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Originally Posted by AlexN
 Rob, We'll all have a toast in your honor. I will arange it so that it happens when the first star comes out at dusk.. Next time, you can join in said toast! And yes... Pink floyd will likely be playing later in the night, however at that point I think led zepplin, acdc or black sabbath will be playing! Perhaps "Back in black" would be fitting for a dark sky weekend... |
I'm not sure I've ever had an dusk honorary toast - cool!
I'm pretty partial to ACDC too - hope this cloud isn't causing issues up there.
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Originally Posted by rogerg
Very nice colour balance and sharpness  |
Thanks Roger - The dumbell was one of the first ojects I ever "shot" with my 450D and amazed and happy to see a faint dumbell. This latest effort much better I feel, as you'd expect though.
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Originally Posted by Satchmo
Had a look at your site and blown away by your results with an 8" on an Eq5 which I would have thought would be overloaded.
Are your shots generally taken in completely windless conditions?
Are you using the stock focusser?
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Many thanks Mark
I find the 8" rig is fine - its a Heq5 though which is quite a bit beefier than the EQ5, and often cops more flack than it deserves I think. I haven't had a lot of spare cash to throw at imaging, so I've tried to stick to buying essentials (cameras, laptop, etc). This current rig seems to pack quite a bit of imaging punch for relatively nice price tag. I expect the fact the Newt is 8" over say an ED80 and the speed of imaging at F5 is a huge help too. Note also my guidescope is a cheap and light refractor (we're not talking ED80!....)
Yes, its rare I'm out in any wind, which is never a good mix with a Newt and extended dew cover!
Focuser is standard SW Crayford, which is very smooth but prone to a bit of movement as you lock it down. I don't find that a huge problem as long as your careful and patient. Liveview + Newt diffraction spikes and now a Bhatinov mask life savers though. I thought if I was going to change focusers I need to buy a decent one, which would be getting up near the cost of the OTA - saved my bucks for the Orion QHY8 clone for guiding instead.
Thanks again for the kind words - I'm looking foward to finishing off the Messer pics.
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Originally Posted by Hagar
Nice Dumbell Rob. Pretty little tacker isn't it.
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Thanks Doug. Dumbell is certainly one nice planetary to be viewing or shooting.