seven_legs

Nice set up. I was looking st these mounts myself sometime ago

why don't we do a poll of all the sites people have mentioned. 

the needs of the many out way the needs of the few😇

great write up, thanks.

looking at the price it seems great value at £239.

hope to read more observation.

8 hours ago, M40 said:

From 13th September, M27, Dumbell nebula. 24 x 10 seconds, with integral LP filter. 1240 light years away, M27 was the first planetary nebula discovered. From hubblesite, oxygen is blue, hydrogen is green and combination of sulphur and nitrogen is red.

nice shots.

i've never really been bothered about theses new electronic thingys. but watched a youtube vid with the zwo seestar s50 and must say  i really like it for solar imaging, i would buy it just for that considering how fairly cheap it is, for astronomy gear that is. maybe in the future when i can afford it

1 hour ago, cajen2 said:

Oooh, I'm very interested in one of those myself for my Starfield. Please let us know how you get on with it.

The Starfield in G&G mode with the Sightron Japan alt/az mount:

will do

1 hour ago, bosun21 said:

My most used scope is the Starfield 102 and a snap of the 6”CC which I am hoping to get its first light tonight 🤞. Just got to fit and align the Starsense unit on the Skytee II.

 

 nice, do a first light report please.

I really like the look of the Stellalyra Cats, would like to get the 8" one day

9 minutes ago, Stu1smartcookie said:

Ok it's a long story , sold it to another sgl member , bought it back , sold it to another sgl member . 

But .... it's in my basket at Altair astro to buy it again! I loved the scope but there were corcu thateant it has to go ( both times ) .. what mount will you use for it ? 

ioptron az mount pro -with 1.75" tripod, hoping thats going to be ok. going by what i read it should be

On 23/03/2023 at 10:15, Stu1smartcookie said:

Thought i might add a photo of my 152mm Altair Starwave ... Its a bit heavy at 9kgs but reasonably short (750mm ) with the dew shield retracted . 

Alas its only been on my SkyTee mount for two very brief sessions as the weather has been quite shocking ... still i like looking at it when its stored in our spare room 😂

how's the scope. got mine coming Monday, sorry all for the cloud☺️

anyway, decided to go with the Starwave 152mm F5.9 V3 Red Tube Achromat Refractor with the iOptron AZ Mount Pro

sorry if this has been posted already.

anyway, i am thinking of getting a fast short tube refractor my choices are,  

Bresser Messier AR-152S/760 for about £753 or

Sky-Watcher Startravel 150 £629 or

Starwave 152mm F5.9 V3 Red Tube Achromat Refractor £799

in the passed i had a skywatcher 120st refractor and loved the widefield images. it was a scope i regretted selling really.

i am aware of the CA, but will only be using for widefield visual

the mount i planning of getting with it is iOptron AZ Mount Pro.

i am liking the look of the Starwave scope.

has anyone had any of these scopes? which would you chose?

thanks

Is the sky at night program still running. 

I've not seen it for a while. 

11 hours ago, fozzybear said:

The last one was Jan 2022 maybe you did a typo there and yes when are they to air their next episode as looked on the beeb website for bbc4 "no upcoming events"

Lol. Yes i did mean 2022😊

just wondering when or if there is going to be on again. the last episode was jan 2020  

always a great feeling get a scope especially your very first one. 

looking to seeing how you get on.

put a post on after the first real nights observing and let everyone know how you got on.

silly question but are you using a dew shield or some type of dew prevention? 

as I would guess the front corrector plate would get dewed up and misty really quickly this time of year in the UK

Be sure to taste test the beer😂

i will have two then

19 hours ago, michael8554 said:

Same here.

The zoom lenses for TV sporting events have a huge range, often Canon.

Conditions in Dubai looks good.

Michael

i wonder how much them camera's cost? 

yeah i saw that. great shot of Jupiter

sad news, 

Here's a not very good picture of mirror. 

30 minutes ago, Tiny Clanger said:

Well I learn something every day 🙂

 

 

thanks for the reply,

but I am not using a Barlow lens.

I have used this eyepiece on many scope off various sizes up to 16" and observed planets and such at different heights in the sky and it has been fine.

I saw Mars at opposition 2018 through a 16" dob and was so low down in the sky I had to go on my knee's to look through this eyepiece and it was great.

I feel something not right with this scope. there must be other people with the same scope and eyepieces not having problems.

22 minutes ago, niallk said:

Hi @seven_legs - do you know if the scope is collimated?

If you have a cheap 25mm plossl (perhaps the scope came with one?), it would be interesting to know if you see the same effect if the scope's optics and focusser are well aligned & collimated.

 yeah the cheap eyepiece that came with the scope does not have the yellow tinge around the edge.

the 2" eyepiece is tried and tested on various scopes it is a great eyepiece.

checked collimation and thats fine.

thanks for the reply

Hi all,

I brought this scope around last October and only took it out twice. First time was just after lockdown in April. That time I did not use it as it was cloudy.

Second time was few days ago.

Anyway I thought I would look at the thin crescent moon and was surprised to see a yellow tinge around the moon and around the edge of the 31mm Tele Vue nagler 82º eyepieces. 

With Jupiter there was a horrible red tinge to the bottom of the disc and had a general false colour around it. I thought perhaps it was because it was low down in the sky.

The stars looked ok but I thought M13 looked a bit dim.

I did not take any other eyepieces with me. 

Today I Noticed that the primary mirror had like a mist, film layer on the surface with a little cleaner area on the edge. I left it about a hour just to make sure it was not reacting to different air temperature.

I pointed the scope to the sky and again the yellow tinge around the eyepiece. I tried another 1.25 25mm eyepiece and that was fine.

Next I borrowed another 2" Explore Scientific 100° eyepiece from my friend and the same yellow tinge around the eyepiece was there.

I am tempted to clean the mirror but I'm not sure that will do anything.

Any ideas would be welcome.