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RikM

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  1. On 25 August 2016 at 10:47, cotterless45 said:

    Hmm, sounds good, just that nearly everything is sold by the time SGL comes around.

    At Psp (rip) we used to have a table / car boot on Saturday morning. You could browse stuff that what was sale. It was better just to announce a sale for that morning/ day.

    I'm bringing some goodies for sale, they'll be at my pitch,

    old Nick.

    That's exactly what we have done for the past few years and we feel it's now time for a change. 

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  2. No. It's not an EQ5. It looks like one of the lightweight budget heads sold with Phenix telescopes. I had one for while.  They are basic but functional as long as you don't overload it. A genuine EQ5 is a much heavier, much sturdier piece of equipment. 

  3. At the moment, I just take the extra time and only gather RGB. I stack each separately for colour and then deselect filter separation and stack the whole lot together for an L. I process as for normal LRGB described above, adding the colour in stages, boosting the saturation and reducing the noise each time. Seems the best compromise for me at the moment and I am satisfied with how the images are coming out. (The stars are a mess though, sorry :o)

    M51_LRGB_20150422_rmcrae_v2-XL.jpg

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  4. Just saw this and noticed 2 things wrong:

    1/ He is observing during the day

    2/ If he is observing the Sun, there are no safety filters in place. 

    I can only assume that he is bird watching.

    He was cloud watching, same as the rest of us Paul :D

    Actually, I asked him to stand by the scope because a friend wanted an idea how big the thing was. :)

    You are right to point out that proper solar filters are required if you intend to view the sun. In this case, we made very certain to point the telescope in a safe direction and I have tought Matty about safe solar viewing. We normally use a small refractor for that.

  5. Another small but significant update. When comparing binocular FOVs using the astronomy tools FOV calculator the image text now includes exit-pupil size.

    You can select up to seven different binoculars and compare their magnification, objective diameter, FOV and exit-pupil size. This is true even if you are using the smaller astronomy tools window on our product description pages. Please see the Helios Apollo binocular and Opticron 80 WP binocular pages for examples. 

    Hope you find it useful :smiley:

     That's great :) Any chance of adding the same (7 options + exit pupil on image) for the Telescope visual FOV?

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