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I may be struggling to get any decent planetary images from my C9.25 but, it has to be said, the quality of the observing on the moon is, literally, out of this world....
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C9.25 OTA ordered....now to work out how to explain it when it turns up..... Thanks FLO! :-)
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Well, first night out with CCD since May... 4 hours with nothing to show for it other than everything that could go wrong....going wrong...still, at least I know everything works after the summer lull... here's to many long dark nights!
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First decent clear night in ages.... Hello Moon! Guess I'll be imaging you tonight then.... :-)
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Note to self - next time I'm imaging the BLUE Channel....remember to change the filter... it was going so well.... :-)
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Guiding Calibration almost done.... ssssshhhhhh......
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Hi Rob
Well, I pulled it - 414EX and power supply coming from FLO, scored a manual (yes, I know) filter wheel from Steve on the forum and sourced LRGB Baader filters from Astro Buy and Sell. That will be enough to get me going and saved me a few quid that I will keep aside to get an IDAS LP filter/Ha filter in the next month or so, once I know what I am doing with the kit.
Thanks again for all your help - I may not have gone with your exact advice, but it has been very helpful in knowing where I am heading!
Clear Skies!
Cheers
Mark
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Sounds like a plan to me! Im just wondering why you chose an additional PSU - and chose not to run it off a bench supply? (all my stuff is powered by one big phat PSU).
As long as you get the Ha by May/June you wont miss much. But Cygnus should be your first stop when you do get one, its an easy place to get lost in for a few months. But for your first hit, M13 is a good choice - it will give you a chance to work on your star handling & focus, and a chance to practice layer masking (for the core).
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Hi Rob
Do you mean like the one's Maplin do - or on the FLO site (Although that is not available at the moment)? Power is one of the things next on my list but, again, something I need to look into before I start trying various options. With your bench supply, can you connect several things to one unit- the ones I have seen only have one pair of binding posts. BUt, presuming you have enough AMPs I guess you can run several items if you can connect them all.
Yeah, hope to get Ha sorted in the next month or two, and was looking at M13 as a possible target to cut my teeth on yesterday when playing around with FOV calculators... so at least I am on the right wavelength with something.
How do you chose your targets? Do you have a "guide" or is it just years of experience, looking up and getting used to the night sky?
Cheers
Mark