Sunshine

That is a great image! I love the color and I can’t see anything wrong with the stars, great work!

WOW! the detail min there is astounding! amazing work.

would  variable polarizing filter be even better? 

5 hours ago, Saganite said:

Andromeda was a planet killer and for more than seven years I had superb views of most objects, but, she was just too big to put an Observatory around, or to be absolutely correct too big to get it past the planning dept at home, so sadly I had to make a decision last summer. A new owner has Andromeda and I have my Pulsar Obsy with two fine scopes inside, so the correct decision in the end.

I still have Arcturus though..

What a beautiful pair you have there! 

omg did I just put my foot in my mouth? remember this is a family site 🤣

Whoa! that is amazing! I wonder what I can do with my 4" 🤣

A super wide shot highlights the beautiful blue sky this morning, making the Lunt look tiny 😄

Wow! I have never seen a time lapse of a variable done over such a long time. Your final product is impressively sharp, clean, and contrasty with nice dark backdrop and absolute pinpoint stars. Playing the video for the tenth time now I am blown away by the stark magnitude swing this star takes, going from almost invisible to the brightest in the field.

Nice! I'm definitely going to have a look at that, looks amazing.

1 hour ago, IB20 said:

Tak time for Venus, it’s been too long. 😋

Nice! love that setup.

Amazing detail and colour!

Very nice, better than the squadrons of mosquitos coming at me with kamikaze like zeal, sometimes I have to give up and bring the scope in.

Without a doubt I see more contrast and detail in the second image.

Clusters are my fav DSO images, great work!

I love your sketch!

7 minutes ago, laudropb said:

I suppose you have to remember most of these proms and detached flares are actually larger than the Earth and it will take time for them to dissipate.

Oh yes im aware but i figured its all relative, they’re bigger than earth but them how big is the sun and how much energy does it put out.

While obsering a tiny detached flare hover over the surface I couldn’t help but wonder how it could exist for so long. For the better part of an hour I enjoyed watching this small piece of sun change and dissipate, and slow it did. How can proms exist for so long whith the solar wind blasting off the surface into space, i guess the same can be asked of a cloud high up in the sky but I would expect the sun to dissipate proms much faster than seems be.

Amazing work!

13 minutes ago, markse68 said:

Yep- 45 deg from top dead centre. I have it on a tri-finder bracket with the rdf vertical. Was using it last night and it works fine. I don’t know if it would work better if it was level but it seems to work ok like this. Mark

 

Thats great, i don’t recognize that module, looks different than my module on my dob, yours seems sleeker and less bulky, is that an official starsense module? I like yours more lol

Incredible capture!

No way, I can't see it! I need to wait for better seeing conditions 🤣

I'll be on the lookout for those! thanks

Beautiful capture!

Congratulation! what a fine scope the TEC140 is, the phone shots look amazing so I can imagine what it was like at the eyepiece!

1 hour ago, markse68 said:

Not sure about this Sunshine? I had mine mounted at 45 deg rotation and it seemed to work ok- it recognised the rotation and the horizon on the phone screen was consequently at an angle and it was able to find objects just fine. Maybe the imu gets a bit confused at times but it still seems to work with the platesolving

Mark

You say you mounted the module at 45 degrees from top so that module sits approximately where a finder scope sits on a dob and it works fine? interesting, i know a couple of people who relocated theirs after finding it was iffy when mirror was aimed at sky off from top center. 

28 minutes ago, Carpy said:

Had my first ever look at Albireo tonight, incredible looking double star

Albireo is enough to make anyone a lover of double stars, it is just sublime.