SingAstro

OTAs come with different adaptors. Very hard to say... because depends on what dovetail the celestron OTA comes in. But nevertheless, the adaptor dovetail can be changed if it doesn't fit. I won't recommend throwing a C11 on it though. The scope is heavy and chances are that you will need to use cou...

Ooops, my bad. That is like... 2 inch plus with a nice wide field.

you're welcome.

Me too, cameras are awesome. There are some videos on youtube that shows ya how to do the levels and curves on astrophotographs. I started out there.

Your attempt is indeed a very good first attempt

May I know what scope you using?

Astrobargains also ship for you at reasonable prices. Actually, the telescope manufacturers in the US (Orion, Meade, Celestron) are not the actual manufacturers at all. They are just distributors. The scopes are made and imported in bulk from China at a very low cost, then they change the aesthetics...

Hi Larry,

I forwarded the link to the guys in my school astro club and will give you feedbacks if any, but am unable to do these few weeks due to tests and other school junk.

That is a very innovative idea you have.

1. 7x45 exposures not enough. Try 20x1min exposures from singapore with the LPR filter. East Coast Park Area D or Pulau semakau would be a good place to take it. 2. Take more dark frames if you take in RAW, around 50% of light frames. 3. If your camera have noise removal function installed, use it. ...

Basically you just want mobility and quick set up time, also with the condition that the mount can track good. The trade off is that precise equatorial tracking mounts are heavy, with the counter weight and tripod. I suggest just getting an ioptron minitower and stuff everything scope and all into a...

Thanks Gary, for the elucidation. I was surprised I can take something like this here. Stacking works wonders.

The sky was clear on the weekends, and despite being demoralised after 3 consecutive days of clouds in Batam, I went up on my rooftop, pointed my olympus e620 with stock lens up at the zenith and this was what I got. No tracking mount used, just tripod. Took 15 exposures of 20 sec then stacked via D...

Depends on your aperture. You wouldn't want to stretch the focal length of small aperture telescopes, that will affect your image quality. Also depends on what you wish to do with the scope. If you would want to consider astrophotography, a f6 scope will do. Larger focal ratio means longer focal len...