Saturn - with more frames as suggested

[legion48]

Accurate focussing still remains a problem. Does anyone know anything of the Skywatcher auto focusser?

[GazOC]

Nice image. Focussing can be swine can't it, looks like you've nailed it there though. I think Caz has one of Skywatcher units.

[geppetto]

Yep, nailed that one mate.

Focus is always going to be touchy with a toucam and barlow

Nice one 8)

[MartinB]

banding on the disc cassine and good colour. Good image

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Very nice Legion, like Martin said, it's a good 'un.

Focusing is a pain when the blur due to seeing effects is more prominent than the blur due to lack of focus. You got it bang on there.

Does anyone know anything of the Skywatcher auto focusser?

Yup, they're ace. That's all that needs to be said.

Pre electrification of the Newt. focuser I couldn't tell if the blur was wobble from me touching the focus knob or from lack of focus, now it's down to lack of focus and nothing else. The electric focuser will also allow very small movement of the focuser that are inpossible to acheive manually.

Get one, you won't regret it!

Captain Chaos

[blinky]

Got to agree with CC. Really makes a diffrence when imaging.

Nice image BTW, really like it. I use about 2000 frames for my images.

[legion48]

Thanks for the kind comments.

About the Skywatcher focusser, on the FLO site they mention that it is suitable for the Explorer 150,200 & 250. No mention of the 130.

Anyone know if it will fit the 130PM...or can be made to fit?

[lunator]

L48

Thats a very good pic.

I'd be happy with that one

Cheers

ian

[geoff_k]

Very nice image.

My view would be that it would be better to replace the focuser itself. Skywatcher focusers are not the greatest and exhibit a lot of image shift making it very difficult to acquire and keep the image on the screen.

I'm not talking about the Pro range which have Crayford focusers. The other problem is that a decent focuser might cost as much as the scope in the case of the 130.

Anyway, you ain't doing badly with what you have.

Geoff

[Carl]

Really Nice looking Image. Like it when you look at the rings and you see the black bit near the "core" look weird

What`s Registax?

Keep up the nice work.

[gary1968]

Hi Carl,

Registax is free software available on the web for download, version 4 being the latest I think. It is used for aligning and stacking frames from an avi file or individual images taken with web cam or dslr. If your gonna get it, also get the downloadable user guide as well, very confusing trying to worl out whats going on 'till you got that..

Clear skies,

Gary