SingAstro

It's amazing what a clear night can produce, even if it's only 20 x 30sec frames (or 10 minutes) My proudest Eta Carinae so far (although I still seem to get quite a bit of flare off the right, which I had to crop off http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y263/johnlim/Astrophotography/NGC%203372%20Eta%20...

Kimo

I'm using the Celestron CG-4 with RA motor.

Since my scope is the Astrotech AT66ED, with Canon EOS 1000D attached, its less than 3kg with the Mount capacity of 9kg.

When a single 30-sec frame gives you this much details, you know you're in for a good night!

Nice find Hardwarezone!

I searched Amazon for the other one with Beginner Scope and didn't find any shipping specs under the FAQs.

Guess you're smarter!

EDIT: Ouch, that shipping looks scary if it's really 63 inches x 24 x 24!

Its kindda hard to find any site that lists it's shipping specs to calculate the volumetric weight. THE BELOW ARE JUST MY ESTIMATES However, we can deduce the following: 1. Optical Tube - 115cm 2. Optical Diameter - 15cm We can then assume the Tube packaging to be roughly 118cm x 18 x 18 The base is...

yes nice. why not you add about an hr exposures, it will create decent image of it. I am waiting for testing RGB Imaging tonight but sky still not yet opened. Yeah, I know I should lol. But these days due to work and part-time studies, I'm shooting from my flat and Eta is actually only available fo...

Anyway, going through the Lights for my Eta Carinae, realised a few of them actually had very thin high clouds passing over them, so removed, restacked and re-processed. Personally, I think this is a better result than the one above: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y263/johnlim/Astrophotography/NGC...

do you take darks? How do you match CMOS dark Temp with Exposure? Yeah, I usually take Darks, Bias and Flats, at least 1/2 the number of Lights, 100% if time allows, so 20 Light Frames I'd try to get between 10 - 20 Darks, Bias and Flats. Stack them all in DSS, tweak a little of the RGB, Luminosity...

kimo wrote:Nice pic. I couldn't take nice pic with DSLR. want to try again.

Lol mines far from nice but with your incredible mobile station I'm sure you can!

I absolutely agree with Clifford60. Where possible, attend any of the sidewalk astronomy sessions to meet the folks and ask questions about their equipment - i.e. - Why they chose Alt-Az or EQ? - Why not the other? - What can X scope do or cannot do? - How they transport their gear? - Have they been...