Jonk

Fantastic! That is all. Truly inspiring.. Must try harder.

As I said, it had a broken focuser so we chopped half the height off and ground off the plastic teeth (these were mashed). I also removed half of the focuser tube so it didn't protrude into the light path.

The focuser just slides up and down and I've fitted a securing screw to lock it. Not the easiest to focus, but it's only a test really.

A barlow wasn't wanted as it reduces the amount of light and the scope is slow as it is.

We'll be lucky to get more than a minute per sub on it I reckon.

Barlow required, unless there are mods happening...

Fairly drastic ones!

Exactly...The Dremmel has been in action!

It had a broken focuser so that was sacrificed and is now half the height it was.

Very interesting info on the 130PDS.

Does anyone have any images taken using the longer 130/900?

We're in the process of butchering one that had a broken focuser, to see what can be achieved using a 450D on a motorised EQ2.

Here's mine...a lot to learn and more data clearly needed!

Taken last night around midnight.

Well...that's a high bar to beat!

Gorgeous - the reason I wanted to get into this game was for images like that.