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I live in Kansas. I was born in Texas. I have moved around a goodly bit.

Thanks, I love nebulas too!

Our pleasure!

Thanks for the tip!

Just checked. You are right. Good catch. Thanks.

I only have 10mm - 40mm eyepieces. So, in order to get more than the default 10mm magnification, I use a 10mm eyepiece and a Barlow lens. I have x2, x3 and x5 Balows. Most of my refractors cannot use the x5, unless I add and extension tube. For my Travel Scope, I have only tried a 10mm eyepiece and a x2 Barlow and at 80 magnification, things looked fine. I did not use the Barlow for any of the photos I took. Have never looked at the moon with more than 40 magnification. As for planets, have never actually looked at one through an eyepiece. For the photos I have taken, I used the camera as an eyepiece.

@ I don’t like Bralow lenses, no matter how expensive or high quality they are, the brightness and sharpness will go down a little.

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Thanks!

Thanks. It is a great scope for the money.

Some were taken with an SvBony SV503 80mm ED refractor, some with a Celestron SLT 80mm (Shorttube 80 refractor), some with a Celestron 102mm XLT f/9.2 refractor (the planets), some with a Skyoptikst 90mm refractor, some with a Sky Watcher 120mm Startravel and some with an Orion 130mm Observer Newtonian (the ones with diffraction spikes). Took the photos with a variety of optical tubes to test them. Capture time was 1 to three hours, using 4 to 60 second subs in Sharp Cap Pro. No post processing. Glad you liked them! Thanks!

​@@AmatureAstronomergreat, expecting more great photos from your side this year :)

Thanks.

Glad you like it!

Thanks, I am still here and still learning!

@AmatureAstronomer wonderful! Be a student always!

In January 2025, I plan on using my Celestron C6-A XLT 150mm Schmidt Cassegrain with a Hyperstar lens which reduces focal length to 300 producing f/2, I hope to be able to achieve six or seven hours of exposures in one hour. Have thus far, have only done real time stacking with Sharp Cap Pro and have done no post. As for the future?

Yes, I like it. It is very light all I have to do is set it down facing in a general Northern direction. It takes no time to set it up. I have a couple go to equatorial mounts which take about 30 minutes to level, balance and polar align. And, I have a motorized mount which is not go to which takes about the same length of time to set up, but longer to find objects. The only bad thing about the Sky Watcher AZ GTi mount is that it is an alt/azimuth mount and suffers from field rotation for photography. So, if you are going to use it for photography, a black line appears on two sides of the photo which grow and then switch sides. The field rotation starts after 10 or 15 minutes and will eventually eat the entire photo, so I only use it for photography as a grab and go when a cloud bank is moving in and I do not have much time or when I am photographing something which only takes a few minutes, like a planet or star cluster. If you are not using it for photography the field rotation does not occur. I think I will make a review video for it.

Thanks!

Thanks!

The Moon photo is a snapshot. All the others are 5 minutes. I took them on the same night I took photos of the same targets using an Astromaster 70mm LT. I will be comparing the two, which cost the same in a video I am working on.

Oh, and no post processing. Used Sharp Cap Pro and did real time stacking.

Well done,could you try to take a picture of M42 ? By taking long exposures and stacking them (I use deep sky stacker for this) I do like 60/120 of 1min subs

I will be live stacking M42 in January using my Celestron C-6A XLT Schmidt Cassegrain (150mm SCT) with a Hyperstar 6 v4 which produce a large f/2 image. I will be taking 3 hours worth of 1 minute exposures. I will be using Sharp Cap Pro. I don't do post processing, including stacking or stretching. May some day, but right now I don't. It will be much better than the 15 minutes worth of 8 second exposures image I took with my Orion 130mm Spaceprobe @ f/5 and posted a few months ago.

"...I use deep sky stacker for this... " Just looked at your channel. No pics. Do you post your pics anywhere? Oh, and I tried and didn't like deep sky stacker. But, many like it.

Thanks. Will do.

The Celestron 70mm Travel Scope retails for $120. It comes with a 6x30 finderscope, a 45 degree rectifying diagonal, and 10mm and 25mm Plossl eyepieces. The mount is a handlebar camera mount. And, it comes with a backpack. Very, very light. Will be doing a review today and will post it soon. It is actually a terrestrial spotting scope and not designed for astronomical use or astrophotography. I took a few photos with it, because that's what I do.

Thanks for the sub!

Thanks.

Round steel legs.

@@AmatureAstronomer Did yours come with a cell phone mount for the telescope?

No. It came with two Plossl eyepieces, a 10mm and a 25mm and a red dot finder scope.

Thanks. I do have a Celestron C6-A XLT Schmidt Cassegrain (which I am still trying to collimate), but used a doublet refractor for this photograph.

Thank you! Will do!

Thanks.

The Pleiades is an open cluster of blue white stars which is currently passing through a cloud of gas. The gas is reflecting the light from the star cluster. A reflection nebula. I posted a photo of it here on November 11, 2024. Don't know about life there.

I have taken some photos with this optical tube and the Nat Geo 114mm Newtonian, using a CG-2 mount. Haven't posted them, yet. Waiting to ge a photo of the moon.

Orion made a 114mm Newtonian with a parabolic mirror and an equatorial mount from $180. They also had a very nice motor drive for $120. But, they went belly up. Sold stuff too cheap.

I am not real big on handle bar mounts, but this has a rather strong one. It can handle my Sky-Watcher StarTravel 120mm f/5 refractor optical tube. As for tube rings, they are always good and with a fair long dove bar it is easier to attain balance.

I do real time stacking in Sharp Cap Pro. Gain 350, 15 second sub-exposures, 42 minutes of subs, SvBony SV220 Dual Band Filter.

I do real time stacking in Sharp Cap Pro. Gain 250, 4 second sub-exposures, 10 minutes of subs, SvBony SV231 Color Correction Filter.

No. But, it is large enough so that when it comes between Earth and the star, the star's illumination dims.

Yes, it is.

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Yes. They are neat. Kinda like little tiny galaxies.

@AmatureAstronomer The suburbs!🤔

Yes, it is. Just photographed IC 405 Flaming Star Nebula a couple days ago, but haven't posted it yet. Just below that, The Tadpoles are on my list.

Generalmente tomo entre 10 minutos y 3 horas de subtítulos con una ganancia de 120 a 400, según el filtro que tenga la cámara. Para esta foto, tomé 30 minutos de subtítulos de 15 segundos con una ganancia de 350 usando un filtro de banda dual SvBony.

The path of a star moving around in the galaxy can be predicted using Newton's equations. If the star does not follow that path, but wobbles instead, it means there is a gravitational force affecting it. The nature of the wobble will indicate the size of the object affecting it and if there is more than one unseen object. Short answer, physics.

Thanks, will do!

Thanks. Sounds like you have a nice rig. I do EAA. I use Sharp Cap Pro. Nothing else. No guidance. No post processing. I do 4 to 8 second sub exposures at 120 to 250 gain. I have three motorized GO TO mounts, all of which use Synscan and are controlled with my cellphone. I control the cameras from my front room with a long 30' or 50' cable. I use either my 305, 705c, 405cc or 605cc camera. I have not reviewed the latter two, yet. I have about a dozen refractors, including an SVBony 80mm ED refractor, several of which I have reviewed. I use a Founders generic 0.8 reducer\corrector for all my refractors with a two inch focuser, except for my Celestron 102mm XLT f/10. I am currently using my Orion 130mm Spaceprobe Newtonian and Celestron 150mm XLT Newtonian preparing a video with photos for each along with a review of the 150mm. Once I finish with the Newtonians, I plan on using my Celestron C6-A XLT Schmidt Cassegrain with Hyperstar 4.

Thank you very much for your reply! As I'm fairly new to astrophotography, I've pretty much stuck with SVBONY's line of scopes. I think you get a lot of bang for the buck with them. Aside from the 80mm F6, I also have their SV503 102mm F7 ED Achromat and their SV550 122mm F7 APO Triplet, both of which I like a lot. I run it all on an EQ6-Pro using an ASIAIR. I did just purchase SVBONY's new SV555 Petzval, which I haven't received yet, but am really looking forward to trying out. As I'm looking to the SV555 to be a great "grab and go" scope, I'm probably going to want to look at getting a lighter mount setup. Any recommendations you'd care to share?

You do get a good bang for the buck with SvBony products. I am elderly, feeble and have a bad back. My primary mount is the medium Celestron CG-4 mount with an added Astro-Gadget GO TO motorized conversion kit. The EQ6-Pro is too heavy for me to drag out into the back garden. I also have a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer GTi computerized equatorial mount which is rather light and can handle an 11 pound pound payload. I often use it for my SvBony 80mm ED and am certain it could handle a SV555 Petzval.

O tubo óptico está ok. A montagem é fraca e só pesa 5 libras. O tripé é muito fraco. Está ok para observação visual. Não é aceitável para astrofotografia. Nos EUA, custa cerca de US$ 430. O Sky Watcher AZ GTi (montagem computadorizada) pode suportar 11 libras, tem um sistema operacional superior e custa US$ 399. Um refrator Celestron de tubo curto de 80 mm pode ser comprado por US$ 72. Então, por US$ 471, você pode comprar um telescópio melhor que pode dar melhores vistas. Mas, se você já possui ou pode comprar um Celestron 114 LCM por muito menos e não pode pagar mais, está ok.

@@AmatureAstronomer então eu quero para astrofotografia e terrestres também como pássaros montanhas então é ruim esse celestron 114lcm isso?

Pode ser feito, mas a montagem e o tubo óptico que recomendei são melhores. Tirei muitas fotos usando essa configuração. Pode ser encontrado no meu canal: "2024 Algumas fotos tiradas com meu Celestron Short Tube 80 e Sharp Cap".

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