MattGP

Ah knew there’d be an SA thread somewhere Had mine for a couple of weeks and added a 72ed this week No fantastic deepsky shots yet, so here’s the moon instead 😂 (well pleased with the detail)

Last pic I think for this thread now.....this is a crop and edit of a stacked image in GIMP (one of my first attempts at stacking) - no darks, flats or bias, just 14 lights.....polar align or sub duration was slightly out...despite all of that...am well happy with this (Evostar 72ed) Tons of potential to improve for sure

Well, received my new Evostar 72ed today First attempt with it just now with a single 60 sec sub. Need to get used to the fine tuning of the focus, but definitely clearer

Sorted, ball head does take the weight woop woop

Ah sweet, expensive?

Well, ended up finding a 72ed in stock and only a smidge more than usual shops, also got a OVL flattener for half the cost of the SW one. All arrived today so can see what it’s like now Will post a pic once taken some

Hi all have another rookie noob question for you all. So, I have a star Adventurer pro and had been using this with my dslr on a ball head mount so was easy to position camera etc once polar aligned. As of today I now have an Evostar 72 added to the set up 🥳 But, have now lost the ball head joint and it’s manoeuvrability, so.....my question is.....once polar aligned, can I adjust the “degree/equatorial wedge”without messing up the polar align? (Hope that makes sense?) i know I can spin the clutch wheel etc but work the ball head was obv easier to adjust the pitch cheers matt

Seems I’m being quite lucky with just 300mm telephoto lens then 🙏

I’m going to have to google every piece of kit you mentioned there 😂

Will do, the 72ed is out of stock everywhere until June at least So at this the moment part of me is thinking of a bigger scope and separate motorised mount - the 130pds thread looks like some pretty cool images taken - it’s just the added expense, but then once to add the flattener not too much more..:decisions decisions 🤔

I’m in the same boat as you, have a Canon, 300mm lens and a Star Adventurer and also toyed with I needed a 72ed Having used the 300mm for a few weeks now, i do defo want the 72ed. The 300mm is ok for wider shots and have got a couple of pics of the Orion Nebula and Just about got M51, but their just not close enough for me These are all 300mm full zoom single edited pics

Matter of interest What lens was this with?

The way I can find it through my lens now (just by knowing vacinity) is to put Alkaid in the bottom left of frame, then move up and to the right slightly- then the star maps in this thread helped me

Well, managed a better pic tonight, can actually make out the Whirlpool 🥳

My attempt at the same pic (I think), nowhere near as cool as yours

Nice pic What is the 1.4 converter?

I’d been told June

Hi all Just after a little help/advice really, following on from a previous thread I bought a Star Adventurer to use my canon 500d with as have 18mm-300mm lenses, this has worked well, but always planned on getting a 72ed to add to this so that I could capture more DSOs. with the time come to buy here, have found that the 72ed is pretty much out of stock everywhere (and don’t want to pay prices where is in stock). So my interim question, is there anything else that I could buy for around the same money that would be just as good? In theory if you included the cost of a flattener into the equation, could I get a half decent imaging scope and motorised mount for under £500? many thanks Matt

Oh yes I’m finding astrometry.net to be super useful now, a great way to learn what’s in my pics and amazing the amount of objects in my pics that are also galaxies

Am using a recommendation from a previous thread on here....:Star Adventurer Pro...although was slightly lazy when taking these pics as didn’t polar align 100% properly.....

Tbh looks like the 72ed is out of stock everywhere until at least June. So may well have to experiment with stacking more after all

Cheers for the super fast replies Funnily enough was just reading an old thread on here pretty much saying the same thing 😉 72ed it is - unless there’s something better for the money (which I don’t think there is)

Morning all So I have a Canon 500d which am currently using with a Star Adventurer, with the plan always being to buy a better scope to go with it in time. My plan and budget was for an Evostar 72ed, but was just looking at the Skywatcher Star travel range and that the 80t is a third of the price. Now am going to guess it’s 3 times not as good as the evostar, but could anyone confirm why? many thanks matt

Ah that’s pretty neat, I have the 500d, so only way for me to live view stars like this particularly well is by using a laptop. Tbh tho, my plan was always to add a 72ed to this set up, so may look into stacking more when have a more powerful set up

Hi there, yeah couple of users above helped me work out where it was and how to find it This was photo was me finding it last night