todd8137

looks good for a mobile phone pic say in that i had a sony erricson phone that took great afocal pics

never seen it yet the wind as been so bad here at the min but will make an efort to se it

they must have got my e mail about the cloud coverage over the UK next five days lol

not yet paul a will have a look is a beta version a wonder

i did some pics the other day will put them up saturn is a great sight at the minbut do in 15x 3 min vidsis a real pain

hi the new scope looks great the grab and go bit is ace,i some times just take the 90mm refractor out .it gives ,sometines better crisp images of the moon visaully the 12"dob is second to mome here but freind as a 4.5 and he couls see the viel neband others pat

hi was looking at some old videoe footage i have never got satuen the same since this night still a great sight http://www.youtube.com/user/todd8137

hi a was videoing sturn the other night i done 7x3 minutes x8 for each one i restacked the 8 pics which had a average of 7500 frsmes not posted them i will put them all in one pic ,did you manage any video ? did you find any way to convert to avi.leo is on my list its high and south from around 22:00 went out tonight but the wind was gusting at around 14mph even with just one side open in the maje shift obs,get a look at m57 with the lpf filter the donut ghost pops out .the final throw of the viel neb also is much more than before have a great trip and new targets also overwhelm me every time its something i can not explain tc pat

hi and welcome, the adventure starts hereturn left at orion is a great start,do not go for onr of the hubble specails that show the big glossy pics orwhen you look through yours or some one elses.(if you no any one or where ,go take a look) but have a look about

i would be chuffed i have never seen it yet

:clouds1:hi all got a few snaps of saturn ,the wind wad +12mph the 12 dob with dew shield,was here there and every were video was not on at all.so got the d10 and colred filters ,that wa even worse,so back to the web cami found away with 3 large crocodile clips with a bit of old push bike in a tube to clamp the base that worked out ok`ish any way to tired to upload all pics a will try one if a have no joy then will do later did any view tonight between 22:45/00"45 has all moons were on sjow and the amount of satalites that zoomed on by i counted 13 in this time also they was fly in past from all directions any one else notice these ?

Hi all have you downloaded all the files for the when you download stel it comes with the normal stuff goto config window clik tools and at the botton you will see were it says download catalogues download them all makes stell 100 times better

hi nice report the behive is great when the dob gets here your in for a treat esp at lower power my 12 " dob and filters have kept me awake to the early hours hundreds of times clear skies always

what was the cam ect

hi all well did a few shots last night but things where not ideal partly cloudy and dodge in the rest to get a few shots the skywatcher LPF filter was purchased of flo next day delivery as prompt as ever ,shot polaris because it’s a easy thing and that direction as the most sky glow sheffield is about 12 mile down the valley from me and its like a big open bowl spew in orange evil every were I will have another try tonight as these pics were taken on the 21st april ,so we will see as tonight is clear and the out look is clear we have that smog drifting in on saturday so best make the most of it heres the link for the pics http://s473.photobucket.com/albums/rr93/todd8137/skywatcher%20LPF%20filter%20RESULTS%2012%20DOB/ this is just one of many tests but so far its made a dif here my light pol is not that bad may be 25% and most of that is towards my north any pics taken face in north get the orange glow to then paint shopable but would rather it not be there

to be fair the mark one eye ball is the best tool for the showers or binoculars,i have tried with both scopes and have only seen a couple streak past binos or the normal eye the field of view must be as wide as poss for me i`m out side at the min a want to get polaris again but with the lpf in placea got from flo yesterday let us no if you see any thing pat

hi mate there is one major shower the aprils LYRIDS APRIL 19TH onwards ,with its max on the 25/31 sort of around lyra hercules coronna boral north eastish i think a saw a few my self last night

these pics on photo bucket are with out the filter a will do the filtered ones tonight

hi paul these where all done with the cannon 10d last night what a was after was a star trail around polaris ,and a went indoors to get the cuppa tea when a come back to it all,the shot was 2.12secs and when a looked at the pic there was only a tiny bit odf traling a then dropped down to 1.35 and the shots came out well a will use the 2" light pol filter a got of flo yesterday and do the same shots to see how that works ,have ya had a play with that webcam yet and hope you both ok pat

hi sounds like a good night the low moon gave me chance do take some pics but saturn is always worth a look and to not down its moons and were they are a will have a go to night

hi all ,well last night thought a would take a few long expo`s of polaris to try and get a good star trail pic ,but to my supprise they turned out better than a thoght .for one they did not trail ok the time was about 2 mins not much of a chance there then,but i did get some good shots a will put the pics up in a minute on photo bucket the link will be there shortly ,apart from them all be in orange! any way i ordered a lpf filter,and it came this morning so a will try that a read alot about these type of filters and every one as diffrent skies so it was hard to judge so i went for the 2" sized one can not comment on how well it works as it only came this morning.any way back to the pics,i took about 30 /40 altogether of polaris some good some bad tried dif settings to see what results a would getand the best was 1.35 mins and that gave the best out come to the picstonight a will do some more of the same and test the lpf out and get the pics to see the difference cheers pat enjoy they not so bad pics all were taken at Cannon d10 ,12"skyliner iso 200 bulb setting 1.35 sec , x10 subs awb on 4 mins between each shot just to cool down no filter heres the link http://s473.photobucket.com/albums/rr93/todd8137/20tth%20april%20polaris/ also a stuck the pic of the skywatcher lpf will try that in a bit,the other pic is a result of a drop so beware

i am do in these a few a day i took alot of video what a did with a couple was shoot 10x 3mins ,registaxed them,got 10 good pics ,then staked all ten pics which out of 10 a seven average pics some filtered some not on photobucket heres the link http://s473.photobucket.com/albums/rr93/todd8137/16%2017%20th%20APRIL%20FILTERS/

whysosirus,hi use filters for planets mainlyi have a couple a others for neb ectbut color ones are great a have 12 multi colored ones last night i used green blue light yellow on the moon they bring out diferent features and let you have another view of the target i have some pics of the moon a did the other day a will post them later and you will see how they look cheers pat

hi isabelle,i was go in for the full set of pics but last night wa cloudy the forcast says it will be clear at 01:30 thats late but a want to get the full moon so a can have the full set for archive for aprils moon phases how you get in on with things ? pat

pretty much the same as me but with out all that colorbut great attempt will look forward to your next pat