What kind of telescope do you have? Mount? Filters? Camera?

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Human® Eyeball™ model no 15/20 with auto-focus and -shutter and flash-memory (as in "I forget it in a flash").

If I really need to snap a shot, Nikon FM10 with 3200 ISO or the occasional IR 35mm roll. The included 70-35mm zoom lens does pretty well.

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Nice, NA. Freehand or do you have a mount that tracks?

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All free-hand or 5¢ tripod

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Freehand's tough. Hard to keep steady enough to use the manual shutter setting for exposures long enough to show detail in nebulae and such. My shot of the Horsehead was a 47.4-minute continuous exposure. As you know, it takes that long to get some of the dim stuff. Really helps to have a mount that tracks in Right Ascension while I do the arcsecond fine tracking using a second guidescope. The rich guys have CCD cameras that have a second onboard guiding CCD chip that takes all the standing in the cold out of the shot. 'Course, if I ever buy or rig an equitorial platform for my 24-inch reflector scope, I'll be able to get shots with short exposure times that should blow your socks off. That'd be something.
Hope some other folks who have scopes see this thread and share what kinds of rigs they have. Something I'm pretty interested in.
Robert

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I should clarify: I'm not usually aiming for deep-space objects - Just using the startrails and timelapse, or getting Moon shots

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Gotcha.

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How did you know I say that after a shot?!
:-D

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> What kind of telescope do you have? Mount? Filters? Camera?
>
I own severall but still one of the best price/quality is Russian.
If you happen to be intrested a description can be found in the following link.
Its very robust and sturdy, the optics really outperform a lot of other more pricy and fancy equipment. (Meade - ETX-125ETC computercontrolled/CCD, Meade LX200 GPS, Televue refractor)
Cameras only Nikon non-digital and digital.
One of my telescopes...<br />

Greetings from Belgium ;-)

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> > What kind of telescope do you have? Mount? Filters? Camera?
> >
> I own severall but still one of the best price/quality is Russian.
> If you happen to be intrested a description can be found in the following
> link.
> Greetings from Belgium ;-)
>

Hi Belgium,
Thanks for the link and the look at one of your scopes. Nice website, too. I saved the link so I can go back and look at the science stuff. Fractals, chemistry, physics, and more. Chocolate for the brain!
How are the optics on your Russian-made scope?
Regards from California, USA.

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> or getting Moon shots
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Brown eye?

How'd you like a black eye?
.o0(Nice avatar!)

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My physical injury would heal, however your emotional pain would last a lifetime.

What emotional pain? It'd be stress relief!

Care to join me for some coffee?

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> What emotional pain? It'd be stress relief!
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> Care to join me for some coffee?
>
And share secret stories about avatars?

Either either that or we'll both be hit on the head with a 25' telescope for being OT...

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Damn. Mine's only 24'

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[grabs Misfit by the neck for reasons which he is just now aware of, though totally unrelated to their present situation, and both run out toward the refuge of the Caf&eacute;]

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4 1/2 inch newtonian reflector and a 4 inch maksutov cassegrain GOTO.

But it´s pretty darn cold right now ;-)

Bukken

Keep Sharing

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> Hi Belgium,
> Thanks for the link and the look at one of your scopes. Nice website, too. I
> saved the link so I can go back and look at the science stuff. Fractals,
> chemistry, physics, and more. Chocolate for the brain!
> How are the optics on your Russian-made scope?
> Regards from California, USA.
>
>

The makers of TAL telescopes have a factory in Novosibirsk. They have a website too. You can use the following link This is the website of TAL telescopes...<br />

They have tradition in space too. The TAL was the first telescope ever the Russians took into space. Tenths of years before anything else. They probably kept it secret during the cold war.

Surely read the articles in SKY and TELESCOPE about the quality of TAL - No fancies - STURDY and ROBUST - EXCELLENT Optical quality.
(I dont have any connection with them!!!)
I like the TAL 2M more than my Meade ETX-125EC (I broke one of the elevation screws - plastic rubbish with to thin metal core...and a COSTLY repair. This CANNOT happen to the TAL, you would need to use a hammer. In handling the Meade you need the touch of a fly...)
By the way the TAL 200K telescope (catadioptric Klevtsov type optics)is one of the best telescopes I ever laid my hands on. Its not one of these computerized thingies with GOTO mumbo jumbo, so you must have the real spirit in the fingers of the ancient stargazers, BUT it has optics I have NEVER SEEN BEFORE, offering a quality of scopes costing at least 5 times as much...If you want it to, you can computerize it.

Furtermore everything TAL makes is sturdy - no plastics - only heavy metal - wich makes things stable and more free of vibrations...

Greetings from Belgium ;-))

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