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No idea, be good to know. Not thinking of selling my kit anytime soon.

Yep, all my kit is marked.

Great it's been recovered. Hope it finds it's owner.

Welcome Glyn, ask away, lots of experienced peps on the forum. Enjoy your new scope and hope for clear sky.

Hi all, trying to get to grips with RGB planetary imaging and wondered if any is the best set up arrangements for the filter wheel, atmospheric dispersion adapter, barlow lens and camera. Had the bits of equipment for ages but never been at the point to be able to consider using it all together. What's the best arrangement? I would imagine the one with least possible flexure with the filter wheel closet to the focuser. Thanks for looking.

Hi all, had a little break in the clouds last night and almost got the C11 XLT collimated. Clouds rolled in before I could finalise the collimation so needs a little tweak next time the weather decides to play ball.

The belt mod certainly improved things, but even in my dome if it's quite windy it does wobble the image. Only ever noticed that once however but suggests it's not ideal. The Neq6 is great with my C11 XLT carbon tube. It track's well with both telescope's and goto puts the object on the imaging chip but doesn't put it in the center. It's easily operates via cart de ceil so I don't use the hand controller.

All those mount's would be working at full capacity, similar to my Neq6, although my Neq6 has been modded with belt drives. Also not future proof if you get aperture fever, lol. I'd still be looking at the CEM120 or EQ8 as a minimum new mount for my f4 00 12inch Newtonian even though I've successfully used it for AP on the belt driven Neq6.

Good to know if you're thinking of building a moon base, lol.

I suspect we'd see, or should I say, "observe" a flood of neutrinos before we observe the obvious supernova visually. I would also think that there would be an observed change in the Fraunhofer lines of the pre supernova as the gases would become excited and become supercharged. The change's surely would become dynamic and spread the frequencies/wavelengths that we observe resulting in a widening/broadening of the Fraunhofer line's. How long we'd have to observe the change is anyone's guess. We could perhaps by chance observe this.

I put a new 350mm losmandy dovetail plate on mine.

Hi, I too have an Orion optics f4 12inch Newtonian and interested in eventually getting a new mount for it. I too do imaging and my set up tops 20kg. If I understand correctly for AP you need two thirds weight capacity meaning a mount capacity of at least 30kg. This in practice fits the new Cem70, but only just. I'd be looking at the Cem120 or EQ8 to be honest and be a little more future proof. I've used it with a Neq6 but that's at full capacity and not ideal. My Neq6 currently has my C11 attached so not so demanding.

Would spectroscopic observations indicate any changes in the star before it exploded? I've only a star analyser 100 but wondered if you would see change's in the fraunhofer line's?

Yeah, but it'll be like a smaller second sun in the daylight so we'd still see it, lol.

In Devon I went to the website for reporting streetlights and requested that two be shielded because I was an active amature astronomer. Guy came in day's asked which way I'd like them shielded, job done and now I need a torch to walk to the observatory, lol.

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From the BAA variable star section. Although the new observations are relatively sparse and there is some inconsistency, a picture has begun to emerge which suggests that as soon as Betelgeuse had recovered from the deep fade to V ∼0.2 the star began to fade again, and at a very similar rate to the deep fade.

Betelgeuse latest. New observations are relatively sparse and there is some inconsistency, a picture has begun to emerge which suggests that as soon as Betelgeuse had recovered from the deep fade to V ∼0.2 the star began to fade again, and at a very similar rate to the deep fade. Observations are required.

I only do full disk solar imaging with a Lunt 60mm DS and use the Zwo ASI 178mm. Not much help as it's not high resolution.

Yeah, I thought it was a scam. Appreciate your time and reply. Good so others will know.

Hi all, came across these vouchers, are these bonafide or not?

Yep, tested the configuration the other night and it does work well so I'm really pleased with the reducer. Thanks for those who posted to my question.

Welcome to SGL, I've cousins in Cape Town, small world. Enjoy the lounge.

Looking good, I revamped a 10ftvx 6ft she'd into a solar obsy last winter. Makes a real difference to observing. We'll done on the build. The shed roof was leaking and some of the sides were rotten. It's now a computer room and 6ftx6ft roll off roof section.

Hi, no, Sharpcap in 16bit, in SER file mode.