Well done Mary! I am using a Meade LX 65 8 inch for astrophotography and visual. As long as I am careful and use relatively short exposures, I can get decent results on the brighter deep sky images. Still, saving for an Equatorial!
We have done lots of imaging using our 10" Dobsonian telescope and recently I have loved playing with my little Sky Watcher GTi which is phenomenal! It's quicker to set up than the EQ5 we have on a permanent pier!
Excellent video Mary. I've just bought a Skywatcher AZ GTi mount mounted on a Star Adventurer Mount with equatorial software 🙂 Just waiting on cear skies to get out and use it now
Hi there, I used Stellarium the free planetarium app. In the viewing options window you can turn on Alt-At gridlines, EQ gridlines or even both if you want to. There's a load of other viewing options in there too so it's a really helpful bit of software for stuff like this
I agree, but not everybody has the budget for an equatorial mount, or like me, may not be able to carry the weight of one. I'm lucky to have an observatory and a second permanent pier which both have equatorial mounts on them, but if I'm doing anything grab and go, my little Alt-Az mount is brilliant. We've also done a lot of successful imaging with our 10" Dobsonian which is also Alt-Az. It has tracking motors and GoTo and it works really well
Well done Mary! I am using a Meade LX 65 8 inch for astrophotography and visual. As long as I am careful and use relatively short exposures, I can get decent results on the brighter deep sky images. Still, saving for an Equatorial!
We have done lots of imaging using our 10" Dobsonian telescope and recently I have loved playing with my little Sky Watcher GTi which is phenomenal! It's quicker to set up than the EQ5 we have on a permanent pier!
Excellent video Mary. I've just bought a Skywatcher AZ GTi mount mounted on a Star Adventurer Mount with equatorial software 🙂 Just waiting on cear skies to get out and use it now
Sorry, you've mounted a mount on top of another mount?
What sofware did you use for getting the grid lines for Alt-Az?
Hi there, I used Stellarium the free planetarium app. In the viewing options window you can turn on Alt-At gridlines, EQ gridlines or even both if you want to. There's a load of other viewing options in there too so it's a really helpful bit of software for stuff like this
Thanks, very helpful....
I never use alt -az... it doesn't relate to the stars..
I agree, but not everybody has the budget for an equatorial mount, or like me, may not be able to carry the weight of one. I'm lucky to have an observatory and a second permanent pier which both have equatorial mounts on them, but if I'm doing anything grab and go, my little Alt-Az mount is brilliant. We've also done a lot of successful imaging with our 10" Dobsonian which is also Alt-Az. It has tracking motors and GoTo and it works really well