Telescopes for StarGazing?
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Here's the birthday boy opening his present this morning. It's bloody massive! 
He's now pricing up some sort of observatory/shed to put in the garden for it...
Not had dark yet to give it a proper go, but we can tell who installed the chimney stack on the house across the green by the fingerprints left on it.
So yes, thanks for everyone's help - I'm confident the correct choice has been made, he's absolutely over the moon (haha!) with it!
One thing we can't work out is the camera connection. How does one attach a camera to it? It's not in the instructions, despite it being advertised as "Direct SLR Camera Connection".
He's now pricing up some sort of observatory/shed to put in the garden for it...Not had dark yet to give it a proper go, but we can tell who installed the chimney stack on the house across the green by the fingerprints left on it.
So yes, thanks for everyone's help - I'm confident the correct choice has been made, he's absolutely over the moon (haha!) with it!
One thing we can't work out is the camera connection. How does one attach a camera to it? It's not in the instructions, despite it being advertised as "Direct SLR Camera Connection".
Edited by HereBeMonsters on Saturday 1st November 13:49
Learn to use it first. Seriously. (edit, also let it cool down outside for at least an hour or you will see the effect of the mirror cooling down and stuff shimmers)
But, where the eye piece slots in, that assembly will disassemble allowing the adapter to fit to the eyepiece part. That adapter fits to the camera. I could do a show and tell later on my Sky watcher and post some pics when I get a minute. The camera I have will not see the lens obviously so appropriate settings and set shutter lock up and remote lead for the camera are really essential. The amount of touching needed to upset a shot of the moon is silly small, anything upsets it, even the shutter in the camera.
Edit. Another gratuitous shot.... (edited image, not happy with it). It is interesting looking at the shadows around craters and rilles etc.
Edit 2. Look in the crater at the bottom, you can see the peak at the centre in light.
But, where the eye piece slots in, that assembly will disassemble allowing the adapter to fit to the eyepiece part. That adapter fits to the camera. I could do a show and tell later on my Sky watcher and post some pics when I get a minute. The camera I have will not see the lens obviously so appropriate settings and set shutter lock up and remote lead for the camera are really essential. The amount of touching needed to upset a shot of the moon is silly small, anything upsets it, even the shutter in the camera.
Edit. Another gratuitous shot.... (edited image, not happy with it). It is interesting looking at the shadows around craters and rilles etc.
Edit 2. Look in the crater at the bottom, you can see the peak at the centre in light.
Edited by jmorgan on Saturday 1st November 15:37
Edited by jmorgan on Saturday 1st November 15:38
Edited by jmorgan on Saturday 1st November 15:40
Usual caveat. This is what I have done and I did not suggest anyone does this. If they do and it works, all well and good, if it does not work and something breaks, not my fault.
OK, attaching a camera. Find this bit.
Mine unscrews
T adaptor looks something like this and they separate.
Adapter from T piece fits the camera, forget the tube.
Remember our eye piece holder? Taken out the tube
The bit that holds the eye piece that unscrews near the top? You are left with that bit that is secured in the focuser. That will screw into the adapter in the camera,.
Of course the whole assembly with the camera needs to be balanced AND (!!) your assembly must be able to take the weight of the camera.
OK, attaching a camera. Find this bit.
Mine unscrews
T adaptor looks something like this and they separate.
Adapter from T piece fits the camera, forget the tube.
Remember our eye piece holder? Taken out the tube
The bit that holds the eye piece that unscrews near the top? You are left with that bit that is secured in the focuser. That will screw into the adapter in the camera,.
Of course the whole assembly with the camera needs to be balanced AND (!!) your assembly must be able to take the weight of the camera.
Edited by jmorgan on Saturday 1st November 16:45
Fill your boots boys [and girls]
http://ukastroimaging.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic...
eg
awesome forum, one thing I dont like is that if you go right back to the beginning the images have gone ?
what really floats my boat is if the seeing's good enough with medium power on the C8 and mid contrast liberation I just LOVE gazing and picking out all the different shades of grey from the lava flows that came from all those impacts, over time eons ago.....goosebump stuff..
http://ukastroimaging.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic...
eg
awesome forum, one thing I dont like is that if you go right back to the beginning the images have gone ?
what really floats my boat is if the seeing's good enough with medium power on the C8 and mid contrast liberation I just LOVE gazing and picking out all the different shades of grey from the lava flows that came from all those impacts, over time eons ago.....goosebump stuff..
Edited by Mojocvh on Saturday 1st November 18:45
Superb.
On another note, for the hell of it.
http://target.lroc.asu.edu/q3/
from here
http://www.actgate.com/home/quickmap.htm
On another note, for the hell of it.
http://target.lroc.asu.edu/q3/
from here
http://www.actgate.com/home/quickmap.htm
HereBeMonsters said:
Here's the birthday boy opening his present this morning. It's bloody massive! He's now pricing up some sort of observatory/shed to put in the garden for it...
My mum works with a bloke who has done exactly this, he documented the build on his site:He's now pricing up some sort of observatory/shed to put in the garden for it...http://www.cho-web.org.uk/
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