Show us your set up in action at night.

[Astro Noodles]

The fairy lights are in next door's yard. 

[peleks]

My observatory, winter edition, imaging Horsehead nebula with 250/1250 newton, HEQ5 mount, Atik 490exm camera under 70% Moon

 

Edited May 20, 2022 by peleks

[iantaylor2uk]

My new light weight set-up:

WO 81 GT IV with 0.8x reducer/flattener on RST-135 mount on Innorel RT90C tripod controlled by ASI Air Pro, with a celestron powertank battery. Everything was working great, with autoguiding in the 0.4-0.6" RMS range, and I got about 10 two minute images of the Crescent nebula with an L-Enhance filter ... and then it clouded over ☹️

 

[Froeng]

one from yesterday evening. Waiting for darkness...

[M40]

Come on darkness, let me at least see Polaris before the clouds roll in...

[Vroobel]

Very clever laptop stand
OK, I like your pier as well

Edited May 25, 2022 by Vroobel

[Taraobservatory]

Here is my setup, the still is just not in action but in the video you can see the scope following the night sky imaging M101, so definitely in action 

 

Clear skies

 

 

 

 

[Dave scutt]

Same old setup,  but first time the weather has been good in a while and time to try out my new ep.

Nearly 10.30pm and still light, will it ever get dark🙄 it's now 11.15pm and i can see 2 star's 

Edited May 27, 2022 by Dave scutt

[Dean Hale]

Hope this counts - my indoor setup - sharpcap and a pint an ideal match. Already starting imaging M13 so cannot take a photo of the actual kit at the moment.

[Astro Noodles]

4 minutes ago, Dean Hale said:

Hope this counts - my indoor setup - sharpcap and a pint an ideal match. Already starting imaging M13 so cannot take a photo of the actual kit at the moment.

What's that behind the pint?

Pot-pourri or a fancy snack?

[Dean Hale]

7 minutes ago, Astro Noodles said:

What's that behind the pint?

Pot-pourri or a fancy snack?

It does look like a fancy bombay mix - but, i have no idea what it is. May have been pot-pourri at some point although it doesn't smell of anything. It just appeared sometime ago probably when the wife bought some more cushions.

[Astro Noodles]

1 minute ago, Dean Hale said:

It does look like a fancy bombay mix - but, i have no idea what it is. May have been pot-pourri at some point although it doesn't smell of anything. It just appeared sometime ago probably when the wife bought some more cushions.

I should get rid of that and replace it with Bombay mix. 

Astrophotograpy with beer and nibbles - a perfect evening. 😄

[Sunshine]

On 16/05/2022 at 04:34, josefk said:

Your dusk shot badhex (i automatically assume dusk not sunrise) gives me permission to post this 🙂

TBF i had arrived on site a bit early...

I'm not sure what vehicle you're driving but I love it! 

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

5 hours ago, Sunshine said:

I'm not sure what vehicle you're driving...

Heresy! 😀

The camping chair is highly recommended too... It looks like mine. A Vango Samson II with a 28st 4lb weight limit... 👊 

Edited June 2, 2022 by ScouseSpaceCadet

[Franklin]

55 minutes ago, ScouseSpaceCadet said:

Heresy! 😀

The camping chair is highly recommended too... It looks like mine. A Vango Samson II with a 28st 4lb weight limit... 👊 

Edited 52 minutes ago by ScouseSpaceCadet

🤣............ For the larger camper.

[IB20]

Observing Zeta Herc’s little grey companion. 😃

[mcrowle]

Imaging the Milky Way, with a modded EOS 600D and Vixen Polarie star tracker, at a local beach:

Edited June 3, 2022 by mcrowle

[AstroGS]

WO GT81, EQ6R-PRO, ASI533MC, ASIAIR PLUS

[rcwinter]

Getting ready for a solar session, roof open, warming up Daystar 

[Sunshine]

A beautiful, dark night tonight! hammering away at those wonderful early summer doubles!

[Sunshine]

19 hours ago, rcwinter said:

Getting ready for a solar session, roof open, warming up Daystar 

Jealousy meter overload over that setup, and what a finely detailed wonderful image!

[Saganite]

First Lunar observing with this scope tonight, and I probably will not get to anything else.  All set up with bino and 24mm Pans, sufficiently cooled now ready to go.

[F15Rules]

First session for weeks, and intermittent clouds for all of the hour I was out..only looked at the moon with the binoviewers and FS128 to test the 6 pairs of EPs I've put together to see which suit my setup best..

Eyepiece pairs shown below, consisting of the following,

..from right rear:

Meade 3000 Japan 25mm plossls

WO clones 20mm wide Angle 65 degrees

Kson 16.8mm orthos

..from left rear:

WO clones 12mm 60 degrees

Kson 10.5mm orthos

Baader Classic orthos 6mm

I was able to get all pairs to focus natively using Baader T2 prism and Ultrashort eyepiece clamp into which my Revelation binoviewer was inserted.

Viewing was very limited due to clouds, but each pair was very sharp..I just have to decide which 3 or 4 pairs to keep now!🤔

And it was just lovely to be out with a scope for a while👍😊.

Dave

Edited June 8, 2022 by F15Rules
Photo added

[Saganite]

Glad you got some sky time Dave.  I did not stay out very long,the seeing was not great, but as you said , it was just good to have a scope out.

[F15Rules]

Thanks Steve.

I can totally get why you'd want to be outside with that lovely big 6" apo👍😊..

It did strike me last night just how light the sky still was, even at almost midnight!

Never mind, the nights start drawing in in less than 2 weeks..😁

(If my wife heard me saying that I'd be toast!!😱😁)..

Dave