Show us your set up in action at night.

[Daf1983]

First light with my new Heq5 and evostar 80ed

[Deadlake]

On 23/04/2021 at 10:23, GavStar said:

It was good to be able to do a meet up after such a long time. Shame I forgot that I didn’t have a diagonal attached to my AP130GTX! However luckily I had my tec turret to use instead which was quite fun to rotate around for easy magnification changes.

 

Surprised no NV intensifier attached. 😄

[garryblueboy]

My two out for A run this week 

[Ags]

Set up for lucky imaging of M57 tonight.

[JeremyS]

10 minutes ago, Ags said:

Set up for lucky imaging of M57 tonight.

Best of luck with that, then 😊👍🏻

[Ags]

I underestimated how light it is getting. It's  midnight and clear blue sky to the north...I need to wait for another hour to have a chance but it's a work night. 

[Pixies]

On 02/06/2021 at 21:07, garryblueboy said:

 

Is all that fizzy pop to keep you awake during a long session?

[Voyager 3]

Or sleep after a heavy dinner ?

[garryblueboy]

8 hours ago, Pixies said:

Is all that fizzy pop to keep you awake during a long session?

😂No it was left over from a party the week before 

[ajohnson]

Not a recent image, but this was my Skywatcher Quattro 10S (still owned) on my old NEQ6 at what was a local dark site (now flood lit).

 

Edited June 15, 2021 by ajohnson
Incompatible image format

[Sunshine]

8 hours ago, ajohnson said:

Not a recent image, but this was my Skywatcher Quattro 10S (still owned) on my old NEQ6 at what was a local dark site (now flood lit).

 

A wonderful image!

[Chefgage]

9 hours ago, Sunshine said:

A wonderful image!

But a shame the dark site is now flood lit

[PeterStudz]

My able assistant (well, it’s daughter and maybe I was more the assistant) at around 4am at the end of a recent 2 hour Jupiter & Saturn watch.

The old Skywatcher Skyliner 200p came without a base which is still under construction and being tested. Worked well!

[Guest]

On 13/06/2021 at 19:36, Ags said:

Set up for lucky imaging of M57 tonight.

Ags is that a Celestron C6 mounted on your AZ GTi?

Edited June 18, 2021 by Guest
Typo

[Ags]

4 hours ago, Grumpy Martian said:

Ags is that a Celestron C6 mounted on your AZ GTi?

Yes it is. Works very well! This picture is slightly incomplete as I had not yet attached the 1kg counterweight. It is perhaps not strictly necessary but I feel it reduces strain on the AZ-GTi.

Edited June 18, 2021 by Ags

[badhex]

Hello all,

 

Sadly I kept forgetting to take my mini phone tripod out to get a decent night shot this last week, but here's an passable phone shot of my Z73 out on its first few nights under the stars:

 

[Sunshine]

On 17/06/2021 at 14:39, PeterStudz said:

My able assistant (well, it’s daughter and maybe I was more the assistant) at around 4am at the end of a recent 2 hour Jupiter & Saturn watch.

The old Skywatcher Skyliner 200p came without a base which is still under construction and being tested. Worked well!

I love the base for that skywatcher! creative touch on it is so fitting.

[PeterStudz]

11 hours ago, Sunshine said:

I love the base for that skywatcher! creative touch on it is so fitting.

Thanks! On the other side is Orion. I don’t have much time during the day and have had to construct this outdoors. It’s been a slow-ish progress. Should be decent when finished and painted. Probably better than the supplied original. 

However, I’ve found that once I had a basic working setup made I could test and tweak the base bit by bit. Eg I wanted the eyepiece rack to be on the eyepiece side. But I found that while sitting on a chair and observing the rack needed to be at a height that wouldn’t (at certain angles) clash with my knees. And getting the bearings moving with minimum stiction took some fiddling - easier to do when only part constructed. 

[johninderby]

New grab’n’go setup. The little Bresser MC100 Mak arrived today and got it’s first light the same day. 🙀

Berlebach Report tripod and Manfrotto 405 geared head for a super light weight setup. 👍🏻

[garryblueboy]

First light for WO 110 Last night 

Edited June 24, 2021 by garryblueboy

[F15Rules]

A couple of shots of my Tak FS128 at night a couple of years ago..one of them is my avatar picture, I liked the shadow on the scope at that angle..

Dave

[tooth_dr]

Getting ready to test out some new kit 🤞🏻

 

[Newforestgimp]

First light for the 150 SCT, ready to achieve focus on that lovely lunar shadow last evening.

[John]

Bit of widefield gazing tonight. Got the Lumicon O-III filter ready for the Veil

[Andy R]

My, how I’ve missed nights like this.