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Good morning Donald,
Welcome to the BAA. It is a great organisation to be a member of.
Reading your message- It looks like you are well on your way, with the equipment you own, to making serious contributions to a section of your choice.
You have already had some good advice from the members on here.
I think the ED 80 would be an ideal telescope to use for white light solar observing.
I am a member of the BAA solar section, and submit my observations in white light and Ha, using my PST.
William has also mentioned “Luner” observation. Your telescope will be very good for this purpose.
There are many, many, more sections within the BAA that I could mention. But I hope I have given you some pointers.
Thanks Nick,
When I was looking at Venus with my Vixen LV Zoom eyepiece (8mm) x48. I thought I could see Venus, Ashen light.
I suspect this was a trick of the eye, because I was looking at Venus in daylight and against a bright sky.
I had a nice view this afternoon.
I was using my Losmandy G11 with a WO ZS 66SD. It was very starange to see both a gas giant and acid world. Not only visible in the same eyepiece field (24mm Vixen LV) but in daylight!
Venus is a nice cresent whilts Jupiter was pale and featurless.
Good morning,
This is very interesting. I will try and grab an image of V404 if the skies remain clear after sunset.
This comet is proving elusive to me.
I have seen it twice through binoculars, but. Every time I try and take an image. The clouds return.
I have also been un-successful in making an observation without optical aid.
Thank you Gary,
It was very nice, to finally put some names to faces, and say hello. It was also good to catch up with your goodself.
The lectures were all high quality, though I found a couple difficult to get my head around. Stewart’s talk was very good.
I was setting up in Macclesfield, and looking South I saw a bright flash, with a visible tail. The fireball was visible close to the constellation Aquila.
I thought at first it was a Perseid but the angle was all wrong.
I agree about the Hubble Palette. I have never liked the way it’s used to enhance digital images. I am not a fan of Pixinsight software ether.
I have seen to many times, images that are very good, and took time and effort to capture. Spoilt by over processing, and sharpening.
I think most people want a pretty pictuer at the end off the day. But I’d rather see a more natural looking image that has valuable information added.
