In reply to Post #14
It's more than capable of taking it all. I think the CGE Pro has a 90lb payload. It worked flawlessly for ages. It's a known problem with the Pitman motors Celestron decided to use, bloody £500 plus a pop if I can find a spare, literally like hens teeth.
I'll defo take into account what you say. The cable management is spot on and not a tangled mess 😉
It's more than capable of taking it all. I think the CGE Pro has a 90lb payload. It worked flawlessly for ages. It's a known problem with the Pitman motors Celestron decided to use, bloody £500 plus a pop if I can find a spare, literally like hens teeth.
I'll defo take into account what you say. The cable management is spot on and not a tangled mess 😉
In reply to Post #10
Was that taken on a Samsung Galaxy phone... cough......???
Regards Tad.
Was that taken on a Samsung Galaxy phone... cough......???
Regards Tad.
In reply to Post #17
Lol
Lol
In reply to Post #15
Living in London, proper astro kit is a waste imo. Even most of the places I carp fish aren't remote enough for having a crack at all but the biggest dso's. A little tracker I can take fishing for better milky way pics, and hopefully giving decent results, 30 secs with a 300mm lens (on a 2x crop camera) so I can have a dabble at andromeda or the heart and soul nebulae is about all I want...
... For now
Living in London, proper astro kit is a waste imo. Even most of the places I carp fish aren't remote enough for having a crack at all but the biggest dso's. A little tracker I can take fishing for better milky way pics, and hopefully giving decent results, 30 secs with a 300mm lens (on a 2x crop camera) so I can have a dabble at andromeda or the heart and soul nebulae is about all I want...
... For now
In reply to Post #19
Duggs this is my rig without my filter wheel I've since added. I have a friend who images with a similar setup in Tokyo. A Bortle 9 and gets amazing results. Filters especially the high-end 3.5nm narrowband pass are amazing nowadays we have never had it so good. They literally cut out everything and only allow slithers of specific light wavelengths through i.e. Oxegen (blues) Hydrogen (reds) and sulfur (orange)
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Duggs this is my rig without my filter wheel I've since added. I have a friend who images with a similar setup in Tokyo. A Bortle 9 and gets amazing results. Filters especially the high-end 3.5nm narrowband pass are amazing nowadays we have never had it so good. They literally cut out everything and only allow slithers of specific light wavelengths through i.e. Oxegen (blues) Hydrogen (reds) and sulfur (orange)
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In reply to Post #20
I take it the sensors are full spectrum?
I've been looking at getting one of my cameras converted, mainly for some infra red stuff I want to play with, but I think now I should go full spectrum and get narrow band filters.
The light pollution filters don't seem to work very well on my setup
That kit would be wasted on me, astro shots take much more processing effort than I'm willing to do.
The little tracker I got is more for night landscapes, looks to track well to about 3mins with a 45mm lens (90 equiv), and fits in a coat pocket. I did make one mistake tho, I bought a kit with a laser pointer for polar allignment, I took it to a lake in the Colne valley the weekend it came, pretty clear sky, a few hours between sunset and moonrise, and "eeerrrr" I can't point a laser here
Had to order a polar scope, all my trips since tho have been around the full moon
Should be fun for some wide field stuff in winter, ive been too busy this summer to get any decent milky way shots, whenever I've had the time I haven't had the weather
I take it the sensors are full spectrum?
I've been looking at getting one of my cameras converted, mainly for some infra red stuff I want to play with, but I think now I should go full spectrum and get narrow band filters.
The light pollution filters don't seem to work very well on my setup
That kit would be wasted on me, astro shots take much more processing effort than I'm willing to do.
The little tracker I got is more for night landscapes, looks to track well to about 3mins with a 45mm lens (90 equiv), and fits in a coat pocket. I did make one mistake tho, I bought a kit with a laser pointer for polar allignment, I took it to a lake in the Colne valley the weekend it came, pretty clear sky, a few hours between sunset and moonrise, and "eeerrrr" I can't point a laser here
Had to order a polar scope, all my trips since tho have been around the full moon
Should be fun for some wide field stuff in winter, ive been too busy this summer to get any decent milky way shots, whenever I've had the time I haven't had the weather
In reply to Post #21
Its mono. Thats why I have to use filters.
Its mono. Thats why I have to use filters.
In reply to Post #22
That amount of processing would fry my brain!
That amount of processing would fry my brain!
In reply to Post #23
Takes spades of patients and dedication to acquire decent images not just the processing, things like flexture is a right pain, especially with long exposures.
Some of the images I've seen captured on very modest rigs can rival similar captures by Hubble, saying all of that, they're not taking those shots from London 😁
Takes spades of patients and dedication to acquire decent images not just the processing, things like flexture is a right pain, especially with long exposures.
Some of the images I've seen captured on very modest rigs can rival similar captures by Hubble, saying all of that, they're not taking those shots from London 😁
In reply to Post #24
I've got good patience up to the moment I sit at a computer
And rightly or wrongly, I class the calibration frames with the processing.
Stacking hours of exposures for each wavelength, and then combining them is well beyond my patience, skill or desire.
I do like seeing them tho
Something I've enjoyed doing a bit of sea fishing this year is the lower light pollution, I haven't been able to get a clear night but even without a tracker it's just so much easier to shoot and process. Harder to find polaris tho as in London I only see a dozen stars around it compared to thousands from quiet spots on the south coast. I'll have to get better or the tracker will be useless
I've got good patience up to the moment I sit at a computer
And rightly or wrongly, I class the calibration frames with the processing.
Stacking hours of exposures for each wavelength, and then combining them is well beyond my patience, skill or desire.
I do like seeing them tho
Something I've enjoyed doing a bit of sea fishing this year is the lower light pollution, I haven't been able to get a clear night but even without a tracker it's just so much easier to shoot and process. Harder to find polaris tho as in London I only see a dozen stars around it compared to thousands from quiet spots on the south coast. I'll have to get better or the tracker will be useless
In reply to Post #25
That's where a light bucket like and Edge HD11 or Edge HD14 + HyperStar saves the day. Can't remember if it F1.4 or F2.0, either way, saves loads of time once everything is collimated.
At some point I'll have it properly setup in the garden when I finally get around to it with a roll-off roof obs and control it all from my sofa, sod freezing my nuts out in the garden 😁
TheSkyX is a great bit of software once you get used to it. I guess if computer's are not your thing though.
That's where a light bucket like and Edge HD11 or Edge HD14 + HyperStar saves the day. Can't remember if it F1.4 or F2.0, either way, saves loads of time once everything is collimated.
At some point I'll have it properly setup in the garden when I finally get around to it with a roll-off roof obs and control it all from my sofa, sod freezing my nuts out in the garden 😁
TheSkyX is a great bit of software once you get used to it. I guess if computer's are not your thing though.
In reply to Post #26
I didn't pay that much for my car
I didn't pay that much for my car
In reply to Post #27
Neither did I
Neither did I