Love them all, but its two and three tgat do it for me!

That is an option

Tomorrow night, if the smegging sky is clear, I am heading for some astro shenanigans.

So I thought I'd ask you guys which you'd prefer to see.

1. My K3 strapped to a scope and pointed at Orion?

Or....

2. My dedicated astro cam pointed at any deep sky object?

You decide!!

How dare you!!! I'll have you know, its Miss Equitorial Mount to you!!! Fair enough she is a promiscuous young lady who stays out all night in the cold, in a field, with a fat cripple in his 50's.....

I think slapper or trollop would be a more appropriate name...

In actual fact, it is there to protect all the electronic (a router & alarm), and electrial (a huge powerbank and power supply) kit underneath it from frost.

The big white collar on Leslie Nielson's ( ) scope is to shield the observer from the sun

I wanted a solarscope....

Until i saw the prices it made wee come out!




I'm playing too, sat in the back of my van slowly freezing....

This is my type of toy!!

Is it an actual solar scope with HA and that stuff???

I like this!!!

I did a similar thing with my IR converted K20d. I played about with the white balance to do similars things.

Am I banned from this?

Err.... you could only see 4 of the visible ones - Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars. Saturn was very low on the UK horizon. This made it too faint to see.

As for Neptune and Uranus.... there an effing long long long long long long way away!!! Need a telescope, big huge binos or an epically long focal length lens!!

As for a traffic jam.... it was more of a considerate Sunday driver spacing mooch across the sky.....

That aside.....

The colours on yer images are superb!!!

It is in the gallery!

To be honest.... its not in the same league, also I think I went a bit ott with the ISO! Gonna try again with a much lower one.

Its basically the cooling that makes these better for astrophotography. Running a 5 or 10 minute exposure can generate heat leading to sensor burn. A cooled camera prevents this, and also makes it more sensitive to light. Using a DSLR for astro, you have to leave a gap between exposures to let the sensor cool down. Rule of thumb is whatever exposure you use, you use half of that to allow cooling.

No iconograph, as much as I like it, it's a pain in backside as I usually get Cohen the Barbarian pestering me for hemorrhoid cream

Its a ZWO ASI183MC Pro One Shot Colour Dedicated Cooled Astrophotography Camera....

And no its not just those cameras you have mentioned. Others can post images shot with different makes on the odd occasion. Just not on the gallery (altho a few have slipped thru the net) or on the Your Photos section of the forum.

The camera used for this image is a highly specialised one, and I did ask if it is ok to post them. This is why they are posted in the General Photography section of the website.

This is it....