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How do I connect my camera to my telescope
Steve Ward replied to Sergeez's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
I think my first impression/guess was correct ... troll or bot ... 😉 -
Please save them as .PNG files for the forum , that way they will be shown in the post and we don't need to go to the rigmarole of downloading the files to view them. Thank you.
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How do I connect my camera to my telescope
Steve Ward replied to Sergeez's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
Welcome to the forum. I will be brutally honest and inform you that trying to attach a camera to the telescope in question will be a futile task . Neither the telescope , nor the mount it sits on are in anyway suited for astrophotography , and dare I say even suited for visual use judging by the reviews. Sorry to burst your bubble but I had to speak the truth here. -
Planes routes and more importantly fuel loads are carefully calculated , they're not going to start diverting them all over the place willy-nilly just to possibly reduce contrails that may or may not form in some location or other ... 😄
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Surely it's dependent on atmospheric conditions ... ? I get the pretty much the same amount of air traffic here day in , day out. Some days the sky remains clear blue barring tiny , short , quickly disappearing trails , and on others the sky is full of long standing , slowly dispersing trails.
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I can't believe I did thisto myself... £600 brick lens :/
Steve Ward replied to pipnina's topic in The Astro Lounge
Pop onto MPB and pick up a Canon DSLR to accompany it , real bargains around at the moment as the "must have it" crowd are jumping to mirrorless and trading in the 'old' stuff. And Park Cameras and WEX Photographic too. -
Achromatic abberation..
Steve Ward replied to paul mc c's topic in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
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Here's the SDO HMI Continuum data from 23rd through 25th . JHV_2024-03-09_21.22.32.mp4
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They are penumbral filaments Nick , they were very noticable in this lovely large sunspot especially in those fleeting moments of good seeing. They always remind me of the iris in the eye when they're resolved . I missed getting close-ups on the 24th but grabbed a few moments of video on the day before and pulled this image from the better one.
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Saw this over on Cloudt Nights only yesterday ... https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/913889-a-few-camera-solutions-for-the-lunt-50/
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Solar Scope. What would you buy ?
Steve Ward replied to GasGiant's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
All the information you'll ever need on the subject is in these two threads on Cloudy Nights ... 😖 https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/164085-using-a-nightime-h-alpha-filter-for-solar-viewing/#entry2124904 https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/430402-nighttime-h-alpha-filter-for-solar-viewing-part-2/ -
Just buy yourself a solar filter and enjoy the most dynamic object in the sky , all those faint fuzzy things look the same year in year out ... 🌞
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Focuser on 127 Mak
Steve Ward replied to Beardy30's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
Never been a problem with mine ... certainly not that I've noticed anyway , a vast improvement over the standard coarse adjuster. -
Focuser on 127 Mak
Steve Ward replied to Beardy30's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
I have something like this on my Mak180Pro , you'd need to speak to someone at FLO to check the thread sizes on the focuser and the OTA though ... 😖 https://www.firstlightoptics.com/astro-essentials-focusers/astro-essentials-v2-2-dual-speed-crayford-focuser-for-sct-telescopes.html -
I've just seen over on FB a new extension to PHD2 that facilitates both Solar and Lunar autoguiding. I know some folk are scared of FB but it's the only place I've seen mention of it thus far , and it's a Private group so it's not full of the usual FB types. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1320781201963513.