JulietPapa

Hello everyone, really appreciate the warm welcome from you all, I thought I’d share an image I grabbed since I posted here as a way of giving back to community, I’m really pleased with it given this is probably the 5th target I’ve shot and it is the North America Nebula as I’m sure you’ll know!

Hi Steve, thanks very much, I’m certainly finding it a challenge but that’s part of the fun for me! I’ve found the field flattener I’m going to purchase so all good on that front. I will absolutely look into the book as I need all the help I can get! Hopefully I’ll be sharing some images with you guys over the winter 👍 James

Hi everyone, I started astrophotography late last year using a Star Adventurer and a Nikon D500/200-500mm and like most people I pretty much became hooked straight away, grabbed my first Andromeda Galaxy image a couple of days ago - always a great buzz to shoot a new target! (Editing leaves a lot to be desired!) I love the portability factor being able to run it from a Power Bank and I’m looking to expand my setup at the end of the year with an EvoStar 72ED (slightly lighter than my current lens), I’d like to ask a couple of questions if I may; I’ve seen that I should add a field flattener which is fine by me but I have heard that there needs to be a certain distance between that flattener and my cameras focal plane - how do I best achieve this? Also in the interests of keeping the setup as light as possible I’d like to use the skywatcher 6x30 finder scope in the hope that I could mate it to a ZWO 120mm mini mono as a guide scope with the ZWO ASiair. Does anyone know if the camera and finder scope are compatible? If this is the wrong place to pose these questions I apologise in advance and would be happy to post them elsewhere in the forum. I greatly appreciate any help and advice you can offer