Sunshine

Welcome!

Yes, it’s another moon shot through my eyepiece with my phone.

Hello Matt, welcome to SGL! 

I wouldn't give up my pentax eyepieces, they're fantastic bits of astro kit.

While observing the moon I noticed this harsh shadow it certainly looks like a shadow but, it doesn’t cast in the correct direction considering other shadows around it. No, I’m not implying it is an alien artifact lol, just not sure what is causing this particular “shadow” which is pointing in the wrong direction considering the direction of light comparing to all other shadows. 

That's an impressive shot of Andromeda!

I am guessing that is NOT a grab and go scope lol, cant imaging what that mount with those weights must weigh in at, beautiful monster otherwise.

I was long overdue for a good extinction  level movie to cheer me up. This movie is about the big one colliding with earth.

I wouldn't worry too much, i have ordered several small pieces of gear in March and have waited for weeks on items which usually arrive in a few days. If the scope was out of stock at the time you ordered then who knows how long before they receive it before shipping it to you. Lunt is a relatively small outfit, i recall shipping my LS60 tilt tuned to them for a pressure tune retrofit in 2018, it arrived at Lunt in 3 days. It was 10 weeks before i got it back, one would think a retrofit would be a short wait, unfortunately not.

A beautiful mosaic, opened as large as life on my computer, it would make one heck of a poster for mounting.

Looks like they're out to give the PST a direct competitor, i have to say, considering Lunt has a better customer service reputation (from what many have said) i think i would pick the Lunt.

WOW! that is one of the richest images of a nebulae i have ever seen, beautiful, almost looks like jade. The contrast is just outstanding, amazing work.

Love them! i had no idea you could capture DSO's with a phone.

Beautiful!

That's an interesting phenomenon, i have the 3.5 and the 14mm XW, I have yet to notice such an event, there are just so many variables involved. It may be very difficult to track down

the exact cause, i hope you solve it and, if you do, please share as the 7mm is next in my collection.

Well, when is the first light report coming? the suspense is killing me! the TSA120 is my dream scope, i will have it one day.

OOHH! i have never seen the solar disc in lime green! i am totally loving that! amazing how an image I've seen a thousand times can look so new. You've just inspired me to get into solar imaging again after some bad attempts.

Look for this book on Amazon, it is the beginners bible.

I haven’t tackled that binary but, now that you mention it, I’ll have to give it a go.

I wonder, that looks like a treacherous place to land a one attempt only lander, right next to a mountainous zone, surprised they chose it.

On 20/06/2020 at 16:26, Neil H said:

Well I would be over the moon if that was my image , I am still trying to work out how to get to the next stage after Auto stacker 

Are there any youtube videos related to auto stacker you may benefit from? i myself am not familiar with that program, i do find youtube very helpful.

Nice shot!

A beautiful capture!

3 minutes ago, CedricTheBrave said:

been looking at a powermate

need to save some pennies

They are the king of barlows in the sense that the maintain the eyepiece qualities and appear invisible in the visual/imaging train. Just to give an idea exactly how inexperienced I am in imaging, I had no idea you could use a Barlow when imaging lol, I thought I discovered something new haha. Using the Barlow struck me after  I had already taken many exposures.

1 hour ago, CedricTheBrave said:

nice image can i ask what scope/camera/exposures etc you used?

 

Bare bones imaging as I am not into AP save for occasional planetary shots. For this I used my Orion Eon 115 triplet, Celestron Neximage 5 camera with the TeleVue 2.5x powermate. As for exposure, I believe I did a 1600 frame exposure (video) and chose the best 200 using Registax.