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Hi, its been a long time since i had a scope to do flats, now i have a barn door im looking at doing flats again, are there any methods that work good just for dslr camera and lens with no scope? i use to use a light board which was great for the telescope but no longer have either now, would love to hear what some of you guys are using

ohhh thank you long john, that looks excellent, ill let you know how i get on with it

thats awesome, its been a while since ive seen this target

Thanks I think it was actually in stellarium

11 minutes ago, Ovi said:

Maybe it's this one: http://astronomy.tools/calculators/field_of_view/

Thanks for the reply mate, I don't think it's that as u need to enter telescope for that, this was just entering a camera if I recall, it's quite possible I'm totally wrong tho lol

edit, cant find a way of just adding my canon 7d and kit lens to that, it requires a scope

Hi, a long time ago i use to use a program or website, cant really remember that use to show me what my target would look like if i entered my camera details, but for the life of me cant find anything now like it, does this sound familiar? if so would love to hear from anyone using such a program, thanks a lot

been a while since ive been around, do these competitions still happen?

lovely images above and the winning pic is outstanding, 30 seconds, wow

49 minutes ago, ShrewView said:

Caught it passing over through the bins. Does this mean we get a trail of them later tonight?

im unsure? interested to know tho

i saw an amazing one last night, first one of the year, was going out to lock the shed up and saw it, was amazing, had to be one of the slowest meteors ive seen burn up, was lovely, i hope to see a lot more tonight at my dark spot for the peak

On 19/04/2020 at 21:40, parallaxerr said:

This lot is showing up in Stellarium

 

EDIT: I don't think these are the Starlink satellites. They are still showing in the same place in Stellarium, so must be geo-stationary but co-incidentally aligned with the Starlink trains trajectory. Goes to show how many are up there.

how do you get these to show up in stelarium? i searched starlink but nothing

very nice, i will have to get this soon

i see we are due cloud for the next several nights in a row, typical  

so the peak night is 22nd at around 3am, so bascially tomorrow evening, im pondering to head out to my dark site at the forest as no one should be there from this virus so should be all ok

Lovely set! My fave is the star trail, lovely 

The words oh wow just come out my mouth seeing your images, they are breathtaking and I have never seen anything like this, very nicely captured my friend! 

sounds good guys! wow you are keeping busy theropod lol

ive had one chance to test my barn door out, i have a joystick manfrotto head, 1st thing ill be doing is getting rid of that horrible head and getting a standard one as its awful at fine control for trying to get polar aligned, you press the trigger to release, get PA bang on then when you release it jumps to a different posistion....just horrid to use

1st subs i tried were at ISO800 and 70 sec subs @ 30mm, no star trails but awful clouds so no long session of data collection, next time im going to try at least 2 min subs @ ISO1600 from my dark site, i really want the sigma 10-20 but thats not going to be any time soon, i just need to remember how to use pixinsight now as ive forgotten so much lol

how did you get on? im in a similar situation and would like to know what paths you ended up going down

1 hour ago, MarkAR said:

I think Trevor Jones/ AstroBackYard had something on this in one of his videos.

I think there are some gains to be had with non modded DSLRs but no where near as much as modded.

thanks buddy ill take a look for his video

Hi, I use to be imaging an age ago with my telescope but long ago sold it, now all I have is my canon 7D and a barn door mount, I don't want to get back into lugging an imaging telescope to my dark site so wondering now if it's worth while to get a Ha clip in to enhance my 7D, I do not want to mod it either 

From what I am reading here it seems a no brainer, but companies will promise you the world to sell their product, so just want to hear from you pros if it is worth while using a Ha clip in, thanks 😊

https://www.highpointscientific.com/astronomik-h-alpha-12-nm-eos-clip-filter-ha12-eos?aw_affiliate=eyJjYW1wYWlnbl9pZCI6IjEiLCJ0cmFmZmljX3NvdXJjZSI6IkFzdHJvbm9taWsgMTJubSBIYSBGaWx0ZXIgUmV2aWV3IiwiYWNjb3VudF9pZCI6MX0

yours does sound great, ive all ready ordered the NYX tracker tho, lol, im just in love with it i really am, got a very nice manfrotto tripod just need to get a nice sigma 10-20 now and i should be set to start adding some widefield to my collection

awesome thank you

Thanks Louis, nice one

Edit, thats the same price?

thank you mate, i think i might just go for the built one i linked above as its a great price and i love the high detail of finish, also im terrible at making things lol

anyone here had experience with the NYX?

Just see this! Anyone here tried this? Seems perfect

https://nyxtech.us/

I have been looking into making a barn door tracker as I do not have funds buy one right now but looking more into this it seems ever so hard, even down the rod you need to bend to a certain degree, just seems very hard for me, any advice or tips would be great, not sure if someone here would make the brass curved rods as you can not buy them any where that I can see

All the best

just mount your DSLR + lens on the HEQ5 and it should take some smashing widefield photos until youve saved enough for the telescope + other bits.

Hi Rob hope you have been well, im thinking of trying this as i have never tried imaging wide field on the HEQ5...... at first i was thinking of mounting scope, getting auto guiding running then slapping the DSLR on top of the scope rings and taking wide field like this, but a more easier method would be just to mount the DSLR on the HEQ5 with no scope but then id be limited to unguided subs, but a lot less effort setting up and carrying the scope and bits and pieces that go with it.....hmm next clear night i do want to try some widefield with the HEQ5 tho i know that