Hi Mark,

Agree, just try it and see and then make changes if needed. Will let you know how I get on.

Yes, will be a Lunt CaK B1200 diagonal.

Thanks for the tip re astrograph, not come across them before but website looks good. Will keep in mind if / when I need a new camera.

Thanks both. Sounds promising.

Thanks all for your kind comments.

Beautiful images. Thanks for sharing. I have yet to see my first Noctilucent cloud display.

We're not worthy

Great job Michael.

A lucky catch, well done.

Ok, here goes. Have read a ton of posts on here (and elsewhere) on this subject but two questions remain:- 1. Any guesses as to whether the objective in my Skywatcher Evostar 120 (stopped down to 100mm or there abouts) will be any good for CaK imaging? Is there any way to tell other than trying it o...

Thanks all, your too kind

Had a couple of days off work Thursday / Friday last week and to my surprise actually had some decent weather. Allowed me to capture a few white lights for the album. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/331/19358682549_6d5409ae29_o.png 20150709mono by David Smith , on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.co...

Thought I would post my first image today as the seeing wasn't too bad. Full disk white light using Skywatcher Evostar 120 / Baader ND5 film / Canon 1100D. Shot 120 x 1/4000th second frames. Final image is the result of stacking 53 frames in Registax 5.1, touch of wavelets and a little Gimp to finis...

Hello All This is my first post here despite having had an account for several months, so just thought I would introduce myself. I am a keen amateur astronomer who has been observing the Sun for almost 25 years on and off. Vast majority of that time was spent visually observing and recording sunspot...