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What is it with everyone having problems with tinfoil hats? At least I'm pretty certain the only one who can read my mind is SWMBO!

Welcome to the forum. I use my Canon with a couple different adapters to attach it to my 8" reflector. Actually low budget which is perfect for me. But I'm sure others will have a lot of advice who are really into astrophotography here on the forum. But be careful, they call astrophotography "the dark side". Its like a black hole, once you go over the edge, there isn't much hope of coming back out! 😁 How ever you decide to do it, enjoy it!

Seldom is there a moment when I look up that I dont go wow! Even when I'm at the scope, I find that I lean back and look up. You cant believe how many times just when you look up, there will be a meteor!

Definitely on my wish list, but not in my budget! When, I hit the Powerball lotto, I will start ordering!

Great idea, but drinking and viewing doesn't work for me, unless its strong coffee at 3am. I prefer left over Space Shuttle fuel, which is quite a bit more potent than Romulan ale. After a couple drinks and the only thing i view is nebula in my dreams!🙄

I do enjoy seeing images of both like these, but Saturn, excellent. Seems those C14 telescopes are something special. Can you just imagine the look on Galileo's face if he could see an image like that? He knew he was seeing something, unusual , but never knew he had discovered rings!

I had thought my next chance would be Wednesday morning when my 4 days off started. But, thanks to the "system" I was scheduled two 4 hour days at work. 4am to 8am today, 9am to 1pm tomorrow! I'll be looking in the morning, hoping for Quapla! (Klingon for success!)

Welcome from Florida. What ever you decide to eventually have for your kit, believe me, you have already made one smart decision joining this amazing group!

Excellent image. How visible was it with just your eyes?

Wonderful image. I felt so good seeing it in my binos this past Wednesday morning. But the idea of it getting to the point I might see it naked eye has me really hoping!

If they can get it worked out it would be a big game changer, not only in space travel.

Very interesting. I have a hard time imagining material that can withstand hundreds of millions degrees. I hope it is developed and tested in space soon.

Wonderful!

A few days ago I was out in the am looking at the planets. To the SW I watched what I thought was a very bright satellite crossing near Jupiter and Saturn. At about the zenith it just disappeared. Heading to the East, it should have stayed visible all the way to the horizon. (This is where you mentally insert the close encounters sounds)!

I decided to concentrate totally on Neowise this morning. Got everything ready and went to my driveway , where I was yesterday. Back to the South, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and the Moon looked incredible in a clear sky. But instead, I stayed over an hour, scanning through come and go clouds with my binoculars, only to see small bats feeding! Blasted clouds! I'm certain all the neighbors who drove by on the way to work probably thought I was crazy. Hoping again for tomorrow!

Very nice image!

My internal alarm has always been pure misery for me. I set the phone and an alarm clock on the nightstand, but I find myself laying on my side looking at it 30 minutes before time! Mine goes off at 1:30 to 1:45 every morning. Three days a week I get up at 2:00 to clock in at 4:00. The planets are wonderful in the mornings and very nicely placed here in Florida. Do you have Venus in the mornings as well as the other 3? A friend called them the "parade of planets" on Facebook.

Welcome to the SGL. I'm a ways South of you in Fla. What equipment did you use?

Incredible! Finally we got us a real comet!

Took the dogs out at 4am to see the sky was clear and the Moon looking incredible! I'm not sure if anyone else suffers like I do, but even with me planning on turning my scope to the Moon, I couldnt resist aiming it at Jupiter first. Much to my surprise, when I put my eye to the eyepiece, there is the GRS, a moon and its shadow. My app showed it was Callisto. My image isn't in the same league as the ones here, but most of the fish I've caught haven't been trophies either. I still had fun catching them.😁

Very nice images! I was able to spot it this morning with my binoculars even with the sky getting quite bright. You can just barely make out the nucleus in my single image, but hopefully tomorrow I'll try with it a bit lower.

I might be wrong, but I would wager regardless of how much an individual has spent on their equipment, there is that moment when something they view, or image, makes them all realize it was worth every penny! Welcome to an incredible obsession, oops, I meant hobby! And just FYI, its every time I view Jupiter and Saturn! 😁

I hope to give it another try Wednesday morning. Though I was clouded out yesterday, I'm wondering if I was looking a little to far to the ENE, instead of Northeast.

Have you used the 9mm on the moon? It the image is clear, just much more magnified, then the lens is okay.

I was out this morning with my binos and even my camera, but off to the East there was just too much distant scattered clouds. Fought the swarms of mosquitos till heavens above showed it at 11.3° and the sky was getting bright enough only Venus was visible.