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AndyM started following Hello from Poole, UK, ZWO ASI120MM Monochrome and SOLD Astronomik EOS Clip Filter CLS
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Hi all, I have for sale an Astronomik EOS clip filter CLS in excellent condition - very little used. I have used with a Canon 600d and an 1100d Asking £70 posted. Now sold
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Thanks for the tutorial Roger. I will read thoroughly and digest! Ta to everyone for the kind comments too.
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Hi Adrian, welcome to SGL from me, who's just up the road from you! Hope you enjoy your new hobby.
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AndyM started following Sun 220415, m101 and Jupiter 180315
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AndyM started following Skywatcher 200PDS HEQ5 Pro, First attempt at solar imaging, M51 from 8th April and 1 other
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A quick spur of the moment imaging session from yesterday evening.....all of five minutes! Taken with a Canon 1100d attached to Skywatcher 80ED with a solar filter. This is a stack of four frames, (ISO400 1/1000 sec exposure) put together manually in Photoshop, then the result put through RS6 for wavelets followed by a further small amount of processing in Photoshop. It's my first attempt at solar imaging....I can see another money-pit looming.....
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M51 from 8th April. My best result of this galaxy yet! 20 subs of 180 seconds plus 6 of 300 seconds @ iso1600 + 10 darks +10 flats. Using Canon 1100d on a Revelation 6"RC scope. Processed in DSS followed by Photoshop.
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Captured with the ASI120MC through the 200pds using a 3x Barlow. 2300 frames stacked in AS!2 then used wavelets in Registax.
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Skywatcher 200PDS HEQ5 Pro
AndyM replied to daveangie0110's topic in Getting Started General Help and Advice
I've used the 200pds with a DSLR and a ZWO camera for DSO and planetary imaging with very pleasing (to me!) results. It's a lovely scope, but it is big! For DSOs I tend to use the much smaller ED80 refractor, mainly because it's easier to set up. The HEQ5 Pro is a good mount for imaging, I owned one a few years ago and was always pleased with its performance. It coped with the Skywatcher 200 extremely well. As for extras, a light pollution filter might be a good idea. I recently bought one of these and it really does make a huge difference to the exposure length that can be achieved. -
I couldn't get rid of the fringing, but did get a bit more detail out! (Using RGB align improved the colour, but I lost a lot of edge detail for some reason...not sure why.)
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As long as it has Live View, which I seem to remember the 450 does have (may be wrong!!), then BYE will capture AVI files in planetary mode.
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Thanks! Yes, it was through the 200p. Total of 4000 frames.
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Not many gaps in the clouds here last night so I had a quick play at imaging Jupiter with the Canon 1100d. Captured through BYE. I used the 5x movie mode in BYE, ISO 800, 1/60 sec exposure. Scope was Skywatcher Explorer 200, 3x Barlow. Stacked and wavelets in Registax. Further processing in Photoshop. Quite pleased with the result.
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Hi Not posted here for a good while, but thought it was about time the scope and camera were allowed outside again! Taken on 15th Jan with modded 600d, SW 80ed, guided with QHY5 on a 9x50 finder, all on top of the CG5gt mount. 10 x 6 minute subs ISO800, couple of flats, no dark frames. I'm not too unhappy with this one.
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Lovely picture. One of my favourite parts of the world.