Orion (yet again) from last night brrrrrrrrr

[Skywatcher]

marrow


those are just incredible Chris! you must have been freezing!

bone marrow

I laid in bed for 2 hours afterwards just shivering -its tru what they say aboutwrapping an icecube in a blanket

[Watchinherskip]

Just got home so I had to see them. Top notch Chris..well done.

Great one of the Trapezium.

[lexie]

Those are truly brilliant, it's amazing what is out there

[lozzy]

Hi this is lozzy's son,
what telescope do you use to get those images, and is it one you connect straight to your laptop or camera ?

[uscwest]

OMG, were those just shot through the camera's eye or through a telescope? They are fabulous.

[Skywatcher]

Hi this is lozzy's son,
what telescope do you use to get those images, and is it one you connect straight to your laptop or camera ?

Hello ' Lozzys Son'

Those were taken with a Skywtcher ed80 pro refractor telescope - it is apochormatic which means it has extra lenses to bend all the light wavelengths together which is important for decent pics - so although its only a small scope you can get decent pictures. It is mounted on a HEQ5 sysnscan pro equatorial mount - the camera is a simple DSLR canon eos 350/rebelxt with the lens off and a conncting t-ring to put it where the eyepiece would go. No laptop was used - but my next project will need one

The nebula picture is 25 x 90second shots and the horsehead is 20 - next time it is clear i will go and take a load more to add to bothstacks to smooth out the images.

waws that too much information?

[lozzy]

Hello ' Lozzys Son'

Those were taken with a Skywtcher ed80 pro refractor telescope - it is apochormatic which means it has extra lenses to bend all the light wavelengths together which is important for decent pics - so although its only a small scope you can get decent pictures. It is mounted on a HEQ5 sysnscan pro equatorial mount - the camera is a simple DSLR canon eos 350/rebelxt with the lens off and a conncting t-ring to put it where the eyepiece would go. No laptop was used - but my next project will need one

The nebula picture is 25 x 90second shots and the horsehead is 20 - next time it is clear i will go and take a load more to add to bothstacks to smooth out the images.

waws that too much information?

OMG WOW, Thanks, i'll get mum to have a look for me, next years xmas prezzie...

[Skywatcher]

welcome my friend - the scope itself only costs about 250 but the mount is expensive at about 600

[ukwdwnut]

chris is that skywatcher around the 300 quid mark?

[Skywatcher]

Yes Mick but from the look of it they are updating them so they may cost a bit more soon