Up close and personnel with Mr Blobby.

[+Graham]

Had another go at the collimation tonight.

 

After getting it as close as possible by eye I swung the scope towards the heavens, selected Regulus as a reference star although it was no where near.

Hit the confirm button on the ServoCAT to get the guiding running and then slewed round to the moon.

After setting Luna tracking I  fitted the point Grey camera into the back of the focuser to see what I could get.

 

Bearing in mind at this magnification the surface was really boiling making good focus all but impossible the results were very pleasing.

 

Still need to get on a star to set the collimation up properly.

 

Anyway a couple of shots using the big scope in Cassegrain mode.

Point Grey camera.

500 frames Captured in Fire cap

Stacked in Registax

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 13, 2019 by Graham

[+Ibbo]

more progress for you

[+Graham]

Getting there Steve. 

Slowly but surely. 

[Bottletopburly]

Looking good graham , can’t wait for the full disk mosaic never seen one in HD before, 

[+Graham]

Now that would be a project and a half.

Cannot imagine how many panels that would take. 

[philjay]

Looking good there Graham.

It's swings and roundabouts with higher mag viewing / imaging, I found with that more so with the 180 Mak.

Higher mag (long FL) gives fantastic close ups but it also magnifies the atmospherics. I was only able to use the Mak 180 to its full potential on a few occasions but when it's good it is very very good.

 

Looking forward to more images Graham

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I like the Plato region and this is a great shot. The other night my laptop kept crashing when I was trying to use a webcam. I used a DSLR and Barlow instead but I have loads of photos to process and not much time to do them. I once got 2 weeks behind with processing.