Orion quickie

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Tried to make life easier for myself last night with regards to focusing with the ST102 and canon300D normally theres only just enough focus travel so i use a 1.25" Barlow with T-thread and screwed it into the Canon. This gave me much for focus travel to play with and was so much easier to focus :shock: another good thing aswell is i will be able to use it as a Barlow too with the barlows lens screwed in(I took it off for the following pic).

A quickie of 23x 6 secs due to awful alignment but the purpose was just to see if i could get focus travel which worked a treat .

[gaelicstorm7]

James, I have a 1.1/4" extension tube that I have left over now I've gone over to a 2" system, I found it made life alot easier (especially if you do try and use a barlow as it will move focus even further out), give me a pm if you'd like me to send it to you.

Alan

PS nice image, shows alot of promise.

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Hi Alan,

Thanks matey the extra travel is a luxury after struggling for so long

Pm on it's way thanks...

James

[CELESCOPE]

thats a very nice image James come out well mate , like the colours as well , good nice one

Rog

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Cheers Rog,

I put a few Spikes in there too

[tom.yates]

Great image mate

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Thanks Tom

[Mick.G.]

Nice one James.....lots of detail & colour.

[daz]

Listen, if you're not going to do it properly then don't bother :nono:

Awful alignment???

Only a few subs????

Y'know I'm only kiddin'!!! I'd be chuffed to get anywhere that level James

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:shock: Go Daz Go Daz :whip2:

Thanks for the comments peeps, i think now i have sorted the focus travel out i may get some decent image's

James

[Martin 2]

Thats a really nice pic, very atmospheric

Martin 2

[FLO]

Very nice for a 'quickie' 8)

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Thank you Martin/Steve

[MartinB]

Nice on James. Focus travel sorted

Martin

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Yep all sorted now

Thanks

James