Show us your set up in action at night.

[PaulM]

First light tonight with my 200p on an EQ5

[Vroobel]

Hi, 

Tonight I began my first hunting for the planets with Vixen A80M. 😊 Saturn and Jupiter sorted, I still wait for Mars. 

[CCD-Freak]

5 hours ago, Captain Scarlet said:

That is a stunning picture

Thanks.....I feel very lucky to have my SRO dark site with it's low end of Bortle 2 sky.  I am spoiled in more ways than one.  

 

[Ouroboros]

Here’s a pic of my SkyWatcher ED80 in action on Friday night taking shots of comet C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS plus a single 300s sub.  The seeing was pretty aweful and, as the ASIair screenshot shows, the sky clouded over at midnight.  

[Dave scutt]

Didn't get any scopes out as ment to have been cloudy,  but it seems they got it wrong and the skies where clear so I got to use my binoculars for the first time

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

The Skymax 127 has been pointing north since 10pm.

Friday night, clear skies and gas giants appearing at a not too unreasonable time. I'm actually excited! 😄

Even the mop handle and taped tarp light shield is up. Is this really happening or a dream?!

 

[powerlord]

Forgot to snap a pic last night, but managed to get some good subs last night from campsite with redcat and asi2600

 

[Ouroboros]

@powerlord Your little dog looks cosy. 🙂 Is that an old EQ5 lurking under the scope cover? 

[powerlord]

31 minutes ago, Ouroboros said:

@powerlord Your little dog looks cosy. 🙂 Is that an old EQ5 lurking under the scope cover? 

Yeh, very old eq5 with astro-gadget eq5r Pro belt goto, asiair, etc. Gets under 1" guiding. But lots of clouds last night and I've found guiding when clouds make it lose stars is worse than no guiding, so ran with no guiding 180s subs. Forecast better for tonight.

This is a newish campsite:  massive fields, no light pollution and full views of  sky

https://www.gleveringhall.com/caravansite

https://www.gleveringhall.com/wild-camping

 

 

[badhex]

Managed an hour or so from the balcony trying out the new APM Superzoom 

[Sunshine]

6 hours ago, powerlord said:

Forgot to snap a pic last night, but managed to get some good subs last night from campsite with redcat and asi2600

 

You’re definitely camping, the dog is most certainly glamping.

[Ouroboros]

2 hours ago, powerlord said:

Yeh, very old eq5 with astro-gadget eq5r Pro belt goto, asiair, etc. Gets under 1" guiding. But lots of clouds last night and I've found guiding when clouds make it lose stars is worse than no guiding, so ran with no guiding 180s subs. Forecast better for tonight.

This is a newish campsite:  massive fields, no light pollution and full views of  sky

https://www.gleveringhall.com/caravansite

https://www.gleveringhall.com/wild-camping

OK, sounds good.  I sometimes wonder what to do with my old EQ5.  It might be fun to try one of these upgrade kits just as a project. If ou can still get them. Most suppliers seem sold out at present. Or should I sell it and let someone else play with the mount? They’re quite good little mounts especially for visual or imaging lunar or wide-angle deep sky.

Do you get much interest from fellow campers when you’re staying at a campsite? Hopefully they’re not any nuisance, but I imagine some. might be. 

Edited August 6, 2022 by Ouroboros

[OK Apricot]

Finally got the new EQ6-R out for its first session 😁

[Dave scutt]

Slowly getting dark, thought I would spoil myself and get both scopes out I've never seen Jupiter and Saturn through the achro. 

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

So tonight's cloud forecast being touch and go I decided to keep things simple. No fancy pants electronics, just the AZ5 mounted Skymax 127 so I can outsmart next door's trees by moving the scope to the main patio for extended Saturn observation compared to last night.

Now I am sitting here kicking myself for not putting the 4" refractor and AVX out! Scintillation is almost zero and at zenith at least, transparency is as good is it gets here. I'm watching satellites whizz by naked eye and cruising around with binoculars picking out globs! Haha!

I'm gonna sit here for a bit longer then move the gear and carry on with Saturn.

Edited August 7, 2022 by ScouseSpaceCadet

[Ludd]

Amazing conditions here, but as we were out with friends until about an hour ago I am just taking a few wide field single shots with the astrotrac and an 85mm lens.  Wish I had the energy to get the 17.5” dobsonian set up, M27 would be amazing.  

[ED Splitter]

Not quite night but the moons up and dead south. 
 

[OK Apricot]

It's a school night and I'm going to be paying for this in the morning, but successive clear nights, a nearly finished garden project to allow me to image from home, what more excuse do I need? I haven't been to the gym this weekend so thought imaging the dumbbell nebula would be a fitting compromise 😂

[Ratlet]

Waiting for twilight.  I think I've got the Nina kinks worked out.  Time will tell I guess.

 

[Vroobel]

Finally my heavy ATM fork mount in action. All, excluding the 10" Bresser OTA, made from scratch at home/garden. A big harmonic drive is a heart of the mount. 70+ kg load capacity. 😁 The OnStep firmware @ FYSETC S6 board and the Astroberry @ Raspberry Pi 4 8GB do the job for me. It's not easy, but now I have 0.1 arcsec precision. Yesterday I checked its 1270mm focal length with the M57 and L-eXtreme, tonight I'm going to beat it with 2x Barlow ED. Canon 6D, Baader MPCC III and IDAS LPS-D2. 

Fingers crossed... 🤞

 

Edited August 25, 2022 by Vroobel

[Sunshine]

4 minutes ago, Vroobel said:

Finally my heavy ATM fork mount in action. All, excluding the 10" Bresser OTA, made from scratch at home/garden. A big harmonic drive is a heart of the mount. 70+ kg load capacity. 😁 The OnStep firmware @ FYSETC S6 board and the Astroberry @ Raspberry Pi 4 8GB do the job for me. It's not easy, but now I have 0.1 arcsec precision. Yesterday I checked its 1270mm focal length with the M57, tonight I'm going to beat it with 2x Barlow ED. Canon 6D + IDAS LPS-D2. 

Fingers crossed... 🤞

 

That is one serious looking piece of gear you have there, like something out of an Austin Powers movie! i hope it works as planned.

[ED Splitter]

1 hour ago, Vroobel said:

Finally my heavy ATM fork mount in action. All, excluding the 10" Bresser OTA, made from scratch at home/garden. A big harmonic drive is a heart of the mount. 70+ kg load capacity. 😁 The OnStep firmware @ FYSETC S6 board and the Astroberry @ Raspberry Pi 4 8GB do the job for me. It's not easy, but now I have 0.1 arcsec precision. Yesterday I checked its 1270mm focal length with the M57 and L-eXtreme, tonight I'm going to beat it with 2x Barlow ED. Canon 6D + IDAS LPS-D2. 

Fingers crossed... 🤞

 

Looks like something the colonial marines use. 
 

[Sunshine]

4 minutes ago, ED Splitter said:

Looks like something the colonial marines use. 
 

Love Aliens references!

[iapa]

[Vroobel]

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