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40 minutes ago, wesdon1 said:

Thanks @Neil_104. I'm glad I finally met someone who has had the same problem I have with living upstairs! LOL. 

My goodness that must be wonderful having Patio Doors and no stairs! I'm planning to move next year, not just for astro reasons, it's also because the flats where I live has a thief, who stole my brothers bike, and other peoples property, and the landlord won't evict him because they say without hard evidence/convictions, they can't terminate his tenancy agreement. This is the main reason I can't go back inside my flat when my gear is setup outside, for fear of it being stolen by the "Thief-in-chief"! So I'm moving away early next year. 

Clear Skies!

Set up an infrared webcam and catch him red handed.

Welcome Matt, bet you have lovely dark skies.

Carole 

Amazing on a Smartphone, but l know nothing about the App. 
 

Carole

Excellent.  Well done.

Carole 

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All the little victories mean so much more when you had to actually work for them! 

Precisely.  

Lovely image, worth the extra effort.

Carole 

To be honest, I took the sample images you posted and stretched them to extreme.  I found no evidence of flats not working, I saw neither dust motes nor vignetting, only the background nebulosity you referred to in your first post.

Carole 

Yup, all a perfectly normal evening imaging.  
Carole

Yes Kelling won’t want to give astro discount in the summer months.  Already 3 star parties in April and Sept/Oct plus a Car show which often pushes the star party into October plus Winterfest.  

Great Result Ollyl.   I put this on my target list recently when I managed to capture the rest of the Antares region at camp, but unfortunately we did not get enough clear skies, so that's that for another year.

Carole

I guess finding a suitable week might be a problem. 

I think that is UK time 10.00 am same day - I think!?!?  

It's a disgrace.  What really gets me is who authorised the body in the USA (can't remember who is was)  to give permission to pollute the  skies for the whole world.  None of us get a say in it.

I would if I knew how.  

Wow, very active.  Very nice image Nigella.

Working Ok for me too.

We were all there at one time.  Hope it goes well for you.  

Carole 

The first thing is to make sure your polar scope is orthogonal, you can do this by tipping one leg of the mount and pointing the polarscope at an aerial or something, then rotate your RA Axis to make sure the Aerial stays central, if it doesn't you will nbeed to adjust the little grub screws on the polarscope.  Incidentllay you'll need to rotate the Dec axis 90 degrees in order to see thgrough the polarscope.  (Pretty sure I have the right axes here, it's been a while since I have done it as I now use Polemaster.

NO POLAR ALIGNMENT IS NOT ON ANY DISTANT OBJECT.  It needs to be done on the pole star (Polaris), because the sky rotates around it.  

You need to know where polaris is at any given time as it too rotates around the pole 1 degree away, so you need to get that accurate.

My website explains how to do it (scroll to item 6)

https://sites.google.com/view/astrophotography-carole-pope/how-to-image-with-a-dslr?authuser=0

Hopefully you also have a manual, though my experience is they are often basic and assume prior knowledge.

Hope this helps

Carole 

That's excellent for a handheld image. 

3 hours ago, icefabio said:

No, I don't know Lorenzo but maybe I will have one more friend.

Lorenzo sometimes goes off the dark locations, so definitely worth chatting to him.  

Welcome.  
There is another member on here from Rome.  Lorenzo Massimi perhaps you know him. 
 

He was based in ENGLAND for 3 years but is now back in Rome.  Also an imager.  We did some astro camping together while he was here for darker skies.  

He is also on Astrobin  

Carole

Yup, l am a member if Orpington AS a very active and friendly group.  
 

HaHa just saw it was Duncan who posted before me.  Hi Duncan.  
just to add we have monthly observing sessions in Otford and occasional Deep Sky camps in East Sussex. 
 

Carole

Excellent, a difficult target at the best of times.

Looking good Graeme.  Presume you are planning some sort of roll off roof and that it is going towards the palm tree.  

Carole   

What flaws?