Daniel-K

I've made a short video from my night out in the field setting up the Starsense Explorer app. hope it helps.

Danski 😊

What's in the box. Just to be clear that this is In partnership with my local optic shop.  Not a paid partnership just a review. Delete if not allowed 

https://youtu.be/-CEmrrRadNs

4 hours ago, wookie1965 said:

Put the little unboxing on I'm sure people will like to see it. 

I dunno i hate watching my self back 😂😂

3 hours ago, Sunshine said:

Saturn has been out of production for about 7 years in NA, wife and I had a Saturn in the early 2000’s but it wasn’t the Aura.

OP: we’ve hijacked your thread, sorry.

Damn thought I was popular 

17 hours ago, Scooot said:

That looks very clever Danny, who needs a Nexus  

I really enjoyed using the 130 version and really looking forward to using this one too. Also spec says it's F4.7

Just bagged one of these 

2 hours ago, Astro_Dad said:

It was only a matter of time - I was wondering where Celestron would deploy this tech next. Big Dobs are the natural fit. Will be interesting to see how these perform. 

Got one coming and rumours are there's a 14" coming

1 hour ago, doublevodka said:

I spotted these the other day too, they look interesting! It also explains to a certain extent why they haven't released Starsense Explorer as a stand-alone option, which is a shame as I bet they'd sell thousands of them.

I agree that they would sell a lot! 

So these have just been announced and having used their starsense Explorer telescope's I'm quite excited as I love dobs. 

So I have the 10" version arriving soon.

9 hours ago, Stu said:

Good to see you back Danny 👍

Cheers buddy 

3 hours ago, MalcolmM said:

Great image. I really love wide angle images like this, they give great perspective that you simply don't get with the close-ups.

Malcolm

Thanks Malcolm, I wish I had more time on it but at the time I was shooting at a spot in Wales a group of happy campers turned up with led lights powered by a generator 😭 I had to drive 40 mins to the other side of Anglesey and by the time I got there Orion was really low. 

7 hours ago, JeremyS said:

Funnily enough I was thinking of you yesterday as I was  in north Wales and your nightscapes came to mind.

welcome back!

My mother in law has moved to North Wales recently so access to dark skys if a weekend are back.  Been very fortunate to acquire some kit to get me going 😊😊

Due to covid, work, etc my astro game and enthusiasm burnt out. I have managed a few random nights here and there  but im now on my way back into the hobby. heres a wide angle M42 from last month

Sony A7R IV -  Sony 55mm F1.8 Stoppepd down to F2.8 iso 1200

7 minutes ago, Leo S said:

Here are a couple of examples of orbital fuel dumps:

 

Cheers for that,that first one is what it looked like. We where just packing up on Anglesey as some fog was making anything hard work when I spotted this. Watched it travel till it disappeared. As it got further away the more orb like appearance it took on. 

Never seen anything like this. Anyone else see that thing traveling across the entire arc of the sky?

Bit of a late one but if anyone is in the CW9 6AU area Celestron have a stand with some goodies 

1 hour ago, barkis said:

WOW!, A real and superb Widefield  Astro. Image. I do appreciate Deep Sky objects in all their glory,
but I feel great when looking at a picture of a star filled night sky. It takes a good  Camera and lens  to  produce  a show like  this.

You selected a fine part of our home  Galaxy to expose your cameras sensor  to Daniel. 
Can only be described as Excellent. .
Ron.

 

Thanks Ron im slowly fine tuning my setup, the next step is gather a few hours worth of data this good on this composition. just need that holy grail night now 

3 hours ago, JeremyS said:

Another cracking pic 🙂

 

Thank you buddy

38 minutes ago, Beulah said:

The Sony is so full of win.

aye they are pretty good lol. this is still the A7RII dont feel the need to upgrade either. you can get them at a good price 2nd hand now

X1 180" ISO 1250

F2.5 Sigma 35mm art lens

Sony A7rii 

On 02/09/2019 at 20:26, Sunshine said:

Stunning image, I need to get me a Sony too! considering I’m using an original 5D. It must be 10 years old now at least, I’m sure the Sony will leave it for dead.

The Sony's are wonderful to use, i shot canon for a few years and moved to Sony after the lack of features from canon.  albeit 42.4MP on a FF sensor is overkill it works really well for my daytime landscape work and its a cracking astro camera. 

On 02/09/2019 at 20:26, JeremyS said:

Another cracking image @Daniel-K!

Thanks buddy

1 hour ago, Beulah said:

Breathtaking image!

How is the Sony compared to the 5D iii? (If I recall correctly?)

 

Like getting out of a fiesta into a Porsche 🤣 

16 hours ago, Daniel-K said:

not bad wide open like. i rekon stopped down to F2.2 and tracked this lens would be a belter. wish i had captured more data

I shot it wide open to see what aberrations it had. You can clearly see it has a vignette but that might of been the lens hood. But still very impressive. I wish I had more time to use it. However I have access to it anytime so next time I fancy stopping it down and doing a full night with it.