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[svtdoug]

Jerry,

I would suggest posting in the "AP images taken with the original NexStar" - link above. When you get your GEM and post images, then you can use the Graduate forum - above. No problem, just will keep things in order.

Cheers,
Doug

[biglittlewolf]

Hi there ! I am new on this site so I don,t know really how everything works...but I have a celestron nexstar 8SE and a heavy duty celestron wedge. I have been doing some pictures of the sun,the moon,and planets.Now I want to upgrade to deepsky.
I didn't use the wedge so far ,and I don't know if I should keep it,and buy myself a Canon 500D,or sell it and buy a starizona lens and a orion starshoot G3 ???
can anyone help me ?

[Midnight Dan]

Hi there ! I am new on this site so I don,t know really how everything works...but I have a celestron nexstar 8SE and a heavy duty celestron wedge. I have been doing some pictures of the sun,the moon,and planets.Now I want to upgrade to deepsky.
I didn't use the wedge so far ,and I don't know if I should keep it,and buy myself a Canon 500D,or sell it and buy a starizona lens and a orion starshoot G3 ???
can anyone help me ?

Hi biglittlewolf:

Welcome to our corner of Cloudy Nights! This thread has been around a while, gotten very long, and has been more or less abandoned in favor of a new one on this topic.

To get the most attention to your question, I'd suggest starting a new thread. Go to the main page for this forum:
http://www.cloudynig...0/Board/nexstar

... and click on the Post button near the top to start a new thread with your question.

-Dan

[Maverick199]

Took this with C6 and FR/FF. Too much vignetting and I had to crop a lot. The M 46 nebula popped out okay though surrounding stars look too bloated. Anyway, posting here for your comments.

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[svtdoug]

Hi Maverick,

This older thread has been sort of retired - as Alex has created two newer threads, one for original Nexstar equipment LINK,
and another for using additional non-Nexstar GEM mounts and/or OTA's - LINK.

I realize you probably thought this was it, as it had been brought to the top from many pages and days ago...

Moderator Maybe Rick could close this thread to new posts, but keep it as read only??

Thanks!

Doug

[Maverick199]

Thanks Doug. I did indeed realized this and posted on the newer thread. Though sometimes it gets confusing and I agree with you maybe Rick could close this thread.

[Midnight Dan]

... maybe Rick could close this thread.

Good Idea!

-Dan

[Skip]

+ 1 for locking this behemoth. Good stuff on it and good to be able to review it once in awhile. But getting too big to use for posting.

[MadSci]

How do you manage the alignment of so many sub-frames? I've found Nebulosity is not much use, primarily since field rotation takes things off to the side and you have to re-align to the target and it just can't find the correct star if it moves more than a whisker between frames. This is the primary problem I have as it just takes so much time to manually align everything by hand.

[Atl]

M104 This is a black and white video 128 sens up stacked from a Nexstar 6se. Forgive the tailed stars as I was in 30 mph wind.

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[Atl]

Same scope and conditions. M82.

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[Atl]

Same as above. Whirlpool galaxy.

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[Atl]

Same setup as the others...SE6, video camera, stacked frames.

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[Amith]

Hey Everyone.

This is just my little attempt at DSO's with a DSLR camera. There are more images on the link below.

http://www.flickr.co.../in/photostream

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[eros312]

Here's an image I took of Saturn tonight with a 70mm refractor working at f/15. Camera used was a NexImage5.

15fps for 4 minutes
Stacked about 1360 frames in Registax6
wavelets applied

Is it OK to post this here? I know it's not a NexStar scope, but it IS a Celestron camera. I usually post in the Solar System Imaging & Processing forum.

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