Thanx all for your injections, inspiration & understandings.
I guess now, after time thunking, could well be seeing this hobbie as too competitive, I don't know why really, I doubt its looking at the forum, peeps Images etc, my main hassles are here, at home, like,
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A) LP, am flat out finding the 5th star in the Sth Cross. So I need to 'in reality' go mono, but seems too much trouble, extra programmes, filter wheels, power and com leads, prog & Filters I know nothing about,,,; upgraded focusers with another lead/s and program/controller,,,; Multi heater-straps & controller, fans, , more leads,, Then connect mount to lappy, crypeeze, where does one start
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B) Seeing is total rubbish 49 times out of 50 & only mid/ok the other night. Doing planet season and nothing good at all, whilst peeps from Brizz to the nsw/qld border on the same night are scoring great detail,,,
It appears so bad here I dont see why I should do any imaging -- when the planets are hazy, dull, wasted, no detail, I go to the moon, and that is just as Sad, , I can see more details in a pair of Bino's
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C) Scope configuring, focal train locations of filters between the chip and correctors, etc spacings rings, getting rid of the screw thumb method and replacing with solid screw-in fittings to rid slop etc etc, or find 5-10g for an F5 Tak
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It just doesn't stop
Re; Competition, blow me down, reckon in just a few yrs time some young whipper-snapper will show me detailed panorama's of the milky way, eye-popping planets images and deepsky object he captured with his dam iPhone or what-have-you ...
Yeah, its a bit frustrating these days, for this duck..
I love pondering the night sky, but not as much as used to, LP has hidden most of it visually, pees me off
