varius21

Thank you very much! I appreciate your input and suggestions! I will try the above

Hello,

I am not very experienced in astrophotography so I would like some advice.
I just ordered a ZWO Asi2600mc Pro and I would like opinions on good scopes strictly under £2k to pair it with.

I am interested in DSO and to get to capture some of the smaller targets too.


Any opinion and advice will be much appreciated!


P.S. I own an EQ6-R Pro

1 minute ago, tomato said:

I agree that you shouldn’t be too concerned. I had to get permission from the builder (new estate) to put mine up as there was a clause in the covenants about outbuildings but have never had any comment from the neighbours. With it being green my main concern was that somebody would chuck a load of empty bottles in there if I left the shutter open during the day.☺️
 

your comment for the bottles made me chuckle. I had never thought of it thatway! 😂
Your obsy looks pretty sweet there in the corner! Thank you for the comment!

11 minutes ago, malc-c said:

To be honest I think you are worrying over nothing.   The structure is not permeant and would be classes as an outbuilding.  And if the people either side of you reported it to the council and an inspector came out I don't think they would issue you with an order to take it down over a few centimetres.  If it did require planning permission on that technicality chances are it would be retrospective.   

If you are really, really bothered then remove and relay the base so its at ground level rather than proud so that it sits less than 2.5m 

that makes perfect sense. Thank you! I will just carry on with setting it up and see where it goes  

Thank you everyone for your suggestions! 

9 hours ago, Swoop1 said:

I see outbuildings on the other side of the fence so, height seems not to bother folk if it on their ground?

that outbuilding is the other neighbours. The gardens are asymmetrical, there's a fence right next to that outbuilding. It looks like that outbuilding is less than 2.5m while if I put the top on my obsy it will be higher than 2.5

20 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

I’d just explain what you are doing and that you be happy to show them around.

The “whether it bothers them” question might arise regardless of whether you ask them. I presume they will see it at some point in the future and it might bother them then if they don’t know what it is.

Thank you for your suggestions!

6 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

Maybe worth knocking on their door to explain what you are doing. As discussed on another thread, ppl assume these Pulsar domes, especially green ones, are something else. They may worry more about their speculation than if they knew what it was. Perhaps say you’ll invite them round to look through your scope when ready 

If I do knock to let them know.. should I ask them if it bothers them? What if they say it does? These folks took their fence panels off one day to paint them both sides and didn’t tell us they would… so I don’t know what to expect from them 😬

44 minutes ago, wulfrun said:

Chances are no-one will complain and the council won't send out an inspector, with a measure, to tell you to take it down. Unless you "fess up", of course!

I really hope so! I hope my neighbour won’t get close to the fence and start measuring. I don’t know what these neighbours are like.

4 minutes ago, malc-c said:

It was a long time ago when I built my observatory, but I seem to remember that there were two height restrictions for outbuildings within a certain distance from a boundary.  One to the eves and the other to a ridge.  I believe the max height without planning permission is 2.5m to the ridge if its within 2m of a boundary fence, so you should be OK, but don't take my word as different councils may interpret the rules differently.  I would give your local planning office a call for verification.  I can't see it being a problem as these rules tend to be there to prevent people building unlawful two story extensions or huge conservatories on their houses.  You could also argue that this, like a shed, is not a permeant structure, which may not need to comply.

Just to clarify… the observatory itself is 2.47 and the concrete base is almost 15cm… which would make it in total 262cm.

your comment is encouraging. I am pretty stressed out about it because I thought the observatory was shorter.

Hello,

I recently purchased a 2.2 Pulsar observatory. It has been in my garden in pieces for a couple of weeks an dI have had a shed base and pier built by a builder I know. It was painted and sat there until today…

Today I started putting it together and to my surprise it seems to be taller than I thought. For some reason I thought it was 2m high but apparently it’s 2,47cm. The cement base is about 15cm high and it’s close to the boundary.

I will have a problem, won’t I?

so much work and so much money spent…
 

thank you both for the reply. I just feel like Green will look better in my garden and match the surroundings. If anyone can point me to the right direction on what kind of paint I should be looking at.

Hello,

I recently purchased a used 2.2 Pulsar obey. It’s the typical white colour and I would like to paint it maybe green. Anyone has any good suggestion for a specific paint?

thank you

thank you both

4 minutes ago, robbie c said:

That’s brilliant happy birthday Vasili have a great day 👍

Thank you

Just now, Craney said:

William Optics OTA  ...  as a guess

 

oh yes!

6 minutes ago, Richard_ said:

Happy birthday Vasili! Looks like you definitely chose a good one there. Do you have a gold WO telescope and guidescope by any chance 😁

Thank you! ahahhahahahahhahaha you got me!!!!!

7 minutes ago, Peter Drew said:

Happy Birthday.  Time for the next ring?    😀

next ring in 3 months time

Thank you all

Hello everyone!

Today is my birthday, and I've had a surprise custom made birthday cake and some presents from my fiancé, which I thought you would all appreciate as much as I did!

7 minutes ago, Sabalias said:

I’m not very experienced either but I think that’s pretty good for 90 mins exposure. What’s the DSLR and what bortle level are your skies?  For what it’s worth these are my efforts from Friday night; 27 x 300 seconds, bortle 5, QHY 8L-C:

Stu

Thank you for the reply, Stu.

Camera is a Canon 1100D modded.
I believe my area is classed as bortle 6

3 minutes ago, PeterCPC said:

I can't open either of these.

Thank you for the reply and trying to check out the files, Peter.

After spending some more time and working on the tif without the flats, I managed to make this.... is that bad? What could I do to improve it?

Thank you

here's the TIF without the flats

Autosave004.tif

Hello everyone,

Last night, a clear sky after a long while for me, I decided to take a few shots. I setup my rig in the garden and shot Rosette Nebula for an hour an a half... I am new to this, so don't stone me if I completely messed up.

I used a modded dslr, an L-eXtreme filter and shot 30 x 180".

I also added 20 flats in there.

Here is the stacked photo tif attached... can you tell me if I messed up stacking, if the data is bad or if I can't post process it due to inexperience?

Here's also a photo of how it looked on my asiair pro while shooting.

Many thanks in advance  

ngc2244.tif

I rotated mine z73 upside down which did the trick.