Telescopes

[weathergirl]

Here is a pic of me with my telescopes!



The gold is the coronado solar personal telescope, meade etx 90 ec GOTO and the white one is a skywatcher 10" Dobsonian.

[Beryl]

Wow. That's a telescope Very nice
I have one , motorised and computerised not that big though, I can use it manualy too. I was taking photos of the moon this morning but it was to faint, so I gave up, really need a bright blue sky.

[Ambriel]

Smashing big mirror scope you've got there. I'd love one but alas kids need new shoes, bike needs new tyres, etc, etc...

[chunkychambers]

Hello WG...... and welcome to WAB.
That is impressive kit, can you see me if I wave??

Paul

[glsammy]

That's some excellent telescopic equipment you've got there!
One of my biggest regrets is that where I live I've hardly any decent sky to see, being so close to a major city. If I'd live anywhere with a decent amount of sky view, I'd have a 'scope.

[FungiJohn]

Yes, some fine kit. It takes me back to my time of grinding, polishing and silvering blank 8" glasses. Still it was cheap and effective.

And welcome to WAB btw

John

[John]

First of all let me extend a warm welcome to WAB from me.

That is some serious piece of kit. I hope you take some impressive photos through it. If so then we have a Gallery that would benefit no end if you were to include those images.

John

[pekster]

Ahh another fellow astronomer , great selection of scopes you have there WG Great to see some of your images too in the Gallery.

Richard

[nightshade]

Originally Posted by FungiJohn

Yes, some fine kit. It takes me back to my time of grinding, polishing and silvering blank 8" glasses. Still it was cheap and effective.

And welcome to WAB btw

John

I can remember HWEnglish and the telescope kits,lapping glass blanks for lenses
that kept me off the streeets!
How to use Lenses and Mirrors, HW English

[Beryl]

Here are my telescopes
My granddaughter is staying for the week-end so I have had to move them out of my observatory (back room)
Bit smaller than weathergirls but ok to see Jupiter and its moons also Saturn.
Best I can afford.

[Barbara]

Nice telescopes you have there Beryl. Is the smaller one a refractor? I still have a telescope in the loft. Greg had a 10" Meade LX 200. We used to spend many an evening and early hours in the garden. I enjoyed star hopping the best. We were members of an astonomy club about three years ago. and some of the members used to call and set up their scopes up in our garden on a Saturday night and I used to make them all bacon butties.

[Beryl]

Thanks.
Yep. the smaller one is a refractor and the big one a 6" . I alsohave bin 20 X 50 . Can see Jupiter and it's moos through them If I can hold them still.
I find it intersting , I made a small video of the moon though the refractor just before Christmas.

[netrules]

There's some nice telescopes shown here!

On the topic of telescopes, i'm looking to get into the area of astro-photography but this is a completely new area for me, new venture for 2007 and all that! So i'm looking for a few views from the experts on what I should be looking for.

I've found Optical Vision have a dobsonian 8" Skyliner model which i've found the details for here
Telescopes / Enthusiastic Amateur Reflector Telescopes - Skyliner-200 (8") f/1200 Parabolic Dobsonian Telescope which jumped out at me as it details having a direct SLR camera connection.

As this would be my first telescope I can't really justify spending more that £300 unless there's good reason to.

Does anyone have any experience with astro-photography? My background currently
is in photography rather than telescopes so this is a new area that i'm progressing into.

If anyone has any recommendations on telescopes, and indeed any pit-falls to avoid in this area i'd welcome the feedback.

Many thanks!