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carastro

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  1. Wow. Lots of sugnal for a short integration time.
  2. That works too depending on which angle the scope is pointing and how many acrobats you need to do. Lol
  3. I will post up some screen shots of Canon Utility that did some years ago BRB
  4. This is a screen shot of what l get in a bright star with canon utility. By the way there is a zoom in facility on Canon Utility so you can enlarge the area/star you are focussing.
  5. Do you choose a bright star to focus on? Lock your focus when you have done so you can then move to your chosen target. if Nina is very noisy on live view (never used it). You could try focussing with canon utility (comes with the camera). That is what l use. You can increase your ISO just to do focus.
  6. Crikey, the OP has gine through a few. l have sold: Celestron Powerseeker 127 (my first) manual EQ mount (eek) Meade Etx90 (observing & planeteay imaging Meade Etx125 deforked for planetary WO Megrez72 SW200PDS SW150P C7 WOZS71 SW130PDS SW Esprit100
  7. 3 plus a Samyang 135 lens all for imaging.
  8. I started out with this telescope (including the mount), and I recall having some good views with it, but the mount itself was a real PITA and the slow controls slipped so could never keep anything in the FOV (if I could find it in the first place). I would say you could mount it on another mount, preferably a sturdy tracking Equatorial mount.
  9. The three constellations spell out OAS.
  10. Just when l was going to show your obsy off as part of my talk on Garden Observatories this month with local astro group. (You kindly sent me photos and a video). Your new build will not be ready in time. l can definitely see why you need to do it though and look forward to seeing your progress.
  11. A few questions. Are you in a LP location? Are you just looking at the DSS result as that is always dark - needs processing to bring out the target. I am no expert on colour cameras but have you selected the correct Bayer matrix for your camera? Finally do you want to post up the stacked result on here for us to try to process. Preferably in TIFF format.
  12. That is very impressive, especially if you zoom in which you can if using a phone.
  13. I use Teamviewer and have 2 laptops in the obsy. Indoors l have a 3rd laptop which will show both laptops in the obsy under different tabs. Just need to flick from one to the other. l am not that technical so if l can get it to work it must be pretty straightforward. Don’t know anything about headless PCs Carole
  14. It is most important to me to know the Bortle scale of other locations seeing that l live in Bortle 8. If l want to travel to darker skies l need to know the Bortle scale so l know if it the right place to go.
  15. It is hardly an effort to make one post per year to keep your membership active and keep this site safe.
  16. Hadn’t realised that. Even worse. I agree with what Zermelo suggests. Remove access to lapsed members. Hopefully the system can be set up to do that
  17. I wonder whether we should go back to the minimum 50 posts before having access to the For Sale board. Or is it possible to buy after a few posts but not sell until 50 posts. I suspect the latter is impossible.
  18. I guess one thing members can look out for is low post count and posting history content. I have done that before when l looked at an ad of a member unknown to me to see if he had had actual astro discussions and that he was a genuine Astronomer and member before posting an advert.
  19. Well done. But how did anyone realise it was a scam? l never saw the ads.
  20. It is difficult to speak on behalf of another, but I know Gina (bless her soul), found SGL a life line especially during the Pandemic, and for people living alone it is just that.
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