M 64 and another question or two!

[simmo39]

Hi all. Went out on the 28th for a play, the moon was up and glowing away and so I just did 20 exposure of 100 sec at 1600 iso ( modded Canon 600D). After I downloaded the pics I found that out of the 20 exposures only about 7 were usable due to poor guiding and sat trails. (still not sure if I have got my syn guider  working properly.) Anyway, Im pleased with what I got considering Im using a SW 127 MAK. Now for the questions. Im waiting for FLO to get some SW 130P  DS in stock, Will this scope make my life easer tracking and getting clearer pics?

I now the pic is stretched to an inch of its life but with the amount of data I had its the best I could do.

Thanks for looking and any replies.

[Tinker1947]

The Mak 127 is a long focal length, this requires a good mount for tracking, exposure times will be a lot longer due the the poor F-stop, a 130 P-DS is so much better in all aspects it will be money well spent....

[Starlight 1]

As Tinker have put, I will add  seen post on sw130p-ds as to niping abit on Stars ,when you get focus if the tube is a long way in it cover a bit of the Stars , Do a search on posts .

[simmo39]

Hi, thanks for the replys, Thats the way to go then. Hopefully ill get hold of the scope as soon as FLO gets some in. On a slightly different tack, Do you or know anybody who uses the Sky Watcher Syn Guider? I have got one and although I can get it to say that its guiding Im not convinced that it is. Im in Harry hills fav town, Swaffham and if anybody local has got one to work I would luv to see how you got it to work.

[simmo39]

A bit of a redo, still over done but a little better.

[Starlight 1]

You are making the sky to black no black round here go for a dark gray and it bring out more Stars.

[simmo39]

You are making the sky to black no black round here go for a dark gray and it bring out more Stars.

Thanks, ill try that.

[Uranium235]

Not to worry, the 130 will utterly spank the 127 mak on deep sky objects

A quick calculation shows that the 130 (with the 0.9x CC) is nearly 7.1x faster than the 127.... thats a massive difference.

[michael8554]

The Mak is great for bright planets, but as you have found out, dim DSO's are difficult.

But despite this, why do some people still persist with "slow" SCT's and Maks ?

Maybe because you get a nice big image, not a tiny little blob that needs greatly cropping.....?

Michael

[simmo39]

The Mak is great for bright planets, but as you have found out, dim DSO's are difficult.

But despite this, why do some people still persist with "slow" SCT's and Maks ?

Maybe because you get a nice big image, not a tiny little blob that needs greatly cropping.....?

Michael

The reason I use the Mak is thats the only scope I got that fits the mount. Hopefully that will change V soon.  I do like a challenge though its v frustrating! Hopefully when I get a better scope I will get the tracking to work better.