Mine is 8" LX90. I am planning on a 10" LX200R or maybe a newer scope in the LX200 series. If I am going to any larger than 10", I will mount them all on EQ mounts (most probably Celestron CGE or Losmandy G11) in my observatory. However, I wonder when will I have these. It might be 30 years later.

they are no price tags in the catologue are there? Where do you inquire?

K.K. Looi at InfinityInfocus.com

If you want another source, I can provide you, PM me.

Mercury Transit this morning:

Got some snapshots of Mercury right on the limb with some prominences nearby......but no time to sort out, got to go to work. Maybe I'll post them tonight.

Corrections: I got the Sunspot Numbers wrong. They should be 921, 922 and 923 instead of 821, 822 and 823 respectively.

Please note: I have replaced the earlier image with this corrected one to avoid confusion over the sunspot numbers. Sorry for the mistake - my brain got fried looking at the Sun.

This post has been edited by March05: Nov 11 2006, 07:27 PM

You are a pro! Where did you take this photo? Planetaurium Negara? UM?

March..if you took this pic.i
and Mr.LKM if u managed to grab the BIG 10" dont forget to throw
your current 8" dirt cheap to me

hi deeyu nice to meet you here:)
does anyone know how to use dslr for astronomy photography?what are the technique or equipment require?

My transit sequence:
from 7.52 am to 8.03 am. Taken using a Neutral Density filter (ND-5)


and here's where I started getting messed up. Tried to change to a H-alpha filter.....lost focus and exposures all haywire....
from 8.04 am to 8.11 am.


All shot from my house in Subang Jaya looking out of upstairs window. As usual, with my Casio Z750 in afocal configuration.

Sorry, syapl, no experience with a DSLR, only got an old Ricoh and Minolta SLR kept in the cupboard as museum pieces. But you should be able to get better shots than mine with a dSLR, I guess. Just a question of using the correct T-Ring adapters with any telescope.



This post has been edited by March05: Nov 9 2006, 10:25 PM

syapl, I think what can you do with DSLR is to shoot star trails, it's very nice if you have your dslr shutter opened for up to 3 to 4 hours!

March05, you are really my hero! I found that quite a number of guys lost focus when they are using the H-alpha filter.

By the way, I think you still have some equipments remained unknown to us. Tell us!

Deepyu, don't think about it. Even if I get my 10" LX200R, I won't feel sorry to my 8" LX90 which makes me so happy.

wa...need a telescope >.<" no money to buy it....
open shutter 2~3hours....after 2~3hours i can say good bye to my dslr already
my dslr is d70,only can support up to 30mins only

I thougth there is B mode? You live in Kluang, don't you? Just come over my place and share the telescope together!

i am in klang now
maybe end of december will go back to kluang,my hometown is kulai actually
in Bulb mode maximum is 30mins only

rarely show up here anymore actually.if its not because of Mr.LKM "warning".

I think better shoot star trails/astrophoto with film slr.DSLR's ccd get hot
when shutter open for long time. standard dslr difficult result i think.

yea i know that. thats y i want u to sell it to me cheap2.
u can try shoot night sky with shutter speed less than 15s. above 15s u start to
get the startrail. better if you have bright lens.

OOOOOOooooonostalgia!

now I feel like digging up all my old star trail shots.....those were the days when all we had was a standard 50mm lens on the SLR, and a Sakura tripod and Mr.LKM's B mode.
Shooting startrails was hot stuff!

which reminds me, deepyu.....didn't you promise, eons ago, to show us your meteor shower pics?

Yes, deepyu, your meteor shower photos! Don't break your promise!

March05, again, I used your transit photos. By the way, could you tell me what does 9thnth4 mean?

This post has been edited by Mr.LKM: Nov 11 2006, 12:07 AM

the sunspot numbers have been corrected, please use the new photo instead.

9thnth4 - imageshack renamed my file......was supposed to be 9th November 2006.

I see. By the way, do you mind to provide me the info of exposure time and the settings used as well as your Casio model number?

All the info can be extracted from the EXIF.

Other than that, the telescope is a Chinese 120mm F/5 achromat refractor on a non motorised GEM. Eyepiece was a 32mm super plossl.

I used the same setup for the eclipse moon pics posted earlier. This is quite a common beginner's stuff.......

Seems like you are getting better result with beginner stuff than me who are using a little high end stuff. Okay, I will extract it when I am free. Now, I am too tired to do so. I am going on vacation to Genting tomorrow.

err..did I?
i think I forgot already.
as long as I remember its not meteor shower photo guys.
never took any meteor shower photo. if star trail then I have,.
err..somewhere