New Gear arrived - Pics inside

[prova]

Arrived home to a number of boxes in my living room yesterday. I've been mulling over the fact to "get guiding" for sometime so I can really start to retrieve some serious data and have taken the plunge..

I sold the excellent HEQ5-Pro and upgraded to a EQ6-Pro, bought an 8" f/5 GSO Reflector and mounted my Vixen ED81S ontop for both guiding aswell as widefield imaging.

Thanks to some great advise I also purchased an Orion Starshoot Autoguider which I later found out is a re-cased QHY5.

Waiting for the new telescope rains to pass then I'll get cracking!

Thanks for looking.

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[h0ughy]

well done

[erick]

Good-sized and well colour-coded knobs on the rear of that OTA! :thumbsup:

[Ric]

Congrats on the new setup Prova, it looks a beauty.

[toryglen-boy]

looks great !!

where in Canberra are you? you will have to invite me around for look through it

;)

[prova]

thanks guys

:thumbsup:

[rmcpb]

Looks great. Now for you to get it really dirty and well used.

[Tilt]

Awesome set up you've got there prova. Are you going to use a DSLR with the GSO for imaging? Will you have to modify the tube to reach focus?

Michael

[prova]

Thanks Michael.

I have a Canon 350D DSLR which I'll use for deep-sky imaging. As far as focus goes, I have the extension tubes to ensure that won't be an issue.

Cheers

[Matty P]

Awesome looking setup Mark. Glad that everything arrived safely. All you got to do now is wait for some clear skies. ;)

:thumbsup:

[renormalised]

Nice piece of kit!!!....now for the piccies!!!:D:D

[Fox]

Congratulations prova. That's one major eye on the sky.... Fox

[cookie8]

Very impressive package:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[BC]

Nice looking package there. I see there are 5 of us in the Canberra region in this one thread and 2 of us have fairly new EQ6-Pros. No wonder the skies have been cloudy.:lol:

Bruce

[prova]

Thanks fellas, looking forward to some imaging!

[mick pinner]

l'm using the 8" f/5 as part of my portable setup for imaging, l haven't actually taken any pics as yet as l'm getting used to the Argo Navis first.
lt should produce some nice reasonably wide field views but without a coma corrector it really is a dog of a scope visually.

[Tilt]

:whistle: Ah yes...

I have gear in the mail heading my way from Bintel + a modded 350D is due at my front door sometime next week. So I'd expect the clouds to persist for a while yet :lol:

Michael