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I am a beginner with 130PDS & I want to improve my setup, but I need your experiences as guidelines Setup now: --------------- Mount: AZ goto Orion Starseeker tube: SW 130PDS (of course, I will keep it, it's my base for a long years) Camera: Atik infinity colour (with 130PDS, it gives 2.05" for resolution, wich is good for DSO objects) Future: -------- I want to ad and/or change this element (my priority, the order i 1) a equatorial mount will be better (the accuracy of the starseeker is bad) => due to the weight, I have selected EQM-35 or CEM25P 2) a CLS filter (like baader neodynium)? 3) a coma corrector (as the baader one)? 4) a focal reducer (but I need to stay between 2,5 & 3" of resolution). and next year a B&W Atik camera: Atik Infinity Mono? or Horizon? Is anyone know where it is calculated this resolution of "between 2 and 3"/pixel"? I do not find the origin of this information. Thank you for your understanding and to give me your feedbacks

I am a beginner in visual assisted, I have started one month ago. My setup is: SW130PDS - AZ goto Orion Starseeker Mount - Atik Infinity colour - no guiding It is a beginner setup, in the future, I want to take a EQM-35 mount & an another Atik Camera (mono). I will work hard to obtain better results It is useful for beginner than me to see image of another beginner. I see amazing images on this post, but they are made by experimented people.

The use of astronomy.tools are very useful to see the size of the object in your eye field. But the very low brightness of main objects (due to their distance) could not be retrieved. The limit is not the scope but your eye. The visual memory of your eye is so low (~50ms), that it is not sufficient to have a visual colour image. When you replace the eyepiece (and so your eye) by a camera, you could see it. You increase the time and deep objects appears with a lot of details. For example:

If your scope is goto, then use the scope furnisher application, with it, calibrate with knowing stars & use a planetarium (skysafari, stellarium, ...) to help you go your choose targets. At the beginning, it is not easy. When you buy a scope, only the great focal eyepiece (20 to 25mm) is useful (but with low magnification). The low focal eyepiece is always awful. For eyepiece, following my experiences: - first: celestron xcel-lx series, - second level: explore scientific (82° for low focal & 68° for higher focal) They are available everywhere (astronomy shop, amazon, ali,...). You could also replace the planetarium by a map book (I have one, I never use it, too many details for beginner). I prefer Android application with a tablet, it is simple & you could travel with your fingers (it is intuitive).

Here is my new skylist when I am embedded by my village lights (it is also available for light pollution place). Do not hesitate to give your opinion about it. Kaelig_urban_191_oct2020.csv Kaelig_urban_191_oct2020.skylist

@Armand Popa If you speak a little french language (There is a lot Romanian people that speak our language, it's amazing), you could join (english language is also available). Do not hesitate to download a maximum of our skylist, there are here for that. I am working for a flat galaxy based on the faintfuzzies.com documents.

Hello everyboy, as you know, I am a french Astram for several 10 years. I have start Visual Assisted with Camera, this summer. I work with an another colleague Ouki in order to share a maximum of skylist in french forum (because there is a very big lack). So I have created a skylist library, do not hesitate to look for (language is french but the skylist are international): http://astronomie-va.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1345&sid=80bd52b84f6e129cb26253454a77d053 Do not hesitate to write a comment on our forum when you visit us. PS: I have created new skylist: Abell catalog, Rose catalog, ... and i will continue

Hello everyboy, as you know, I am a french Astram for several 10 years. I have start Visual Assisted with Camera, this summer. I work with an another colleague Ouki in order to share a maximum of skylist in french forum (because there is a very big lack). So I have created a skylist library, do not hesitate to look for (language is french but the skylist are international): http://astronomie-va.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1345&sid=80bd52b84f6e129cb26253454a77d053 Do not hesitate to write a comment on our forum when you visit us.

You could find a lot of lists here (bad referenced): https://www.skysafariastronomy.com/repositories/index.php?dir=skylist&theme=onyx

I find a mine list here (bad referenced in the research motor as goog): https://www.skysafariastronomy.com/repositories/index.php?dir=skylist&theme=onyx

For a friend, I have worked for a skylist for the Rose Catalogue You could load here: http://www.faintfuzzies.com/DownloadableObservingGuides2.html pdf file: http://www.faintfuzzies.com/Files/RoseCatalogue v2.pdf I copy the site description: " The Rose catalogue of compact galaxies - Dr James 1.Rose wrote a paper discussing a smal selection of 33 northern and 5 southern very compact galaxy groups for large telescopes. This list is considered to be a bit more challenging than the Hickson Galaxy Groups" These objects are not referenced in planetarium, Hence I use SIMBAD query in order to locate the nearest object available in the planetarium. In the .txt file, I indicate the coordinate of the Rose object and the object selected in the skylist. I expect that someone could be interested by this list too. The skylist file & its csv: Kaelig_rose_catalog.skylist Kaelig_rose_catalog.csv Rose_catalogue.txt

Many thanks to all contributors, I am updating my own list & I will share here as soon as possible.😀

Thank you for your answer, I will look on this post.

I am a beginner with skysafari, so I am working on my own skysafari list (for beginners, of course). Thank you for the sharing.