In my ongoing attempts to successfully take a photo of a planet, first step is to focus and get image of window on neighbour’s house at bottom of garden – gives me approx. focus point for stars/planets – last time I tried to photograph a planet I couldn’t see anything on the laptop!
I really am not very good at this astrophotography stuff…
Andy
Focus point with narrow band LRGBHOS Baader filters and filter wheel on 183M with Altair Lightweight 1.0 field flattener and Sky Watcher 80mm Equinox OTA
I have taken the plunge and got some narrow band fiters….so now I needed a 7-position filter wheel. I bought a ZWO version – here is the list of filters in it:
All Baader Filters
I have had terrible difficulty getting planetary images so, with Mars high in the sky, now is the time to sort it out!
First step – obtain focus.
. The following photo shows the point at which this combination obtains focus when the telescope is in my lounge and I have aimed it at roof on neighbour’s house at end of garden about 150m away – the furthest terrestrial object I can see from my gouse/garden.
Obtaining focus with similar setup and location and object but using 35mm extension tube instead.
Focus point on Sky Watcher Equinox 100mm+Tele Vue 75mm extension tube:
= 74mm Quark H+Daystar interference elminator+QHY ASI174MM.
= 44mm Quark CaH+Daystar interference elminator+QHY ASI174MM.
Here is my first attempt at the Soul Nebula 2hrs 35 mins of data (5 mins subs)
Today I installed a Rowan Tile Adapter on my Hydrogen Quark.
I now need to find out whether I can still get focus on my ZWO ASI174MM camera with this tilt adapter in place. As long I can do that, hopefully it will enable me to get rid of Newtonian Rings.
Andy
Videos from solar surface capture with Daystar Quark Sodium FIlter, Sky Watcher Equinox Pro 100mm OTA, ZWO ASI 174 MM camera 25/6/2020, captured in FireCapture on Windows laptop.
Each video is an AVI nearly 2GB in size.
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