algady

Hi, it's clear and I did some tests but unfortunately, no luck!

As far as I understand there are 4 possibilities here, before ff and after ff and fitting it in 2 orientations each time, every time I can clearly see halo around bright stars!

I feel disappointed because it is expensive and has good reviews!

Thanks all for your help, I'll try to get some images as soon as I can and see if things changed.

1 hour ago, TerryMcK said:

I’ve just seen a review of the D2 on FLO website. This may be of use to you to try the method that reviewer David states.

Our county is full led street lighting, finally decided to invest in an Idas D2 yes expensive but definitely worth the outlay , brown murky images now gone glad I got it now , if you hear reports of it causing halos , the cause for me was to uncheck hot pixels in the cosmetic tab in Deep sky stacker , halos now gone completely around stars . Definitely recommend as the push towards LED lights will increase .

I saw this before but not sure what he means! shall I check or uncheck that option!

Hi all,

Recently I got my new Esprit 120 telescope and I wasn't able to use it until last night because of the awful weather that we had!. Last night was clear so I managed to get some images and I noticed that there are halos around bright stars as you can see in the image.
I put the filter between the field flattener and my camera when I captured these images, after some search online I read somewhere that I need to put the filter before the ff but I had no chance to test it yet.
Is there any idea that may help please? The filter suppose to be good quality (very expensive) so I wasn't expecting to get any halos!

This is a single image 120 sec not processed

Thanks

5 hours ago, MartinB said:

Well that's looking superb.  The full mosaic will be epic!

Thanks MartinB,

It may clear up tonight, if so I'll try to get more data! 

On 02/12/2019 at 21:29, AbsolutelyN said:

This one has been really hard work due to atrocious weather recently. What's with the clear cold days but cloudy nights? Made over about 6 weeks, taking an hour at a time during any available clear periods. I'll never forget the first time I saw M42 through my home made rickety wooden 8" reflector on a freezing January night when I was about 15. Far more detail here but still not quite the same experience.

Approx 18.2 hours from Bortle 5 skies. Hi res on Astrobin.
https://www.astrobin.com/ph1nb5/0/

 

 

That is very nice indeed!

M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
Finally, last week we had some clear nights🌘, so I did some deep sky imaging 😁
This image is about 10 hours total exposure time from a very light polluted area without LP filter!

I'm trying to do a mosaic with three panels.

For some reason, my guiding wasn't great, I don't like the star shape and colour!

Details:
Telescope: skywatcher Esprit 150ed apo triplet 🔭
Camera: Nikon D7100 unmodified 📷
Mount: skywatcher AZ EQ6 pro
Guide scope: skywatcher evoguide 50ed
Guide camera: Asi zwo 224mc
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Software used:
Imaging software: digiCamControl v2.1.1
Guiding software: PHD2 v2.6.6
Post-processing: Pixinsight v1.8, Adobe Lightroom.
Windows 10 Home.

Click the image for full resolution!

23 minutes ago, Craney said:

That's a beast...Is an EQ 6  big enough ??

 

Yes sure, I did tested it couple of times and it worked just fine.

My Sky-Watcher Esprit 150 ED PRO Triplet 😀

Hi all,

I've got Primaluce Lab 2" OnAxisLock Eyepiece Holder for Takahashi Telescopes (M72x1) adapter and I wanted to fit it to my esprit 150 focuser replacing the original 2" adapter.

Can anyone help me find any adapter that allow me to fit them together?

Thanks

https://www.firstlightoptics.com/adapters/primaluce-lab-2-onaxislock-eyepiece-holder-for-takahashi-telescopes-m72x1.html

My 12"OO UK on AZ-EQ6GT mount 

This is mine.

My precious