M42 with St80

[andyboy1970]

[brantuk]

Ditto my comment on the HH & Flame - I had no idea the ST80 was so capable - are you sure it's not an ED80? lol

[nightfisher]

very good for an achro, well done

[blinky]

Well done, what a great result with any equipment, never mind an ST80!

[andyboy1970]

No its defo a ST80 bought for £94 from Bern at Modernastronomy.

Wish it was an ED80!!!!!

[SJJ]

Good result. What LP filter did you use, the colours have come through really well?

[Earl]

Excellent!

[andyboy1970]

Good result. What LP filter did you use, the colours have come through really well?

It's a Skywatcher 2" LP filter. Again nothing fancy.

[Casperovic]

Very nice picture! Im using same scope right now and Im impressed too:D

[sloz1664]

Just got myself a ST80 yesterday. With photos like that I can't wait to set it up...

[Ags]

Wow! That really is impressive. How do you deal with the blue halos around bright stars?

[andyboy1970]

No halo's or noticable colour shift. If I get a chance I will post a single un-fiddled with sub from my laptop.

[Ags]

I've been focussing at the wrong point then. I use live view to find the ponit the star is smallest, but at the point it develops a blue halo. If I take the focus back a bit the halo dissappears. If that's not what yuor doing, it must be black magic! :-)

[andyboy1970]

I've been focussing at the wrong point then. I use live view to find the ponit the star is smallest, but at the point it develops a blue halo. If I take the focus back a bit the halo dissappears. If that's not what yuor doing, it must be black magic! :-)

I use a home made Bahtinov mask for focus and Bahtinov grabber with a final check using HWFH (or something like that) function in BackyardEos.

Do you have a better dew shield fitted, I made one from foam camping mat that's about 2 feet long and keeps the scope dew free all night.

Also my scope lives in the garage so cool down is half hour tops.

[Ags]

My real problems are urban levels of light pollution and a poor mount that can't track for even 30 seconds. I actually have a bahtinov mask but I have been lazy and done it by eye in live view. Silly me!

[andyboy1970]

My real problems are urban levels of light pollution and a poor mount that can't track for even 30 seconds. I actually have a bahtinov mask but I have been lazy and done it by eye in live view. Silly me!

I have a bad habit of focussing my 127mak without aid when doing planetary imaging with the webcam.

[williamhou]

My real problems are urban levels of light pollution and a poor mount that can't track for even 30 seconds. I actually have a bahtinov mask but I have been lazy and done it by eye in live view. Silly me!

I also use 4SE + ST80