neil phillips

Hi guys wonder if anyone knows how to find cheap rings for a skywatcher capricorn 70mm f12.8 frac. Attaching to a EQ3 Would guiding rings work. Its quite light

Nice processing on that one. Good to see you still in the game

Hi Pete lovely natural processing. Good detail.

Your working through the problems just fine. Its calm air you need. Mars needs it even more than jupiter. Because of its size i reckon. I am going to be rusty thats for sure, when i am running again. Best thing is to enjoy the imaging problems and all.

yeah i found it helped a bit. Switch off anti virus too. Doesnt looked overcooked at this size on my screen. Blowing it up would show the true story. But looks nice as is. I reckon under good seeing your capable of getting better. I remember your work under good seeing. From what i am seeing you aint hit it yet. How fast is mars now receding. Wondering how long you got

Improvement from the other day. You clearly just need good seeing. Good shot for the conditions. You defraging ?

No not imaging Peter. Still have the Orion. No mount or camera. Not sure if i will ever start up again. I doubt it. Still love astronomy of course. And pop in here from time to time. Good to see you still taking quality images

Nice images Peter. Good to see your still in the saddle.

Nice one Pete. Not easy that low. As you say seeing must have been quite stable to get a result like that this low. Good to see you still imaging.

Nice. John Especially like the top mono. .Good colour shot. Not too saturated, just enough.

Thanks Rob glad you found it interesting.

Cheers guys. Not sure if Jupiter will be enough to get me imaging again. For one thing I don't even have a mount. Though I do still have the Orion 10" Will have to see.

Hi Pete Good to see you. Yes agreed it can be seen on the cover photo. Just saw what I think is Jupiter earlier, its returning slowly.

Hi guys Consider me retired from lunar imaging. Miss it sometimes come to think of it. But looking at my old images I was struck by how beautiful the colours have come out on this. With browns reds, and blues and greens. Clicked full size. Notice how the good resolution of the equipment reveals a wealth of subtle colour and detail almost everywhere you look. Its not just extra resolution of detail. But extra resolution of colour too. Better resolution would reveal even more slight variations of colour I am sure. I was also struck how natural the saturation is. So natural that you could almost be forgiven for thinking you could see the moon like this with yours eyes alone, with some way of increasing colour sensitivity. Anyway as I say the most colour can be seen clicked full size its the first image of the page. See if you agree

That's a impressive garden Must take a long time to do the mowing

My 300p needs two fans one at the front and back for quite some time 2 hours cooling from indoors to give reasonable results on planets. that Mirror design is different though looks thinner, but also larger