First Light Meade LX90

[Rocket Pooch]

Quick shot taken last night with light cloud cover.

[JohnP]

Chris,

That looks really promising - Lots of colour & contrast is great - It looks like focus was spot on. It'll be great when seeing is better & you use a X2 or X3.

John

[Rocket Pooch]

3x?  I think it would just fit on the CCD and I mean just.....

[spendrey]

That's a great photo Chris, well done.

[JohnP]

Chris,

To get technical.... (which is quite hard for me) - According to a CCD calculator prog I have a Philips Toucam (I guess Vesta is same) should yield a FOV of 1.6 X 2.1 arcmins (96 arcsecs X 126 arcs) with a X3 barlow on a 8-inch SCT F10. Jupiter is only about 43arcsecs  in diameter so there should be loads of 'black space left'... In fact I've just check & a X5 barlow will give a 54 arcsecs X 78 arcsecs FOV. Perhaps you should order up a powermate for that 1 night every 5 years when the seeing would be good to use it

Cheers,  John

[Rocket Pooch]

Ok so there's probably room for a larger barlow, but I'll stick to the £39 TAL for now.

[spendrey]

Hi Chris, if possible and whenever you get time, would you be able to mail me one of the unprocessed raw images from the 350 that you stacked so that I can see what I should be aiming for myself?

[Rocket Pooch]

I think I've deleted that one, oops, but I have others what are you after, as in size, and where should I e-mail it to?

I assume you want it zipped?

[JohnP]

I don't know if it's of any help but I have a short animated Gif of Saturn on my webpage showing what the raws look like on my laptop during capture (These raws came from my best Saturn todate) - It may help you when you try for Saturn (not long left though. You can access my webpage from the homepage buton at the bottom & then go to Images/Saturn.

Cheers, John.

PS - Where in Bromley do you live & what's your first name - You can send me a private email if you prefer (link via webpage)

[Mike]

LX90 !! LX90 ???!!!! When did you get that???

[Rocket Pooch]

Like the post Mike, its my birthday present to me

It's so nice I'll call it "A Lady"......

[Rocket Pooch]

Stephen,

I've e-mailed you seven frames from a Jupiter session.

Have fun.

[spendrey]

Thanks very much Chris, I checked my home mail account before I went to bed last night but looking at the time you made that post last night you were up later than me so I must have just missed them! I'll take a look tonight.
How did the meeting go last night? It's quite gutting that the meetings are on Thursdays and the observing evenings are on Tuesdays as I can't make either of these nights. I might be able to get along to some of the observing evenings in the summer hopefully though when they start a bit later.

John, in answer to your question my first name is Simon (even though Chris prefers to call me Stephen for some reason!) and I live in Siward road which Chris tells me is not too far from you?
I'll check out the Saturn images on your site.

[Mike]

Simon,

We have an observing session on Monday for a change. Why not come along to that one??

[Rocket Pooch]

From now on you will be called "Simon of Bromley" who is called "Simon"!

Welcome to the club brother, right Reg put his name in the book

Sorry Stephen.