Cursed setups

[cosmic basin]

[wicked sequoia]

Tune in some curse

[sullen sonnet]

Here you go

[keen breach]

Non-charging Lenovo Thinkpad... for when you only want to do 1, maybe 2 hours of imaging in a night

[remote solar]

1-2 hours can be fine; it's the bucket that really takes it.

[forest rivet]

Nah for me it's that the computer is running XP that sent me. 💀

[pale estuary]

I found someones roll there own MS version once, Kinda wish I didn't wipe the drive :/

[remote solar]

Forgot that. Okay, XP takes it, then the bucket. XP for the high security risk from lack of updates.

[slim tree]

Setup from a friend

He said it was "Dicipate the clouds " 💀😂

[pale estuary]

didn't expect to enter literally cursed rigs

[empty drift]

erm

why is the redcat so small

????????

[loud topaz]

It's the cover for it

On a 18-55mm lens

[quartz fiber]

Lmao

I wanna say a 5-letter word that perfectly describes it, but I won't

btw here's Memeboi's rig, my rig, and my visual setup 💀

It works but takes practice

yesss real

[tulip fable]

This is: The Vee

[quartz fiber]

nice

[cosmic basin]

Big L

[tulip fable]

If I get a bit of sun Imma test that

It's in AZ mode again

so no real PA needed anymore

boom

grab grab set set and shoot shoot

[empty wedge]

@harsh veldt hey I am purvanshu you remember me?

[harsh veldt]

Yes

[copper heath]

rejoined

[spark sorrel]

What happened

[copper heath]

i got kicked for saying "pir***"

[spark sorrel]

Pirate?

Wait DMs

[amber kelp]

And hes gone

But why can no one say that?

Anyway

Rip

[slate nimbus]

that’s actually crazy bro

forbidden word

[glass gate]

What happened for it to become forbidden pls

[half wadi]

no its not he left

he didnt get banned.

[half wadi]

no

[amber kelp]

Ok

[rare bolt]

i have a 114 new without a mount and i used it as if it were a bazooka (arm mounted)

[quartz fiber]

same

[wheat musk]

Not a cursed setup but this is what happens when you don’t have a heater for your rig

[cosmic basin]

Good luck dude. That is NASTY.

[remote solar]

I'm not sure what the issue is ... frost on outside no issue?

[empty drift]

Lmao

Frozen newt gang

[wheat musk]

its also on the lense

[remote solar]

I agree, that would need an issue

[quartz fiber]

what why

[cloud jetty]

Dip it in paint (pls don't)

[wicked sequoia]

So cold I live near equator so its ok for me

[astral ginkgo]

Why can't I send images?

Weird

[quartz fiber]

real

[empty drift]

Check your latest DM

Discord has a bug where it sends images you tried to send in a server to the last person you DM'd

[tulip fable]

Invisible scope.

[bright moat]

insane

[tulip fable]

can't collimate it - I cannot see it

https://tenor.com/view/say-what-dunno-shrug-john-krasinski-idk-gif-16557956

[remote solar]

But, since it's invisible, it's already perfectly collimated.

[slim tree]

[quartz fiber]

It just looks like a silly goose

[wicked sequoia]

How does it work

It's like goto though when you attach your phone in the phone adaptor and use stellarium

[rare bolt]

are you using the phone for guiding??????

[keen breach]

It's not a stupid idea if it works!

[rare bolt]

no!

i wanna try that

[slim tree]

No

but, maybe works

[rare bolt]

i have a terrible feeling about this

did you manage to connect your phone to an ascom driver?

[slim tree]

Just use webcam-phone camera app

[keen breach]

Yeah, just search "PHD2 iphone emulator app"

[rare bolt]

really

[rare bolt]

how did i not think of that

[keen breach]

Yes, that's exactly what this channel is for - serious advice

[rare bolt]

and can you do live stacking with that?

[slim tree]

Yep, But I would. The software I use to transmit the cell phone camera as a webcam supports at least 15 fps. So it's a very low exposure time per frame.

I only use this app to collimate the telescope with my cell phone

[dark thunder]

i think you should get a better mount because i dont think that mount can lift that massive scope, i would recommend micron 10 or something better

[snow ravine]

Don’t have a counter weight light enough so had to improvise…

[hollow kiln]

Surely this isn't cursed

[karmic barn]

The mount

[tulip fable]

EXOS

Is it the exos 2 pmc8?

[karmic barn]

Yes

[tulip fable]

Happy with the mount? I was not so - had real trouble with the software. For example with sharpcap...

[karmic barn]

I have trouble with backlash. I have to tune it once every month atleast and dismantle and service in 2-3 months. It guides well when tuned properly. I haven't used it with Sharpcap (goto) just PA. Have not faced any software issues in NINA. Just the wifi was alot of trouble so i switched to serial.

So, not happy 😔

I am using a diy dew heater mounted on the RA axis housing to heat up and further improve guiding. It has helped my when i was using a generic grease that was super thick. I just serviced it with superlube. Much better now

[snow ravine]

I mean it works

[hollow kiln]

Compared to other stuff, your setup is probably the least cursed I've seen in this thread

[snow ravine]

True

[tulip fable]

That's an interesting approach lol
Well yes it had trouble with NINA at the very start but after some updates on NINA's side it now is ok.
Sharpcap though is another thing. It has to do with . and , being used for decimals. SO Sharpcap needs , (if I remember correctly) but ASCOM values of mount are separated with . and then it goes brrrrr
It also works ok with asiair if I reprogram the EQ Mod cable.
All in all I think the mount is ok-ish but as I was having so many troubles on the software side (also wonky wifi as you said) I just bought an EQ6R afterwards - and now the exos is kinda gathering dust :/

[quartz fiber]

Shouldve seen my 8HD on my 4se mount

[little flare]

Guys

Wouldn't it be cool to have a newtonian with dobson-flextube like OTA?

[tulip fable]

You could say that the Heritage series is exactly that.

[little flare]

Yeah sorry I meant with an eq mount

[tulip fable]

Well - I got a heritage. It could go on an eq - but the focuser is practically shite. And then you still left with the flextube's opening which will cause light leakage - ofc you could shroud it though.

[little flare]

Yeah, it would be pretty cursed

[copper heath]

Speed tape for faster tracking

[prime marlin]

kson?

[rough summit]

Yes

[tulip fable]

I am the Curse Curator

[vital pivot]

i hope you have house insurance

[empty drift]

i didnt know they made black cams?

[tulip fable]

who?

It's a Touptek that's rebranded. That's all.

[dark thunder]

man what the hell

[glossy zodiac]

mallincam ?

[proper dock]

🥶

[tulip fable]

mallincam? Not sure what you mean there 😅

[tulip fable]

that's not cursed but cool - actually what is the box though?

[proper dock]

Thats my diy battery that I mainly use for field charging fpv drone batteries but it works for astro too😉

[tulip fable]

wow, nice 😄

Ah that's why LiPo - understood that now lol

[tulip fable]

how about that?

[bright moat]

Cursed

[copper heath]

This isn't cursed, it's cute

[cloud jetty]

is that a star tracker on the star tracker?

[tulip fable]

no. Where do you see two star trackers? It's an AZ Gti on a wedge.

but nice idea fo going mega cursed though ^^

[little flare]

The whole universe is held up only by this screw...

You have no idea how many times it randomly collapsed

[cloud jetty]

The other end of the green bracket looks like those mini star trackers

[tulip fable]

ohhh you mean the black box at the front beneath the dovetail?
That's a raspi with raspi camera 😄

[tulip fable]

that's cursed

[little flare]

Yep...

[quartz fiber]

Lego

[copper heath]

Fortnite

[trail kayak]

Dang I wasn't expecting that this channel that I created was going to get this far lmao

There are kinda alot of cursed setups

[tulip fable]

curse initatior came back

https://tenor.com/view/lord-of-the-rings-lotr-gif-18298389

[little flare]

The tracker

[trail kayak]

Yessir

[remote solar]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-wat-what-wtf-are-you-kidding-gif-13598412

[tulip fable]

How did you do attach it to the tripod? That's a thing I wanted to do as well mb.

It's been nicely cursed by you

[fading moss]

There's a 3/8 inch thread under the dobson mount which you can place it onto any 3/8 inch thread tripod such as the one shown in that pic.

[karmic barn]

Regarding the wonky wifi, you need to stay a couple of meters away to make it work. Took me a few months to realize this.

Then i switched to serial

[tulip fable]

I might sell it though.

I rarely use it anymore

[keen breach]

Not mine, FB: https://www.facebook.com/share/XsrNJYsakPgBdSEt/?mibextid=I6gGtw

[karmic barn]

I am also planning to get another mount. Probably the AM3

[tulip fable]

Ohhh ok. Curious why not AM5? In my opinion AM3 is not that far away from AM5 regarding the price but it's a hybrid, right?

Yeah a little harmonic would really nice imho lol

[karmic barn]

It's not a hybrid. AM3 is considerably cheaper and i really don't need that extra payload capacity. As of now, i hove no money 🤣

[hollow kiln]

https://tenor.com/view/mother-of-god-officer-super-troopers-of-god-gif-16007533

[keen breach]

In the immortal words of Dj Khalid: “Another one”. Not mine, FB, yadda yadda

[bright moat]

Yes

[keen breach]

NOOOOOO.

[bright moat]

interesting rig fr

[bright moat]

Askar lens

[cinder current]

Bring out the lobster

[crude nebula]

Baby newt

[empty drift]

At that angle I actually thought it was real for a second, thats a really well done build!

I approve

[tulip fable]

It is not cursed though.

But I also like

[empty drift]

@crude nebula use a lego motor and bring it to life #🤩-show-us-your-rig message

[crude nebula]

Apparently the 2 axis can move but I think i did something wrong and they cant move, but that could be doable tbh

[bright moat]

GIVE ME NOW

I LOVE IT

[dark thunder]

the most cursed setup is when it somehow has a guide scope bigger than the actual scope

[dark thunder]

☠️

[empty drift]

It's not bad

Tbh

It looks cursed but it still works well

[dark thunder]

ya but im talking about how it LOOKS

i mean you can literally mistake the guide scope for the actual scope

[tulip fable]

I remember that Skywatcher has done this with a big observatory scope and one of their Evostars EDs

lmao

You can have a look in their webcast videos on YT

(which actually provide for some nice general info too imho)

[little flare]

Should I screw it in??

[tulip fable]

https://tenor.com/view/ohno-smh-wrong-no-gif-20802904

[dark thunder]

[slate nimbus]

literally @slim tree

[slim tree]

✅

[marble eagle]

What settings?

[little flare]

Yoooo, that's from hell! (I was thinking to do something similar tbh)

[bright moat]

I can’t wait to be over mounted with a heq5 pro and a dslr and lens xD

[lime vale]

The chromatic abbreviation gone be crazy

[copper heath]

wasnt there someone here who made their mount out of lego?

[copper heath]

i remember

was it you

[little flare]

Hello

[copper heath]

how well does it work

[little flare]

I can get 10s exposures with no startrails

900

oh wow. ehat mount do you use?

what*

oh ok

[tight moon]

Aldi alternative to Telegizmos 365

[quartz fiber]

That's actually hella impressive

[glass gate]

Probably one of the most cursed setups.

[tight moon]

Put another camera on there

[ivory pivot]

wait whats taking the photo

[prime marlin]

My first astro setup

[tulip whale]

Just a phone on the ground, it did alright

[tulip fable]

this an artwork not a setup - go sell this and be rich

but you gotta give it a fancy name before

[glass gate]

fellow binocular user

[prime marlin]

Used to be at least

Now I got this big fella

[glass gate]

jk hopefully you’re getting good views with your scope

[prime marlin]

I will, for now I only got it tomorrow and I've had 100% cloud cover since

[trail kayak]

Sup, curse initatior came back

I'd share a pic of my cursed setup but I used my phone to take this photo lol

[thorn sigil]

Where are your flat frames, FRX?!

[trail kayak]

Nowhere I don't use flat frames (I'm trying to obtain the best photos only with single shots)

[merry crag]

found this on the internet

[copper heath]

Star adventuer holding on for dear fkn life

[lime vale]

Poor thing 😂

[merry crag]

Awful setup but I did get m101 with it

[twin violet]

Can adapter is crazy

[remote solar]

I want to see the image from this one.

[quartz fiber]

Neither PIPP, Autostakkert, nor Regi will accept the 2.4gb avi :(

[remote solar]

That's odd, I've processed larger files on my computer.

[quartz fiber]

somewhere around 100,000 frames

[remote solar]

Okay not that many frames. But file size twice as big

[quartz fiber]

lol

[remote solar]

It's not even the equipment .... it's that the DSLR is mounted to the tripod instead of the scope.

[pale estuary]

It really should be able to assuming you have memory for it to work with?

[tulip fable]

ig that's portable, convenient and stable

[lime vale]

A smart telescope on a harmonic drive mount?

In the name of all that is holy

That is horrifying

[paper flume]

I can't sleep now

[tulip fable]

maybe the fact that there is 1 pier made out of two lets you sleep better?

[paper flume]

nawwwww

[chilly mauve]

HAHAHA

[burnt parcel]

Gotta love the Root Beer counterweight.

[merry crag]

Do you reckon I can get an Astro camera to focus in this

[remote cradle]

maby a phone

[tulip fable]

a babyphone maybe

[remote solar]

Two thoughts.

• 1. I'm the guy who wants to set my 585 on a Celstron 70AZ so .. there's that.
• 2. I'd really hope that the toy does work as a telescope, even if cheaply. If you get that in the hands of a toddler, you might pique their interest from a young age.

[burnt parcel]

idk if this counts as cursed or not but it's a 4.5" tabletop dob and 120mc planetary cam, imaging Orion (untracked, 450mm fl) :)

[burnt parcel]

oof

I am gonna get a really good untracked Orion with it and enter it into the "weird setups" comp

bc it's a manual dob and planetary cam

I'm doing DSO with it, that's what makes it cursed

[patent oar]

What’s weird about that? You don’t necessarily need track for planetary, especially with 450 mm focal length

[burnt parcel]

@patent oar

[patent oar]

Ah yeah

Nevermind I’m blind

[burnt parcel]

it does well honestly

Orion pic is bad bc I didn't dither and no calibration frames so I'm gonna retry soon

[patent oar]

What are you going to image for the comp?

[burnt parcel]

probably Orion. I wanted to do horsehead but I don't think it's possible with 350ms exposures

[patent oar]

Yeah that would be difficult, you could try flame nebula tho

[tulip fable]

I agree with @quartz fiber - that's not cursed but cute and nice

[quartz fiber]

you dont need to dither alt-az

[merry crag]

You can make it cursed by becoming the mount. Hold it on your shoulder bazooka style and get Orion or something

[burnt parcel]

oh yes you do. I got horrible walking noise in my Orion image because I didn't dither

[burnt parcel]

Cursed setup. The pictures say enough

Idc what you say. The powerseeker 60az is cursed.

[lime vale]

The hot pixels on the second image are even more cursed

[burnt parcel]

idk how to keep my camera from doing that

[quartz fiber]

Is the walking noise circular?

Never heard of walking noise with altaz

[burnt parcel]

it's usually in straight lines because of the earth rotation moving the target in one direction off the screen

here is my m42 image stretched more so you can see the walking noise better

I took 100 images in a row before recentering (each exposure is 400ms so 100 takes only 40 seconds)

[quartz fiber]

But field rotation should eliminate most walking noise (or make it circular) especially in longer sessions

[burnt parcel]

maybe I just don't go long enough for that to happen

[still wasp]

makes me wanna buy a planetary cam (i have a 114/900 scope and it takes pics similar to yours)

[tight moon]

This just appeared on my facebook feed

[pearl hamlet]

The cosmic t-mobile would like to chime in

[chilly mauve]

wtf

[zealous island]

I used to use my Tripod legs to directly polar align my tracker

Upgraded by now though and added a 45° Wedge so I don't have to constantly roll around on the floor

[main tangle]

Rate my setup 🔥:
Nikon Coolpix 5200(older than me)
Random Monocular Telescope (older than me too)
And random deodorant box as the mount

Here's the photo I got last night

[jolly basalt]

Ngl better than I expected

[near token]

@tight moon this was on mine earlier.. I'm in a state of confusion and hysterics.

[empty drift]

wh

wh

wha

w

uh

i

wtf am i looking at

this is so ridiculous that i cant even comprehend it

[near token]

@empty drift my thoughts too.

[ivory pivot]

why

why would you do that

[remote solar]

Can't you tell? It's a computerized scope using a TS frac as a guide scope.

[quartz fiber]

how does this even work bro 😭

[quartz fiber]

or hopefully using computerized scope as a guidescope

[rare bolt]

not part of the setup but yesterday i was about to put the cap on my scope and found two moths happily inside my ota

[cosmic basin]

I'm sorry

What

[remote solar]

Where's the fun in that?

[merry crag]

Ultimate setup

[twin violet]

Or it’s a computerized scope acting as a goto mount for the frac

[empty drift]

You somehow made the SWSA look big

[merry crag]

Might try imaging with it one night just to see what I get

[copper heath]

should work well

not much payload weight

/s

[copper heath]

How has the Barlow not broken off

[little flare]

Idk tbh ahahah

I'm surely not gonna use this lol

Just a test

[ashen burrow]

ive reached a new peak of cursed

• scope mounted backwards
• mirror up around 2 inches
• custom 3d printed focuser based on the one that came with the scope because i still couldnt focus far enough in with the mirror being moved up while also being able to do visual
• currently set to the north pole
• questionably made eq wedge that i had to only use hand tools for
• camera lcd with a shorted out back panel due to the ribbon cable clip breaking during my attempts to astromod, with the cable currently held in place by paper wedged between the frame of the camera so when its closed it keeps the ribbon cable in place to where its touching just the right contacts to give a very dim and glitched looking screen

[copper heath]

[ashen burrow]

but idk if that also counts as weird enough for the comp, lol

[copper heath]

@median beacon cursed?

[ashen burrow]

forgot to add a point

and im not even trying to make a cursed setup. this is the only way i can do dso rn

[regal moth]

now I gotta see what type of images you can get from this hodgepodge of a setup

[ashen burrow]

36 minutes
not the best but i also wasnt able to get tppa to want to work so i sort of eyeballed it

im sure the scope can do better than just orion though. i just need to work on a few other things to really nail the allignment

[regal moth]

jesus christ 😭

[ashen burrow]

ive gotten the tppa error down to a few seconds before with this setup, but there is too much slop in my wedge for it to be accurate

[regal moth]

I genuinely wasnt expecting that level of detail

how much would you say the total cost is

[ashen burrow]

ah, yeah, i should say what im using, lol

the mount / scope is a sky prodigy 130, but the starsense dosent work so its in effect just an slt 130. bought it used for $300 but im sure you can find one used for cheaper
camera is a nikon d3100 (now without that pesky uv/ir cut filter). about $100 ish used
wedge was like $40 in metal and at least 50 hours of hacking away with a hand saw

the issues with this setup as as follows

the skyprodigy that I have is old. so old that i cant even get proper usb support and have to boot the hc in a bypass mode to get usb passthrough. celestron themselves told me that it wasnt possible to control the mount with a computer, but i guess that was wrong, lol
that said, it works fine as an altazmiuth, but because i cant upgrade the HC firmware, it lacks an eq mode.
The workaround is to make the scope think its at the north pole. its super simple and it just works.

now, as to why the scope is mounted backwards?
well, because of the angle of the wedge, i had now lost all of that sweet sweet sky below like 23 degrees. And since my deck only faces south, that was my only option. thankfully it dosent really care about being upside down

The camera is also jank. dosent support most usb control and was a pain to get working. only one program has the ability to control it and the ascom drivers required a lot of jank to get working that I have forgotten
thats also before i broke it, so now i have this great new "low power" mod because i killed the lcd back pannel.

oh, and since its a newtonian, and im using a dlsr, you bet i had to move that mirror up a few inches.
ofc i also wanted to still use it for visual, and that wasnt possible with the old focuser
so, i had to remodel the whole thing and shrink it down. ofc i only had a ruller to measure it, so it took me a while.

Oh, i also have the legs plastic welded together because the plastic snapped and i cant 3d print new parts past the ones ive already had to 3d print

and i think that about covers all the cursed stuff with it.

[ivory pivot]

what the hell

[regal moth]

💀

just when I thought my setup was jank

that camera alone scares me

[ashen burrow]

if you have suggestions to make it worse, im all ears

[regal moth]

amazon basics tripod

[ashen burrow]

im thinking ill just gut the whole camera and remove the mirror, because like, who cares about a mirror when your doing astro?

[regal moth]

you dont know jank until youve experienced the worst tripod known to man

[ashen burrow]

how about a tripod thats broken in about 5 spots and is only held together by plastic welding

[regal moth]

and you know what

its still better

than this abomination of fake metal

[ashen burrow]

lol

[regal moth]

it manages to wobble my SWSA with a phone on it with like 2 atoms colliding

[ashen burrow]

rip

[regal moth]

gotta get out more

its either too cloudy, cold, or windy rn

however I have made the genius decision to use a mak as my imaging telescope so I gotta figure out where to mount my 0.5x reducer

now that wouldn't be so bad if I didn't live in one of the most light polluted cities in the world and only had a red dot finder

[ashen burrow]

there are bortle 2 skies about an hour from me
i just need to get a battery bank
or well,actually

i can add to the cursed setup.

i salvaged a few hundred 18650's from old battery packs to make a large one for my ebike. so long as tsa dosent freak out i can bring that with me next time i visit home

[regal moth]

sheesh

I need a better understanding of equipment ngl

I dont even know where to correctly place a reducer rn so I'm in that transition phase between $50 500mm lens I picked up from a thift store to proper high mag and F ratio telescope

[sonic star]

My setup is eyes

[ivory pivot]

AAAAHHHHHH

[little flare]

I searched "professional scope" on amazon💀

[bright moat]

Ken would want that scope so badly if it had that much resolution for that price

@untold goblet

[remote solar]

Geebaz someone needs to re-calibrate their definition of "professional" ... and be sued for false advertising.

[sonic star]

I'm am glad that I didn't but this when I started

It's worse than eyes couse it will let beginners down

[still wasp]

It kinda is bad but I guess I got lucky

(through phone)

[regal moth]

dear god the aberration 😭

[still wasp]

will shooting in mono fix this?

[regal moth]

its worse than my cheap lens I picked up has better optics than this

eh

not really

the stars would just look hella bloated

[still wasp]

(i have another scope better than this one)

[crude nebula]

did u not shoot that with a phone?

[still wasp]

yes

ola has mono option

[crude nebula]

mono with a phone? 🤔

[still wasp]

(i can use a filter if needed)

[crude nebula]

well if what it does is just turn the image black and white it wont work

actually shooting mono means the sensor is completely different

[still wasp]

yeah

[crude nebula]

ive never heard of an actual mono phone camera

it probably just turns the image black and white

[regal moth]

thats sounds at best impractical

[still wasp]

i guess nobody would want their phone to only capture bandw

[fading plover]

i'm a little scared by this one

[tulip fable]

No. Don't shoot me.

[still wasp]

[bright moat]

Apod

[pearl hamlet]

Nah this one's not even useable it's just staged lol

[median beacon]

false advertising

[cinder current]

https://tenor.com/view/cap-doctor-meme-gif-23263243

[rare bolt]

"cool christmas astronomy gift for men" ☠️

[regal moth]

identical to a dwarf II

[teal rune]

I forgot my tripod

[copper heath]

My untracked amazon scope thing setup

[copper heath]

That singular thumb screw is holding my scope to the t ring

[patent oar]

Please don’t tell me that’s how you take flats

[copper heath]

YES IT IS

[patent oar]

It looks like it shouldn’t work

[patent oar]

How does the phone even cover the whole objective?

[copper heath]

my s20 is quite big

only a very little amount doesnt cover it but its fine

[patent oar]

Alright, still very cursed

I pray for your camera, it looks like it’s suffering to hold the scope up

[merry crag]

That is exactly how it’s done

[patent oar]

Well this isn’t a phone that doesn’t seem to cover te whole scope

[pearl hamlet]

I think the more cursed thing is that the T-shirt is 100% slightly red so your reds are hurting

Well, I'm unsure how much the color may get corrected tbh

[median beacon]

Yeah, lights, flats, bias, darks, blues, reds, greens

[pearl hamlet]

But the reds from the T-shirt will 100% be washed and then stain the white part of the T-shirt in a wash

[median beacon]

100%, flats wont remove the stain on the shirt

[pearl hamlet]

Lol not asking to remove the stains

But the diffuser may be applying a tint

Unsure to how much of an effect though

[median beacon]

na na

flats work better than a washing machine

[quartz fiber]

why do sky flats work, then?

Blue sky is bluer than my blue shirt

[tight moon]

I think it’s that if you’re going to be reworking the colour balance anyway, all you need is enough brightness in each channel so that the imperfections show up in the flat, and that the brightness is even across the entire field.

A bright red t-shirt might make the green and blue channels too dark for it to be useful, IDK

[rare bolt]

this is how i do it

[tulip fable]

sky flat is taken in dusk or dawn when no star to be seen

best pointed zenith

[quartz fiber]

alr so it doesn't matter the color

[still wasp]

why is the screen like that

[still wasp]

Kinda

I think the screen is supposed to go behind the lens not beside it

[copper heath]

thats normal

its a feature of some dslrs

ive got it as well, so you dont need to do weird neck geometry

[cinder current]

It’s a flip screen, it can go anywhere it wants

[still wasp]

ok

cool

[jolly basalt]

[merry crag]

it works though :^)

[copper heath]

no way that hasnt broken

[paper flume]

That's pretty sick tbf

[summer cedar]

I didnt have enough zoom for planetary on my 80mm refractor, so I stuck the finderscope in the scope and used a phone scope as finderscope

[little flare]

the fact that just the description of the rig is a tongue twister makes me understand instantly that it's gonna be cursed

[ivory pivot]

how do the optics even work in that

is that using a finderscope as an eyepiece??

[summer cedar]

I don't know but it works, it's actually on top of a 10mm eyepiece and it doesn't have the end part of it that sets up the focus of it so it's just the tube and the eyepiece on top of the eyepiece

[ivory pivot]

[twin violet]

This goes hard ngl

I gotta do more film astro once the nebulae come back

[rough summit]

dew shield over the lens ❌️
dew shield over the whole camera ✅️

[dark thunder]

[copper heath]

rejoining

[still wasp]

You got demoted?

[copper heath]

no i got banned

[still wasp]

Why

[rough summit]

💀

[coarse parrot]

New setup who dis

[snow ravine]

Photosynthesis. Best light collecting method. Competes with JWST

[coarse parrot]

Real

[steel girder]

I have posted it in ask a nerd but here's how I set up the guide gear

[tight moon]

Without wanting to cast shade… https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/907062-tripod-for-seestar/page-2#entry13341083

[rare bolt]

HUH?

[delicate mural]

my contraption

[quartz fiber]

Orbot ram

Robot arm

[copper heath]

are you taking flats?

[blissful totem]

nah this is supposed to be a "electronic microscope"
it will go in a glovebox so you can't use a eyepiece

[sacred pawn]

it's kinda hard to see but the binoculars are being held on by velcro straps

and string

[ivory pivot]

dear lord

[sacred pawn]

this too

[sacred pawn]

Oh and my phone was being held on by a mechanical pencil eraser

[orchid storm]

Rate my setup (it's just two lenses)

[finite parcel]

Cursed right from the shelf https://www.astroshop.eu/telescopes/skywatcher-telescope-n-130-650-explorer-130ps-az-gti-goto-wifi/p,55180

[copper heath]

imma be real
i wanted to do this once

[delicate mural]

Dont question the long dew shield

[delicate mural]

It does this. Pretty decent but i hate the mount so bad. Disconnects every 30 seconds while slewing and refuses to track completely.

[sonic star]

Portrait astrophotography

[sonic star]

This is why his grandfather is searching for his glasses

[umbral dawn]

Not questioning the dew shield. But if this is star discovery 150p I'm questioning the focuser. How in the hell does it not bend under the weight?

[delicate mural]

it does bend, quite a lot actually. So much that it just falls out of focus

[lime vale]

Now thats bad

[merry crag]

Gonna try it tonight

[merry crag]

[merry crag]

Well it works, just need to wait for the Milky Way core to come back and I’ll try some wide field

[little flare]

Thoughts on my new barlow?

[delicate mural]

[little flare]

Lmao

[delicate mural]

that thing should bend so much

imagine pointing it to the zenith

[cosmic basin]

Banana shaped imaging train

Revolutionary

[little flare]

Idk how it's possible but I can balance it

[cosmic basin]

X to doubt

[little flare]

X^-1

[little flare]

It doesn't do it too much

[delicate mural]

weird

[little flare]

I just tighten the screws a lot and it holds

[finite parcel]

I was planning to to put the ball head on the dec-bracket, but forgot to take with me the screw adapter so the end setup ended a bit cursed.

[blissful totem]

why is there tape behind the screen?

[finite parcel]

It is paint chips on the hidge mechanism of the screen.

[rough summit]

what camera are you using?

[finite parcel]

An unmodified Olympus E-PL5.

[copper heath]

How I'm countering field rotation.

[quartz fiber]

so true

[empty drift]

tracker

[copper heath]

...yea I really need one now

Can't keep doing this for long

My camara has a shutter count over 50k now

[ivory pivot]

i think giving a tracker to sword of the six sages would be like giving crack to medieval peasant

[remote solar]

All the more reason

https://tenor.com/view/do-it-get-to-work-gif-21630516

[copper heath]

I submit an image to skywatcher comp so I hope I at least win people's choice awards since I can get a swsa 2i

But I hope they forgot that I need a skywatcher ota/gear for it

[rough summit]

I used to do this

it works pretty well

[copper heath]

Defo

[cursive flare]

BRO PLEASE FIX THE TILT, SEND THE FOCUSER TO THE GYM PLEASE!

[delicate mural]

tilt is fine now

[cursive flare]

U sure?

[delicate mural]

focuser needs more than just a gym

[delicate mural]

Yea

[cursive flare]

It needs physical therapy😭🙏

[delicate mural]

exactly

[cursive flare]

Imma pray for ur focuser so it doesnt bend

But still great images

Just try fixing it

[delicate mural]

Im praying for my cem 25p to not fall apart

[cursive flare]

Why? Is something wrong about it

Surely it can fit ur scope and the dslr

[paper flume]

i looove field rotation

[copper heath]

We sure do

[empty drift]

This is #1087219932900638720

[odd hornet]

ffs

[odd hornet]

I'm brain dead thx

[charred solar]

mine has 77k

[cursive flare]

My future camera has 22k

Im buying a used canon eos 500d with a 200mm photolens

[charred solar]

cool

[cursive flare]

Yeah

But cna someone donate 240 euros🙏

I need it for my canon camera

Jk

[crystal falcon]

Xdd

Could have worked if it didnt gave me dis error everi time

[tulip fable]

why do you use ascom driver there?

Ah you wanted to guide with dslr?

[crystal falcon]

Ye ofc xddd

[quartz fiber]

The telescope is the mount. Genius

[little flare]

I need to get a tripod ASAP

[copper heath]

where more cursed setups

[cosmic minnow]

ptoaot

[finite parcel]

This naughtly boy has been used to obtain about 90% of all available UFO photos and videos.

[cosmic basin]

Bank CCTV camera video processor

[subtle geyser]

saw this on reddit i’m not sure what the scope is but it has a diagonal with a zoo filter wheel and guide camera

[quartz fiber]

and a barlow😭!? At least it's Televue

[paper flume]

the diagonal is so unnecessary

[crystal falcon]

Siccccc barlow shesh

[coarse parrot]

That boah got dat virusssss

[little flare]

Why the cable though

[hollow kiln]

Not mine but........ it fits the theme

[chilly mauve]

why not ?

[little flare]

The only thing missing is hot glue lmao

[chilly mauve]

[blissful totem]

you have to burn the hot glue afterwards so it blocks more light leaks

[little flare]

True lol

[slim tree]

👃🏻

[cold osprey]

Wtf

[prime marlin]

👃🏻

[cold osprey]

🔥

[short palm]

114mm f1.8 night vision dob

[copper heath]

is that a hadley?

[short palm]

sort of

I have one of those, too

[short palm]

it also belongs here

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1011384417438154917/1220510632240222228/PXL_20220519_185933700.png?ex=664a879a&is=6649361a&hm=3ed715ef5dfbf7a965609ec8de4b8b6dbdac520e6fcc927070b709e0960e1c7a&

[copper heath]

oh my

[jade heart]

peak diffraction pattern there

[short palm]

you know I could calculate what it would look like

[short palm]

that's actually the first hadley ever made

and presumably, the first ever unmade

[winged carbon]

Strongest PLA part when the temperature gets above 25c:

[smoky basin]

my diy star tracker works.

[quartz fiber]

Countercounterweight frfr

[patent oar]

Why is the camera so far from the ra axis

[quartz fiber]

I'm so confused as to what is going on here

[smoky basin]

uhhhhh i didn't think to add counter wheight thx.

but if i did i couldn't balance it properly because the camera and the pipe can't rotate freely

the image on the right is made with 30s exposures on a 55mm lens

[quartz fiber]

Lmao I was replying to this message

But thanks

[smoky basin]

oh ok

[short palm]

I'm on Mobile and my own image isn't missing lol

Ah yes

3d printed telescope left in a hot car 👍

[quartz fiber]

Ohhhhhhhh

[slim tree]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7ey5QHpc0G/?igsh=YmR3dmV1MHc0ZG5w

paulocand

Resolvi construir um Telescopio a partir de dois que eu nao estava satisfeito. Foi divertida a brincadeira!

Instagram

.............

🤓

[willow tundra]

Ah yes, the uhmmmm

Wow 4 finders two tubes lots of stickers

[serene kernel]

fun

[serene kernel]

two stickers

i don't understand how that functions though

[cold osprey]

This is what infinite free time and money leads to

[finite parcel]

This looks like a crap AI image came to life.

[slate nimbus]

not mine, but those are each asi 6200s 😭😭😭

9 asi6200s and 9 sigma 105 lenses

someone calculate how much that costs

[twin violet]

a lot

[patent oar]

Around 60k

[paper flume]

6 hours of shooting = 54 hours

cheating

[cold osprey]

Literally pay-to-win

[patent oar]

This much be so difficult to all lineup at the same spot

[slate nimbus]

it’s for milky way too

[patent oar]

You mean a survey?

[slate nimbus]

could be, all the information i have is “it’s for milky way”

[paper flume]

I think for multi scope mounts they already have them aligned fine

[crystal falcon]

me wen i would be a millionaire

[rough summit]

the camera is held by a screw but it rotated on the dovetail so i held the lens with a velcro attached to the dovetail, the velcro is of the dew heater strap 💀💪🏻

[slim tree]

Colled phone

I modified the entire case to only use it for astrophotography

[copper heath]

[slim tree]

It has a Peltier

[copper heath]

"mom can we get an astro camara?"
" no we have it at home."
The astro camara at home:

[cold osprey]

Main question is

Does it work tho?

[slim tree]

....

I haven't tested it with the cell phone in the case yet. But outside the case it worked fine

[cold osprey]

Is that ice?

[slim tree]

It can reach -10 degree if i use the fan at 100%. But i will use to only get arrond 10 degrees.

[copper heath]

but more importantly

can it run crysis?

[slim tree]

With the eyepiece

[jolly basalt]

Bro got a better camera than my DSLR at this point

[patent oar]

Why don’t you use traditional astrophohraphy equipment?

[slim tree]

I like to explore the limits of simple equipment that everyone discredits.

[patent oar]

Yeah I noticed, it’s really cool!

[slate nimbus]

how come you dont get a better phone adapter

that can adjust distance from the eyepiece

[slim tree]

My adapter is always at the exact distance from the eyepiece... I modified it

[slate nimbus]

i shouldve assumed

[slim tree]

So whenever I take a photo, the cell phone is in the right position to avoid creating vignettes. So I end up not needing another adapter...

[still wasp]

I had the exact same eyepiece holder part (be careful cause it may break mine broke cause i had tightened it a little more)

[cold osprey]

Dude lucas

Where do i buy the cooler or fan whatever your using?

[cold osprey]

how do you find the exact distance?

is there a formula?

[still wasp]

the one he has is already at a fixed dist

[cold osprey]

I understand that

I wanna do the mod in the future if possible

But my question was how to find the distance in the first place

[slim tree]

Testing. The case I use for astrophotography is very thick, which makes the phone sit taller. The rest of the height I defined with flocking. I added flocking throughout the adapter until the cell phone was at the height where I realized there were no more vignettes; So, in addition to reaching the right height every time I use it, the flocking prevents parasitic light from entering between the cell phone lens and the eyepiece.

[slim tree]

Aliexpress

[cold osprey]

Thanks

[little flare]

The 2nd version of the camera to mount adapter is taking shape

[slate nimbus]

is that a lego motor drive

[little flare]

Yes it is

[little flare]

Final version. Some strenghtening to do on the baseplate but i'm almost there

[tulip fable]

Dunno - I don't think that this thing is cursed.

I find it quite cool

[cursive flare]

A mount old 14 years, you probably never heard of PicGoto and its a hella old program (handmade mount)

[tulip fable]

can you share some images or link to them?

subs, stacks whatever

[tulip fable]

ok it looks cool but also cursed

[cursive flare]

Yeah

But i heard that kf handled well it can be precise as an eq5 with a guiding scope

And if not handeled properly then like an eq3

[snow ravine]

Saw this posted in the observational astronomy server….. the F ratio must be crazy

[ivory pivot]

i find an f between 512 at f4, and 896 at f7

no idea if im doing the math right

[blissful totem]

there are microscope lenses at > f100 but this is too much

[little flare]

Bro's about to see jupiter's atoms

[blissful totem]

or dust in the optical system

[remote solar]

F ratio as in "what in the actual F-ratio"

[slim tree]

my first image with this eyepiece

it´s cursed, but give me good results

[fading plover]

that is stunning

is it a digital eyepiece?

[slim tree]

No
Phone at eyepiece

[fading plover]

oh, that's absolutely incredible

[tulip fable]

whoa this is amazing imho for a phone and so on

[cursive flare]

And no coma? DAAAAMMNNN

[blissful totem]

where are the 6-sided lines around the stars coming from on a phone

[cosmic basin]

The diffraction spikes? They'd be coming from the spider I assume

[blissful totem]

on a phone....?

[cosmic basin]

On the telescope

The spider that holds the s secondary. I assume the other three spikes are after a meridian flip

[slim tree]

Ultraflatfield eyepiece +Bxt

[slim tree]

My telescope is actually very similar to this one

[cosmic basin]

Ya I saw the post in ds images and just looked up the model lol

[slim tree]

But it is the equatorial model. Comes with some better things in the build. But visually it's practically identical.

[paper flume]

what, the shitballs

[cold osprey]

Ah yes

My favourite activity

Dipping balls in shit

(This might get me banned)

[paper flume]

nah u good

[copper heath]

#🔭-astrophotography-chat message

[paper flume]

has he put the camera facing the camera 😂

[copper heath]

[cold osprey]

💥

[remote solar]

That's how we get a mount dancing to dubstep

[willow tundra]

Auto hand controll

[delicate mural]

Hand guide

guide control

[high canyon]

Also

[fossil gazelle]

Uhhhhh

🤤

[jolly basalt]

NEED😍

[fossil gazelle]

https://imgur.com/Czarbze

[high canyon]

i think its good for a setup like this

[cosmic basin]

Automatically turns your hand at the right speed

[tulip fable]

bottom left one looks creepy af

[high canyon]

Ikr

[cosmic basin]

The bottom two look like ai

[high canyon]

I think ai made the optics too,cannot imagine how bad they are💀

[cosmic basin]

The top two just look heavily photoshopped, the bottom right is either ai or a kids toy and the bottom left is just GLaDOS

Lookin mf

[fossil gazelle]

[fossil gazelle]

Not mine

[high canyon]

Hahaha fr

[high canyon]

https://youtu.be/NJplVw2iz0g?si=cocpkwvY_NKlRaCb

Not mine btw

[cold osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/exo-baekhyun-eat-eating-gif-19099359

[cyan viper]

How did you do this?

[chilly mauve]

aaaaw it's adorable

[paper flume]

Its when your alt az mount only goes left right, up down. eq goes left right, up down, tilt tilt to account for the sky rotation

[cyan viper]

I know what field rotation is what I was wondering how do you account for it?

[paper flume]

get an eq mount

[paper flume]

I don't rlly find it much of a problem tbh, I just shoot smaller targets, and expect a crop.

[cyan viper]

What program do you use to rotate the images?

[copper heath]

An Equatorial mount

[still wasp]

there are a few ways

eq mount is the best option

but stacking with rotation fixes the issue

but u need at least 3 stars for that to work (in astrosurface)

[ivory pivot]

i just cropped it out, no there isnt silly!

[still wasp]

cause its stacked peoperly (with 3 or 2 star alignment in siril (probably manualy))

here is an example

[ivory pivot]

no i just used deepskystacker

[still wasp]

oh i cant cause my dataset conatins stars but with noise

so can only use bright stars

😢

[ivory pivot]

have star counter or whater locked at 2%?

[still wasp]

locked?

i can move it

but 2 is too low isnt it?

[ivory pivot]

no worked fine for me (when untracked with az mount)

[still wasp]

oh cool will try with new dataset

[ivory pivot]

if the number is like 1000 thats when you increase it

[still wasp]

oh i see

my noise (i just do widefield now so ignore the eyepiece)

[ivory pivot]

ok no amount of star detection can save that

*in deepskystacker

[slate nimbus]

thought this was a sun pic for a second

[still wasp]

[cold osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/theres-gotta-be-another-way-another-way-other-options-alternatives-dj-qualls-gif-15566758

[paper flume]

Deep sky stacker just aligns them

like this

[rancid sphinx]

Tape, tape and more tape.

[tulip fable]

invisible scope

[rancid sphinx]

Hahahaha

[rough summit]

I love field rotation

[rough summit]

Orion go weee

[paper flume]

mee too

[hollow kiln]

Don't worry, this is just testing lol. Gonna use it as the guide scope for my Sony GM 100-400 on my heq5

[chilly mauve]

It's like comparing the human brain with the hagfish's brain

[hollow kiln]

Started cursed, now uncursed

[finite parcel]

This dovetail certainly looks cursed

[hollow kiln]

Looks cursed but works perfectly

[jolly basalt]

what in the hell (excuse my french) is that

[fossil gazelle]

Same question

[coarse parrot]

If it works it works

[vagrant frost]

Well….

[willow tundra]

What am I looking at

[vagrant frost]

Very old telescope with very new camera

[jolly basalt]

The astroscan is so fun

I saw someone made a 10 inch version

it was h u g e

[vagrant frost]

I need to see this

[jolly basalt]

Scope and creator

also my mistake, its an 8 inch mirror

[willow tundra]

Just did some research that's quite an interesting story

[jolly basalt]

Still big tho haha

[vagrant frost]

W o w

[jolly basalt]

ye

b a l l

[vagrant frost]

B a l l

[jolly basalt]

i think i also saw some talk about a guy who created a tracking mount for the astroscan

[vagrant frost]

I was thinking about trying to do that

[tulip cloud]

1 camera - moving it between the guidescope (used as a digital finderscope for now lol) and the main telescope, checking if I'm still on target, then adding a barlow and checking again (using astrometry.net)

I only have 1 axis motorized for now, so I move one of the axises using the knob.. no motorized focuser either so setting focus while not losing the star I'm aiming at is... interesting

somehow managed to get on target lmao, can't breathe or on it though I'll lose where I am..

[fossil gazelle]

#🔭-astrophotography-chat message

[crystal falcon]

I saw dat goofy scope on astroshop once lmao

[little flare]

Cooling 👍

Graxpert was overheating so I got creative💀

[copper heath]

[steel girder]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-my-god-thats-so-cute-alli-speed-feralwife-thats-adorable-very-lovely-gif-26370579

[glad vault]

Is this cursed? Rate the setup 1/10 gonna upgrade some small stuff soon

[amber kelp]

Dont worry i put my pc on something similar so i think i have a cursed setup too

[glad vault]

I only do it cuz i dont want my stuff to get wet lol

[delicate mural]

the image itself is cursed

[amber kelp]

How much does that scope have

[delicate mural]

have what

[amber kelp]

Of width (sry i forgor writing that)

[delicate mural]

Aperture?

10"

[amber kelp]

Yea i still have to get used to speaking 4 languages( sometimes i forget words)

Thats huge tho

[glad vault]

Fr

[delicate mural]

nah, thats average

[glad vault]

10x2.5=25cm 25/10=250 250 aperture

Big boy

[delicate mural]

254mm

actually

[glad vault]

Rounded

[delicate mural]

my true aperture is 254

[glad vault]

Yh

But like i put it as what is says when u buy ygm?

[delicate mural]

wut

ygm?

[glad vault]

You get me

[delicate mural]

ohh

slang

[glad vault]

Lol

Yh

[cursive flare]

At least you dont use a 15 year old mount (homemade) that works acctually better than most sky watcher and bresser mounts like eq5 and exos 2 with goto

[glad vault]

Rate it 1/10 guys

[sacred pawn]

mmm cables

[glad vault]

Yh

My laptop battery is poop

Then telescope power and phone charger

[slate nimbus]

seems pretty normal to me

[glad vault]

Eh the cable management is what is hurting

[amber kelp]

Mines a 150 (its much smaller)

[glad vault]

U said 10 inch tho?

[amber kelp]

No...?

[glad vault]

Ohh different person

My bad

[slim tree]

💀

Just an experiment. Discord added banding in compression

[molten ember]

Oh yeahhhh. I’m winning this challenge

[slate nimbus]

man wtf is that😭

[copper heath]

the cable management is awful

[molten ember]

💀

[molten ember]

no its beatiful when you really look at it from a different pov

[copper heath]

whats your lens?

[molten ember]

just some 35mm nikon

its really bad but it was just an experiment

[copper heath]

get a ring system

like the roki ring system

[empty drift]

??

had to do a double take on this one

[hollow kiln]

Is that Anton Chigurh

[prime marlin]

LMAO

[glad vault]

I swear thats the berries and cream guy

[royal moss]

Sony A7RIII

The "R" stands for "Rock"

[median beacon]

dude went a year bacl

[royal moss]

Which is exactly how old you are (for legal reasons this is a joke)

[median beacon]

huh

[cold osprey]

"for legal reasons"

[civic wraith]

Omg that telescope I've seen that before

[civic wraith]

Clean out the dust in ur laptop it's very easy and effective

[civic wraith]

Is that a bird jones telescope

[civic wraith]

Aw hell nah

[glad vault]

Yup..

[civic wraith]

Bruh why u buy it

[glad vault]

Idk

It had go to

I didnt know all about the different types of telescopes when i bought it

[little flare]

Fan >>>

Jokes aside yes, I should clean it

[delicate mural]

Aw hell yeah, its a nice rig

[civic wraith]

looks like its about to topple over

if its a nice rig why is it on cursed setups

[glad vault]

New camera is it any less cursed?

1/10 cursed level

[sacred pawn]

whats cursed about it

looks normal

[median beacon]

i still dont understand the "1 year old" roast

[glad vault]

The scope 😭😭😭

[sacred pawn]

I was very close to buying that scope

[glad vault]

Ur lucky u didnt

I only bought cuz i can easily make a bit of money

I bought it for £100 so yk

[jolly basalt]

[cold osprey]

THEWHAT

[jolly basalt]

[willow tundra]

[tight moon]

Super Takumar 200?

[jolly basalt]

Vivitar 200mm f/3.5

[tight moon]

Ah, I have a Vivitar 135 but, alas, a bad one

[jolly basalt]

rip, this one is from a friend. Havent tried it yet so here goes nothing

I also dont have the proper mounting for it but im impatient

[tight moon]

Vivitar rebranded a bunch of different manufacturers over the years, it depends on the year of manufacture. Some are made by Asahi and quite good. Mine is not.

[jolly basalt]

Gotcha. If i get anything decent ill share

Eh ill share the bad stuff too

[copper heath]

#🤓-ask-a-nerd message

[little flare]

bro AT LEAST cut that wood plank

[crystal falcon]

Thats his adaptive optics laser

[jolly basalt]

no

[jolly basalt]

[delicate mural]

not mine

[broken saffron]

I feel like this is a solid setup

[chilly mauve]

https://tenor.com/view/скелет-майнкрафт-minecraft-skeleton-gif-8136401410151794596

[civic wraith]

Looks fine to me

Other than the lack of tarp

[slim tree]

https://tenor.com/view/heonism-guy-shaking-hand-shaking-drinking-gif-24062217

[delicate mural]

i feel bad for that gti

[slim tree]

💀

[civic wraith]

I mean it's an ultralight

[delicate mural]

the mirrors have weight too

[civic wraith]

Hey I have the same iron sights as that guy

[delicate mural]

why do you have iron sights

[civic wraith]

It's like a little baby brother

[civic wraith]

Why not lol

Gives me a GENERAL idea of where I'm pointed

[coarse parrot]

Sick man

[fossil gazelle]

Not mine

[sacred pawn]

THE SOUND MAKES IT SO MUCH BETTER

[slate nimbus]

💀💀💀

[jolly basalt]

Astrophotography for $20 challenge

[fossil gazelle]

~$300

[high canyon]

I mean,if it works it works

[fossil gazelle]

I think you've even seen photos taken with this setup)

This is the ~~~ setup

[civic wraith]

Let's be safe while solar imaging!!!

[flat lion]

Second day doing astronomy thanks to @celest sierra and got this wonderful homemade setup built

[celest sierra]

Absolutely lovely

[flat lion]

LOL it’s amazing