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Greetings from New Zealand

Andywilliams

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Feral Rabbit

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Hi Andy and welcome to SGL
 
What a lovely country you are blessed with to live in.
 
I had my first visit to NZ back in February this year spending 3 weeks in a camper racing around the South Island, and like most people was blown away with the scenery, the beautiful clear night skies and especially the locals who are amongst the friendliest and most accommodating I've ever met. Highlights for me were Milford Sound, Akaroa, Hamner Springs, and the pie shop at Te Anua........ But to be honest everywhere was gorgeous.
 
Loved looking at your upside down (to us northies) Moon and Orion  :grin:

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Crater

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Hi there,

My name is Andy and I have been a keen but lazy backyard astronomer for many years. I am originally from England where I grew up on a diet of Patrick Moore and the sky at night...... I borrowed a great 12 inch Dob and also my fathers spotting scope that he used for birdwatching, successfully using the spotting scope to locate Halley's Comet in the 80's.

I have been living in Aotearoa New Zealand since 1991 and am now lucky enough to live in rural Hawkes bay under some wonderfully clean and clear skies. This has encouraged me to invest some pocket money into a skywatcher 127 mak on the synscan alt az mount. Having just upgraded my eyepieces I am enjoying wandering around the southern skies. I am very interested in trying my hand at webcam planetary photography. I am also keen to become proficient at star hopping before I spend some more money on hopefully some good aperture, for instance a large dob. I look forward to chatting and to using the obviously huge amount of talent contained on this site. Best wishes to you all. Andy :)

Hello and Welcome

Like you, I am new to this forum, also possess the same telescope and mount as you, and also interested in astrophotography.

I have used the Philips Webcam SPC900NC as a camera for Moon and Planet photography with success using this system.

In addition, I have also used a Canon EOS 1100D DSLR for Moon, Planets and some of the brighter DSOs like Andromeda, Orion and Star Clusters successfully.

The limitations on DSO imaging with this mount is that I find the maximum exposure time to be around 30 sec before the stars distort.

Hence, you may need to use a high ISO value such as 1600 or even 3200.

Don't let this put you off, as it will be possible to achieve some satisfactory images with your system.

Best of luck.

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