New Rig for Astro Imaging
As well as listening to choons and making sourdough during these strange lockdown times I’ve taken the opportunity, while limited to my balcony, of refining a new ultra-portable imaging rig for Astro Imaging.
Not unlike my hifi, there’s a Raspberry Pi at the core, controlling everything via bluetooth to my phone.
The telescope has been confined to storage until I have a permanent, garden-based observatory. In the meantime, I have a slick new rig that’s even colour coordinated. [emoji13]
I have used this opportunity (not helped by having a slipped disc) to refine the setup using 3 great photographic lenses to cover everything that the telescope can’t in terms of wide-field imaging.
A Samyang 14mm for ultra widefield
A Canon ‘nifty fifty’ 50mm f1.8 for widefield
And the star of the show, the ultra sharp Samyang 135mm f2 for large deep space objects like Orion Nebula, Andromeda Galaxy and Cygnus area.
Still getting to grips with all of this but here’s some shots I’ve been taking while I’ve been quiet on the forum...
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The new rig with Samyang 135mm and custom built fine focus.
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Heart & Soul Nebula
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The Andromeda Galaxy
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The Veil Nebula Complex
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The North America Nebula
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The Sadr region of constellation Cygnus
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New Rig for Astro Imaging
This setup is not ideal for galaxies but this old Skywatcher 80ED punches well above it’s weight.
Bought this just before the real mass production started, the quality assurance did a good job, I still use this scope twenty years later.
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M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy
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M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula
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The Sunflower Galaxy
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The Sombrero Galaxy
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M13 - The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
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The Needle Galaxy
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Thor’s Helmet Nebula
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M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy
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New Rig for Astro Imaging
I forgot a few of my faves…
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The Crescent Nebula
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The Leo Triplet (or the Hamburger and Two Spirals) [emoji4]
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Markarian’s Chain (part of the Virgo Cluster)
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