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Welcome Ian 

Are you on the Pentax user uk forum by any chance 

James mine is a mid 2012 i7 2.9 16gb ram

neil 

James thanks I will not be upgrading to big sur as my MacBook Pro is too old 

Neil 

Hi I have just upgraded to 6 pro has it was 1/2 price on Apple App Store and it goes automatically on my iPad at £19.95 Not heard about 7 

neil

External FireWire one 

Neil

Hi James sorry for butting in I am new to Apple MacBook Pro will a iSight webcam work with oacapture

neil

Hi you could try making a Hartmann mask

https://www.diyphotography.net/make-use-hartmann-mask-quick-easy-focusing/

Hi

if it was me buying it and I had the money  I would get the 6" nexstar

has I have the 6" evolution and you would get better views with the 6""

over the 5" and I got mine from Adam at RVO

Yes stupid predictive text

just edited

Hi just inherited my dads old hornby Dublo 3 rail railway 2 of the locos run I think I need a more powerful controller thinking about a gauge master G controller I need 16 volts and 2 amp

Nice set up but what’s the black thing in between the two mounts and the silver thing on top the small scope

Have you got a photo from the back please 

Just now, Wirral man said:

thats where i got mine from 2 weeks ago 

Fairly local to me 

6 minutes ago, russp said:

34 30second subs with a dslr and a zoom lens (set at 380mm) on a SA from a semi rural UK garden

 

That’s very good

46 minutes ago, knobby said:

Thanks, Telescope house were cheaper and less delivery charge too .

No problem 

1 hour ago, knobby said:

Any of you peeps know where I can get a AP-R3N (N3) 

Its hopefully the cable for the sam to a Nikon D5300 ?

FLO say, unavailable.

Cheers

Rother valley optics are showing stock

Some very nice images there 

what telescope is that in photo one

Not Astro related 

19 hours ago, wsg said:

Hello all.  Steve I took your advise and posted again.  I managed to get my exposure time with the Star Adventurer up to 120 seconds and shot 160 images of M42.  This is the result.

stock Canon 7D;  160 @80seconds  ISO 1600;  No flats, darks etc..

William Optics Zenith 61;  Star Adventurer

DSS Adobe Camera Raw; Photoshop CC

I think I pushed the brightness up a bit too much and added some noise.   But it was worth it for the nebulosity detail!!   One question I  have is what is everyone's experience in max exposure time with the Star Adventurer and a 200mm-400mm lens like mine?

 

 

 

 

 

Really great image 

I am thinking about getting a small frac for my SA did you use a flattner on you WO 61 and what else did you need to put your camera on 

I have being looked at a Altair Astro light wave 66 ed-r or the star wave 70 ed

neil

19 hours ago, wsg said:

Hello all.  Steve I took your advise and posted again.  I managed to get my exposure time with the Star Adventurer up to 120 seconds and shot 160 images of M42.  This is the result.

stock Canon 7D;  160 @80seconds  ISO 1600;  No flats, darks etc..

William Optics Zenith 61;  Star Adventurer

DSS Adobe Camera Raw; Photoshop CC

I think I pushed the brightness up a bit too much and added some noise.   But it was worth it for the nebulosity detail!!   One question I  have is what is everyone's experience in max exposure time with the Star Adventurer and a 200mm-400mm lens like mine?

 

 

 

 

 

Really great image 

I am thinking about getting a small frac for my SA did you use a flattner on you WO 61 and what else did you need to put your camera on 

I have being looked at a Altair Astro light wave 66 ed-r or the star wave 70 ed

neil

1 minute ago, Bobby1970 said:

This image was taken with my DSLR. Only used the gp cam for polar alignment. :-)

Thanks should have seen that when you say 60x60 secs 

2 hours ago, Bobby1970 said:

At the weekend i stuck my Altair Lightwave 72ED-R on my SA just to see what i could do. I think its 400mm ish focal length.

 

This was 60x60sec after using the polar alignment tool in sharp cap with the scope and altair gp cam first. It is also cropped a little too.

Nice image thinking about getting that scope myself have you ever put a dslr on the scope

These two and TLAO

Here's mine at a star party 

Janet

glat to help 

Hi janet

the az-123 is for the HD scope

and the az-132 is for the evolution scopel

the HD version might need a bigger notch