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Originally Posted by Alchemy
As per your list... Eq6 good, the ed80 is a great place to start... Even as a guidescope for your camera and lenses, should keep you busy for a while. You could then pick up a larger refractor, or even an 8 inch reflector, that should still mount on an eq6 . The ed80 is as close as APO you will get for the price... Exceptionally good scope. Not overly wrapped in the 127 mm scopes they are a bit fussy for focus, some like them but not me. I went for a 132 mm triplet... Not too cheap though, but still not too dear... The sky is the limit.
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Interesting... thanks for the info. I have a feeling that with an ED80 as a main scope, I'd be wanting to upgrade within a year or two - so I'm looking for something that will keep me happy for a while (and that I'd want to keep even if I acquired something substantially better). The WO FLT 110mm Triplet APO is starting to look pretty tempting too.
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Originally Posted by astrocookie
wow! awesome photos!!!
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Thanks! It seems like most people provide a few details with their photos, so here are some captions:
* Self portrait under the Milky Way (Rochedale, Brisbane) - behind the trees is the junction between the Pacific Highway, Gateway Motorway, and Ipswich Motorway, hence the light pollution. 14mm 20 sec f/2.8 ISO 1600.
* The recent "super" moon taken handheld. 200mm 1/400 sec f/2.8 ISO 100.
* 2007 lunar eclipse composited over the Brisbane CBD as seen from Taringa.
* Golden moonset from this past Monday morning - the colours are as I saw it. 200mm 1/200 sec f/2.8 ISO 200.
* Star trails around the SCP. Stacking of 1 hour worth of 30 sec exposures at 200mm.
* Milky Way... before I discovered stacking. 35mm 13 sec f/2 ISO 800.
* Eta Carina Nebula... my first-ever stacked photo
17x 200mm 1 sec f/2.8 ISO 6400.
* M55 globular cluster... I started at M2, M3, etc... and manually compared online photos against mine to figure out which one it was. Took a while! 8x 200mm 1 sec f/2.8 ISO 6400.