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Hmm might try and check it out if it's visible here, supposed to be cloudy though.
Also I seem to have a problem with collimation, it's pretty annoying. (Some part of the image has terrible coma)
[t]http://4st.me/Cja8S.png[/t]
Gonna get a laser collimator from teleskop-express along with a bahtinov mask and a coma corrector at some point.
A guiding system would be nice too. Orion's basic autoguider set seems to go for about 400€.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCRQbDCLAVY[/media]
Just a simple vid of the moon taken yesterday.
Sat outside for an hour or two to just watch for moving objects, saw two mapping satellites and a meteor.
One of the satellites might have been spherical in shape because its brightness fluctuated in a similar way to a disco ball. I looked at it with a small handheld telescope and it for sure was not a plane, but it still flashed almost like one before fading away.
I think im going to join a variable star observer program and do some citizen science. Who knows, maybe my observations can contribute to science.
I got my laser collimator and Baader Coma Corrector today, bahtinov mask arrives sometime in June.
Whole system was quite much out of collimation, the laser didn't even hit the target. Took a while to figure out what to adjust, but it seems to be squared pretty nicely now.
Now I'm just waiting for clear skies so I can do some tests and comparison images with the coma corrector.
Without coma corrector
[t]http://i.imgur.com/HxK5Loa.jpg[/t]
With coma corrector
[t]http://i.imgur.com/iuw2tBH.jpg[/t]
I honestly have no idea what happened to my telescope, I put it down, looked around to close the door and then I just heard this bang and the telescope was on the floor and a piece of the mount was snapped off.
Here is what the stand looks like now:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Qaz9TIW.jpg[/t]
Does anyone have any idea if it is possible to buy a replacement mount or for me to somehow stick it back on?
The telescope is a Celestron 130EQ.
[t]https://dl.pushbulletusercontent.com/ZcmznqD1UkLU1hQB8Fi7Yl3FOCbw8FYo/IMG_20150527_132610.jpg[/t]
my dad just gifted me [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Skywatcher-Dobson-Teleskop-Skyliner-Classic/dp/B0017WSNYA]this[/url] more or less.
Do you guys suggest any equipment I should buy besides a barlow lens and a T-Adapter?
Same telescope, high-five!
[QUOTE=The Drones;47811108]I honestly have no idea what happened to my telescope, I put it down, looked around to close the door and then I just heard this bang and the telescope was on the floor and a piece of the mount was snapped off.
Here is what the stand looks like now:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Qaz9TIW.jpg[/t]
Does anyone have any idea if it is possible to buy a replacement mount or for me to somehow stick it back on?
The telescope is a Celestron 130EQ.[/QUOTE]
You should probably mail or call them and see if the warranty covers that. It's clearly shitty metal if it just breaks like that.
have 2 shitty pics taken with my mobile phone.
I really need that T adapter
[t]http://uc.tempic.3kv.in/3d/06c2b9eaf5e2/IMG_20150528_003221%3Anopm%3A.jpg[/t]
[t]http://uc.tempic.3kv.in/3d/f8488987c61d/IMG_20150528_003311%3Anopm%3A.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Techbot;47815697][t]https://dl.pushbulletusercontent.com/ZcmznqD1UkLU1hQB8Fi7Yl3FOCbw8FYo/IMG_20150527_132610.jpg[/t]
my dad just gifted me [URL="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Skywatcher-Dobson-Teleskop-Skyliner-Classic/dp/B0017WSNYA"]this[/URL] more or less.
Do you guys suggest any equipment I should buy besides a barlow lens and a T-Adapter?[/QUOTE]
A laserpointer can be pretty nice. Beware of the laws in your country though.
Stellarium is great for finding stuff.
New lenses can be nice too.
EQ mount if you want to take longer exposures.
I think I finally found something I can do with my Raspberry Pi.
Gonna try installing linguider on it, purchasing a small lcd screen and then I can use it for my autoguider & goto for my mount.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/tXp9xGu.png[/t]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/54zoq7w.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/EPl9WN0.png[/IMG]
Friend managed to snap these with his iPad through his telescope. first time he hunted for Saturn and Jupiter and found them relatively quick.
Some time in the near future now that its going to be summer, I am going to rent a 6 inch go-to telescope from the Seattle astronomical society and I want to travel out to a dark site for a few days as a sort of astrophotography weekend.
I live near Seattle, so if you want suggest some targets for me to try that would be visible during the summer from around where I am.
[t]http://3kv.in/~techbot/ShareX/2015/06/IMG_20150601_201348.jpg[/t]
t-adapter arrived.
[editline]1st June 2015[/editline]
babby's first saturn pic
[t]http://3kv.in/~techbot/ShareX/2015/06/22-05_30.png[/t]
still need to look up the proper dslr settings. I just randomly guessed that.
[QUOTE=Techbot;47856080][t]http://3kv.in/~techbot/ShareX/2015/06/23-57_33.png[/t][/QUOTE]
Pretty awesome, once you get a 2x barlow, you could try recording video instead, which allows you to stack the best frames with something like Autostakkert. [URL="http://www.astrobin.com/184470/0/"]Saw someone on Astrobin[/URL] with a similar setup to you getting some nice results.
Haven't taken pictures myself for a while, but here are my most recent:
[IMG]http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5527081/jup-225836-2w.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5527081/jup-231046-3.jpg[/IMG]
Plus an image I processed from public data on Astrobin:
[t]http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5527081/M8-d6.jpg[/t]
([URL]http://www.astrobin.com/178014/B/[/URL])
[QUOTE=techtuts0;47873246]Pretty awesome, once you get a 2x barlow, you could try recording video instead, which allows you to stack the best frames with something like Autostakkert. [URL="http://www.astrobin.com/184470/0/"]Saw someone on Astrobin[/URL] with a similar setup to you getting some nice results.
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that was actually taken with a barlow lens :suicide:
here is a stacked image of saturn I took yesterday
[t]http://3kv.in/~techbot/ShareX/2015/06/yes.png[/t]
it's not perfect but much better compared to what I had before.
[url=http://3kv.in/~techbot/public/Astro/Saturn_12.06.15/]I also uploaded the raw files on my website because I can.[/url]
[editline]12th June 2015[/editline]
(oh cool you can preview the video)
Dang why haven't I seen this thread before. I wish I had a telescope of my own, these pictures are awesome.
Good morning Philae!
[img]https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t31.0-8/q81/s720x720/10668670_10152851334665667_6236965188593864744_o.jpg[/img]
[url]http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/06/14/rosettas-lander-philae-wakes-up-from-hibernation/[/url]
this is why you don't anthropomorphize little lander probes like this...
its too tragic when they die, you never normally get a 2nd chance at this stuff.
either way, its very possible that when they get closer to the sun that the lander may be ejected from gas jets since its not anchored
[QUOTE=Swebonny;47819844]New lenses can be nice too.[/QUOTE]
which ones do you suggest?
Surely this hobby can now stop sucking my wallet dry, right?
[img]http://i.imgur.com/V4PbVt8.png[/img]
[video=youtube;oreeRm7Gj9k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oreeRm7Gj9k[/video]
god, I've had june 2015 burnt into my brain for years now, and it's actually nearly here
I'm so excited about New Horizons reaching Pluto I just can't explain it.
[QUOTE=LarparNar;48033301]I'm so excited about New Horizons reaching Pluto I just can't explain it.[/QUOTE]
to think, as of next month, we will have flown by every known major body in the solar system, excluding all the different kuiper belt objects, but we've flown by a lot of the largest ones
Have more 3d gifs
[img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K1C2vGGtLVc/VZ4wEY-5rdI/AAAAAAAAOu8/m2rYNCL9Agk/s800/IC1975_Anim1.gif[/img]
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