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Ceramus

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  1. Ceramus
    Beautiful sketch. My favorite DSO.
  2. Ceramus
    I've seen it several times last month from Spain, but, must confess, with a 300mm Dobson. Couldn't spot it in my 15x70.
  3. Ceramus
    Get capture!
  4. Ceramus
    "INVADERS FROM MARS", 1950'S B-movie (probably the very first film I ever saw). The kid had a small scope with which he saw the spaceship land and his dad was an astronomer with a proper telescope in his observatory. Seen it a few more times since.
  5. Ceramus
    I love the 8mm and 12mm, used all time instead of various Mead and SW plossls in my EP case.
  6. Ceramus
    Beautiful 'report'. I was also amazed when I saw the Gas Giant and his moons for the first time at 3 in the morning when I was only 12!
  7. Ceramus
    Nice sketch, captures the light perfectly.
  8. Ceramus
    Very nice sketch. Thanks for sharing.
  9. Ceramus
    I have the SW 300p and I'm very happy with the 12mm and 8mm BSTs. I tend to use them much more often than my MEAD plossls. I also use a Seben 24-8mm zoom and GSO 2.5x barlow with good results, especially on planets.
  10. Ceramus
    Excellent seeing last night from N London, Cassini Div seen in my 130p Heritage (8mm EP + 2.5x barlow). Jupiter even better, at least 5 belts discerned. In my 8" LX10 and 300p dob I usually see Cassini Div every time in the apparitions when rings are favourably inclined.
  11. Ceramus
    Fantastico!
  12. Ceramus
    Nice images, great detail, thanks for sharing.
  13. Ceramus
    Great capture, thanks fo sharing .
  14. Ceramus
    The FOV of a 15x20 is not too large, so finding faint targets is difficult. Which Skymaster 15x20 model do you have? I've just bought the15x20 Skymaster PRO and it came with a tripod adaptor that also serves as a finder bracket for a red-dot finder. Using one of these and a sturdy tripod would make the task much easier.
  15. Ceramus
    Great scope, many nights of enjoyment. Does need a shroud (mine's a yoga may) and I made it a trolley platform to wheel it out onto the terrace. No need to remove the OTA from the base then.
  16. Ceramus
    Beautiful image. Thanks for sharing.
  17. Ceramus
    When I travelled to Chile for the solar eclipse of 2019 I took a Heritage 130 with the AzGTi in a large rucksack as cabin luggage (a bit heavy but doable) with tripod in the hold suitcase. Worked fine, great views of southern DSOs from the Atacama desert!
  18. Ceramus
    Excellent sketch, thanks for sharing.
  19. Ceramus
    The finder harness is a very wise precaution...once, when removing a large cover off my 300p flex tube in the dark the finder slipped off and nearly fell into the fully extended OTA, which would undoubtably have caused grave consequences to the primary...I've secured it with wire to the bracket but cable ties are more neat.
  20. Ceramus
    I've got a 12" SW GoTo kept (not permanently) in the foldable motorbike shelter below. Works fine.
  21. Ceramus
    I keep my 12" dob in a lockable/extendable motorcycle https://www.feelgooduk.net/. The cover rolls off and I'm ready to observe from the parked scope.
  22. Ceramus
    Lovely sketch, thanks for sharing.
  23. Ceramus
    I have a 20 yr old Mead 8" SCT. Optically still quite good, just the tracking a bit iffy. Instead of upgrading I went for a SW 12" GoTo flextube to complement, as I'm mainly a visual observer.
  24. Ceramus
    Great sketch.
  25. Ceramus
    excellent capture!
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