the stars are calling. wonderful images.

i usually crave the moon, but obviously you have different goals than me *smile*!

nothing wrong with the moon



done the moon as well looking just a little small and deeper out in space. many thanks.

marvelous!

Happy new week:)

thank you it did come out very well this little is proving to be a great addition.

yes - i've seen that one of yours! i had forgotten about it.

As always Steve, an excellent set here. Oh to have skies clear enough for this kind of photography. Can it be any wonder why people want to go up into space! Well done.

Keep safe. Herb

Herb at the moment I am still "playing, looking" as its full moon time so no real good photos but coming to terms with this focuser and camera combination. I do look forward to clear dark nights coming. In truth trying to think how I can use this camera to take a photo of the moon nearly 1600mm with current set up other than Nikon & 600mm lens. I have 3 more clear night full moon.

You keep yourself safe as well still waiting for NZ to open to travel.

nice details Steve. But what do you mean by a view of 1560 mm, is that your effective focallength?

Yes by changing the size of the sensor you get that effective focal length . so in effect I get three focal lengths out of the one scope just by changing the size of the sensor. Look at the first two both taken with same ED80 scope third is FF and my 600mm lens but you get the idea.

this is a 1" sensor x3 crop factor =1560mm


APS-C sensor x 1.5 crop factor = 780mm



FF sensor x1.0 = 520mm in this shot 600mm Lens

Very impressive indeed, Steve.

Thank you we get to see a lot more details in those white clouds we see in the southern sky both of them are very busy places. most people would not take photos of them but would turn to the more impressive views of space. my trials with this camera are complete now its get more moonless nights part of my trials has been focus and guiding in fact I took 20 min exposures in the moonlight very badly effected by the moon not at all post able on my account. I will redo the Galaxy in the dark once I can a rather impressive one but washed out by the moon.

times in moon light are more for trials than photos not unless you have a mono camera which at this stage I dont have or intend to get. I have re routed all the cables and wrapped them in shade cloth so its more flexible than the firm plastic spiral wrapping. its all worked as I had hoped.