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Originally Posted by spearo
Very nice Anthony! Cant believe you're calling this a "start"!
Not sure I understand why you want to limit yourself to a 10" for DSOs and one 14" for planetary...there's usually at least a couple of planetary targets simultaneously up in the sky (not to mention DSOs) so perhaps a couple of 14" and a 10"?
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very nice pic, inspiring me to try out my luck on M83 soon too!
cheers and keep 'em komin'
frank
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Hi Frank
I have been dabbling in astrophotography for 20 years now. I started in my teens doing star trails and wide field stuff with standard film. Did a little bit of DS stuff in the late 80's. Over the past six years I have finally gathered the gear to do some serious stuff which I am looking forward to once the weather clears.
The advance of technology particularly digital photography plus the availability of high quality telescopes has made it easy to take image of planets and deep space images. Something I could only dream about 20 years ago when I built my first telescope.
As for the 14" for planetry, better resolution and because of the larger aperture I will have a bright image therefore with the Lumenera LU075C camera I should be able to get a high frame rate then with the 10" and therefore more high quality image to process into a single image.
Anthony