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I am planning a trip to Namibia in a couple of months. Because of weight restriction, I will be renting my telescopes, but I will bring my own camera. I'm not sure how the camera fits on the telescope, and will need to bring adequate spacers/mounting rings myself. Does anyone have the same equipment? Cound you provide me with a picture of your setup? Your help will be greatly appreciated! 💪

This one is still bright(ish), but getting smaller. Taken on december 30 with the C11 Edge. The crop reveals a tail.

With an EQ mount I was able to move far beyond the equator when imaging. (I should specify I rate mounts by their use in astrophotography, not visually) the cem has 2 options: “at x degrees beyond equator: stop, or flip”. i have never taken the flip option. This limits my imaging time on a single image per night, which I do not like. I have yet to find software that handles a perfect meridian flip and continues. With an apo, I would consider that. With an sct... not that much...

I second the CEM60 idea. I had an IEQ45 and while it is an excellent mount, it was quickly too light for my never ending aperture fever. It handled my 127mm apo triplet quite good, but the Esprit 120 was too much. Anything equal and less than that, and the ieq45 will be an excellent candidate. I think your Esprit 100 might be on the limit too. The CEM60 is a whole other league. But you will have to cope with the meridian flip. For me, that is the only downside to that mount. I have sold the IEQ45 and if I buy another mount, it will probably be another CEM.

Thanks, Miguel! No filter, because I was doing comets too and I am way too lazy to make 2 sets of flats

I'd have to say this is one of my favorite galaxies. Yesterday was clear and seeing was excellent. The comets had sunk too low to image, but I could gather a good 40 minutes of data with the C11 on the Cem60. Image capture software: Asiair. Camera: ZWO Asi 071mc pro. calibration with darks and flats only.

Great achievement! Mag 17 is unthinkable for me

Yes it is supposed to be mag 14.1 but it looks tiny without a tail. I have one more comet still to process (K2 I think it was), but that'll have to wait. That one looked quite dim, too.

Both from my lightpolluted backyard, C11edge on CEM 60.

Dedication!

As promised, 2 stacks - one B&W and one color. 60 minutes with the Esprit 120

A tougher one, but at its closest approach to Earth right now. Magnitude 14,5, very small, you might want to use a bigger scope to image this. I might give the C11 a try if I get the chance.

I was lucky to be able to get my setup out last night and T2 was on the menu. I'll try to stack my subs later but here's one 60s sub fresh out of the camera. Taken with Asi 071mc pro, Esprit 120 on CEM 60.

thank you, it appears a lot brighter these days so it is worth a shot from our not so dark locations, too.

This one will be visible for most of us in the next few months, hopefully it will give up quite a show. I saw it appear as a rather bright (visible magnitude 13-ish), round blob without a core or tail.

Ofcourse Messiers can't be missed when sketching, one only has to wait for the right conditions. This is one of the galaxies I use when testing a new scope or observation spot, so I visit it VERY much. Hard to know when the best time to sketch has come, though... This might not have been it, as I didn't see any spiral arms, but anyway, I need something to reference against

This is a VERY nice galaxy to observe under dark skies! The highlight of my weekend, its mottled and grainy apearance make me wonder how it looks in a LARGE aperture instrument. I like the fact the core sprouts a bridge to the outer regions, and darker lanes cross the disk. Definately worth a look!

I remember this galaxy as one of the very first objects I was able to see in my old C8. I revisit it every year if I get the chance. Due to poor transparancy, the other members of the group weren't visible, only a slight hint of what turned out to be NGC 7337 (in the string on the lower right) was put on sketch. This little ball of stars was still on my to do list, so I could very well do it now One down, about 8000 to go!

High clouds turn me to clusters, thanks to the dark skies in France, this one was still worthy to spend some time on.

I saw it 2 weeks ago at New Moon, but from a dark location in France. 12" dob, quite surprisingly pretty brightish and galaxy-like, so definately no doubt there was something there.

I saw it 2 nights ago in my 12" and estimated it visually at mag 13. Nice round condensation, no core. I'll post a sketch when I get to digitalising it once I get home.

Spending a night on top of a volcano under pitch black skies, just taking a moment and enjoying the complete silence... That was certainly one of my top moments in astronomy. Of course Hale Bopp, and countless meteors, and just last year a re-entry burn of a SpaceX rocket, at the right angle with the sun, made a very special and peculiar show. Talking about SpaceX, their launch of a bunch of Iridium satellites made a little 'train' - a bit smaller than the more recent (and lots more) launches of countless satellites. That too was a strange sight.

When you download the installation bundle, you can choose to unpack and install another bundle. Try to install a different one.

I had the same issue. I needed to upgrade my windows and temporarily shut off the security pack. Worked like a treat after that.

Hmm; that Teamviewer issue seems nasty. Anydesk looks tuned, it might be ok, but does it allow automatic access and startup? I need to be able to start the mini-computer, go inside, and log in from my "remote". Connecting both computers seems unrelated to the whole teamviewer/remote desk thing for now. I need to tackle that first.