Pete Presland

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂

Venus in variable conditions from the 02 & 03.03.2020. 

Captured with Celestron C9.25, baader UV filter and Asi 290mm camera.

Stacked 10% of 25,000 frames.  Nice not to have the scope blown as much tonight, or have to shelter under my old fishing umbrella 🙂 

Top image is from the 2nd, some nice detail, the bottom is a little disappointing from today. The seeing looked a bit better than the end result.

Very nicely captured.

Lovely sharp phase showing there.

Pretty good considering the seeing. I thought the jetstream had cleared us for a short period.

Certainly looks like one, its been a while.

The phase is very nicely visible there.

I was waiting to see what you captured yesterday. The conditions and seeing were very testing in Biggleswade. 

Superb looking prom!

Got to start picking up soon

A couple of nice proms there

Nicely captured.

A fine set of images

Not at all luke. Good to see we getting the same features. It has been quite apparent that Venus is growing in size quite quickly of late.

I have now loaded all my filters into a newly acquired 9 positive filter wheel.

Doing some colour images is next on the list, maybe tonight, if the hailstorms do not return.  

1 minute ago, lukebl said:

That's showing some great detail. I think your image shows noticeably sharper detail than mine. It's reassuring to know that we're capturing the same features.

Always difficult with the processing side of it, i spend hours and hours, never really making up my mind 🙂  

Some very nice detail visible there Avani, especially considering the distance still.

Nicely captured.

Very breezy again tonight unfortunately. Some pretty good seeing at times though. Lovely subtle cloud detail again, a little different from previous images. 

Captured with Celestron C9.25, baader UV filter and Asi 290mm camera.

Stacked 10% of 25,000 frames Some pleasing cloud visible again.

Excellent image again Luke, good to have other images to compare details with my own.

Also new seller status, but a whooping 200,000 items for sale?

1 minute ago, PembrokeSteve said:

Hi,

I also today was looking at Amazon and came across the Orion EON 115mm Triplet APO Refractor.
Also being sold as Used/Like New with prices which seem "far too good to be true" , via three sellers (2 from Germany and 1 from the UK).
Don't know what to make of it, but very tempting!
Regards,

Steve

Exactly what i saw as well. I have had chat with customer services tonight to report the activity. They are going investigate, they also said if they remain on there they are safe to purchase, as Amazon will back any buyer who has genuine problems with a purchase.

When i did a little "Google" detective work 🙂  work there seemed to be no evidence of these sellers. They all seem to be registered in Germany, hence the GMBH suffix. 

Superb Luke, i think that's your best image to date. Very nicely processed, not too much, not too little, excellent!

Due to having some funds in my Amazon account i have been looking for a new mount on there. I bought a HEQ5 from Tring at the weekend, but unfortunately it is out of stock on there Amazon shop.

So continuing the search this week, i have started to notice quite a few suspect looking sellers on there selling used EQ6-R, Orion atlas mount. They all seem to be sold as used - like new and the price is £598.38 + £13.15 delivery, seller Pluskaufenmbh.

I knew the price was to good to be true when i saw it only my mobile at dinnertime. So tonight i have a had a proper look into them and i am sure there are a couple of bogus sellers doing this at the moment. I naively thought Amazon were strict on this sort of thing.