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Thanks Arief, I hope you dont mind some of my "overprocessed" old images hehehe. Thanks for the suggestion for some dark locations. I've never been to Anyer, but a bunch of my friends are planning to go there during this month holiday and they asked me to tag along. If it's really dark the...

Hi all, The sky was pretty clear last sat. morning, even though transparency was decent. With naked eyes, Orion nebula was barely noticeable due to the great Jakarta's light pollution dome. Since I managed to fix my EM200 mount (disassembled the whole RA shaft to find the culprit), I decided to get ...

heheh our govt. could use that excuse when we're getting blackout here ;p

cool, thanks a lot guys, gonna go check local camera shops later.

hmm, the more we tinker with the focuser = more pics used to focus = less shutter life :( . "Also, I think it got some other function to help you determine the best focus. You can take a look at their website for more information. " is it the FWHM ? from my past experience, using the FWHM ...

I'm also new on dSLR focusing, usually I just eyeball the object (bright stars / moon / distance street light (for wide angle lens) working back and forth from inside focus to outside focus couple times until i'm satisfied. I wonder how DSLRfocus works, i know it's going to be displayed "live&q...

elton wrote:How about using a dewshield?

yeah, the dewshield helped a lot to balance my old c8 setup.

Nice list, Jiahao.

Have fun guys ! wish i could join you guys

"in-between" period , you mean between summer and winter? I just saw jiahao's list for Mersing 23rd trip, it's really a nice list. Personally, I would try to "hunt" and resolve more doubles (still learning) but unfortunatelly my tracking mount is grounded (no tracking, hard to ge...

yeah gotta have both:)
Sometimes you just want to relax and enjoy the wide field full of beautiful gems, especially at a pretty dark sky location. Back in Table Mountain star party, aiming at the Milky way around Cygnus using my bino made me feel that i was floating toward the stars .