What would be a good next upgrade for me ?

[Ewan]

I use the Toucam Pro II for planetary + the 600D as well, i have had some 'fairly' good results with the 600D on DSO's as well, my kit is in my sig but i'm looking at upgrading or buying something new to improve things photographically for me, what would be a good choice ?

The items i have been looking at are so far a DFK 21AU618.AS Colour, CLS Clip filter, Guidscope kit Celestron 80mm Guidescope Package, extra counter weight (as i only have one), a few filters but not sure which ones. A new mount is out of the question though at this time.

Any advice good or bad welcome.

[Ewan]

No EDIT button sorry, or this item http://www.firstlightoptics.com/baader-steeltrack-focusers/baader-steeltrack-sct-focuser.html

[Freddie]

Depends what you want to improve on. Planetary or DSO?

[badgers]

Upgrade the bulldog to a wolfhound in my opinion

[Ewan]

I'm glad no one said 'the missus' , well a planetary upgrade i guess, i have doubts about my Canon producing good planetary shots as good as a CCD could from what ive read on here so maybe help in that dept would be good ?

[Freddie]

For planetary it's a higher frame rate cam that you need to capture lots of images during the moments of good seeing. A copy of PS (student version if you have any kids) would also be useful.

[Tinker1947]

Coma Corrector, not sure if your scope would need one or not......

[Freddie]

Not with that setup for planetary.

[Ewan]

Cheers guys, my laptop has usb2 ports & one called i S400 which i beleive is a firewire port, if i bought the DMK 21AU618.AS Mono (+ filters / wheel) i assume the imaging time for say jupiter (2 minutes) before rotation becomes a problem gets divided between the 3 filters or 4 ? so do you image for say approx 40 secs per filter or can you do longer & if so do i then need to master say Winjupo ?

For ease of use yet good results i think my best bet is the DFK 21AU618.AS Colour ?

[Ewan]

Btw anyone know where in the UK i can order a set of Bobs Collimation Knobs for my 8" SCT it's the newest modle i guess bought early this year ?

[Freddie]

For the best results use mono, filters and de rotate in winjupos. If you don't want the expense of filters and complication of processing you can get some pretty good results with a OSC.

I think Bob's knobs are only available direct for him in US.

[Ewan]

Thanks Freddie, i'm not against using a Mono cam, learning new software does not phase me & i'm sure the quality would superceed a OSC cam, i have just taken a look at some filter sets could you or anyone else take a look & advise me please ?

1) http://www.firstlightoptics.com/rgb-filters-filter-sets/baader-rgb-filter-set-with-ir-cut.html £73.00

2) http://www.firstlightoptics.com/rgb-filters-filter-sets/baader-lrgbc-ccd-filter-set.html £164.00

I assume shooting at 60fps 640 x 480 (when possible) out weighs shooting @ 30 fps 1024 x 768 ie using the DMK 31AU03.AS Mono ?