One of the most important and overlooked matters to consider to prevent untold frustration in observational and imaging astronomy is being able to easily, quickly and reliably find the object you want to observe or image. The smaller the field of view of the telescope/camera/eyepiece combination, the more difficult and important this becomes. When you factor in the fact that the subject may not yet be in proper focus it is clear that just pointing the telescope in the direction of the moon, planet or object and hoping that it will be in the field of view (FoV) is a forlorn hope and leads to great frustration whilst you are hunting around trying to get the object both in focus and in the FoV. I’m a mild natured person and even I have been found cursing at the EP on many occasion trying to do this! Red Dot Finder…
North American and Pelican Nebulae Full Size Image here (opens in a new tab).This my first semi-completed image from the…
Introduction I’ve bought a QHY268C colour CMOS camera and a QHYOAG-M as discussed in my post here. As I explain…
I bought the 14″ ACF SCT Optical Tube Assembly (OTA) telescope in excellent condition in April 2019 second hand. These…