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  1. Ludd
    Having tried the artillery (17.5" dobsonian) on Friday it was time to try something slightly more delicate this evening, the old C8 SCT with a Canon 7D2. Still not as good as others' efforts (thinking about Kon really) but quite nice to have this sequence.
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    Got some footage last night, but I clearly didn't get the focus quite right.
  3. Ludd
    Brilliant shots!
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    Hmm, not great
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    Will pop my head out in 15 mins to see it go over, but I’ve abandoned the idea of trying to catch it in the 17.5” dobsonian as there is quite a bit of cloud.
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    I watched the ISS on its earlier pass at about 7, when it went pretty much horizon to horizon, and then once it was dark I set up the astrotrac and took this shot as it rose from the west and disappeared into Earth’s shadow above Auriga. How much longer will we enjoy this show?
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    Wow! Brilliant shot. Do they mind people lurking in the shrubbery with cameras?
  8. Ludd
    It’s 17.5 inches, quite a step up from the 8 that I used to use
  9. Ludd
    My Lukehurst monster waiting for darkness to fall. It showed me some Leo galaxies and the Owl nebula before it was time to pack up
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    About to pack up last night - not a long session, but got to see some galaxies in Leo that I’d not seen before getting this scope. Stepladder was useful.
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    Alas no, it was a plane - I can just make out a light that blinks regularly along the trail. Mind you, I usually do pick up a few satellites in these longer exposures.
  12. Ludd
    Last night, after packing up the dobsonian, I took a few shots of Orion sliding into the west
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    No, not yet, but if we get a really clear night in the next week or two I will give it a try. Mind you, Orion is on its way out already.
  14. Ludd
    Ah, my first proper view of M42 through the 17.5” dob and the colour is gorgeous - jade and burgundy! Also M51, a bit low in the east still but worth a quick glimpse. Didn’t try for the Pup. Now packed up, as I can see it is not really very clear and I have work in the morning, so just doing a few wide field shots with a 28mm lens. Two brilliant orange meteors just now.
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    Probably best viewed on a small phone screen to be honest, here is a single 601s shot taken facing south from our back door last night. Modded canon 1000d and a Samyang 10mm lens sitting on an astrotrac.
  16. Ludd
    Lovely images - and lovely mills too, I know them well and sometime do bike rides based on Quainton, Brill, Wheatley and Great Haseley mills. But in daylight and not with that wind!
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    In a similar vein, a holiday in a dark corner of Wales some years saw me trying to use a Vixen GP mount without a counterweight. Not great.
  18. Ludd
    Brilliant shots. I am kicking myself for having missed that pass - it would have been a good test for the bearings on my new-to-me 17.5” dob (and for my ability to not fall off a stepladder)
  19. Ludd
    Ah, another Bucks observer out under the full moon! Love this shot. I have been wondering about a similar shot at Brill.
  20. Ludd
    I thought conditions might be good, so I hauled the dob out of the shed and played with my phone at the eyepiece. There was high cloud and it was not yet dark at 5pm but it was nice to see the moon drift past! FullSizeRender.mov
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    Yes, saw this and was tempted too. But I don’t need it and it would only end up being the beginning of a project that could so easily get out of control!
  22. Ludd
    Lovely report - makes me wish I had persevered last night, but I was already tired by midnight and it was clouding over with no real promise of clearing again.
  23. Ludd
    Truly beautiful and also very effective at conveying the shape of our galaxy and our place in it. Thank you for posting!
  24. Ludd
    I took the Dobsonian out in a gap between snow showers and had my first look at M1, M42 and M45 through a scope of this size. M1 was vaguely mottled, M42 was in colour and M45 was showing its nebulosity, even with quite a bit of LP. Oh, and M81 and M82 as well - the latter looking quite crunchy.
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    A brief gap between snow showers was enough to justify hauling out the dobsonian.
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