CCD-Freak

Yes )^8 I am getting very tired of this. I have not been out to may dark site in a couple months.

You need a garden observatory !!! (^8 Impressive build.

Thanks....I just found it. It looks useful so I bookmarked it into my Weather Folder.

What weather site is this ????? Looks like it goes out farther than the one I use now.

This is why I worked to get my imaging rig set up so I can control it remotely from inside my house or Caravan. With crazy Texas weather and bugs it makes things much more comfortable. Now I can sit inside and image when it is cold in shorts and a T-shirt with a cold BEvERage in hand. The lack of clear sky is the main problem now.

Great image....I love B&W Ha images.

Hi There and welcome to the Lounge. I think you will have a good time here. There is nothing wrong about having a weak spot for 4" refractors....I have one myself. Hang around long enough an you can be a Lounge Lizard like the rest of us. (^8

Here is the telescope I lusted after when I was a kid. From time to time I get to use this marvelous old Unitron 6" refractor which is located at the University of North Texas (UNT) At that time I thought a long white tube on a heavy EQ mount is what a telescope is supposed to look like.

Maybe they can just scale up the JWST design since it has be very much a success. Having a launch vehicle large enough to get it up could be a problem. The SLS or maybe a SpaceX Super Heavy could do it. Lets hope they can get it funded.

Welcome from a Texan "Lounge Lizard" Great place here...lots of great people and information.

Welcome from another on this side of the pond. Have fun here on SGL. I do.

Here is another classic beauty....My Meade RG-880 with lots of upgrades. At The Okie-Tex Starparty some years back.

I saw this beauty down in New Mexico back in May. 6, count em 6 TEC 180s on a L600 mount !!!!! Each one with an ASI6200 with EFW and filters. My understanding is that it is being used to search for exo-planets.

Here is another one of my scope that I think looks nice. Orion Premium 110ED on a CI-700 mount. Imaging at Fort Griffin State Historic Site near Albany, TX back in 2015

Here is a nice photo I saw today......and the moon is not distorted.

Here is another scope I have always thought to be a "good looker". My Ultima 8 with all the bells and whistles I could find.

Here is my AP900 with a SharpStar 150mm F2.8 Hyper Newt. I like the red, white and blue as well as the carbon fiber tube. The AP900 also looks nice with a long white tube ES 127ED on top....again in red, white and blue. (^8

Here is a nice image from Artemis....I am sure there will be many more spectacular shots. (^8

I was reading this...... https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-artemis-i-cameras-to-offer-new-views-of-orion-earth-moon (^8

I would imagine there will be lots of pictures. The spacecraft has cameras all over it inside and out.

My first thought was the Cobra Nebula. 8^P

I used a 40mm extension tube and it worked well with the AT2FF flattener I had at that time.

This is one of the best images I ever took with the 393L+OSC

Probably not mine....I sold it many years ago. I typically used 5 or 10 minute subs and shot around 30 images. I now know that it would have been better to shoot many more subs but I was still working on my technique. The M20 mage was 15 x 5 minutes through an 8"RC. Not bad for 45 minutes but it would have been much better if I had managed to get 60 to 100 subs. Here are some more images from back then.

I has the OSC version of the 383 camera and it was OK. It is not nearly as sensitive as the new CMOS cameras but it will serve to get you started on your "journey to the dark side" (^8 These are some images I made with the 383L+ OSC and I was pretty happy with them at the time. The M20 image won the best image award at RMSS that year. (^8