brrttpaul

Its been ages since I done some imaging so sort of went back to basics, M39, its surprising what you forget in a month, had to keep going back to the PI book for some things, sort of happy with it

Ahhh right im with you, I do have a field flatener infront that slides into the telescope locked in place with a locking nut other end goes into the filterwheel, just looked at the flatner and the side that slides into my scope is threaded on the inside, so a 2" filter would screw directly into that then before sliding into my scope?

I was told to put the LP filter infront of everything but I just cant see where it would sit, I have the scope the wheel and the camera so it has to sit inbetween the scope and wheel but cant see how

Hi guys, using the zwo along with the zwo filterwheel, just wondering would I be better off swopping my Lum filter for a light pollution filter ? or does a light pollution filter go in front of the LRGB filters? not sure  how that would work tbh with a filter wheel. ny advice welcome

On 17/01/2018 at 15:19, SteveNickolls said:

That should be fine as long as the tripod is rigid. I'm using an old Celestron heavy duty Alt-Az tripod and get a very responsive polar alignment using the tripod adjustment knobs. I attach a snapshot showing the arrangement.

Cheers,
Steve

this picture has just answered a question, My mount is off atm with darkframe being tuned so I am playing about with my SA and looking at the threads when i noticed the red dot finder, I had one come with the MAK but never really used it untill the other night couldnt figure it out at all. this picture though tells me i had it the wrong way round lol, just presumed it was the other way round for some reason lol

Cheers guys great help

that is a great help thx, as I understand it the diags that come with it are not the best. reason i asked about the barlows is on astreobin all the better pics seem to be taken with a barlow

I have decided to get the mak and a colour zwo for planetary but how do i go about fitting it to a MAK is it just a case of taking the diagonal off and screwing the camera on or will it need spacers? also I found a 2x barlow lens the other day so took it out to the obsy but I just cant figure out where it goes, at the moment I have the telescope (ed80), the flattener, the filter wheel and the camera (think i also have a spaer on there ) so where would a barlow go? im just curious for the ed 80 but I presume it will be easier to fit on the mak with a colour cam

I have to say I have gone from a OSC to a mono very recent , learning curve yes, regret it no, just in the narrowband alone it was worth it for me as i can image on a full moon, (is it just me or does anyone else notice that its only clear skies when the moon is near full? lol)

Good post and some good advice, also make sure your back door is oiled lol as last week waiting for the lightening I was awoken to hear the thunder, jumped out of bed the camera was all ready shoes and clothes on in record time , do you think i could open the backdoor??? it was jammed solid could not believe my luck

my deterent, fair play to them they have always let me know when someones aboutand not afraid to show their teeth

nikon 8x42 that I use for birdwatching, but now I have discovered the night sky been looking for something a bit bigger, in the meantime though I am happy with the ones I have

LOL yeah ok i got it thank you

Hi guys not sure if this is the right place to post but I read somewhere (may have been on here) a book called never miss a shot or never waste a shot something like that but im dammed if I can remember the full name or the proper name any ideas what the book is called?