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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2016 9:37:30 GMT
Hi Rick thanks for the welcome mate! Yep im excited to get the camera and test it out... its shipped and on the way!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2016 6:40:16 GMT
HI again everyone.... Got my R2 camera kit on thursday. Havent had a chance to use it yet... supposed to be clear tonight so im keen to give it a go.. hopefully i'll be able to see something through it lol.
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Post by ChrisV on Sept 3, 2016 7:44:22 GMT
To quote that great philosopher rod stewart
Tonight's the night ...
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Post by davy on Sept 3, 2016 9:35:47 GMT
Good luck for tonight
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Post by Dragon Man on Sept 3, 2016 11:03:20 GMT
Well . . . . come on David, it's been dark for about 2 hours now! That's enough time to test it out and give us a report Come on mate, HURRY!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2016 11:25:06 GMT
Haha... i didnt realize i kept everyone waiting!! Meh it was a bit of a let down actually. I feel like the most exciting thing that happened was spotting that huntsman before it crawled up my leg lol!!
I need to try and focus on something in the day time to learn how to use it all properly. I couldnt see anything!! I got saturn on the screen but it looked better through the eye piece lol... it was such a great night that i gave up and just went back to my eye pieces so i got to look at some stuff ... more help advice and practice needed. Cant wait for those cable adaptors to arrive... those cables are just too short lol!!
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Post by Dragon Man on Sept 3, 2016 11:52:11 GMT
All good. Yeah, practice is a good idea Planets are hard with Analogue cameras. These cameras really come into their fame on DSO's.
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Post by ChrisV on Sept 3, 2016 13:56:38 GMT
+1 for DSOs
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2016 23:53:29 GMT
Hi guys... so this camera is only really used on DSO's? i didnt even try it on any of those lol i was just messing with the settings trying to find SOMETHING lol. So what should the settings be on? Ken... i had a look at yr video showing all the settings but all the menu's are different on the R2. Also do i need to use the focal reducer?
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Post by Dragon Man on Sept 4, 2016 5:07:29 GMT
David, the Revolution Imager will show planets and Moon, but just not as finely detailed as a Solar System imaging camera. Solar System imagers have smaller pixels and a lot more of them, but that also makes them slightly slower on DSO's. Each camera has a slightly different use. Never use a focal reducer for planets. You would use the exact opposite, a Barlow. Most DSO's do look better with a Focal Reducer because the wider FOV created by the focal reducer makes the image look brighter, stars are sharper, contrast is better, and large DSO's fit into the FOV. It also allows you to do shorter exposures. Yes, the Menu is different on the R2. Here's the R2 menu: (scroll right down the page) www.revolutionimager.com/pages/menus-r2
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2016 23:47:58 GMT
Ok so ive had some luck with the R2 last night! I messed around with it yesterday arvo pointing my scope at some distant trees and it was all still a blur no matter what i did. Until i started to take the camera out of the eye piece tube and as i slid it back things started to focus! I had the camera sitting all the way in the tube as far as it would go... i guess that was wrong lol. So then i adjusted my truss rods on my scope so it was shorter and then i could get a nice sharp image. So last night i got to have a good look at tuc 47.. lagoon neb.. eagle neb (still cant see the eagle lol)... butterfly cluster.. wild duck cluster.. tried it on mars and saturn too but i had the focal reducer on and didnt try it with the barlow so they didnt look that great. So maybe im starting to get the hang of it a little now. I was using it all on manual as suggested but as i made it brighter the really bright stars had this black spot right thru the middle of them... any idea what caused that? I changed it to the fixed setting and that solved the problem no matter how bright i made things. Appreciate everyones help so far.
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Post by ChrisV on Sept 5, 2016 3:49:36 GMT
No idea what that means. BUT well done !!!
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Post by Dragon Man on Sept 5, 2016 12:26:00 GMT
Well done David. The black spot is caused by over-exposure in the stars. By changing to 'fixed' tells the camera that YOU are in charge, not it, and will allow you to point at bright objects. When the camera thinks it is in charge it tries to correct for those bright spots (the stars). When you take charge you are telling the camera that you want those bright spots exactly as they are thank-you Always make sure your camera's nosepiece is pushed all the way into the focuser, and adjust your scope to match, or use an extension tube in the focuser. I'd hate to read that you moved the camera out so far that it fell out!
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Post by Dragon Man on Sept 5, 2016 14:03:27 GMT
Oh, and by the way, the Eagle is easy to find once you know where it is Here is a photo of it's location. The Eagle itself is only a small shape inside the larger 'Eagle Nebula'.
I also made an animation to show you how to find the shape of the Eagle itself.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2016 23:02:06 GMT
Thanks for that ken... i will try the eagle neb tonight if its clear and see if i can spot the eagle. I love it so far now that i have been able to see things.. I love watching the things build up on the screen its amazing. I will have to have a play around and try and get my scope adjusted properly so that i can have the camera sitting right in the focus tube... i just couldnt seem to get it to see anything when it was sitting right down in the focus tube but i'll try again now that i kind of have an idea of what everything does. Also got my extension cables too. Thanks again for the advice.
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Post by Dragon Man on Sept 6, 2016 11:04:27 GMT
Just another tip in finding information about the Eagle in the Eagle Nebula, a famous Hubble Telescope photo of it is known as the 'Pillars of Creation' because of the large amount of new stars being 'created' out of the long 'pillars' of dust and gas.
Go full screen on this Video:
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