Uranium235

I tried. was up until 1am but it was just to windy :(

How did it go?

It went very well indeed! Scope was behaving and the sky was perfect... shame I had work the next day!

Grab some good photons! I would be, but my guidecam has failed me... I've set off a timelapse instead. What are you imaging?

Will do! Just grabbing some more of the Tulip (Sh2-101) over a couple of panes for a widefield. Nearly up to three hours per pane now :)

Sounds good. I became victim to dew on my fisheye lens - haven't suffered dew for ages. Next time - dew strap on lens!!! Still Learning....

yup same here

I'll keep going until PHD boots me off, one more 600s sub perhaps.

BLIMEY, you must hold the UK record for the most image time, I haven't been able to point a scope at a star for 8 months! seriously thinking of selling my imaging kit..

Well the stars are not going anywhere so there is always next year, glad i'm not trying to make a living from it..

Yeah, it'l be ok Guy. Thats the beauty of the Universe, always unchanging (well... mostly!).

Groan.... here come the fireworks...

And here comes the cloud.... grrr...

The Star 71 has a very tasty 350mm FL its a perfect bridge between camera lenses and small scopes methinks

Yeah :) I did the maths on this and it should work out to be faster than a binned 130 over large areas. It should even make the DSLR look good!

You will like it, I have the TS version, works like a dream.

What target are you doing now or is it a secret? :)

Well, it *was* the heart of the Virgo supercluster - but the sky was so poor I ended up trashing all the subs. Hopefully saturday will be better.

Even if they were the same price I would go for TS, not quite impressed by AA service. Just can't grasp why the would make this steep jump..!!

Call me cynical... but its Christmas soon, perhaps that is why ;)

wouldn't be surprised!

You're a braver man than me! (And it's raining here...)

Well, first sub ruined already. Too much fast moving bits of cloud. I'll give it til 10pm.

If I can get a couple of hours in tonight, then its one less pane to do tomorrow (well, thats the plan!).

Hmmm.... well I was. The sky has just turned to mush. Might as well pack away :(

wouldnt have it anyother way :)

The 130pds doesnt mind either! Its almost like newts get better in the cold.

They sure do :)

I used Al's collimation aid, and overlayed that from the preview screen in NeroVision. Turns out my secondary was too far up the tube.

Despite collimation, there was some minor focuser tilt (probably from the weight of the camera), but Ive adjusted that out and the corners seem ok now - just rolling off some test subs on the Veil.

Very interesting...