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You can record 5x liveview on the 600D and 1100D this gets quite close to 1x1. Canon 70 and 80D is 1x1 with 5x liveview.

No centre 1x1 crop mode on the 600D The so called crop just interpolates the whole frame and that makes the image fuzzy.

750D excellent 379 tops lowish count 750D like new 399 low count 60D excellent lowish count 300 tops 60D good camera for planets and normal AP haggle a bit you never know

MPB will give you an idea about prices.

You can easily do this with the Canon DPP, it comes free with the camera. You can see the RAW unedited, one click as a jpg or all as jpgs.

Not sure, does it cover full frame? It appears with a flatner it does 43mm which is close if that is correct.

Full frame means you need a scope or lenses that can cover the sensor APS-C is most likely the best way to go. Long exposures as such will not hurt the sensors but be careful when it's really hot outside. Obviously you don't want the sensor temperature going to high. My Canon 60Da has done hundreds of exposures of 10minutes with no problems.

Yes. Photoshop on it's own afaik does not read RAW files. Adobe Camera RAW is the bit that does the decoding. There are other programs that can read them as well, Canon software for one. Most RAW decoders rely on dcraw which I believe is now not updated apart from what libraw do with it.

What version of PS do you have? If it's not up to date Camera Raw will most likely not open the file. To open 80D files you will need version 9.5 of Camera Raw as a minimum.

Should do the trick, still have my two 60Da, nice cameras.

Congratulations on getting your licence. Being an amateur does'nt restrict you to just listening to GRAVES. You can actually contact other amateurs by the mode almost anytime. Obviously the showers are the best times but sporadic meteors do offer many chances. Most of my MS contacts back in the 90s were via very high speed CW and sporadic meteors. Spent many a early morning listening for those short pings to piece together a QSO and occasionally a couple of short bursts it would be over quickly. If you ever hear me on the bands give me a call, I have a page on QRZ which shows my set up. My main activities are FT8/FT4 all HF bands except 160metres, same for VHF, 4metres, 2metres, 70cms and 23cms. I'm also QRV Es’hail-2 QO-100 satellite all the time I'm in the shack. 73 Mike G1HWY

The Canon 200mm f2.8 is a nice lens. If you get a really good one f2.8 is achievable.

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A few Quadrantids from last night through to today. There was almost continuous activity from around 8.00 t0 9.00am this morning. Pick the best screen shots of the ones that I looked at.

If you want to do planets and Moon go for a 60D or 550D as these have true 1 to 1 crop mode. Both bodies would be in your budget take a look at MPB, always bargains on there. For broadband targets you don't need it modded.

I have an old GODOX one that works just fine. As long as it's for Canon you should be ok whatever you chose. Btw I have the expensive Canon one but it does no more than a cheap one.

A lot of detail in there, the Tak doing the business.

Plenty of cloud with every filter. 😉

Looks mighty good to me, I would be well pleased with that once your fixed outside. My view towards GRAVES is restricted by the South Downs so I do not always see everything. I do get a direct signal on and off but it must be the back lobes as they would need to be close for me to hear them. I do get the odd satellite but I'm sure that must be off the back lobe as again I believe I cannot hear the main beam from here.

Yes, that's the main problem. Most lenses will not be good wide open, there are exceptions like the Samyang 135mm and most of the others are very expensive.

a clear sky might help 🤔

Would think most FM stations would run a fair bit of power, more the better.

How about an FM radio station. Chose one you cannot hear direct and that is up to 1000km away.

Change the desiccant. Mine used to ice all down one side, after doing the desiccant it was ok.

Last night was very active. After midnight most captures had two or more pings, I gave up counting as there were over 1500 screen shots. Here are the ones that stood out.