Actually with my apology, I would further like to add is even hard for me to attend a meeting during the week on a monthly bases as we have only one club in my area but they meet over an hour away from my house and the meetings start at 8pm and finish late. Mostly they are during the working week. I have to get up early in the morning..
You see although helpful your information there is not a common way to go where we are all seeing the best of what we got as it is an item you have purchased which is giving you a better view of the night sky but is it the best view? I hope I have sorted that out.
Giving reference to most being like astronomy shop keepers you then will understand what I am talking about. If Not its like this, " Its whats in my shop and its the best..."
To nail it in what I have said I look at all your answer written here and I am thinking " Gee looks like I have to buy all these things people have mentioned here to get the best out of my scope...
I also had to get a reaction from this group also as I want have a look at what you all are saying and visit the Astro Scientific Centre in Singapore as I am going over there to stay in Singapore for a few weeks with friends.
So collectively I have added all your information here and I am going over to visit them and hit them with questions. This does not mean I will get suckered into buying from these guys either.
Not only do I have questions about lens etc but how to take good pics and what I really need to do it because this would be the first visual meeting with people with the same interest. You see i am a real fanatic Photographer. I have lens that do the job and also lens the really do the job. I have tried out many lens just for terrestrial work and do have a very good idea about whats good and bad. Astro photography is a step side ways to what I have done as it takes a lot of time to do wildlife and terrestrial photography where astrophotography is pick your night and hopefully stack a view good shots together and make that progress as I am halve the way there where my Scope sits on its pedestal and don't have to worry about carting it around and spend considerable time setting up as its all about time. I can see the rings of Saturn (One time I made a mistake calling Saturn, Satan and then made the mistake twice without realizing and somehow this created a senior member to laugh at me in the written sense in this Forum. Ah well **** happens) and sometimes see the smudge outlines in Saturn and Jupiter as well but I want to see what a lot of other people are seeing with my setup and also with exactly the same camera I have - a Canon 400D. I know those things about exposures and such and where you get the tracking off happening but that's not the problem. The problem I want to solve is " I want to see something extremely good that I can use my Camera to take a good shot of. I don't won't to spend 6 to 12 months looking at smudgy looking images that are the size of a pea. I am over the initial excitement of look at the planets and need to progress. I am not impatient neither although some of you people
seem to think differently. I hope I have smooth that over a bit for you all to understand what I have written earlier.
