Introduction to the group » Hello everyone, from cloudy Cornwall

Hello everyone, from cloudy Cornwall

in Introduction to the group Sat Jan 22, 2011 8:34 pm
by DavidBillington (deleted)

Hi Everyone,
I live in Cornwall, work in Exeter a couple of days per week and visit NLO when I can & joined up at SW Astro fair last year.
Mainly a visual observer, but recently got into imaging with a minitron video camera.

Nice videos of the moon and planets, and has an integration function that stacks up to 256 frames
to give higher sensitivity. Can get decent images of deep sky obkjects , but just in the early steep bit of the learning curve.

Clear skies everyone

Equipment
Orion 12" dobsonian intelliscope
GSO 10" newtonian on home built Dobsobian mount
Both on Equatorial Platforms that I built myself
Loads of eyepieces
Bino viewer
Minitron video camera
Canon DSLR
Huge binoculars, etc

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RE: Hello everyone, from cloudy Cornwall

in Introduction to the group Sat Jan 22, 2011 8:41 pm
by Dave • 3.243 Posts

Hi David

Welcome to the forum

Dave

CALL SIGN - M6OCO

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RE: Hello everyone, from cloudy Cornwall

in Introduction to the group Sun Jan 23, 2011 11:16 am
by revandBellman • 5.134 Posts

Hi David
Nice to meet you. great first image of Orion.
Kate

NEQ6 mount, C6 telescope with skywatcher guide scope for moving around with Starlight SXVR H9 main camera and SX auto guider.
Celestron C9.25 and WOZ 72 in dome with atik 460 camera and a Co-star for guiding with alpy for spectroscopy.
MCT5 with SE mount and SXVR MX 916 camera and star analyser for spectroscopy

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RE: Hello everyone, from cloudy Cornwall

in Introduction to the group Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:16 pm
by WhirlpoolRob • 869 Posts

hi Dave
nice scope and pic
rob

A few bits and bobs!!
2E0UJM

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RE: Hello everyone, from cloudy Cornwall

in Introduction to the group Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:28 am
by deepskysteve • 6.575 Posts

Hi David, welcome to our little place saw your dob on friday very nice scope hope to see you again soon.

Steve

Celestron CG5 Goto with C6 & William optics Z66. Williams ZS70, (Meade DSIPro2 Mono Skycam), Lifecam HD webcamera, Watec 902H, SPC900 webcam, Logitec Pro 4000 webcam, Atik 314L+ Nextimage 5 camera, IFLY4 Quadcopter, H.A.L scratch built Quadcopter GPS full autonomous machine.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deepskysteve/with/9135237742/

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RE: Hello everyone, from cloudy Cornwall

in Introduction to the group Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:41 am
by Ron • 323 Posts

Hi David. Saw your pic of the Dob and thought I recognised the background. Then read your resume. I have friends in St Agnes in Wheal Friendly Lane. Anyway welcome to the NLO and AISW.
Ron

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RE: Hello everyone, from cloudy Cornwall

in Introduction to the group Sun Jan 30, 2011 12:42 pm
by DavidBillington (deleted)

[widget=b] Hi Kate,
take a look at The Milky Way image I posted last night.
Nice clear night here in Cornwall
David

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RE: Hello everyone, from cloudy Cornwall

in Introduction to the group Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:58 pm
by revandBellman • 5.134 Posts

Looks really great, must be a wonderful place to view from.
Kate

NEQ6 mount, C6 telescope with skywatcher guide scope for moving around with Starlight SXVR H9 main camera and SX auto guider.
Celestron C9.25 and WOZ 72 in dome with atik 460 camera and a Co-star for guiding with alpy for spectroscopy.
MCT5 with SE mount and SXVR MX 916 camera and star analyser for spectroscopy

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RE: Hello everyone, from cloudy Cornwall

in Introduction to the group Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:08 pm
by deepskysteve • 6.575 Posts

Hi David a really good image you have taken, when you upload photos, just put a note in What's new to announce your uploads so we know.

Steve

Celestron CG5 Goto with C6 & William optics Z66. Williams ZS70, (Meade DSIPro2 Mono Skycam), Lifecam HD webcamera, Watec 902H, SPC900 webcam, Logitec Pro 4000 webcam, Atik 314L+ Nextimage 5 camera, IFLY4 Quadcopter, H.A.L scratch built Quadcopter GPS full autonomous machine.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deepskysteve/with/9135237742/

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