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30 minutes ago, Big Jim Slade said:

Clouds descended the moment it arrived of course! I'm hoping to get first light at the weekend. I will probably put a thread together to show how it copes with my Moravian 16200 - I was looking at the FSQ, but it looks like this can cover the chip well enough and has had some great reviews from people.

Thanks, I'll look forward to reading your thoughts. 

13 hours ago, Big Jim Slade said:

Big box for this one. Very excited....

 

How does this perform? 

I'm busy debating with myself between getting this and the 120ed

1 hour ago, Ama Noody said:

"Nebular Red" 

You've gotta love those marketing people.

 

Nebula red with an alien head instead of a horse head.

26 minutes ago, tooth_dr said:

It’s bigger in real life ?

 

A great camera and I regret selling mine.

56 minutes ago, LukeSkywatcher said:

An Alienware Lappy is next on my list.

It is an awesome machine. I'm so pleased I got one.

41 minutes ago, Alien 13 said:

The full workshop manuals for Alienware laptops are usually freely available off the Dell website should you want to take it apart, might just need a blow out though through the exhaust ports.

Alan

Thanks. I took the bottom off and gave the fans a good blowing, when I powered it back up it was fine, then I put it back on the arm of the sofa and it made the noise again. 

I guess it was just catching due to it not sitting flat. I must say I'm very impressed so far and I haven't even started using it for astrophotography yet. Still busy downloading drivers and programmes 

The hermes guy just delivered this to me. It's a nebula red alienware m17x r2. 

Now I just need to go through and download all the drivers and software needed for astro imaging (which is actually alot more than I though since I downloaded everything as and when I needed it on my old laptop).

I bought it off ebay for £430 and it sounds like there may be something wrong with the fans. They're making a rather loud clicking/ buzzing noise.

On 16/05/2018 at 21:35, Lockie said:

I received a Takahashi box too! Finally joined the club ??

You managed to get it then. Thanks for taking away my temptation 

On 08/05/2018 at 11:58, FLO said:

Optical problems with Esprit telescopes are very rare.

There were some mechanical issues (i.e. the 'capstan wheel' was sometimes fitted too tight). But they appear to have overcome that.

We still see occasional cosmetic issues but nothing unusual for Sky-Watcher (i.e. imperfections in the white powder coat). Nothing that would be considered a 'fault'. 

HTH, 

Steve 

Have you ever had an esprit fail the bench test?

I've had another play around since its horrid and cloudy outside. Hopefully it's an improvement on my first attempt which I've used a similar approach but not so heavy handed this time.

I've had a quick play and I must say it was a joy to work with such good data. I've also attached a screen print of the processing steps I took in photoshop (easier than listing everything I done, but also ran a high pass filter at the end)

Thank you for allowing me (well, everyone who want to) have access to your data. it really was such a pleasure.

Mine says 1:0.33

Not sure what it means but guiding always seems fine in real world action

Sorry for the bad weather. My new toys have finally arrived.

Qhy183c, geoptik adapter with a rotator and an adjuster for my dual rig thanks to Allinthehead. 

I wonder how long it will be before I can play with my new toys?

35 minutes ago, smr said:

Hi guys,

Here's my first DSO image taken last night. Ok for a first attempt ?

Orion Nebula by Joel Spencer, on Flickr

That's very good for a first attempt. Your black point looks a bit clipped but then it could just be how it looks on my phone 

I never check the bubbles to see if they are level. If I'm on uneven ground I roughly get it level by eye and never had an issue. But then I usually only shoot 1 min subs and loose basically none of them.

9 hours ago, Randalloverby said:

That gives me hope then cause mine isn't modded either. I am using the CLS clip filter so not sure how that will affect it.

This was taken from a "darker" site 10 miles out of town which will have helped 

10 hours ago, Randalloverby said:

Oh wow, is that the Witch Head Nebula in the bottom right and was your camera modded ?

No, my camera is not modded. Been thinking about it but to get my 6d modded it'll cost around £200. Not sure it'll be worth it since it has good HA response as it is.

18 minutes ago, Randalloverby said:

Nice, I thought very seriously of trying for that target but ran out of time. Maybe on my next outing.

It's been on my list for a while but never got round to it 

1 minute ago, Randalloverby said:

Oh wow, is that the Witch Head Nebula in the bottom right ?

Yeas it is. I was torn between getting this in the frame or M78. 

Here's a quick 1 hour image I took last night after work with my canon 6d and Samyang 135mm.

60 second subs

2 minutes ago, kendg said:

I have both and find BYEOS is more useful for me (and it's Canadian) .

As stated APT does DSLR and dedicated astro camera. Both are reasonably priced.

I have both too 

I use the one I bought for my WO star71, works just fine. 

Just now, Anthonyexmouth said:

can you get them for camera lenses?

Do you have a bahtinov mask? They're great for finding perfect focus.

Out on the middle of nowhere after I finished work.

They are both excellent pieces of software. You can't go wrong with either. If you think you might purchase a dedicated Astro camera at some point in the future I'd recommend apt as BackyardEOS is only for dslr whereas apt can do both.

Even though it's out of focus it looks like you've got good polar alignment. Nice round stars is what we all aim for. 

Well done

3 minutes ago, Icesheet said:

I have a question for Star Adventurer users. After polar alignment can you release the clutch knob slightly and to help frame a target or by doing this do I compromise my polar alignment?

You can but I'd suggest checking polar alignment afterwards aswell just to be on the safe side and to be sure.