Hello from Berlin, Germany

[calli]

Hi, I am Carsten from Berlin.

I started about 35 years ago with a cheap refractor from a friend. After some other hobbies I did come back to Astronomy in March 2015 because my brother in law had that skywatcher 90/910 collecting dust in his living room. I replaced all the grease (which was hard) and pointed this thing to orion. Attached my DSLR (Nikon d3100) with a self printed adapter and made some images. WOW THERE IS COLOR :-) After getting a bit into stacking even more WOW.

However due to the fact of high light pollution here I never found some other (at that time) interesting objects and I could never polar align the mount very good.

A few months ago I purchased a Celestron Mak 127 NexStar SLT. Finally I can find some intresting objects and I am ready to watch in minutes. Perfect for me, of course not the best choice for astrophotography but I just want to take images as reference and dont want to compete with Hubble...

I put it on a more sturdy tripod.

For all my (ok'ish) images see my signature.

I am also designing and printing things for my telescope: http://www.thingiverse.com/calli/designs

Cheers,

Carsten

[Phil-lost!]

Hi and welcome, great pics. 

[JamesM]

Hi Carsten and welcome to the forum

Clear skies

[laudropb]

Hello and a warm welcome to the SGL. Very nice images.

[FenlandPaul]

Welcome to SGL, Carsten. That's a great image of Orion with that kit - well done!

Paul

[Garethr]

Hi carsten,

Welcome to SGL

Some good images there already

Gareth.

[swag72]

Hi Carsten and welcome to SGL - Glad that you found us and I hope that you enjoy your time here.

Look forward to seeing you around

[Mr Spock]

Hi Carsten, welcome to SGL

[calli]

Thanks for the nice welcome!

Cheers,

Carsten

[calli]

Oh wait.... Forgot a link to all my images so far: https://goo.gl/photos/fN794VnbNKKwXzdv7

Cheers.

Carsten

[Ro3bert]

Welcome to the forum Carsten.  Those things you made were they done using a printer?

[RT65CB-SWL]

Hi Carsten / 'calli' and welcome to SGL.

Looking at the items you have made; SGL member 'Gina' has some competition.

(apologies in advance Gina if you are reading this).

[baggywrinkle]

Welcome to SGL Carsten.

I have the equivalent of your Celestron Mak 127 as a grab and go. The optics on these two are very good as you have seen and shown.. Nice images

[PeterCPC]

Hello and welcome.

Peter

[glowjet]

Hi Carsten and welcome to SGL, you have taken some nice images already, enjoy the forum

[Stu1976j]

Hi and welcome, some great images

[calli]

Hi Carsten / 'calli' and welcome to SGL.

Looking at the items you have made; SGL member 'Gina' has some competition.

(apologies in advance Gina if you are reading this).

I could find some interesting topics from Gina bulding printers, but a competition I did not find.

Or a thread to show off some designs.

Carsten

[busdriver]

hi and welcome to the lounge

[RT65CB-SWL]

I could find some interesting topics from Gina bulding printers, but a competition I did not find.

Or a thread to show off some designs.

Carsten

I apologise Carsten if English is not your first language. This 'competition' is nothing like a competition where you win a prize, but in the sense of two organisations producing the same or similar items.

[michigander]

Welcome to SGL, Carsten!

Dana

[badger111]

Hi Carsten, Greetings from Maldon, UK. (Nice M42 )

[calli]

I apologise Carsten if English is not your first language. This 'competition' is nothing like a competition where you win a prize, but in the sense of two organisations producing the same or similar items.

Oh, you are right. I did that "competition" not right :-)

Carsten

[Pete Presland]

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire :-)

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[Charon]

Welcome aboard Carsten.

[Dave Lloyd]

Hi and welcome Carsten.