starbob707

Love those old Vixen mounts.

I wonder why anyone would waste their time looking at Venus. The most boring thing in the sky.

Get used to perfect pinpoint stars. Snap focus. I love newt's also but nothing like a Tak Apo for pin point stars. Wish they made a 10in Tak Apo.

Sad I did not know this. I have one of his books. Love his stuff, Thanks for sharing,

For me the old vintage Cave newts are for me my favorite scope to lust after. This completely restored 10in Cave came up on astromart a week ago. These scope just look so good 'they spell class. I have a 15in Obsession in my observatory but If I had the room I would love to add this/ Its just to far away to pick up' like 2000 miles. When I think telescopes I think of this style. Cant beleive it has not sold yet.

Mars sucks right now. Never judge your scope by it. Collimating is quite easy. get a good laser. Use a star to see how your optics are doing. Nice pin point stars is what I like. Plus you have a Celestron 6se' their not going to be Takahashi perfect optics but should be decent enough to have fun and see much.

Some pics of my new to me Obsession 15in classic. My observatory was used for imaging for 13 years' but now I am back to my first love just visual. So relaxing. I never though I would own a Obsession again; had one 15 years ago but sold it to finace Imaging. Now 15 years later one came up for sale close to me in Indiana US. So its a dream come true. Will post some more pics later. Had to raise the floor. Thanks all

No its the older version. Still f7' I used a AT 0.8 FR so its at fl 5.6 . Thanks

Well I got a great deal on a SV 102mm Doublet so I been trying it out. It came with a nice FT focuser. Has very nice optics as most SV do. About the only thing it does not do well is very bright stars' but most doublets have a hard time with this imaging wise. Visually it's fine. My guiding has not been working do to some cable issues. So this is just 27 x 60" with a Mod Nikon d5300. Not my best m3 but not bad. Thanks for looking. Bob '

I am sorry. Just made the image public. Thanks https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011218458143

It works for me Dave' '

Been playing around with 3D in PS since Face Book supports 3D now. One has to have 2 images. I used my original Horse Head from this past fall for the original. In PS make a copy of it and it has to be monochrome or gray scale' than use filters ect to scrub some of the detail. This takes some practice to get the desired effect. The gray image will be the Depth image. Then add the original image.jpg and image__depth.jpg to photo on FB. FB will take both and create the 3D version. Its fun to mess with. Here is a link to my Horse Head on my Local Astro group. Thanks bob https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011218458143 https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011218458143

I have taken images of m3 most years. This year my guiding would not work. Everytime I get to clear declination backlash PHD just stops after 70 tries. So I just did 60sec images. Using a SV102 ED ' Cgem' Nikon d5300 modified. 76x 60sec' 75 bias '10 flats. Taken at fl5.6 using the AT 0.08 fr. Not my best M3 but fair. Thanks for looking all.

Way overpriced. They pop up on astromart all the time for much less. The CGX would be a much better buy. Even the CGEM on sell now is a nice mount that many have used to get very nice images. The pro was just a bad design by Celestron.

Really nice star colors also.