moon and venus 02/10/2008 with 127Ed - manual focus
managed to quickly set up the scope with "manual" eyeball alignment to the south and quickly snap off a few shots with no guiding through the ed127. Low and high cloud were coming from the south and w and quickly reclaimed the sky. shots were taken with the standard 400D and manually focusing (didn't have time to set up the focus software and lappy. So i admit the focus is not there but the 127ED shows a heap of promise. the moonlite focuser is light years ahead of the crappy one supplied with scope originally.
Nice shots David. Glad youre happy with the new focuser
no need to be nice Allan - - they are very average shots. i am extremely happy with the focuser. the motor focus is sweet. I get my focus mask next week so it should be a great combination
Great Earthshine there and no colour fringing, so it looks like its a great scope there mate
I see you got some mountain tops sun illuminated on left side of moon too!
Great Earthshine there and no colour fringing, so it looks like its a great scope there mate
I see you got some mountain tops sun illuminated on left side of moon too!
yes I did notice that when i had a look at the originals - just lucky I guess. I setup and pulled it down all within 1.5 hours. LOL this cloud is driving me nuts. I know the next few days will be crap. Maybe can get the moon with an approaching storm - who knows
boy you are making it hard for me to resist the moonlite focuser
LOL Narayan with the images you produce i would have thought that resistance is futile.......LOL.
please note the AUSSIE DOLLAR IS GETTING LOWER - its 78 cents tonight which in realistic terms means its worth 75 cents. So $546 USD is getting dearer........ you could wait - but I suspect that it will go as low as 65 cents in the next few months but i am glad I bought up big - i got the scope when the dollar was 96 cents, the flats box when it was 89 cents and a few other trinkets....before it went below 85 cents.
Look out folks. He's got a scope in his hands and he's not afraid to use it!!!!!
Great to see you out and in action again h0ughy. Should be more of it.
Nice shots btw
paul focus is critical with this scope, if you are out ajust a little you get blue fringe, when it is spot on there is nothing. I am so looking forward to imaging sometime this century
Nice Earthshine shot Dave! looks like the 127ED has great color correction even if your focus was slightly off. But I can`t tell at all as they look sharp to me!
cheers
Nice Earthshine shot Dave! looks like the 127ED has great color correction even if your focus was slightly off. But I can`t tell at all as they look sharp to me!
cheers
Thanks Gary for the rap - but unless the seeing was terrible I think my focus was out slightly as the images are a tad soft. as a result the very bright parts do exhibit some blue/violet fringing. When the focus is spot on there is no colour fringing - Allan Gould can vouch for this.
In reply to your comment about the focusing mask + motorfocus being a good combo, I have my mask for the C11 + Moonlite motor focus and DAMN its easy... fast steps to get you really close, then slow the pulses right down and nudge in at a rate that is so fine that I cant see the focuser moving.... Its brilliant..
Glad to hear you got the scope outside at any rate Dave..
In reply to your comment about the focusing mask + motorfocus being a good combo, I have my mask for the C11 + Moonlite motor focus and DAMN its easy... fast steps to get you really close, then slow the pulses right down and nudge in at a rate that is so fine that I cant see the focuser moving.... Its brilliant..
Glad to hear you got the scope outside at any rate Dave..
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Great to see you out and in action again h0ughy. Should be more of it. 
but i am glad I bought up big - i got the scope when the dollar was 96 cents, the flats box when it was 89 cents and a few other trinkets....before it went below 85 cents.
