davedownsouth

My new(ish) one, the Skywatcher Esprit 120ED APO Triplet

I have got the one you've got Olly and find it very useful.  Best result I have ever got was at Turf Hill in the New Forest last New Moon.  At ~1:30am I got a value of 21.1, and this took ~2 - 3 seconds to registrar (at 20 or less it is <0.5 second, pretty much instant).  Closer to home, the best I have seen is 20.8 in East Tisted, which is just 4 miles down the road from me.  Would love to see what a 21.5 plus site is like  

My cases have pluck foam but I don't remove the cubes. I break a section of cubes a little smaller than the eyepiece away from the adjoining cubes then push the eyepiece down onto that section, which depresses, and the eyepiece is pressed in place by the foam spikes in the lid of the case. After a few days the depression has taken the shape and countours of the eyepiece but, if you need to change things around, you can pull the whole section of cubes out and it soon resumes the original level ready for a different configuration.

I shall try this with the new case, sounds a lot more sensible

How do you guys manage to cut the foam so straight? Amazing.

For me you just pull the little squares out of the Maplin's case .  Just bought another new one today; seems a shame to wreck it, but needs must.

My camera just slides into the end on the scope like an eye piece.  Very simple.

I have got the iNova PLB-Mx camera which I use for taking photos of the moon & planets and I think it is excellent.  No cooling, but I did manage to get some very nice shots of M81 / M82 using it .

Cheers, will investigate this tomorrow

This is what I see:-

It's - Atik camera ( Ascom ) - on mine.

Update your Ascom drivers !!

Dave

Thanks for the info Dave; I have dowloaded the latest version of Ascom, but I do not see the Atik camera ( Ascom ) option in the drop down menu?

Hi All,

hopefully a quick question, but using PHD2, what camera should I select in the pull down menu?  I am using a Atik GP as a guide camera and this does not appear in the list?

Cheers,

Dave

Just Wow

I bought this today 

Starguider Eyepiece Carry Bag / Eyepiece Carry Case