Show us your set up in action at night.

[powerlord]

3rd night with new obsy.  Last night,  200 newt and 135mm. Another 20 hours of imaging.  That's 60 in just over a week so far, and tonight clear too!

 

[F15Rules]

12 hours ago, markse68 said:

2 clear nights in a row, no moon and no wind- what’s going on?!? Taking advantage of this unheard of break in the weather, while the newt is imaging NGC 2403, thought i’d bring the Tal 100rs up to the rooftop observatory and am trying in vain to split Sirius 🤣 It’s still cooling down so maybe later 🤞Lots of purple halo at the high powers needed… shame the moon’s not up 😉

Mark

 

Have you tried a filter, Mark?

I only have a moon filter but it definitely helped me with splitting Sirius the other night..a darker one might help you in your location?

Dave

[F15Rules]

On 15/02/2022 at 17:10, Joacim said:

My grab & go setup, and the reason I need one 😀

That pram looks to be a perfect fit for your scope..

Is it made by Oklop??🙃

Dave

[ONIKKINEN]

My VX8 has new legs! The AZ-EQ6 works much better than i expected from a first try, i had 0.7'' RMS total towards low declinations on the first try without much fiddling with settings or anything else. If anything the guidescope attachment to the tube is the weak link now where as it did not matter before.

Never set up a mount on thick ice before, but seems like it worked well. Just had to carve dents for the tripod legs to stop it from moving around on the ice 😅.

Very frosty and humid, but the dew shield did its job again. Some frost had creeped all the way down to the tube, but none had made it onto the secondary. Also had to prop up my power supply up as much as possible with some other equipment as it gave some low temperature warnings when directly on the ice.

[Sunshine]

55 minutes ago, ONIKKINEN said:

My VX8 has new legs! The AZ-EQ6 works much better than i expected from a first try, i had 0.7'' RMS total towards low declinations on the first try without much fiddling with settings or anything else. If anything the guidescope attachment to the tube is the weak link now where as it did not matter before.

Never set up a mount on thick ice before, but seems like it worked well. Just had to carve dents for the tripod legs to stop it from moving around on the ice 😅.

Very frosty and humid, but the dew shield did its job again. Some frost had creeped all the way down to the tube, but none had made it onto the secondary. Also had to prop up my power supply up as much as possible with some other equipment as it gave some low temperature warnings when directly on the ice.

Literally astrophotography on ice! 

[ONIKKINEN]

1 hour ago, Sunshine said:

Literally astrophotography on ice! 

Had to handle the mount head on my knees so that i dont fumble on the ice and drop it. Who knew ice would be slippery 😲.

Its a very unwieldy shape with no clear place to hold it in your hands. Not too bad with the tripod at minimum height though as its quite low.

[Sunshine]

16 minutes ago, ONIKKINEN said:

Had to handle the mount head on my knees so that i dont fumble on the ice and drop it. Who knew ice would be slippery 😲.

Its a very unwieldy shape with no clear place to hold it in your hands. Not too bad with the tripod at minimum height though as its quite low.

Makes me feel like such a wimp, a little frost on my scope has me running inside, tail between legs.

[VilleM]

My scope at work at the Castle of clouds observatory under the moonlit sky and auroras. 😎

[Les Ewan]

It was great seeing last night and everything is set fine this evening as well😎. Cleaned the mirrors this afternoon so all set for tonight and no work to worry about tomorrow.

[Mr Spock]

Big lad just now. Cooling and ready for action.

[Dave scutt]

Not quite night time but it needs time to cool down.

[Ludd]

About to pack up last night - not a long session, but got to see some galaxies in Leo that I’d not seen before getting this scope.  Stepladder was useful.

Edited February 28, 2022 by Ludd

[TerraC]

Bit of widefield imaging last night with the evoguide.  

[Dave scutt]

Two clear nights in a row😱.

Sun going down a few stars already coming out, last night was the dob tonight its the achro 

[callisto]

3 hours ago, Dave scutt said:

Two clear nights in a row😱.

Sun going down a few stars already coming out, last night was the dob tonight its the achro 

Looks familiar Dave 😁

[Ian McCallum]

Some from this evening. Just trying to out the new SynScan goto system. 

[badhex]

Last night - same scope, but now with a decent finder. 

[Dave scutt]

 

14 minutes ago, callisto said:

Looks familiar Dave 😁

Thanks mark.

Very happy with it, I bet you don't miss it with all the other ones you have

[callisto]

2 minutes ago, Dave scutt said:

 

Thanks mark.

Very happy with it, I bet you don't miss it with all the other ones you have

Yeah, too many Dave 😲

[Dave scutt]

Looking for something to go on the other side now

[Daf1983]

Collecting more subs on the Rosette Nebula

[ONIKKINEN]

Last session from somewhat poor skies:

The mount and scope lit up by my flat panel, various bits of electronics and the background skyglow. On the ground is my tablet connected to the scopeside headless mini-pc that i use to control everything.

Thought it looked cool with the different light sources. Its not sunrise on the horizon by the way, just the way it is in this location...

[CCD-Freak]

Waiting for the stars to come out.....

AP900 / SS15028HNT on new "Texas Style" Todmorden pier at SRO.

The pier will be getting a nice white coat of paint during my next visit.

Edited March 6, 2022 by CCD-Freak

[Sky-searcher]

3 clear nights in a row & waxing moon. Turn for the double guns tonight. 

[Stu]

Beautiful crescent Moon this evening.