Knighty2112

Its the comet tail from 342P/Soho shining like crazy.

Go to settings, solar system, turn off show comets.

Yeah, you get great views through these AA ED scopes. I’ve got both an 80ED f7, and a 102ED f11 ‘fracs which I use primarily for planetary, lunar, solar with the f11, and widefield with the f7 ‘frac. Stars are all pin sharp too.

 Nice. I’ll keep any eye on this then! 😉

Might be doable if clouds stay clear in the south. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Did you check where the cable plugs in to the hand controller, and especially inside the slot where the cable then plugs into the mount is correctly inserted? Worth a shot checking!

Glad you’ve got some clear skies. Clouded over solid here. Not even a glint of a star.  

Nice. You managed to nab the smaller group as well on view. 👍🏻

As there was some nice sunshine going on outside, I decided to view the larger sunspot group near the middle of the sun with my Omni 120mm ‘frac, and nabbed some avi’s with my ZWO ASI462 through my 2” lunt wedge. Stacked in Registax, edited a little on laptop and Photoshop, with a slight tweek too on my ipad to get some better details out of it. 
 

One to add to the viewing calendar. Ta! 👍🏻

5 minutes ago, vlaiv said:

Care to share what you've found? Simple link will be enough.

Well, I may have over exaggerated the extensive part in my research, but this certainly did my head in!  

https://medium.com/@phpdevster/how-telescope-aperture-affects-your-view-24507147d7fc

Turns out (after extensive research via Google!  ) that the answer is super complicated. So rather than trying to wrap my puny human  brain around these mysteries I’m just going to enjoy the views in my telescopes and EP’s as best as my old eyes and telescope optics allow!  

Not a scientific answer, but I think of the light as data, so with the larger scope your scooping up more data which means more detail seen. Smaller scope so less data, so less brightness. Thats my contribution anyway!  

For me with my most used eyepieces I guess the average is around twice a year. Basically only when any splodges start to appear when viewing through it etc does it get cleaned. 

Managed an hour from just gone 8pm until low cloud and haze rolled in at 9:15pm. Got great views of both shadows with my AA 102 ED  f11 ‘frac using a 6mm Starbase EP to give magnification of x187. Was surprised how easy it was to see the smaller shadow as easy as I could see it. The larger shadow was easy seen even at much lower magnifications. The addition of my semi apo filter made the views much better too. Pity that clouds then spoiled play. 

Forecast not looking great, but maybe a break around 8/9pm. If clouds allow then depending on seeing conditions might be hard to view the smaller shadow of Callisto. View at 8:30pm below from Skysafari. Fingers crossed!  

BST ED Starguider 3.2, 5 & 8mm EP’s are good contenders.

Wow! Must have been excellent seeing conditions to nab that then. Well done! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Seeing was OKish earlier on, but from 8:15 started to go downhill. Shadow of Io very clear in AA 102mm scope with Starbase 6mm EP. Back inside now getting warm as pretty chilly with the wind chill.

Turn off Highlight Objects in best of doubles here.

All double stars I believe. Turn off the show double stars option see if that does it.

These 85mm tube rings could be used if you put extra padding around the rings with some rubber/felt etc.

https://www.firstlightoptics.com/tube-rings/primaluce-lab-85mm-plus-tube-rings.html

Seeing good to poor. Could see the shadow of Io clearly when seeing steadied. Nice to spend some time at the scope just watching one thing happen. 😀

Got my goto out ready for later on. Was looking at Venus before it got too low, and got it trained on Vega as I am curious as to how long it will stay near the centre of FOV before it drifts off as only did a rough set up.

Should be able to position the rings so they go around the dob fixings.