Mick J

Welcome Callum, I just finished reading Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Coppel, interesting and touching as well as easy reading.  Did you see the enhanced pictures on the BBC news web site earlier in the week, stunning.  Hope you find SGL an interesting place.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52264743 

I have to agree with @Sunshine,   wonderful stuff.

Canon 350d,  is getting a bit old now,  but could be used, not sure how you would set long exposure.

You may find some info on this page useful : APT canon matrix

Some Canon RS-60E3 switches on eBay & some Intervalometer Timer Remote's that claim to support 350d's

Good stuff @SiriusDoggy,  enjoyed that very much.

I had to check the date !!

Welcome Gary,  this is the best place to ask and you will get great advice, thanks for bringing a smile to my face inadvertently I expect. 

270Mb,  they soon mount up, did the last part of the Pennine Way in a past life - we did not qualify for a free drink off Wainwright, still remember a line about the path "heading unerringly to the bar".  Wonderful place.

Nice, thanks Piero.   Saw this from the front door step, passed over the top of the house, run out to back garden to see it still bright disappearing off in the distance (towards Letchworth ?).  Moon, Venus & the ISS bright and crisp, a really good one.

Well worth a zoom in,  lovely.

I am touching up some scanned slides (1960 to 1980) and find the default presets easy and good - colour & whitebalance etc.  The 'inpainting' brush has amazed me.  The current offer looks like good value to me. Some PS plugins work with it as well.

A 90 day free trail if you want to.

Special offer, 35 days left, various Affinity software, mac & win.

Windows app now £24.24,    https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/

Also IrfanView has a Negative/invert option and a nice add border/frame option.  Windows, free and lots of other great options.

Hi Peter,   no, is the answer.   Never did attempt to use it, it looked interesting and still is.

Coming along, loving the block supports and string/strap arrangement to the ceiling, router story sounds horrendous, big power tools eh.  

1 hour ago, Frank the Troll said:

Mine has been flashed, had it set-up on sharpcap on W10 for a play

Will it run on W10 frank ?

It will be hardwork, waiting for clear skies, new telescope and camera not to mention all sorts of software to process the pictures you produce.  Remember the lens that came with the camera can be used for wideangle views of the sky and a longer telephoto lens can produce outstanding star/planet pictures.

Go for it Chris,  what a good idea and great way to remember your friend Marc.

Fascinating, and well put together, thanks

I would say it's all to much hassle,  a guide here to update the firmware   this may or may not work or even be needed......or may even break something.

We used to use a WinXP netbook with a range of Philips webcams, toucam/SPC880/900 also have an Astronomisers LongExposure version we have never got to work properly..........  secondhand netbooks are cheap............

Astronomiser rehoused the internals from Philips or possibly other cameras (logitec ?),  mod used a serial lead,  the usb adapter (as above) came in different types, some worked.  What software have you tried the camera with, or perhaps you just plugged into a usb port and expected plug and play.

Sorry not to be more helpful, things have moved on a lot since 2006 and I think these webcams have been left behind, may be an idea to start a thread asking for guide camera suggestions, I am not really up to date but am sure some suggestions would be helpful.

A link form Cloudy Nights   looks like it may be a SPC900 modified with a Black&White chip, nice thing to have back then, you could try and contact Andy at http://www.astronomiser.co.uk/

Good luck with it, may not be worth the hassle with modern cameras available, or perhaps modify a cheap cmos webcam.

I may be wrong but these cameras hail from 2006 and were hot stuff back then, I expect Win10 has no support for them and you may need to run under WinXP or may be lucky with Win7.

Outstanding work (looking for a zoomed in view) love the colours, neb and stars.

Have a good look over the Cheap Astrophotography web site and also contact Juan, I am not sure of the what and why of 'colour filter array' ?

Lots of information on the Gary Honis site, well worth a read.

Looks good on my laptop, very nice.

Try this OpenStax book, downloadable in different formats, Astronomy from Rice University.

As above, do look at APT as per @tooth_dr above, lots of info and is for canon mostly, good info on the canon matrix page.