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March 6, 2017 04:56 AM Forum: Digital SLR AstroPhotography

Occultation of Aldebaran by the Moon

Posted By Joseph Babendreier

Very good shot, Eric!

Never seen an image like that one.

Joe

April 28, 2017 12:31 PM Forum: Digital SLR AstroPhotography

Fox Fur Nebula

Posted By Joseph Babendreier

Liked your images. They came out nicely.

Joe

May 18, 2017 02:44 PM Forum: Beginning Astronomy?

Starting over - Telescope and Astrophotography - E

Posted By Joseph Babendreier

I'm really pissed off. I just spent 30 minutes typing a lot advice for you. Now I remember why I no longer use Astromart for this stuff.

Astromart took my long message to you and trashed it saying: "You must be logged on to send a messasge."

I was logged on. But AM logged me off automatically while I was busy typing.

My first piece of advice is to ask for advice from people in some other website -- there are lots of them and they are FREE and they won't trash your message. Use Astromart strictly for the classifieds and auctions.

Sorry, but I am really ticked at AM. I never understood why they don't fix this problem. It's been around for years.

Joe

June 15, 2017 01:12 PM Forum: ASTRONOMY

EP Problem

Posted By Joseph Babendreier

Not sure what you mean by adjusting the primary. AFAIK, the mirror cell is fixed at the end of the OTA -- unless you changed that.

Anyway, if you can find some spot where you get focus -- as you seem to indicate -- then it should work with the extension tube. Not sure why that did not work. You sound like it's just a question of an inch or two from the full racked out position:

>>I could get the EP to focus if I pulled it slightly out of the fully racked-out focuser<<

For sure there is some position in which you will get focus.

Joe

June 15, 2017 01:18 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky