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so had a problem with collimation on my skywatcher 130pds ive got it roughly collimated i believe and im taking an image in apt to plate solve and its suddenly not plate solving would bad collimation cause this ? ive tried going to cappella and centering the star taking a picture and plate solving it and apt isnt working so iam at a loss at weather its my collimation way of or apt playing up any advice would be helpfull firt clear night in weeks any quick tips at a loss cheers

its early days a new scope so trying to get to grips with it and planetary imagings new to me also ,i will keep trying weather depending many thanks

im findng with a barlow the screen goes black ,i havent had chance to get out and test the barlow with an eye piece yet but i did try out eye piece projectionwith dslr with a 20mm eye piece lastnight with better results i could find the target the telescopes im findng with a barlow the screen goes completly black and ive tried all different settings ,i have the TS-Optics 6" f/12 Classic Cassegrain many thanks

iam thinking of getting a colour planatary imaging camera moving from dslr and i was wondering about eyepiece projection as ive had problems with barlow i have the eyepiece extentions and i have a mono guide cam ive tried to see if it will connect to one and im at a loss and wondering if anyone would know of any adapter i can ue to connect the ccd cam to eyepiece projecton adapter which normally has the dslr mount on that unscrews and i cant seem to find an adapter to connect the 2 so m42 to ccd any ideas many thanks

i use the 130pds on an eq5 pro and tracks really well and id say just about right for dso imaging a good starting point and relitevly cheap to get going im sure the 200pds will also work but limited field of view

trying to bag mars ,cant seem to get the barlow to work with the classic cass scope nor 5x zoom in eos movie record so not as sharp as id like but first attempt with the scope and dslr camera

i found with modding my 650d i hadnt leveled the sensor chip on the camera when i did the mod i used a bahtinov mask and focused everytime for months and imaged away thinking i was doing ok until someone pointed out my stars were not sharp accross the image ,i re leveled the sensor on the camera and now stars are pin sharp just a thought the extra level of red will be from the mod and can be aligned in software after imaging bubble neula image when sensor was off odd looking stars and ngc 869 after leveling the sensor

many thanks i will have a look into that cheers

i use apt to plate solve ,and it dont plate solve planets i dont think unless i make a custom object havent tried this is just a new scope im trying to do planets with and apt isnt the best fr those i dont believe

thanks for that reply im using an EQ5 pro eq goto mount and im hooked up to laptop so veiw on screen my thinking is i need better alignment of my finder scope with barlow in hopefully i can sort that next time out weather depending cheers

im liking it just need some more time with it and processing skills working on but yes great scope thanks again 👍

i know that feeling ,it happenend to me when i first got all my gear together and the boxes came with stickers saying clouds inside 😂 But on that note the day comes when your able to get out with your new gear ,and well then the fun begins ,if all new cannt beat dry runs indoors to get it all tweaked up and working as you would like certainly helps when the day come and its clear best of luck and clear skys 😀

few shots of the moon 1st december with the TSOPTICS Cas6m

so ive just begun planetry imaging or trying to say the least i was wondering if anyone had any experience with where i maybe going wrong i can image the moon no problems but when it comes to jupiter mars saturn etc iam basically getting just a washed out image ,i have tried focusing on the moon,before going over to a planet to image for focus but that dont seem to help with my final images ,im trying with a Dslr and eos movie record that i can acheive the 5x magnification fine put a barlow in an i just cant seem to locate the target again sorry to go on but if anyone could give me a few pointers as to where i maybe going wrong that woulld be great ive seen it done with a dslr on youtube with great results im finding it a little frustrating ,just learn about DSO imaging and planetary is a whole new feild so any dslr imagers with camera settings i maybe doing wrong getting the image n the chip with a barlow am i out of focus the list goes on haha 😂👍 many thanks image attacthed of my results what am i missing

hi ive been looking at celestron and meade F6.3 focal reducers and was wondering if anyone hadd any success with a classical cassegrain would like your input before buying if anyone has any advice thanks