Knighty2112

Jet stream killing the views here on Jupiter and Saturn, although GRS can be seen in steadier moments.

Great result. Well done!  

Picked up an hour ago UPS collection centre, and bought off flightyfishcake on here, a Celestron Skyris 274C camera. Seems to work great on the chimney on the roof over the road! Lol!

57 minutes ago, JamesF said:

Which led to this:

James

Alas a cracking good show it was actually! 😖

1 hour ago, johninderby said:

You can not be serious indeed. 😂

 

Those were the days! Seriously!  

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

On the day you get TWO packages!!!!

You cannot be serious.....

Oh yeah of little faith!  

Actually, surprisingly it was and still is. Managed Jupiter, Saturn, double double, ring nebula and a few moon shots for tests via my Canon afocally, of which my first effort was probably best, although only a single shot. Plan to stack some of them tomorrow.

Can also use an Ipad too with this app.

You can use bulb in manual mode, but you have to hold down button for the length you want to have the exposure. However, if you have it connected to your phone (Android or Apple), you can use the Canon Connect app and connect via wifi to the camera and control to bulb off the screen from your phone, so this works a treat. I’ve used it to get longer than 30 seconds exposure no problem. 

Avoid the astromaster. Get one of the other two. 

57 minutes ago, geordie85 said:

To go with my moon coin

I saw these on e-bay and was tempted to get one. What’s the quality like in the flesh?

1 hour ago, xtreemchaos said:

thanks Gus, darn weather been terrible this year mate, hope you have had better up north. charl.

Been pretty bad here too Charl as well sadly.  

A C8 on a good mount will be much better to use than a 200P, so thumbs up for a C8 from me.

Enjoyed reading your account of both events. Very nice!  

Package No;2 arrived earlier on too. A nice Baader 2” clicklock diagonal. For the mount that I’ll be using for a while I’ve put a slightly longer dovetail on the scope to allow fitting a counter weight to the front end of the scope to give better balance on the current mount, especially when at higher declinations.

23 minutes ago, paulastro said:

Nice one!  You'll have some great views through it, and it looks great too

Thanks. Yes, had an Altair Astro ED 66mm ‘frac a while back which gave me cracking pin sharp views, but sold it on. If this one gives similar views it definitely won’t be getting sold on. Just testing the focuser on it by keeping it at 90 degrees with a diagonal and one of my heaviest EP’s in. Not moved a fraction on the 2 speed gear, which holds much better than a Crayford focuser I think, unless you spend crazy money on a top end focuser.

Package   No;1 arrived just 20 mins ago. New ‘frac to get me back in the mood for astronomy again. 

Package No; 2 should be landing in about an hour or so to complement it too! Fingers crossed for some clear skies later on this evening for a first lighting!  

 Nice work Charl! 

I would say most definitely, yes!

Patience grasshopper! Patience!  

Why is it staring at the ground instead of up in the air? 😳😳😳

In Cornwall camping with my family to observe the eclipse. Sadly, normal British weather got in the way with grey skies and clouds, so didn’t see the eclipse, just experienced the darkness when it happen. We did see a brief peek of the sun through clouds after the event as the moon rolled off the sun, but again this was quickly swallowed up by more clouds. 

Nice report Doug. Not done any observing for absolute ages, so nice to see the planets are still up there twirling around.  

Popped into The Works after picking an item up from Argos, and managed to bag the pretty decent bargain below up for just £3.  Bought it for the maps of Mars at the back of the book, but looks like a good nice lite read anyway. Worth checking out for the price if your near one of the stores. 😀

Wait for Skysafari to come up on there quite often 50% offers (which seem to be every 2 to 3 months or so) and snap up the Pro version for half price.  

32 minutes ago, Knighty2112 said:

Glad it fitted into your existing tripod OK Doug.  

Just finished putting up a shelf for my Celestron Omni 120mm to sit on when not in use. It normally sat on the Skytee 2 mount until required. Now I’ve got a corner of my room back with the Skytee 2 mount gone I wonder what I can fill it with? Hehe!  

Well, didn’t take too long to fill up that space again! The C8 on the AVX goto Mount fits in to that corner much better than the Skytee 2 Mount did. And the Celestron Omni 120mm can rest on the new shelf created for it. Wonder how long it will stay as tidy as that? Hehe!