new toys

[Stephen Aish]

decided on optimising for visuals

big thanks to Bern at Modern Astronomy for patience, great advice and first class knowledge!

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just need that cloud to go

the imaging can wait until i decide on the camera

Steve

[Keagle]

Very nice stuff. Congratulations

[Stephen Aish]

thanks Keagle

blame me for the 3 months of cloud over London

Steve

[lunator]

Steve

What is the astrometric eyepiece for?

Cheers

Ian

[Stephen Aish]

hi Ian,

if you mean the reticle with side arm it has a double crosshair that lights up to ensure perfect goto alignment - looks like the light cycle grid from Tron

Steve

[Ant]

A CLS filter for visual?

Thats interesting... My experiences of the CLS filter (which are verygood BTW) is thate is cuts down on so much light that I had to DOUBLE the exposure times to get anything. Can't see that being much good for visual. BUt excellent for imaging.

Ant

[CELESCOPE]

Think Stephen is getting things ready for imaging soon Ant

Rog

[Stephen Aish]

the eventual move is to imaging - and yes the CLS makes stars harder to see unfortunately- i did a quick comparison with and without then boxed it

Steve

[Ant]

There is no doubt that the filter is excellent. I had one once - it's blocks a lot of light, but all the light that does get through is GOOD light (if you know what I mean).

But with my mount I couldn't exposure for long enough the get enough of the light.

What confused me was the "Optimising for visual" and then buying a CLS filter.

Don't mind me

[Stephen Aish]

that was the plan Ant,

all im learning is that this is just more work at every corner - sure im not the first and wont be the last

to be honest i would rather get a watec and look at a screen instead of squinting all night trying to find different white dots :?

oh well

Steve