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  1. al-alami
    Hi all, Interesting question. Considering I am using the scope to image, should I be using a 2" collimator or does it not really make too much of difference? Thanks
  2. al-alami
    absolutely amazing
  3. al-alami
    I plan to give it one more go, before taking it to the next level .. maybe this weekend I will have some time during daylight ... I can feel the potential of the beautiful scope ... I hate that my mount is letting me down
  4. al-alami
    am using astro baby's one .. http://www.astro-baby.com/HEQ5/HEQ5-1.htm
  5. al-alami
    I do, I found several links to it (using the three little grub screws)... but every time I correct it one way, it shift almost the exact opposite when I return, and it sort of seems like its not rotating properly, hard to describe, but its almost like its elliptical and not round.
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    unfortunately not yet ... for some reason there seems to be a shift in the polarscope ... so it looks like I might have to take the mount apart and check everything on the inside .. plus I didn't get the chance to try out the guiding before I went to this dark site (I didn't want to be trying things out with lots of people around)
  7. al-alami
    beautiful
  8. al-alami
    this is about 20 seconds (more than that I get trailing at ISO 3200. Am using a canon 1200D in which I removed the IR filter. baby steps
  9. al-alami
    some more practice runs with my scope, considering my mount is misbehaving not too bad .. I think I guess you learn from your mistakes
  10. al-alami
    gorgeous
  11. al-alami
    Hi All, I think since I purchased my telescope we have more clouds in Jordan! ... coincidence? So last night I took my 130PDS up to the roof for the super moon .. and look ... clouds .. wonderful .. I guess the results aren't too bad
  12. al-alami
    I wish my first light was even 10% of this
  13. al-alami
    that looks gorgeous ... I can't wait till mine look like that
  14. al-alami
    Hi Adam, Quick question, how did you add a nose piece to the camera? (I assume you meant nose and not noise :p)
  15. al-alami
    I love how it feels very 3Dish
  16. al-alami
    stunning
  17. al-alami
    simply beautiful
  18. al-alami
    Hi Louise, Am downloading APT now, I guess I can try it out from the balcony till the moon starts behaving Fakhri
  19. al-alami
    Hi Louise, Thanks for that, I will look into it I guess summer nights are short so we can experiment and be ready for winter (cause winter is coming), mind you with 20 degrees at night here I can't wait I already have a Bahtinov mask, its just sometimes I can barely see through the camera to focus. Fakhri
  20. al-alami
    always great to get feedback from someone who is actually using it and trying to sell something its also funny that the st80 and the orion 50mm finder are very close in price
  21. al-alami
    Thanks Adam for all that will definitely give it a try and yes I have a Canon one of the big things about the filters is it would mean that I can shoot at home from the roof (at least as far as I understand). Let me put a question out there, I'm trying to work out which would be better for guiding my 130PDS, would a finderscope with a camera on it do? or should I go down the St80 route? I'm on a HEQ5. Am still trying to choose a guider as well, leaning towards the QHY5 at the moment (even they have many different type of it as well)
  22. al-alami
    Hi Adam, Honestly I've read all about this stuff, but of course reading isn't the same as doing. Temperature wise, hmmmm I guess as a ball part figure in the summer its in the 20-24 centigrade range at night, while in winter it can get into the minuses (but that isn't the usual). So I guess as I get better (and solve my mount issues and start guiding) then the long exposures will become a major problem because of sensor heat. When I said mono ccd I am sort of leaning towards the Atik 383L+ (if I can find the money). My biggest problem with ccd is that I hope at one point to make large prints from the pictures so I would need a might megapixel one. Also one of the reasons I am leaning towards the ccd (apart from the better quality and all that) is that I am finding it a real pain to focus through narrowband filters. I can't see anything through the viewfinder or on liveview, so for the time being I've just put them on the side till i can work out how to do it.
  23. al-alami
    I need to get myself a nice mono camera, I think my 130PDS would greatly enjoy it
  24. al-alami
    Uranium235, I only had about 30 minutes before the predawn started having an affect .. and given that my mount is having some personal issues I'm glad I got 1 or 2 sharp images
  25. al-alami
    Still a work in process, but I couldn't stop smiling for hours after I look this! My first nebula
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