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First Light For My New Explorer 200p, And UHC Filter
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By rorymultistorey
So I picked up a classic... a 1970's - 80's edmund optics f6 150mm newtonian...
... like this one but mine has a different mount. It was cheap. Very good condition. The focuser is pants. The mechanics of the secondary holder is (IMHO) brilliant and apparently the primary is 1/10th wave.
But its f6 and I trhink I'd rather swap it out for a faster synta f5 mirror. . The thing is its a one shot job bc to make the f5 mirror work I will have to saw off a good few cm from the barrel of the scope.
So the question is: Is a high quality f6 mirror better than a faster synta f5 mirror for wide deep space astrophotograhy?
All comments gratefully received. 😉
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By redhat
Hello everyone,
Bit of a backround: I've been a keen stargazer when in my teenage years, then couldn't pursuit my passion, but recently, in my forties, it hit me again, as I moved and life is good (South facing large garden, obstructed only from the North by our house, but then I just move the scope further and viola!). Started with 90mm refractor, but was always thinking of reflector.
Long story short, I've got my SkyWatcher Star Discovery 150P GOTO a week ago. Bought it second hand, very good condition, and good mirror. Have got two nights stargazing, cought cold and I AM LOVING IT.
Now I would like to get me a nice wide angle ep for DSO spotting.
The scope is 150mm / 750mm f5. I've done some reading obviously, and Explore Scientific 82 degree series have all good reviews and fit within my budget. I can afford only one, and apparently the best for DSOs is the one that gives 2mm exit pupil. Now, for my scope that would be 10mm piece, and that is not within ES 82 degree range, so it's down to 11mm (2.2mm exit pupil) or 8.8mm (1.76mm exit pupil).
My question is: which one would be better for my rediscovered passion? I'm gonna be using that ep for faint mostly.
Thanks to everyone in advance for any kind advise.
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By ruskclark
The Wizard Nebula
An emission nebula 7,200 light years away and my first proper project of the new imaging year.
Really happy with it as I’ve had a steep learning curve with new kit so really pleased to see this image come together. It’s also the first time I’ve imaged it.
72x180s subs collected over 2 nights 24/25th August in my Bortle 7 back garden, Whitley Bay, England
Calibrated with darks, flats and dark flats in DSS and processed in SiriL and Photoshop.
Lacerta 72mm f/6 APO
ZWO ASI1600MC Pro at -15C gain 200
iOptron CEM25p
ZWO 60mm guide scope
ZWO ASI120MM-S guide camera
Altair Astro 2” Tri Band OSC Filter
Data collected in APT and guided with PHD2
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By JackCooke
A quick sketch from the 1st September (sorry - date is wrong on the image).
M15 was still fairly low in the east but the central condensation of stars really stood out, even in a 5.5inch scope. The bright field star intruding on the edge of the image was distracting. If I had a tracking mount I'd have banished it permanently!
A lot of the extended GC was on the threshold of vision and the resolved stars faded in and out.
M15 will always have a special place for me as it was the first GC i ever saw 😍
Thanks for looking.
Jack
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By Greg_1920
Hello, this is my first attempt on NGC 7635 with my skywatcher 250pds on an NEQ6 synscan mount. These are 7min subs stacked to a total exposure of 5 hours taken with my unmodified canon 700d and a skytech cls filter. No coma corrector was used as I haven't gotten one yet. I'm just wondering how I could make my images look clearer when zoomed in and improve them overall as I can see the image gets more blurry when I zoom in onto the bubble, should I use a higher magnification? Do I need to take more darks to get rid of the redness around the image ? Or perhaps I stretched the image too much in Photoshop? I used 10 darks, 60 bias and 60 flat frames.
Update: I have now further processed my image with greater care and got a much better result.
Thanks
Greg
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