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Bodger

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  1. MANY thanks. Works perfectly and how useful by just using three clicks.
  2. I have an iPad Air 5th generation running version 15.6 and can say that it doesn’t work I’m afraid. When you select the SynScan app it says “not supported” which is a pain because Stellarium IS supported.
  3. THANK YOU so much @Dazzyt66 for taking the time to write the SynScan stuff. I will be using it on my iPhone / iPad and you answered so many of the questions I didn’t have to bother people with 😄 You mentioned you might be trying to get it to work with Stellarium and writing a ‘how to’. I will go look for that but I wanted to thank you for your hard work.
  4. Many thanks. Some good information there. Many thanks for the links 🙂
  5. Many thanks for the detailed reply. I certainly appreciate it and will investigate further. Thank you.
  6. Yes that’s a good point with the heat haze and all. Thank you.
  7. Thank you for the reply. Yes the tube length from eye piece to camera body seems pretty long and is obviously not that stable. I would consider changing to the 130 P-DS if I was able to get some form of good feedback that it was the way to go. I live in Germany and don’t speak the language well enough to have a discussion in a telescope shop 😉
  8. Thank you for the reply. The tower I initially used was in the far distance and in bright sunlight I guess maybe 4 or 5 mikes away? I do have another tower much closer which I could try. Regarding the wobble, I can use ‘live view’ and a cable release so that shouldn’t be too much of an issue I guess. I think my main concern, and disappointment, is the apparent inability to get a nice clean and sharp image. It could be the ‘cheap?’ Barlow lens that came bundled with the ‘scope? Although I’m a bit concerned at throwing even more money at this without a fairly high chance that it will improve things.
  9. Hello. I wonder if you can help me? I am trying to take pictures through my ‘scope but cannot get it to focus properly. To start with I bought a T-Mount and attached it to my 80D then attached it to where the eyepiece is installed. I extended the ‘scope focus through the entire travel and wasn’t able to get a view in focus. I read about using a Barlow lens but the T-mount wouldn’t fit it so I then bought a T-Mount Adapter (see link below) and still couldn’t see anything that was remotely in focus until I attached the combo to a Barlow lens and it finally gave me an image - of sorts - of a tower some distance away. The image is pretty dark and very ‘soft’ and nothing like as clear and sharp as I was hoping for. Also, because of the high magnification, the slightest touch of the ‘scope makes the image wobble whilst trying to get the image sharp is just awful. There is very little tolerance between it being in or out of focus. I have to say that I am very disappointed and was hoping for a much sharper image. I was also expecting to be able to use different eye pieces but that doesn’t appear to be possible. Whilst I have been a photographer for many years I am new to astrophotography and so far I’m pretty despondent. Can you cheer me up? Telescope: SkyWatcher Explorer 130M; D:130; F:900 Camera: Canon EOS 80D T-Mount T-Mount Adapter https://tinyurl.com/y5llubss
  10. Ah, new member. Apparently the free LE software has now been discontinued. Shame.
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