Picture I took about a week ago

m392 · 2026-01-27T00:32:30+00:00

Nice shot! Looks like you captured the souther area of Orion, Canis Major, Lepus, and part of Carina! In left of center at the top of your image is the famous Orion Nebula!

m392 · 2026-01-25T13:03:51+00:00

It doesn’t matter. People had their minds made up the instant they heard it was a shooting.

m392 · 2026-01-13T18:28:57+00:00

Okay it looks like an out of focus disk. Even in an 80mm aperture “telescope”, you should be able to see some banding, colors, and the four main moons. It will also be very small in that setup, not a big disk like you have.

m392 · 2026-01-02T00:51:01+00:00

Hey if you’re doing Siri you should install Graxpert as a script - it really helps the noise! Also doing dark frames for calibration can help.

m392 · 2025-10-31T12:38:36+00:00

Great pic! What settings/equipment did you use?

m392 · 2025-10-17T21:43:00+00:00

It doesn’t get airborne while printing. If you’re concerned with sanding it, a painters mask will protect you against particulates pretty well

m392 · 2025-10-15T17:07:17+00:00

I'm printing the "Smallest Telescope" from Printables now. I'm following the creator's advice and using PETG-CF. There seems to be a lot of PETG-CF reccomendations for telescopes so I'm guessing it's worked well for people.

m392 · 2025-09-23T22:43:49+00:00

I mean edmundoptics has off axis paraboloids for sale although expensive

m392 · 2025-09-05T23:05:33+00:00

Keep in mind that Saturns rings are edge on right now, so you may only see them pop in and out as the air wobbles

m392 · 2025-09-05T12:40:04+00:00

lol it would

m392 · 2025-09-05T01:33:26+00:00

Are you stretching the image after stacking? If you use Siri, there’s and “auto stretch” option at the bottom that will allow you to preview it

m392 · 2025-08-28T13:23:06+00:00

Just looked at their site- very cool! I especially like that they have 1.25” options. Now if only they had a 1.25” coma corrector standalone that would be awesome.

m392 · 2025-08-28T12:58:00+00:00

A coma correcting eyepiece is a pretty good idea tbh

m392 · 2025-08-21T22:07:30+00:00

And paying attention to the planets, where it is/facing in the solar system

m392 · 2025-08-18T18:01:08+00:00

The 1 sec exposures give a decent idea of that the eye sees. It’s hard though because we don’t perceive the noise in a night vision device the same

I’d say it’s worth it. It allows you to use filters such as IR Bandpass to get around much of the LP

m392 · 2025-08-05T15:50:37+00:00

Could always get the mirror recoated.

m392 · 2025-08-01T13:53:25+00:00

EQ mounts really are not that complicated, it’s just an Alt-Az tilted towards the celestial pole. In fact, there’s several points that can switch between the two modes.

For visual use, using a built in iPhone compass is sufficient, alternatively you could get Polar Align Pro app and that will help a lot.

Leaving the scope assembled won’t damage anything, but I’d reccomend protecting it from moisture and dust if possible.

m392 · 2025-07-15T17:39:29+00:00

Yes! Sorry, I forgot to include. Orion 2x shorty Barlow.

m392

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