Posts Made By: Nathan Lidia

Hey y'all. I have a UO 25mm ortho that I use in a Meade 395 90mm. I like the views of M42 and star clusters, which is about all I know how to find, but when I use my bottom of the line Meade barlow on planets I get poor images. Saturn is pretty good at 2x but at 3x in front of the diagonal it gets kind of fuzzy. And Jupiter just won't get a good focus. I can see the 2 bands of clouds in the middle and can sometimes make out the polar caps, or what ever you call them. But it's quite blurry too. I would think my scope would hold better than 120x on Jupiter or Saturn. I was thinking of getting a better high power eyepiece or two and do away with the barlow but i was wondering if the UO 25 should hold up a lot better if I had a better quality barlow. I was reading another post where a guy was looking at barlows and I read a lot of recommendations. I was wondering if I should just invest in a barlow such as a TeleVue or similar quality and maybe 2 more eyepieces for a wider range. I just don't want to buy a higher powered eyepiece and be disappointed nor do I want to buy a better barlow and get the same results. My gosh I didn't realize I was rambling this much. Please advise. Thank in advance guy/gals.

Nate

Hello all. Early this morning at about 4:45 I was looking through someone's 14.5 Starmaster at M42 and a satellite or something came right through M42. I told my friends about it and they were looking but they couldn't see it with there eyes. I wanted to try to let my friend take a look but I don't think there was anyway I could have kept track of it and us swapped places at the same time. It was going to fast. It came from NE and was headed SE. I was in north Louisiana when I saw it. If there is any way someone could help me figure out what this was I would really appreciate it. Thank you much for reading.

Nate

Is there any tricks to fix a bubble level to a SkyView Pro with tube legs or do I just need to use torpedo levels or something. The CG5 I had before had a bubble level on it and this SVP don't even have room to put one. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Nate

Hey there everybody. I recently bought a 20D from here and would like to know what a good scope to use for birding would be. I just read a little about the Orion 80ED and Nikon D50 that had some really nice sample shots for us. I have a Meade 90mm f/11.25 that did a lot better that I though but abything white would have that really bad blue and purple glow to them. If anyone has use a 100mm TV I would like to know about that too. But lets start with the Orion class. The attached is from the 90mm f/11.25 scope. I had to do some Photoshop to clean it up a little and bring out some colors.
Any and all input would be great! Thanks in advance.

Nate
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Hey guys. I wanted to show my first long exposure ever. I recently purchased a 20D setup from here and used my SVP with dual drives. I don't know how good of an alignment I got but it was quick. This is a 135 second exposure at ISO 400 with and 300mm. A cheap 70-300 from by Promaster. Anybody got any tips for using this setup? I want to try to get another scope as a guider and do a prime focus with my Meade 90mm. I know it won't do very good photos but I'll give it all I got. Thanks in advance.

My wife and I went walking this morning and there was a very bright object in the eastern sky. My guess would say Venus but I thought Venus was out in the late evening/early night. Is Venus out in the night and the morning or was that something else? Thanks in advance.

Nathan