Budding Star Gazer

There is a very simple swift (legal) way to deal with this issue, https://www.gov.uk/guidance/artificial-light-nuisances-how-councils-deal-with-complaints There is also the far more direct not so (legal) but guaranteed to produce much better results method i used with my neighbour, never been a problem since.

Northface chilkat boots, water proof to submersible, fleece lined and good for about -40.. Only downside is the price but you cant beat them.

The Svbony CLS filter i purchased does not fit the EOS 6D.. Damn amazon strikes again, lesson learned.

Both nice shots, i guess if you're not noticing improvements its either becuase your current imaging & processing skills or the equipment is at the limits of their respective capabilities. thats not a bad thing though, I guess even someone like david Bailey reached those limits too. I am just starting out with imaging & for me its not necessarily (at this moment) about the quality of the shot but the excitement of taking it by myself with my own equipment. for years I've had a fascination with deep space & exploration of our universe & marvel at the shots our professional scientific community pump out to us plebs, we now have for the most part that capability from our own back yards. People like trevor from astrobackyard are the reason I've just spent so much money to go & do it for myself and if i can get images anywhere near the detail you and others capture I'd be over the moon.. Pun intended. I guess it comes down to if you love what you're doing & you're getting consistent results that you're happy with do you need to improve further? If the answer is yes then it will mean spending more, learning more or both.

When on a tight budget apature is what you should consider the priority, space might be tight but an 8" dobsonian when packed upright on its base does not take up a lot of room. The goto mounts are fun but that is what you're paying for so the OTA is nornally always small. With apps available on your phone for a very cheap price or free (i use stallerium) its quite easy to guide yourself around the sky with a manual scope and make good observations on a larger apature scope. Can i suggest you check out the orion 8" skyquest. You will probably get far more viewing pleasure for you and your family that you will with a small OTA goto. Always purchase what you know you will be happy with & what you think you will get the most enjoyment from.

I've spent many years around norfolk, have family in wisbech, lovely shots.. A Tatooine sunset

I believe if the primary mirror is out of alignment it can have this effect as the light souce doesn't all train to the secondary mirror & travels straight back up the OTA to the point of entry. Someone with way more exerience than me could put your problem right.

Ahh good point..

It was already available as a searchable item on the mobile version.

That looks like light reverberation from the inside of your OTA, id say check the reflection before & after adding dark material to the inside of the OTA.

Hello all, I plan trying to capture some shot of Leonard over the next few days and need some advice. I will be using a Canon EOS 6D with a 35-135mm lens mounted to a sky watcher adventurer. Would i be better to take video over a longer period & then stack the frames rather than trying to track it for still shots? Both astrophotography & the kit i will be using are new to me.

I have a few days off coming up and am hoping to get a look at the comet and maybe a good photo, i have just been looking at stellarium and the projection at my location is it will break the horizon at 2am rising high in the sky until sun up on 3rd jan and subsequent nights. Fingers crossed & I'll pray to the cloud gods for some clear nights

Cheers, i have yet to use the post editing software and have a lot to learn there.

There is a lot of noise in the photo, iso settings too high maybe with too long exposure, I'm new to this so i could be wrong of course, when you. Zoom in kind of looks like a pulsar.. You have 2x dark lateral spikes too.

Cherrs for the info, we mainly have white LED lamposts around my immediate area, one of which is outside my garden fence and does cast a small amount of light in to my garden but for the most part because of the diffuser is blocked. Overall if i head to our local country part which is elevated above the town we suffer the same orange hue as every town does but not as pronounced. I have just purchased the Svbony CLS filter as it states low to mid pollution level, i have noticed that most filter tend to lean towards a colourisation of photos which i'd like to avoid. I have been reading about the tri & quad band filters which seem to cover the best of all scenarios while preserving the raw data but as they cost quite a bit and I'm only just starting out i think I'll save my money. I will try some stacks with and without the filter of the same target to see if there is any real benefit at my given location. I've also been reading about the filtration for exposing richer colours in nebulae, I'll hold off on that for now but its all very interesting.

I use to spend time in the Alps every winter, i miss the quiet of the night when the towns & villages finally turn in for the evening. Montchavin was my last visit, spectacular place at 2am when its snowing & its so quiet you swear you can hear your own heart beating, envious of you right now!

This is quite a popular first time telescope and if budget is an issue you will always find very nice, used examples on ebay that could save you quite a lot of money to spend on some extra eye pieces or accessories.

Sky watcher adventurer, canon EOS 6D with EF lens 50mm

I don't care what anyone says it's the most majestic object in the night sky, i can remember when i was a kid looking up at it letting my tiny sci fi imagination run wild with thoughts of flying saucers, cylons & forever wars wondering if there was any chance any of it could one day be true. I still feel the nostalgia on occasion when i am out alone miles from civilisation with nothing but the moon for company.. That is until that thing moving just out of sight puts the wind up you enough that you tune in to your bat capable hearing & snap back to reality..

Check out YT channels like astrobackyard & astrobiscuit, the latter has a discord channel which is quite collaborative.. Will most likely join it myself as i like the idea of his shared imaging project & is probably a fantastic opportunity to be part of something while getting the tech supoort as well.

An en engineer who has spent 21 years with the same issue i can offer a little help, with the right taps & dies you can turn one in to the other, it will mean increasing the overall size of the fixing and purchasing new parts but all can be reworked to a British standard thread. Lots of places will carry out milling work for you if you're not comfortable doing it yourself and if you look on the www you will find charts for the closest match in size to convert imperial to metric or the other way around.

Hello all, I have been looking a light pollution filter for my canon EOS 6D and it seems to be bit of a mine field when trying to rap my head around all the technical aspects of what is filtered out ect, obviously i have some educating to do on that subject so i thought it would be better to just ask. What manufacturers make the best general light pollution filter, i live in an urban area with hight levels of light pollution & in my immediate location we have the white light LED street lamps some of which bleed directly in to my garden. All help is much appreciated.

Yes i have read they are not standardised, i have really purchased it for the mirrors and will mod it with a new focuser if need be, its going to be for imaging rather than observing.

Some pretty worthy satellites worth thinking about too.

If mr musk came knocking at your door & said we want you to be the first human to step foot on another world. we think the chances of making the journy across an ocean of space to then plummet through an atmosphere that will barely slow you down & finally relying on engines, that have sat dormant since they were test fired, to slow you down to a few feet per second for a touch down are 5 maybe 10% at best.. Would you go! Knowing full well the chances of returning safely to the earth are less than the outbound journey? For me, personally.. Where do i sign.