutes ago, BlueStinger said:

Yeovil.

 

For us locals, thats just up the road then