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Sidd, lest you be concerned about the quality of your equipment, I can tell you that I get the exact same results using a 3-6mm Nagler zoom eyepiece (it's a Televue product so you *know* it's good) on my 100mm Takahashi fluorite apochromat refractor (also clearly a high quality piece of equipment.) It's just the way optics works.
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Thanks for the clarification, Peter, I had not run across this article. Awesome photos!
Paul
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TeleVue still appears to be in the business of NV ep's: http://televue.com/engine/TV3b_page.asp?id=36
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oops, now it's *me* who took so long! I've been in hospital, but I'll check this as soon as I get the opportunity. Very grateful for the reference, R26!
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Thanks R26. Would that work for real-time viewing, or only for using recorded images/videos?
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Wow! Those are indeed wonderful images.
I'm a new user of the Revolution R2 from California (the camera, not me!). I have gotten lovely colour views of M57, the Blinking Planetary, and an OK view of the Eskimo/Clown Face. I can't see any galaxies or star clusters at all. The galaxies I suspect are just a matter of more practice, but I think the problem with star clusters is the number of really bright hot pixels on my camera. I've got 17 super bright ones, and quite a few more small ones. Does anyone have any advice for how I might deal with this issue? It's lovely to see the colours in the planetaries, but that's not my sole reason for buying this kit!
Forgot to mention, I'm using a Celestron Evolution 9.25 inch SCT (so I *know* those star clusters were in the FOV, even if I couldn't see them.) From an urban location. I don't know if it was necessary, but I used a Bahtinov mask to focus before observing with the R2, and that worked a treat!
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My apologies to members; could not find a topic for this, so I had to create one.
I lost my 1.25" eyepiece adapter at a star party in September, so I needed a replacement. I looked around all the online vendors in North America (I'm Canadian), and extraordinarily, could only find two. Then I looked at FLO. I've always wanted to support them, since they support this forum. They just never had what I needed at the right time/price. Remarkably, the price was one-half the American dealer's! So I ordered the part from FLO on 14 October, and it arrived this morning, 25 October. It fits even better than the original. Thank you, FLO!