Show us your set up in action at night.

[gorann]

Finally, after a long bright summer I am exposing again. Got the dual RASA8 rig up an running in Obsy 1 and aiming at the rather obscure nebula LBN534 in Andromeda. I spent much of the summer adding an extension with a pier to Obsy 2. Soon a dual Esprit 150 rig on the Mesu 200 I bought from @ollypenricewill move in there.

Edited August 24, 2022 by gorann

[Pixies]

On 19/08/2022 at 20:13, JeremyS said:

Getting ready for action 

You just need a nice 3.7mm Ethos to go with them!

[Sunshine]

15 hours ago, gorann said:

Finally, after a long bright summer I am exposing again. Got the dual RASA8 rig up an running in Obsy 1 and aiming at the rather obscure nebula LBN534 in Andromeda. I spent much of the summer adding an extension with a pier to Obsy 2. Soon a dual Esprit 150 rig on the Mesu 200 I bought from @ollypenricewill move in there.

Dual RASA 8’s plus dual Esprit 150’s 

someone control this man! Just wait, sooner or later they’ll let Hubble go for less.

Edited August 25, 2022 by Sunshine

[Geoff Barnes]

Good lord it's been sooo long, I honestly can't remember the last time  I had the old girl out. 

It's been a shockingly wet, gloomy winter here on the mountain, but at long last a first hint of spring in the air today.

My only real aim tonight is to try and see the comet  C/2017 K2 which will be just below Antares very handily. 

Visual magnitude 6.7 so in with a good chance. 

May as well have a go at splitting Antares while I'm in the vicinity, almost overhead so should be doable. 

Just getting dark now, can't wait to get out there again! 

[Saganite]

I would love to split Antares, but it is barely above the rooftops here.  It has not stopped me trying again this summer though, and tonight looks promising , so who knows.

The AZ100 is nicely balanced, and  both scopes are cooling.

Edited August 27, 2022 by Saganite

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

The sun is setting and tonight Saturn and Jupiter are the targets... Put out to cool are a Skywatcher Skymax 127, a 9x50 RACI finder, GSO 2.5X ED barlow and Opticstar PX35C planetary camera. Perched on a Celestron AVX goto eq mount.

 

Cheap as chips imaging shenanigans with 'er indoors' laptop. 🤫

[Saganite]

17 minutes ago, ScouseSpaceCadet said:

The sun is setting and tonight Saturn and Jupiter are the targets... Put out to cool are a Skywatcher Skymax 127, a 9x50 RACI finder, GSO 2.5X ED barlow and Opticstar PX35C planetary camera. Perched on a Celestron AVX goto eq mount.

 

Cheap as chips imaging shenanigans with 'er indoors' laptop. 🤫

Nice images  of Vega, Mizar, Arcturus and Polaris , in the gathering darkness with neat diffraction patterns promises well for tonight.  It shows clear until 4 am.  Hope the sky is good for you also.  Enjoy !

Edited August 27, 2022 by Saganite

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

17 minutes ago, Saganite said:

Nice images  of Vega, Mizar, Arcturus and Polaris , in the gathering darkness with neat diffraction patterns promises well for tonight.  It shows clear until 4 am.  Hope the sky is good for you also.  Enjoy !

The sky's a bit milky here, but is *supposed* to clear for a few hours. I've just popped out accompanied by Astro Cat, removed the scope and counter weight then polar aligned. A five minute job. I'll nip out about 10.30pm, do a two star align and connect the laptop.

Have fun. 😀

Edited August 27, 2022 by ScouseSpaceCadet

[AstroNebulee]

Still trying to sort a bit of eggy stars in one corner, one day I'll get there anyway heres my set up tonight going for Ngc 281 

Lee 

[Dave scutt]

A few new toys to use tonight. 

The fan works a dream but a bit noisy. 

A new 80mm finderscope and a baddar skyglow filter 

 

 

[Andy ES]

15 minutes ago, Dave scutt said:

A few new toys to use tonight. 

I like the “remove before flight” streamers.

I want to get one and attach it to the Telrad that says:

”Switch off after alignment” 😁

[iantaylor2uk]

I'm trying out an 8" Newtonian on the RST-135 mount tonight (hopefully there will be some clear patches). I put a counterweight on but not sure this is needed.

I also took a video showing how the mount handles the scope which is on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/H3B8Xes7zvoon

 

[tooth_dr]

Feels really great to finally get deep sky imaging again after a long break from earlier in the year.

 

[Tomatobro]

Its easy to take all this for granted..........What a difference from imaging in the 1980's!

[iapa]

Equinox ED80, flattener,  ASI293MC-Pro WO slige guide & ASI174 for guiding on an AVX.

M31, 28 x 300s, darks, no flats yet. No noise reduction of colour traction either.

[Simon128D]

What an incredible night out I had last night. The views were hair raising, the sky was delicous. I was in paradiese for 5 hours. 

30 second exposure taken on the Samsung S21 Ultra. 

I was transfixed by the increidle view I was having of NGC6888 

[JeremyS]

Nightfall with a new scope….

[Sunshine]

14 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

Nightfall with a new scope….

Amazing! I hope the skies stay clear and the new Tak is collimated dead on out of the box! looking at your setup I can't help thinking it would be nice if it were possible to to relocate the finder closer to the top

of the scope for more comfortable viewing, we know this isn't possible but I'm sure you'll get on well.

Edited September 2, 2022 by Sunshine

[Froeng]

26 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

Nightfall with a new scope….

Very nice! Good luck for first light tonight! That is the 210 - correct?

[JeremyS]

32 minutes ago, Sunshine said:

Amazing! I hope the skies stay clear and the new Tak is collimated dead on out of the box! looking at your setup I can't help thinking it would be nice if it were possible to to relocate the finder closer to the top

of the scope for more comfortable viewing, we know this isn't possible but I'm sure you'll get on well.

I wondered the same. But it’s actually very conveniently positioned in practice. If it were on top, the eyepiece would be directly below and get in the way or be breathed upon.

What is going to get some used to is the focuser position which is practically behind the eyepiece. Still ok to access, but not as intuitive as on a refractor. But is anything? 🤣

Edited September 2, 2022 by JeremyS

[JeremyS]

1 hour ago, Froeng said:

Very nice! Good luck for first light tonight! That is the 210 - correct?

Yup, Melanie, the Mewlon 210 👍🏻

Edited September 2, 2022 by JeremyS

[andrew s]

1 hour ago, JeremyS said:

Yup, Melanie, the Mewlon 120 👍🏻

It took far to long for you to come to your senses. 😊 Enjoy. Regards Andrew 

[JeremyS]

1 minute ago, andrew s said:

It took far to long for you to come to your senses. 😊 Enjoy. Regards Andrew 

Not sure I have, Andrew 🤣

[Captain Scarlet]

1 hour ago, JeremyS said:

I wondered the same. But it’s actually very conveniently positioned in practice. If it were on top, the eyepiece would be directly below and get in the way or be breathed upon.

Not only that but if it were on top you’d hit your head on it whilst lowering your head to the main eyepiece 

[Sunshine]

5 minutes ago, Captain Scarlet said:

Not only that but if it were on top you’d hit your head on it whilst lowering your head to the main eyepiece 

Well when I said "on top" I meant higher up and just off to the side of the diagonal position realizing one would bonk their head on it, imagining it where they are placed on refractors at the 11 o'clock position sort of.

Edited September 2, 2022 by Sunshine