Sky at Night Magazine

I am looking to upgrade on my current scope and I am thinking of an 8 inch - the Nexstar 8SE,the Meade LS 8 or the Meade LT 8, or the Meade LX90 8'' appeal - there is a wide price range but I have access to funds and with such an outlay I want to try and get the best possible value - the LS appeals because of its ease of use but the ...

Hi,

Just starting out on the imaging front, this an image I took on 26th May.

Celestron C6 SGT / CG-5
QHY5L-II

1000 Frames sorted in PIPP and stacked/processed in Registax 6 and finial tidy in PS Elements.



I actually stacked all 1000 frames here so maybe can be improved by just taking the best 80% or so.

I had tried a few times before but focus seemed to be my issue, spent a ...

2 hrs UHC data from 26May13 + 40 mins of Lum from 01Jun13
SW200p, ATIK16ic osc, Baader UHC-S & Astronomik CLS
UHC data processed by JulianJR in Neb3 combined with CLS data processed in DSS and stuck together in CS2

Taken on a Nexstar Alt-az mount with the ED80 and 0.5 focal reducer (needed to reduce exposure times). 40x30 sec exposures using the Atik Titan. The lovely dark skies of Caithness are a real bonus. :)

Hi, I'm an old user but I somehow got lost between the old and new forums :lol:
In brief, I'm Brian from Caithness. I'm mainly into lunar, solar and planetary photography but also like to dabble in in a little basic DSO imaging at times. The photography thing has really blossomed in the last few years with the coming of the CCD. Many years ago I was ...

This is a work in process really as I will be adding more data which I'm hoping to do tonight at a dark site where I go to image as it's hopeless trying to do anything apart from planetary imaging at home.

So far I've managed to get 33 unguided subs at 90 seconds using my 200P & unmodified Canon DSLR I combined the lights with 20 darks in Deep Sky Stacker & tweaked in ...

Recently I treated myself to the Celestron 1 1/4" 8mm to 24mm zoom eyepiece to go with my 4SE and was looking forward to looking at Jupiter before the summer ruins my viewing!

Upon using it for the first time I discovered I couldn't get it to focus at all on Jupiter, I tried from stop to stop on the focus knob and even on the widest aperture I couldn't get a clear image.

Maybe ...

I did a webcam image each of them on Sunday night. Whilst neither look as spectacular as the Moon and Jupiter (at least Venus will get better later this year) seeing Mercury at all is quite an event and I hadn't seen it through a telescope for years.

Both are showing a gibbous phase.

Hi everyone been a while.
Can anyone tell me when new horizons can start taking photo's of planet pluto and its moons . Don't know what viewing gadgets its got on board but i know as from 27 5 2103 it only has 777 days to go to get there. So if it's too far away at the moment how close will it have to be to start taking good quality photo's
Cheers
Baza