Leanne JRubbish handheld photo in the dark, showing #SeestarS30 telescope and a sky full of stars behind it. It’s bloody cold! #KielderStarcamp ✨
Teapot Ben@LDJ hope the images you get from the Seestar make it worthwhile enduring the cold!
@teapot_ben We can cheat a bit here - set up the scope in the cold, start the imaging and then just leave it going while we sit in the nice warm hut next to it! My stargazing accommodation while we’re up at Kielder:
@LDJ where's the fun in that when you could be outside in the freezing cold doing some observing? 😂
You might guess that I am very much a visual observer - smartscopes are amazing these days, but for me nothing beats seeing things through the eyepiece.
Also, I really hope the huts next to yours are called mushroom and snake!!
@teapot_ben That would be amazing 😂 The next hut is called ‘Deer’ because local wildlife, but I’m starting a petition for mushroom and snake! Now I’ve got the song in my head 🐍🐍
I’m also a visual observer and you’re right, nothing beats seeing it yourself. It never gets old seeing Saturn’s rings either.
I’ve got plenty time out in the cold tonight, believe me! Also got some decent binoculars and lots of friends on the site with high powered visual scopes.
@teapot_ben We haven’t really invested in a ‘proper’ setup yet other than a couple of small visual scopes, because we live on the outskirts of a light polluted city, and don’t get many clear nights 😕 But we are moving before long; busy planning where we want to buy a new house based on how dark a sky we can get 🤩 Probably quite close to this dark sky park we’re at this week.
@LDJ wow, those images are amazing! Incredible what you can achieve in just a matter of minutes with such a small scope.
Decided to treat myself to a dream scope last year - a 120mm apo, and some better eyepieces. Fallen in love with the hobby again! Admittedly I'm not getting the best out of it, as I also live on the edge of a light polluting city.
@teapot_ben And so far getting some decent pics! Sadly didn’t get long on Comet Lemmon before it dropped behind the trees but could already see the clear tail. I’ve just done the dumbbell nebula; now the firework galaxy.
I got a few mins on the North American Nebula the other night before the clouds came in, so hoping to revisit that tonight and get a better pic.