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Originally Posted by brian nordstrom
Thanks for that Matt , nice shot you can make out the dusky markings on the globe of saturn well , your scope must be well columinated .
About what magnification were you using , its gotta be in the 200x plus ? .
Yea its not easy alright .
My phone is an HTC one as well , I dont know how to edit except crop in windows , so these are raw mate .
The shots at 806x looked about the same image scale of saturn in the eyepiece , HUGE! , nice and my IEQ45 was tracking brilliantly , kept the image dead center for a good 1/2 an hour at a time . And that was just plonked down , pointed roughly south and " synic'd to target " , no star allignments , its a great mount .
Keep it up mate .  .
Brian.
Brian |
thanks Brian, I only posted mine to show how great your pics are. I took them to show a friend at work what can be seen with a cheap scope (80 bucks off gumtree). I can only imagine how she looks through your setup, something defenently(?) to be proud of.
as for the power used, I will work it out tonight (can't remember what I used). No tracking here, just a crappy eq1 with slipping manual slow motion controls.
tempted to buy the eq2 mount but I'm not a local pickup.
your pics defiently set a new standard for what can be acheived and I'm blown away!
I hope you can add some more for your collection
matt