Knighty2112

Pretty meh here alas.

This is much better than all those other threads showing boring electronically gizmofied images of things that need 50 hours of integrated red, blue, yellow, and infra red data etc that take 5 hrs to process through even the fastest PC known after stacking the best of 50,000 images!  

<ducks and quickly runs for cover!> 

15 minutes ago, josefk said:

Oh dear. Well someone has to go next so from the sublime @mikeDnight 🙂 to the ridiculous but it is my first ever crack at lunar and my shoulder's are broad/skin thick so here we go i'll lower the bar a bit:

Done at the eyepiece just now - Swarovski ATX95 spotting scope at 70x. The moon was rising through quite hazy thin cloud but it was clear enough to have growing moments of clarity as it climbed slightly higher. 

Faber-Castell 101 white pastel pencil & Faber-Castell 101 white artists pen brush on black card.

 

I like ‘em! 👍🏻

Yes, looks like an issue with a bearing. Just took some photos of my 8SE goto mount and you can clearly see the bearing if you take the other covers off the other side. 

If you take the gears off and the collar with the grub screws, you should be able to see if the bearing has totally gone. With the amount of movement I suspect it has broken.

Hello from the UK. Hope you get some great views with your new scope. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Quite easy to spot with binos or a scope. Just been observing it tonight/early morning with pretty much a full moon washing everything out, but still easy to nab the comet  still.

On 03/02/2023 at 14:57, FLO said:

I just remembered, I should mention our new parallelogram binocular mount (shown on the right of photo 1).

Designed entirely in-house, with help from some beta-testers. 

Not on our website yet, but it will be soon. I'll start a separate discussion when it is added. 

Be interested when launched!  

This is what I get when I set it to the scope and camera settings you show.

What object is the 2nd image showing?

Welcome back Grumpy! 👍🏻

Yes, a guy called Martin. I bought a C8 SCt off him, then sold it back to him a year or so later a couple of years back.

If going for larger version 70 or 80mm binos then the weight goes from 1.7kg upwards, so unless you pump iron regularly  then you will need either a monopod, mount or dedicated binocular mount to view through them with well for any length of time. For binos less 60mm or less you can normally hold these up quite easily.

Yep. Jupiter. If you look south and a little higher up you’ll see Mars too if clouds allow. 
 

Nice shot. 👍🏻 Too cloudy over here to see any thing alas. 

My most used EP is the Baader zoom mk4, which allows it to go from been 24mm all the way down to 8mm, so not many times that I swap around other EP’s when viewing multiple different targets. Depending on which scope I use too this works pretty well in all of my scopes. Only times I use any different EP’s are if I am doing high magnification lunar or planetary viewing.

Where you trying to observe the sun during the day with the solar filter fitted on the opening of the scope, or the moon/stars at night time? If the later make sure the solar filter is not fitted as that will block everything else out apart from the suns light.

Sad news. Met John a year or so ago after buying something off him and picked it up from his house on the way back home from my work I was doing down in the London area. He was a very nice and pleasant man, and his contributions on here will be very much missed indeed! 
 

Condolences to his family and friends. 

Been pretty much the same here in East Yorkshire as well. Slim pickens lately apart from the moon and planets.

Get an air duster or hairdryer on it and see if it blows off. Certainly not normal from new. If it does blow off to a satisfactory degree then all good and well. If not I would request a new mount, not just the polarscope.

4 hours ago, kynthia_j said:

With no equipment it works fine. I actually tried it with equipment again this morning and it seems to be working just fine too. Maybe I didn't get the balance right, even though I checked.

Another question, a few days ago I more or less heard the motor do the same thing when I was not using the controller, but very quietly. Is that bad?

That could be a balance issue. Double check that it is balanced well in azimuth and altitude. Make sure any EP weight changes don’t cause any misbalance if they are significantly heavier in weigh between the two when changing any.

Does it run like this even with no scope or equipment attached? If so then I would definitely contact the supplier you bought it off if under warrenty and get it replaced if so. Make that no extra power is been syphoned off by other equipment on your power strip as suggested also to make sure that the issue lies not with power but either faulty motor, or maybe gears set too tightly during build in the factory.

Rupes Recta. Otherwise known as the straight wall. 

Mostly look at the moon during phases, but not too much when near full, although with a filter on you can still see some surface features too then on the disk. AsI live in a bortal 7 suburban skies I don’t bemoan the moon too much as it has to be good seeing even on the darker nights to see any fainter dso’s, and I hate dragging my 10” Newtonian light bucket out so generally don’t miss the fainter stuff too much!  

Some new reading material for the new year. One on the Mercury missions from Nasa, and the other on the mythology of the night sky. Bought the last one at the end of November, but due to delays it has just arrived this morning by RM, along with the other book delivery from the ‘A’ place too. 
 

Nice selection Nick. Skull and cross bones (NGC 1502) lies at the bottom (depending on how you view it of course in the eyepiece) of Kemble’s star cascade, so each would fit in nicely in a widefield view, so could bag two things in one view.