#nexstar5se — Public Fediverse posts

@macmade
That's good. Does the telescope track that well, or does it have an auto guider? Or did you stabilize the image after collection?

I don't have a Jupiter movie,but one of #mars with my #nexStar5SE. To steady this one I used my stacking program to register successive frames.

https://youtu.be/6WeD-tMrDAM

@naz
For occasional photography (lunar and planetary) I use a Meade #ETX90 and a Celestron #Nexstar5SE. I usually stack images using a homemade Yorick language stacking program. Here's one of my best images of the #Albategnius lunar region:

@macmade
That is a fine picture you have there. I have a #NexStar5SE and the focal reducer. But I haven't tried taking photographs with the reducer installed. Using it with your 6 inch really brought out the regional contrast differences that visually are more subtle.

Below is one of my NexStar 5SE efforts of the lunar Albategnius region taken with the NexImage web camera conversion, a stack of around 60 frames. Your 6 inch has a bit more contrast.

@Astrobum
Those are very nice, allowing considerable enlargement and still offering up details. A clever adaptation of a long focus refractor.

I use a 5 inch #Caasegrain #Nexstar5SE , which is also short, being about a foot long. It is an f10. It looks to me like your pixel resolution is better that the equipment I use, but here's an image taken with it just for comparison.

#Albategnius lunar region.

@deepskies
I have a few portable telescopes.
An #etx90
6 inch f/5 #rft
#Nexstar5SE

@jake_snowflake
That's a monster to what I have nowadays. I have a 6 inch f/5 Newtonian #richfield, and this 5 inch Celestron #NexStar5SE.

#StarGeezer

@playingwithdust
Thanks for the detail. Let me think on that.

I do have a #NexStar5SE that I believe can be controlled via rs/232. I can conceive of a clumsy, crude approximation of what you have there. A laptop with simple pass through coordinates through rs/232 that (via wifi) is commended by a laptop in my warm and toasty home.

As it happens, I have two aging laptops.

A younger version of myself might replace the outdoor laptop with an #Arduino or #RaspberryPI.

#StarGeezer