What did the postman bring?

[Geoff Barnes]

My thanks to FLO for the prompt delivery of my first foray into the world of Filters.

               

The major planets are moving out of sight from my viewing spot at home, as are some of the best globular clusters and doubles, so I thought it was time to start exploring some of the "invisibles" up there in the cosmos.

I did a fair bit of reading up on old SGL threads to garner an idea of which filters to start with, and it boiled down to either a UHC or an O111. Whilst the O111 would seem to be favourable for The Veil and a couple of others, it appears the UHC might be a better all rounder on a wider selection of targets, (debatable I know).

Anyway, I've plumped for an Astronomik UHC to start with and we'll see how we go from there.

Naturally the weather is not in cooperative mood now or for the foreseeable future after weeks of clear skies here, so I tried the filter out in daylight with my phone camera.

Rather nice I think in a slightly psychedelic kind of way.....

 

I can't wait to use it with the 12 inch Dob and hopefully see some incredible nebulae etc. in the near future!

 

 

 

Edited November 2, 2018 by Geoff Barnes

[GordonD]

Rubs hands .....

 

 

I think that is all the eyepieces I "need" now.

Probably.

[Stu]

Two nice accessories for me. Looking forward to giving the phone mount a try out so I can get some higher mag images. Not sure if it will fit round a 30mm ES for much wider fields though, will have to see.

[barkis]

Useful looking device Stu., and should really compliment your Phone Cam AP.
If the clamp fails on the 30 mm. I'm sure you will find a solution matey.

[david_taurus83]

Woke up to this email this morning. On a Sunday! Gurpreet you absolute legend!

[RayD]

On 02/11/2018 at 21:03, Stu said:

Two nice accessories for me. Looking forward to giving the phone mount a try out so I can get some higher mag images. Not sure if it will fit round a 30mm ES for much wider fields though, will have to see.

Oooh I like that phone adaptor, Stu.  My one is a 'hole' to go over the eyepiece and won't fit on my bigger ones.  That has an open sided clamp so looks like it should work on larger ones.  Can you let me know how this works with the 30mm ES please? 

Edited November 4, 2018 by RayD
Speelling

[david_taurus83]

Yes, I made the perfectly sane choice to go from a working everytime DSLR imaging setup to this mono nonsense! Weather is predictably forecast bad for the week so will at least get it all setup indoors and make sure laptop and USB hubs are all friendly to each other.

Edited November 4, 2018 by david_taurus83

[trynda1701]

On 04/11/2018 at 09:34, david_taurus83 said:

Woke up to this email this morning. On a Sunday! Gurpreet you absolute legend!

Congratulations. Oddly, the only postal delivery vans on Sunday I've seen have been DPD. Can anyone confirm other couriers deliver on a Sunday?

[Danjc]

1100d and a few bits. 

Now to find a heq5 as there appears to be no uk stock till the new year ! and then make my mind up on either a ED80 or 130P-ds. 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, Danjc said:

Now to find a heq5 as there appears to be no uk stock till the new year !

There are often one or two in the classified ads in good condition.

[Stu]

On 04/11/2018 at 10:52, RayD said:

Oooh I like that phone adaptor, Stu.  My one is a 'hole' to go over the eyepiece and won't fit on my bigger ones.  That has an open sided clamp so looks like it should work on larger ones.  Can you let me know how this works with the 30mm ES please? 

Will do Ray ?

[david_taurus83]

4 hours ago, Danjc said:

1100d and a few bits. 

Now to find a heq5 as there appears to be no uk stock till the new year ! and then make my mind up on either a ED80 or 130P-ds. 

 

 

@Wirral manis selling all his AP gear, HEQ5 and ED80 amongst it. Worth giving him a shout.

[LukeSkywatcher]

Today the "postman" brought a wireless mouse,mouse mat,office desk and a halogen heater. 

All for my mate/lodger John.

Nothing for me.

[Stu]

On 04/11/2018 at 10:52, RayD said:

Oooh I like that phone adaptor, Stu.  My one is a 'hole' to go over the eyepiece and won't fit on my bigger ones.  That has an open sided clamp so looks like it should work on larger ones.  Can you let me know how this works with the 30mm ES please? 

Juat tried this, and unfortunately it's a no. The body of the eyepiece is just too big and even trying it right on the top with the eye rubber removed it won't clear the body.

It does just about fit the APM 20mm though which is good. Need to see if it works and reaches focus in the scope but looks promising.

[RayD]

1 hour ago, Stu said:

Juat tried this, and unfortunately it's a no. The body of the eyepiece is just too big and even trying it right on the top with the eye rubber removed it won't clear the body.

It does just about fit the APM 20mm though which is good. Need to see if it works and reaches focus in the scope but looks promising.

Ah that's a shame, Stu.  Looked really promising but I suspect they have a 'standard' size for these things as that looks pretty similar in size to my one then.

Looks really well made I must say 

[Danjc]

3 hours ago, david_taurus83 said:

 

@Wirral manis selling all his AP gear, HEQ5 and ED80 amongst it. Worth giving him a shout.

Cheers david I have pm @Wirral man ??

[Alan White]

Post person visited today, sorry for terrible image and photo-shopping, wanted to show what I want to see with it....

2" Orion UltraBlock filter, know it works on the Veil.
Used of AB&S, paid a little bit over the odds, but I wanted it.

[Alan White]

Post Person also delivered another book, lots of reading now to be done.

eBay bargain at £6 including post and its like new.

This now make 3 O'Meara books in the Deep-Sky Companions series I have.
A year ago I was not really into deep-sky at all, how we change.

[PaulM]

1.25" H-beta filter and Dual-Speed Low Profile 1.25/2" Crayford focuser 

[Saganite]

2 hours ago, Alan White said:

Post Person also delivered another book, lots of reading now to be done.

eBay bargain at £6 including post and its like new.

This now make 3 O'Meara books in the Deep-Sky Companions series I have.
A year ago I was not really into deep-sky at all, how we change.

That's a  very nice buy Alan ! 

[david_taurus83]

23 minutes ago, PaulM said:

1.25" H-beta filter and Dual-Speed Low Profile 1.25/2" Crayford focuser 

I have the same focuser on my 200p. Great for bringing a camera into focus but for visual I need a small extension for all my 1.25" eyepieces. Just so you know!

[LukeSkywatcher]

Today I got a letter from a government department. The letter was sealed in a plastic package with a sticker saying it was damaged in transit. Just enough of it survived that I was able to see where it was from. 

It looked like a very grumpy dog got its mouth on it. Most of it wasn't even in the package. 

[johninderby]

43 minutes ago, LukeSkywatcher said:

Today I got a letter from a government department. The letter was sealed in a plastic package with a sticker saying it was damaged in transit. Just enough of it survived that I was able to see where it was from. 

It looked like a very grumpy dog got its mouth on it. Most of it wasn't even in the package. 

Let’s see the pics then.  ?

[MarkRadice]

I’ve been told to leave this unopened for another 47 days. 

[Mark at Beaufort]

3 hours ago, MarkRadice said:

I’ve been told to leave this unopened for another 47 days. 

Mark - I was not aware of Vol 4. I found Vol 1 and 2 brilliant so I will be interested in your view of this new addition. I accept it remains sealed for 47 days ?