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First go at with the new Christmas present. Almost a full moon and a few fog patches limited the Rosette Neb to only 12 x 5min, and the Heart to 20 x 5min, but the difference between the 533 and my Nikon D7500 is immense. Really looking forward to pushing this over the next few months.

That’s very interesting. It’s a clear night tonight so I will experiment with different spacing👍

Sounds good. I will give it a go tomorrow evening weather permitting and post results on the discussion. Thank you sir

Hi folks, I’ve been imaging using my C9’25 this evening and encountered an issue with focus. My imaging train has an Antares 0.63 reducer - Celestron 50mm adapter - 16.5mm spacer - 21mm filter drawer - 11mm ASI533 ring - then 6.5mm to camera sensor. I had it all fitted tonight presicely as per numerous YouTube tutorials etc. However, in attempting to achieve focus, I could get nowhere near. This was in both directions. I took the reducer off the image train and achieved focus no problem at all, but at the expense of the images not being flat across the FoV. Has anyone encountered this issue and if so did you find a work around?

Same as. Zero dives last year and the Astro gear isn’t getting much use either. I’ll make a concerted effort in 2022 to do a lot more of both 😃👍☘️🥃

Could be worse! 😅

🤣 thanks magnus! Title edited!!!!!

I must have blinked!

For the love of god! One clear night!!!!🙏😃

Nailed it! The Apple never falls far from the tree!

I was looking through some old photos today and came across these. They’re from a time when I managed to secure some funding to build a community observatory and purchased a CPC 11”. The project took place in a wee town in North Shropshire. Living in South Wales and being so close to the Brecon Beacons NP, I would dearly love to build another.

There’s always a bigger fish!

In business. Review TFO! 😃💪☘️👍🍺🔭🪐

This is one I took during summer and managed to stretch the B&G channel a little more to bring up the OIII, but I thing the Veil is a classic example of Nebula that has a distinct line of separation between OIII and Ha. The Heart and Rosette are mustard! I might have a crack at the Packman Nebula as it's a bit more forgiving. Having said that, these are my first serious foray into DSO imaging and considering I'm dealing with floodlights from a local Home Bargains store, I'm really chuffed.

Good advice Martin, I’ll give that ago. I was wondering why I wasn’t getting much OIII. 👍👍

Cheers Mick and have a great Christmas buddy. 👍

First serious attempt at these DSO. I’m in a heavily LP area so rely on the L-eXtreme. Tried shooting between the gaps in cloud cover but they aren’t too bad. Bit of noise due to not getting enough data and as I’m using a D7500, but I’m happy with results.

Hi guys, A quick update. The lens wasn’t communicating properly with camera, so I got it replaced. The new lens arrived this morning and it’s working great. Thanks for the help and advice. Very much appreciated ☘️👍

Brilliant Spock, I’ll try it and get back to you with result. Thanks again

Thanks Dave, you’re 100% correct. I didn’t know that was the case. The only odd thing is that when I set the F Ring to f22 it’ll only let me set the aperture to f2.8 on camera settings? Not that I’m to concerned as I was going to stop the lens down to that f number anyway.

Hi, I recently purchased a Samyang 35mm f1.4 UMC lens that im using with my Nikon D7500 (cropped sensor). When I attach the lens it will only allow me to take an image of the aperture is closed all the way to f22? When I try to stop it down to f1.4 etc, I keep getting an fE E warning on my display. Am I missing something?

It certainly will have an impact. But the EAF is primarily for use with a ZWO 533 so should be a good combo.