knobby

Excellent, the landing module is a bit blurry though 🙂

Been watching this with interest as I have a C8 edge and have the same problems with living in built up area surrounded by  neighbours hot roofs.

Seeing is always naff, planet jumps around and wobbles during capture.

Here's one I managed with the same scope on the 2nd so don't give up.

From memory it was a 2 minute avi around 0.7 secs and 300 gain ( ZWO 224mc) and a 2 X barlow

I have a fairly naff 2 avi of Saturn if you want to play ?

let me know and I'll put on google drive if interested

Looks good Steve, nice star shapes for f2 !

Courtesy of Sky safari 5

Cheers chaps, yes it can ROI down to 640 X 480 and lower I think.

On the verge of trying my 1600mm pro + filter wheel on planetary, any opinions on how much of an improvement over my 224mc this would likely be (if any)

My sky / surroundings are awful !

Nice one, way better than my early attempts 👍

8 hours ago, astroman001 said:

Great capture, well done.

Peter

Thanks Peter

2 hours ago, U Cyg said:

Lovely capture!

Glad your shoulder is feeling better.   I struggle every time trying to  get my 8SE ota on the eq5 mount  -  because I am a sub five footer and I have to stand on tippy toes. 🤣

Angie

I can relate to that ... Had to have the AVX as high as possible to clear neighbours roofs ... It was a bit like putting a heavy bag in overhead luggage on a plane 😃

Nice job and not overprocessed, well done.

Thanks for the nice comments

Managed a 30 minute spell last night between garage roof, neighbours roofs and trees. Very spur of the moment but egged on by finally being able to lift the C8 onto the AVX after damaging shoulder 18 months ago.

Not fantastic but with the low elevation and heat haze from roofs pretty relieved to see it all still works 😃

Best 25% of 5000 frames .Stacked in Autostakkert, registax wavelets and sent to phone to tweak colour balance / noise in Photoshop express.

C8 edge / Televue 2 x barlow / ZWO 224

12 hours ago, Relpet said:

Pardon my ignorance, Knobby.  In my RAF days a SAM was a Surface to Air Missile.

As an alternative I've been guided to this

https://www.teleskop-express.de/shop/product_info.php/language/en/info/p11058_Omegon-Montierung-Mini-Track-LX2-SET-mit-stabilem-Kugelkopf-fuer-mobile-Astrofotografie.html

which  has the advantage of being clockwork and got a good workout in Sky at Night magazine last year.  A German friend has used one successfully.  Hmmm...

🙂 sorry ! SAM = Star adventurer mini, about the size of a Rubiks cube, fitted in camera bag in the gap where a lens usually fitted.

Looks interesting and very compact ... I thought my SAM was small !

Well done Ed, admire your commitment ! It was the first time I've lifted my C8 up onto the AVX since damaging my shoulder so even though it saw just clouds at least it was a milestone on the recovery trail 👍

Clouded out in Essex 😒

GRS start approx 8 pm finish approx 11.40 pm

Io start  9.40 pm ish

Courtesy of Sky safari on Android

Well done for sticking with it , nice captures, especially Saturn.

Incase anyone doesn't get it ... John Dobson , man who made Dob mounts and sidewalk astronomy famous 

2 hours ago, LukeSkywatcher said:

Don't go to East London then.

:÷)

Very good ! wouldn't be much of an outreach event if I stayed indoors 😃

That's brilliant, Mr Dobson would be proud of you 👍

I'd love to do that but fear I'd be mugged in East London 😃

+1 for the club, someone would probably help you out the right bits with the right scopes and see if anything is missing.

Sorry about your Dad .

On 05/07/2019 at 17:45, Steve Clay said:

Knobby, where did you get the m8-12 adapter?

Cheers Steve

In the end I had to get one of these

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/M6-M8-M10-M12-REDUCER-ZINC-THREADED-BAR-ROD-STUD-CONNECTOR-METRIC-THREAD-/361107093087 and a short piece of M12 stud to make it work.

I'll post a pic later if it helps.

Hi Agnes, a long M12 bolt works well, or the Star adventurer weight with an M8 to M12 adaptor is what I'm using.

That's really nice ! what sort of bortle ? and CLS filter