Sunshine

6 minutes ago, Zeta Reticulan said:

For years I've wondered about the Hyperions. How are then in scopes at f/7 and faster?

My 102 is an F-8 and my dob is an F5.9, I have used them in my 102 without complaints but in my faster dob I haven’t use them yet, I’m sure you can discover may threads on the hyperions here on SGL. 

7 minutes ago, Rodd said:

pound into submission

🤣 I love that, I imagine it is the norm when imaging, both with software and hardware.

Great image!

Great capture! plenty of details here.

If you can go 2mm in either direction and a tiny bit more expensive I would suggest you have a good look at the Baader Hyperion series.  They punch above their price range and are well made with a 68

degree FOV which is nice, can't go wrong for the price, My 21 and 24mm have been great

Welcome to SGL! and what a great choice for a first scope!

How and why? many times I have used averted vision with some success especially when trying to find a faint object like a barely visible star but tonight i noticed another phenomenon which totally contradicts averted vision.

With the sun just below the horizon Arcturus was just coming into view, the only star I could/couldn't see, wait a minute it was just there! 👀 hold on,  when looking right at it I could see it but when I looked off to the side

a little it disappeared proper, poof! just gone. How could this be? this flies in the face of averted vision does it not? if Arcturus just completely disappeared to a degree that I completely lost it for a few seconds even after I

retrained my sight directly at it then explain averted vision. It was fascinating to see Arcturus completely disappear when I looked slightly away, so much so that I had to scan the area for it again even though It was clearly

there, the disappearing star? or maybe I had too much grown up grape juice with dinner.

44 minutes ago, peter court said:

I'll be honest and say that I'm only just starting to scratch the surface of the set up potential, still on the steep face of the learning curve.

At least you’re not fooling yourself into thinking you have everything you need, unlike most of us 😄

Welcome! and what a nice looking setup you have there, clear skies!

On 20/07/2022 at 02:16, paulastro said:

That's interesting, look forward to hearing if the new phone makes a difference.  

Having used my new phone and starsense for a couple of sessions I can’t really say it is any faster but then again it is fast enough anyway. Ten to fifteen seconds from target selection to centered in eyepiece is just fine for me, it’s not an issue.

Welcome! it’s not about what you know or have, it’s about how much fun you’re having, nice to have you with us!

beautiful image! 

Welcome! your story is not unlike many of our own starts in this hobby, including my own. When I first started I was discouraged when I couldn’t see any fuzzies in my 60mm refractor 😂 but in time as I grew into the hobby I found that it’s all about exactly that, time and patience, welcome and thanks for joining us!

Welcome to SGL! I myself do not image, I have little hair as it is 😂

Hello and welcome to SGL!

Welcome to SGL! I’ve been observing over twenty years and still aimlessly point my telescope around like every time is the first 😂

1 hour ago, paulastro said:

Sunshine, your original post would make a great review, it really captures the excitement of what it's like when you first used the Starsense.  I'm surprised every time I switch mine on and it works, it's just crazy.  Perhaps when I've had it a year or two, the surprise element may have worn off 😊

Yes! the surprise will certainly wear off and it will become routine, which is a good thing but the convenience is sure welcome. I'm wondering if starsense would work faster with a faster phone? I should receive new phone in the mail soon to replace my ancient iPhone 6S, the new one is much faster but will it be able to plate solve faster as a result? with less pausing while moving to a target, maybe.

Clear skies!

20 minutes ago, Astro_Dad said:

How are you finding the new ‘scope @Sunshine?  I’ve had a great month or two of observing with mine despite being one of the worst times of  the year in theory - they should come into their own later in the year. 

I’ve been having a great time so far, optics are great, just minor gripes which I’m improving like positioning of red dot finder which I relocated, I’ll send an image of that for you to have a look at. Over the past month I have seen a record number of clear nights literally one after the other which is great!.

Welcome!

Something is causing me a headache, it involves the propagation of light through space and time, light from a particular object let’s say an early galaxy 10 billion light years away as spied by Webb. 
 

let’s assume for instance that we are seeing a particular galaxy in it’s early stages, not yet a spiral but a blobby mess of stars 10 billion LY distant. This galaxy has evolved over the course of the next five billion years into a familiar spiral galaxy which we all know, now here is when my headache began. If we image this same galaxy as it was 10 billion years ago (blobby mess) what happened to its light (image) as it has evolved over the next five billion years into a spiral? assuming the same galaxy still exists.
 

Is it because as space expands, it’s image as it was five billion year more evolved has not reached us yet? or maybe I’m about to answer my own question by assuming that the universe was a much smaller place when the galaxy was young therefore as space expands its newer light will not reach us as the expansion of space will not allow for its new image to reach us. Kind of like the ever lengthening hallway in those scary movies, as one walks down the hallway it keeps getting longer (que the eerie music). 

Some will find this page on NASA website interesting, it outlines Webb’s objectives and goes into the how and why it is an infra red telescope. Under each topic one must click the “read more” tab to expand.

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/science/

2 minutes ago, Vroobel said:

Thanks

910mm, it's F/11.4. 

A wonderful planetary/lunar scope 

On 08/07/2022 at 05:08, Vroobel said:

Hi, 

I'm pleased to show another Vixen in action: A80M Japan. Unfortunately not at night, it's during observing the Sun. I've bought it from our fellow on SGL recently.

Wonderful looking scope! Must have a FL of at least a thousand.

A beautiful rendition, kind of looks better that their rendition, I have to say.

What boggles my mind about the deep field image is the galaxy count. Take for instance this run of the mill sample, are these galaxies even catalogued? how far away is/was this particular galaxy and does it still look like this? could it have collided with a neighbor and been ripped apart and we won’t see it for another how many billions of years? astounding image, I couldn’t be happier after closely following Webb progress for eight years now. It’s easy to forget that these disc shaped fuzzy patches are entire galaxies, GALAXIES!! each containing billions of stars which during their billions of year long evolutions could have been the birthplaces of who knows how many worlds and even forms of life on these worlds around their countless stars. How many civilizations could have come and gone within these galaxies in this one image? it would be incredibly naive to believe otherwise. When one looks at this image in high resolution and zooms in on these galaxies one by one, picking one out, it is impossible not to wonder what it’s stars have given birth to, if in doubt just think about what our star has managed.

Thanks  for the link, it’s amazing!