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So is sct or newt more suitable to do ap? Prime focus i mean Do a google or a bing search . ' So is sct or newt more suitable to do ap' You will get the answers to your question. Then decide. In this game there is no right or wrong decision. This is the first part of the work flow. Image acquisitio...

Hi Joshelerry As you are a photographer maybe you should get a tracking mount that has goto and a autoguiding port. Then you can use your canon camera and all your canon lenses for astrophoto imaging from the 8mm f/4 to 400mm f/5.6 . This requires a mount that can carry up to 5kg. The cost is reason...

Sometimes in life advances are made by not following to the herd. I image for hobby and not for scientific research. You have two issues here. The first is the Celestron Advanced VX mount The second is the suitability of f10 SCT for imaging in this part of the world. I own a Edge C11 to image smalle...

After a long time sky clear. Can make out Scorpio lying on its back at zenith. Power the gears open the roof and tried to initialised the NJP but it refused. Traced to Corrupted drivers. wasted a good part of the night trying to reinstall. Refused. Thus need a reformat. substitute with a laptop and ...

according to this

http://huff.to/1d2k2C4

so a quick one from KL





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Thanks Mystiq.

Yes I got tired of planets and moon.

Have to try my luck imaging from KL with f/10.

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Thanks to both Cataclysm and Gary for the words of encouragement. I measure by this method the SQM as 17.46 at the beginning of the imaging session at 01:30 the time of moon rise. It was cloudless sky till 02:30. I live right at the boundary of the white and the red zone on the Bortle Scale. I wonde...

Image this from downtown KL http://www.pbase.com/aziz/image/151108778.jpg A crop image taken with Camera : canon 60D modded Filter : IDAS LPS clip on front filter Telescope; Edge C11 Mount : NJP Temma 2 AutoGuide : QHY5+ 50mm guide scope + PHD Exposure : 12X 3.5 minutes Darks : 6 numbers Flats : non...

KL not so lucky. Our API index keep rising



Camera:Canon 550D
Telescope: Skywatcher 80ED + 2x powermate
Exposure Time: 1/40 sec
ISO : 100

Schools closed for the day.

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23rd June 2013 is supermoon. To prepare for the event this image of Tycho was taken last night http://www.pbase.com/aziz/image/150917687.jpg Camera:Canon 550D video crop, Telescope: WO FLT 110 Softwares: stack of 50% of 6000 frames using AutoStakkert MOV, sharpen with Registax 6 levels and contrast ...