Show us your set up in action at night.

[Ratlet]

17 minutes ago, Mike Q said:

Thats dark?  I wont complain about the darkness we have here anymore lol

Not quite as dark as it got, but not a million miles from it.  56°N here so not a huge amount of night for now.  Its a night mode from my pixel 6 which is pretty good at lightening the sky.

Might risk it for a biscuit tonight.  I remembered earlier that my 130pds and superview 30mm should be able to squeeze in the entirety of the veil and I might be able to see it from my garden if I setup in the weeds.

[Peco4321]

[JeremyS]

16 minutes ago, Peco4321 said:

Bit of local light pollution? 🤔

[markse68]

M101 was at Zenith- hard to zero in with starsense and as expected- vain hope of spotting it (anything) with a 6” scope from London skies. Oh well. Moon and Venus were very decent though. Trying out my new focuser- lovely  

Mark

[Sunshine]

1 hour ago, markse68 said:

M101 was at Zenith- hard to zero in with starsense and as expected- vain hope of spotting it (anything) with a 6” scope from London skies. Oh well. Moon and Venus were very decent though. Trying out my new focuser- lovely  

Mark

What is that in the background? looks like an alien ship touched down! you did notice that, right? 😅

[Vroobel]

Hi,

I also hope to take a few pics of the M101 with its supernova. 

Tonight it's a test if a new child in the family: new ZWO OAG with a helical focuser, new ZWO filter drawer and already owned ASI 120MM mini and IDAS LPS-P2. Of course, ASI 2600MC-Pro is there as well. 

Recently discovered excellent cooperation of my OnStep controller (based on the FYSETC S6 v.2.1 board) with the ASIair Plus constantly impresses me - it's 1280mm focal length put on top of the home-made mount. 😳 Or is the mount so good? 🤔

P.S.. The Evoguide and ASI 224MC is there just in case of poor guiding by the OAG, warm and ready.

 

Edited May 26, 2023 by Vroobel

[markse68]

4 minutes ago, Sunshine said:

What is that in the background? looks like an alien ship touched down! you did notice that, right? 😅

i didn’t- pretty sure it wasn’t there- only revealed in the photo 😱 Nah it’s a chimney they had to “decorate” for planning permission i think 🤣

[F15Rules]

After a 5 day family visit, we are alone again now and it's looking good for a (all too rare recently) look at the moon a bit later..

Trinity the FS128 out cooling under a just-past-1st quarter moon, loaded with Maxbright IIs and a pair of Meade 4000 32mm and Tak Ortho 12.5mm..no barlow or OCS needed to get focus..

 

Dave

 

 

[John]

Not a great photo of a nice moon showing off to the 100mm refractor. I won't try and capture what the Pentax XW 3.5mm is showing because I know that an image won't do it justice either. I'll stick to observing 🙂

[John]

Tonight I have the 130mm F/9.2 refractor out. Super lunar viewing 🙂

 

[RobertI]

11 minutes ago, John said:

Tonight I have the 130mm F/9.2 refractor out. Super lunar viewing 🙂

 

Always jealous when I see your T-Rex John. 🙂

[garryblueboy]

TEC 140 last night great views Moon and Venus 

[Vroobel]

Hi,

It's a 4th night of the M101 (nearly in a row) and my first approaching the multiple-nights imaging.  

 

[John]

Supernova spotting with my Vixen ED102SS

 

[Nyctimene]

My "medium-large" setup - the 12" f/5 Hofheim Instruments traveldob  (with added counterweight) on the EQ platform, ready for observing the third-quarter moon this evening:

It's always stored in the shed at ambient temperature, so very convenient to carry out and observe within minutes. The sturdy  astro chair adds to the comfort.

Stephan

[M40]

Got all arty with this picture 

[Franklin]

Not quite night but remaining patient.

[JeremyS]

Spending some time with Dizzy.

[John]

Took a trip to a galaxy far, far away to see a cataclysmic stellar event that happened 21 million years ago. And all from my back yard 😁

[Ratlet]

I will title this image seconds from disaster...

Very light up here the now and couldn't get sufficient stars to polar align until about 23:30, however the mount had a dodgy zero position lodged in it from the last time I used it so when I asked it to slew to Vega, it slewed to try and look at the core of the earth, fortunately I was sat beside the mount before anything collided.  Managed to figure out the issue, but by then the clouds had arrived.

Still, not a complete waste.  Setup was very quick as I've adopted @Elp technique of having everything ready to go, just move the mount, pop the imaging rig on and connect a couple cables.  defo a winner that.

[Vroobel]

9 minutes ago, Ratlet said:

I will title this image seconds from disaster...

Very light up here the now and couldn't get sufficient stars to polar align until about 23:30, however the mount had a dodgy zero position lodged in it from the last time I used it so when I asked it to slew to Vega, it slewed to try and look at the core of the earth, fortunately I was sat beside the mount before anything collided.  Managed to figure out the issue, but by then the clouds had arrived.

Still, not a complete waste.  Setup was very quick as I've adopted @Elp technique of having everything ready to go, just move the mount, pop the imaging rig on and connect a couple cables.  defo a winner that.

The imaging rig is a good thing, I also have one based on my Altair 102EDT and Evoguide. But another setup based on already owned gear is just tested...

[Vroobel]

Yeah, this is the new setup based on old stuff. Not bad, if we take into account that it's OAG @ 1284mm fl and over 18kg OTA with accessories.

I really like the CGX together with ASIair Plus.  

 

[Coco]

6 hours ago, Vroobel said:

Yeah, this is the new setup based on old stuff. Not bad, if we take into account that it's OAG @ 1284mm fl and over 18kg OTA with accessories.

I really like the CGX together with ASIair Plus.  

 

And no wind 🙏

[Vroobel]

4 hours ago, Coco said:

And no wind 🙏

Maybe I don't have the best views and unlimited horizon around, but I don't have the too strong wind as well.  Also, I have two extra counterweights from EQ5!

Edited June 3, 2023 by Vroobel

[recceranger]

A few!