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SO, as a matter of curiosity this friend of mine is experiencing meditations on the economic realm of the astrograph. He just discovered he might be...
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I'll throw my two cents into this discussion. I've spent a lot on my photography over the years. I have four principles that I go by.
Hello. Just got my telescope last week and love it!! The detail I can see on the moon is amazing. Jupiter and Saturn is pretty cool too. This is in...
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I'm new like you, I tried to do some shoots daytime.
Put my dslr in p and live view for the focus, after that I do 4 automatic shoots, just to avoid...
Took delivery of my first telescope on Wednesday, a celestron astromaster 130eq and after a few hours or swearing and generally throwing all my toys...
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Congratulations on your new gear! I hope you get clear skies to try it out.
How are you planning to use the camera? That's a nice camera, but using...
Apparently, every time I go outside with a telescope, that is a signal for Mother Nature to drop us below the dew point, so I've been having a lot of...
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IRT cross-posting, I don't think we are too hard over on that if the cross-post is to AF.net. We need to pull as much info as we can off that site...
It's been probably more than five months since my last observation. It has been a misery with the weather or being unable to go when the weather was...
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Thanks. I'm probably going to set it up in the living room and let it run to see if I can tell what's going on by daylight.
I am new to telescopes. I made a simple reflector at home with a 15cm primary and a small circular mirror (available at your general store). Just to...
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Also, is it true that parabolic M2s are better or do circular ones work equally well?
Your focal ratio is f/3.75. That is pretty fast, so the...
This may be very pedestrian but I'm afraid I just have no idea about this sort of thing. I include the whole story as it may be of interest...
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The hard part would be working out the three-dimensional geometry of the sun's rays from the photo. You would first have to positively identify which...
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Bare with me, I have been observing since 1968 and other than when I had my own darkroom back in the 70s, I have not done any type of...
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It's fun to get on during the live streams. He takes requests....
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