Hello all,
Kind of a re indroduction as I joined a while ago when I purchased 127 poweseaker(James Bird) then bought a few bits to make up for realising I'd bought a naff scope, red dot finder, colimantor (I think) and a set of revelation plossl eye pieces... But I ended up giving up in the end..
I'm constantly looking up and know the night sky reasonable well.. And the itch has returned to own a scope again (but better than the last lol)..
I'm thinking of taking it one step further and reaching into the relms of astrophotography...
I've been searching and reading through posts on here for the last couple of weeks and watched alot of videos on yt but I felt myself getting quite overwhelmed lost in all the information
I don't have an infinite budget... But the 1st steps to getting the right gear to build from would be a step in the right direction(this time) ..
My 1st purchase will be the book making every photon count which I've seen recommended time and time again...
My view is to turn my spare room into my work station for this hobby, I have a decent size tilt n turn window so imagine I can poke the telescope out of there, it has a view between east and south, from about 52° uk
What's peoples view on this kind of approach (out of a window)?
I understand my window for viewing will be limited but I should get some nice objects passing through the field of view... I think my main target will be DSO's and few planetary shots would be nice... I realise there's not a one stop scope to fit the bill for both..
What would you suggest for my scope? Was looking at a 130 or 150pds(which shouldn't be effected by wind being in a room) explorer on 3-2 mount... As I won't be seeing alot of the sky imagine goto mount isn't worth it? And can fit RA motor and some simple upgrades at a later date... Unless I find a nice second hand deal....
Would the above scope be OK or should I be looking more into apocromatic triplet?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated..
Sorry if I've gone on abit and spewed loads of random info out, my heads been full of stuff and hope this post will help me iron it all out...
Thank you in advance
Shaun