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Woodsman

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  1. Thank you all for the helpful comments. I hesitated before posting my dumb questions on this forum but I have been very encouraged by your replies. I don't expect to have the skill to produce startling images but anything vaguely recognisable will give me great satisfaction rather like my first stab at a lunar image attached (I had to use a 2x Barlow (?) lens in order to achieve a sort of focus and guess the exposure)
  2. Good morning Gents, Thank you for the observations and advice. You have given me some other things to think about/try. I am located at about 53 north so if I lower the latitude setting by how much can I do so and will that not make alignment (and hence tracking) inaccurate? I guess the comment about which mount to use reminds me of the old joke "if you want to get there I wouldn't start from here" .....I wish I could chop and change but the budget won't stretch !!! I currently have been doing only visuals but I would like to try some imaging other than the lunar efforts with my Orion/Canon EOS 45D that I dabbled with. I read somewhere that a Newtonian such as I have is probably the wrong scope to use so I wouldn't wish to splash out on an expensive camera could you recommend a suitable entry level for trying DSO with my scope/mount setup?
  3. Hello I have a skywatcher 300 Newtonian/ NEQ6 PRO mount on a fixed pier and I am having difficulty in achieving consistent balance. I can balance RA with the counterweight shaft horizontal and DEC with the tube horizontal but as soon as I move either the counterweight shaft or the tube away from horizontal the balance is totally disturbed and I need to add weights to the balance shaft or to manually restrain the tube from moving. I am obviously doing something wrong but having studied several Youtube "how to" videos I am lost. I previously had no problems with a 6 inch tripod mounted Orion Newtonian. Can anyone help me please?
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