Voyager 3

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Wonderful blue and red star pairing ! 

On 09/12/2020 at 14:39, rl said:

A poor thing but mine own..an OO right angle finder.

Can we have a thread for the silliest OTA- eyepiece combo? Can anyone match a 30mm ES 100 to a 60mm OG?

Which one is the telescope ?

How is your autumn season going @scarp15 ? 

Or 1.25" focuser (maybe in the DL?) ..

6 hours ago, Don Pensack said:

I'll be a year older before it sees first light, LOL.

Ahh did I spoil the surprise then ...

For Procyon - I've read no one alive has observed the companion! I'm not surprised are you ? 

PS : Stu did you notice how active this forum is after relocation ..?

Don , please do report us how your eyepieces work in your new fast 16" (Congrats!) . 

Ha , no apologies , as I'm no greater . You have to read my English to know the meaning of sloppy . 

Astimagtism and coma are aberrations , while pincushion and barrel are distortions . 

9 hours ago, John said:

to name but a few 

You've left nothing more to be said .  😂

My first double would be Rigel!

Ahh thanks Stu , I wasn't aware of it ! And like you say , a tenth of a degree is more than enough accuracy .

3 hours ago, Epick Crom said:

@Kon, I feel you, same here! I was looking at the TV Ethos 100 degree eyepieces and dreaming as well but just too expensive. I will be happy to get at least one 82 degree to try. Like you all my eyepieces are 1.25 inch. Oh well we can always dream☺️

There are APM XWA for less than half the price of Ethos . 😄

9 hours ago, Captain Magenta said:

I also have a question about SS7 (and 6 too actually but I only discovered the issue when upgrading).

I’ve re-added all my “gear” in the equipment section. I’ve noticed a couple of errors in their pre-loaded stuff:

- TeleVue Ethos 4.7 SX and 3.7 SX eyepieces are actually 110 degree eyepieces, but SS has them as 100 degrees;

- In the CC and Barlow section, it only allows 1 decimal place for any Barlow effect. So the Paracorr2 cannot be set to 1.15x, it simply reverts to 1.1x;

I know neither will result in an egregious error when displaying FoV on-screen for a particular set-up, but I feel that if they’re there they might as well get it right.

So, my question: where does one point this sort of thing out? I see they have a forum but everything posted there seems to get drowned out and never commented on or seemingly read, there’s so much.

Cheers, Magnus

 

May I suggest you to find the AFOV using the field stop and use custom of field of view ?

FS of 3.7mm - 7.1mm 

FS of 4.7mm - 9mm 

Use Field stop/Focal length of the telescope × 57.3 for finding the AFOV .

The caveat is you won't be able to add to decimal digits in SS ..

16 hours ago, John said:

I'm happy to add a short report to this thread

This evening I have been using my 100mm refractor, initially on Saturn and then on Jupiter to watch most of the Io shadow transit and the moons emergence from the limb of the disk after it's own transit. The seeing was a bit mediocre but there were some good moments.

I've then had a look at some of my favourite double stars of this season. The seeing prevented the views being the highest quality but still it was enjoyable.

I had a look at Uranus which showed a nice grey-green disk at 300x but the 100mm aperture was not capable of showing any of it's moons tonight.

Despite rather milky transparency Messier 81 and 82 showed quite nicely with good contrast.

I then spent around 45 minutes trying to see comet 29/P Schwassmann–Wachmann in Auriga. It is listed at magnitude 10.6 currently but despite using a range of magnifications from 40x to 150x I could not see anything convincing despite checking it's position with 3 reliable sources. Maybe the transparency was just not good enough or the comet is very small indeed or perhaps fainter than the reported magnitude. Still, you can't win them all !

As a consolation I had a nice browse around the open clusters in and around Auriga.

The scope is still out so I may have some more to come.

Interesting to think that my last observing session (3 nights ago) was with a 450mm aperture scope compared to the 100mm this evening 

To @Ags, I think all reports are worth posting and reading but a thread like this might encourage more folks to add their observing experiences so it is nice to have an alternative way to do this. Good idea

 

 

+1 excellent idea! 

On 02/11/2021 at 19:59, Stu said:

One last addition to this case, looks pretty full now. Need to change the foam and get them seated better but they are quite snug when the lid is shut.

2.5mm TOE is the final addition, looking forward to giving it a go.

3.4mm HR looks alone ... You need a 3.3mm to support it 😈 . 

Several mm ? Then is it even possible to focus the field together at once even in a flat scope ? 

Alos how was the combination of the 14mm and the OIII Kon ? Was it manageable or dark ? 

We will have a good PM chat on this if you are fine with it ..

Witch head nebula IC 2118 is another nebula that will spice up your Halloween . ( not sure whether it's suitable for 8" though!) . 

3 hours ago, Epick Crom said:

I agree, galaxies are the most difficult class of objects to observe. My skies are bottle 7 (I'm 8km away from Perth City)

Like Kon , I've never thought this would be the case . I've always thought your skies are ~Bortle 3 skies from your reports . 

Oh man , would you believe it , you've done TERRIFIC observations from your light polluted location !!!!!

14 hours ago, Nigella Bryant said:

That's not an eyepiece, this is an eyepiece, lol.

Which one ? 🤯

I guess he is referring to the "planner" feature . 

Go to observe menu and choose "planner" . Choose comets under object type , set your desired magnitude limit , maybe add RA for visibility in your observing time . Give search and add it to observing list . 

Now go to observation list and allow highlight object option . Now the object will appear the way he described - it will highlight the comet with a small ring around it . 

3 hours ago, Pixies said:

I have both a 7mm University Optics (Circle-T) ortho and an 8mm Vixen LVW

The latter is a great eyepiece, comfy to use and a relatively wide view. As I don't use driven mounts, this is a real benefit. However, there have been times that the ortho shows some feature that the LVW didn't - and I don't think it was down to magnification. 

A little different in size though.

Hmmmm 😅 .

@PeterW's pm list is about to go on a bang . 😄 

Fine report Stu . I really love the location ! ( ok , your set-up too 😉) .

Fine session Bob . 😀