Well done on such a fine purchase. Its on my purchase list, just not yet - maybe early next year. Besides, it would look pretty stupid with a 7kg FSQ sitting on top.
Talking about OTA's... what are you doing with that LX200R. Think its time to sell and get yourself a real RC. I will go halves in the OTA with you, providing I get some robotic telescope time allocated.
Look forward to seeing some PE stats. You're the next Richard Crisp with your narrow field, narrowband imaging...
For the sake of everyones sanity and purse (especially mine) and marital bliss, I think we should lock this thread, throw away the key and bury it deeeeeeep into the archives.
It only comes in Red, I ordered Green, bah, what do you do, send it back!. Max mount?, dunno, an early adopter (Dr Clay) sent it back, what does that say?,.. HOUGHY , wha??? 66mm, thats WW (Wide feild Wooze) terittory, none of that dirty talk round here thank you hehe. Smirk?, you bet, die in green ENVY, plebs ;-).
Jase, OK, a "real RC", nah, the LX200R is a (semi) real RC, I know, I paid for it. Given shiet seeing, bad guiding (NOT ANY MORE HAH, HAH), average focus, I bet you coulnnt tell the diff. Given my financial situation Ill prove it or be dambed ;-).
Rain?, shiet loads, thats how much, your buried in H2O (and me)for the next 2 mths at least :-,
It IS a robot with a face ;-). The thru-the-mount wiring is sooo cool (incl USB, who needs Parellell ports these days, get real, hehe).
Cheers
OK dudes I have no excuses now, awesome narrow field pics on the way
Semi is the word Fred, not real. A more polite way of putting it is an aplanatic SCT.
Sounds like your goal is to get into the high resolution work. Obviously, the mount is not the issue now. Not sure what you're going to do about the seeing though. Where's that AO unit. What's your current arcsec/pix combination?
Spent an arm and a leg, least got an arm left to mouse click, and dude, now, thats all it takes hehe.
Jase
Just kidding, the LXR is no RC, learnt that, hurts there ;-), What do you expect for the money?, I knew that before I purchased, im still happy despite the hype.
The A07 is still a painfull experiece untill, maybe (no, I will), I get an instrument rotator.
Meantime, ill spend more time with PS and cheat a little.
Right now my arc sec/pixel is 0.98 and set to get worse (-:. But despite a whole gamit of reasons not to, Ill give it a shot. Other factors mitigate the problem, I just fancy "different" pics. Difficult, unusual images often please more than just technical quality.
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did you say you were using it with a 66mm scope????
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