Meade telescope into hi-res Schmidt astro-camera

[TheGreenOpossum]

have you ever tried doing photometry? I am an italian college student; at our school there is a telescope and we often make photometry of the star CY-Aquarii. Our data is inspected by "Christiaan Sterken" a senior astronomer from brussels-university

[itsRichard323]

i need telescope like this

iwanna see if i can see a ufo lol

[111nuthead]

Great short vid ! Excellent photos. Thank U for sharing your knowledge and results !!

[sod6t9]

Nice informative video.....

[IIXCygnusXII]

It's actually Mizar and Alcor near the end, not Mirar :). Nice video !!!

[nytecam]

@IIXCygnusXII Thanks and yes - sorry for the typo which I noticed as soon as posted but it took over a year for it to be spotted - well done;-)

[IIXCygnusXII]

@nytecam

No problems! Like your vids and posts on Cloudy nights!

Cheers,

-Markus

[airbus001]

What CCD is that(Starlogics Express Loadstar? sorry can not hear you clearly)? please let me know Thanks

[nytecam]

@airbus001 google Starlight Xpress Lodestar CCD camera

[airbus001]

@nytecam Thank You nytecam.

[101mercenary]

i bought a different meade telescope at a garage sale and i dont know how to use it. when i look into it it is black so do i take part of the end off or can you tell me what i need to be able to actually see through it.

[nytecam]

@101mercenary can't tell from your description - suggest you take it to a local astro-club or museum for advise or check out basic telescopes from a book in your local library good luck;-)

[Simmonique]

Really awesome! You're a real Mc Giver :-)

[Thejirka64]

Perfekt ! Good luck !

[MonsterLopes]

Beautiful pictures.

I'm new to astrophotography- how long was the exposure for some of those shots?

[nytecam]

As quoted in my commentary, individual exposures kept brief eg 5s-10s due to scope tracking errors but auto aligned and stacked by software to gross exposures of 1m-2m, as stated, for the sample pics as shown - hope that helps!

[MonsterLopes]

Yes it does, thanks.

[doway1609]

@nytecam

I have a DS2090 with a 497 controller NOT the 494, so if i get a CCD camera i can still use it 5s-10s exposures and stack them? That ALL i want out of it for now, since i do not want to burn more money getting a expensive and cumbersome equatorial mount and other accessories. I'm more in the visual and getting Orion's XT8 so more serious photography is not my interest FOR NOW. Thanks!

[nytecam]

@doway1609 Hi- I too have a DS2090 refractor so give it a go - moon shots etc will be good with just a digital cam held to the eyepiece!

For deepsky stuff longer 5s-10s sub exposures stacked [in freeware DeepSky Stacker] should work with say a s/h Meade CCD cam but suggest a f/5 focal reducer lens immediately before the cam will do three things 1]minimise track error on the DS2090 drive ;2] cover a larger piece of sky and 3] make the scope 'faster' - hope that helps and good luck;-)

[doway1609]

@nytecam

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[eee21basketball]

i forgot to say i will be using this telescope for visual us and with a planetary imager

[eee21basketball]

i have the similar meade ds2130

i want to take out the lens in the focusor like you did because it has given me problems and to reduce the focal ratio. If i do this will the telescope still focus correctly and work the same (besides the reduced magnification)?

[nytecam]

Hi -best to use the scope unmodified - it won't focus an eyepeice with the 'corrector' removed. My mod specially designed just for camera use. Good luck with your observations;-)

[Awesomo12000]

Hi, I have a Meade ETX-90EC what would you recommend for a stronger telescope?

[nytecam]

With your 90mm CAT you perhaps need more aperture so I'd suggest an 8-inch Meade or Celestron SCT.

[JonNebula11]

that looks great

[Petethewhale]

was this really a ds 2114? that's the same one I have but I never get to see those kinds of things. all I get to see is saturn (really small), the moon, etc. no clusters or galaxies

[nytecam]

Hi Pete - probably a similar scope. Mine experimented upon [with my long interest in telescope making] and only works with the special CCD camera shown - no visual use possible. Galaxies and other faint stuff are a disappointment even in very large amateur telescopes and appear as faint smudges hence my use of cameras in long exposures to 'see' them. Hope that clarifies;-)

[bakas21]

so small!!

[nytecam]

size isn't everything - it's the results that count ;-o

[nytecam]

Hi-focal length is 450mm so quite 'short' !

[pornpras]

what is its focal length?