I think I know what were you doing at that time
A pair of binocular is always a good choice When you use it, you must have a star chart with you.

Hey guys, don't forget to look at MARS at 2/3 October. I don't what is the exact time, can anyone tell me?

Hey, this topic has been slept for a long time...... Therefore, are you guys planning to get a telescope or binocular?

Sorry for the wrong information I gave, the exact time of the closest meeting of Mars should be 29 October.

Mid November 2005? Hooray! March05, let's go together.

In my opinion, a telescope is an important factor as well as equipped with equatorial mount or altaz mount. It is because a telescope with a good coating can help a lot as it accept more lights to go into it. In the other way, most of the tracking systems available in the market are quite good in quality. Most of the us will go for GOTO telescope as it has already been equipped with tracking mount and easy to observe the celestial objects. It is easy to use too. These types of telescopes are very useful beginner as its automatic system.

APGM? Just registered a account there

Altaz mount is capable of doing astrophotography as long as your CCD support Drizzle technology, such as Meade Deep Sky Imager Pro. Most of the GOTO telescopes can be mounted in equatorial mode and altaz mode and the quality of the coating of GOTO telescopes are very good and don't need to doubt about it. ( I meant Meade, Celestron and Orion Telescopes ). What I found the best telescope in budget that has short f/ is the LXD75. It just costs RM7900. In the other hand, the telescopes that offered by Meade which are capable of adding focal reducer are the money killers, RCX400 and LX200. They cost merely TEN THOUSANDS!

In this thread, we are discussing about high quality products, so far, this field is always expensive.

What I will buy next to the telescope is the DSLR , therefore, I can take galaxies down but the amount of the money that I spend is too much, my father will be sucked into a zombie . Oops, I will buy myself a notebook too in order to run the CCD camera on the telescope. Maybe I won't get these include the CCD, just go for observing and wait until I am capable of buying a DSLR to take all the photos down.

The atmosphere in Malaysia is quite bad. Therefore, Malaysia is not suitable for deep sky observing and long exposure photos of the celestial objects. I agree with you all that the 200-400mm F/2.8 is very good in taking the wide field. So, is the mount of ETX105AT able to take out and put a DSLR on it?

I am an idiot, I thought the 'register' link on the APGM is to register as a APGM account. It is to register Multiply account. I am planning on setup a Malaysia Astronomy Website, anyone interested to give me a hand?

p/s: This is my longest post since I joined LYN

lol, it is quite hard for me to type so much in a short time because of my suck language.

Hehe, I plan to invite you guys to observe using my telescope ( will be bought soon ) on the top of the Gunung Lambak at Kluang although it is just 500 metre high.

Anyone is interested in the plan of Astronomy.MY plan?

Don't feel sad with your camera, you can do it! Do you have a tripod? I am sure you have. Just put your camera on the tripod and use the same settings we used to take the Moon Lady. I am sure that you will success since you are my c-fu.

STAR PARTY? Damn cool! I feel so sad as I am still sitting for my exams.

Nah, I haven't bought yet. I still have to get myself about RM1500 to buy the telescope...... The mountain is damn easy to climb, just like walking......

I agree with you that the telescope user has to be good as well , choostar. The tripod that is bundled with ETX is very supportive now comparing to before and it depends on the weight of the telescope itself too ( ETX105AT is 6.3KG). I don't think I will use ETX105AT to do long exposure photos as I don't have the long exposure kit. If I want to do long exposure astrophotography, I will go for a 8" aperture telescope.

I hope that you all can criticize me as much as you can to correct me

I will use M16 to shoot back . When you put your camera on the tripod and starting to take the shot. STOP! Check your setting, use timer mode, iso50, and see around the environment. There you go! Be careful! Don't use digital zoom, the quality of image is bad if it is being used.

This post has been edited by Mr.LKM: Oct 15 2005, 05:41 PM

bad boy or play boy? Are you going to shoot the Moon tonight?

Before you dream about 16" telescope, do you have enough place to put this giant?

lol....... When will your dream come to an end? You have so many dreams......

The M16 I said is not the nebula but the gun

This is the post of March05's sun.

The sky is so cloudy even after the rain.

I am not that lucky, nobody told me I was busy studying yesterday...My exam will end up on 25/10/2005

I can just view the photos you guys took I am fed up...

By the way, do you know is there any local website that tell us these kinds of information?

This post has been edited by Mr.LKM: Oct 18 2005, 02:21 PM

I think Astronomy.MY can't provide this kind of informations, we need an expert to tell. Exams arr? Just score the average marks...... Not only this thread is forgotten even my computer...

7x-8x ( not Sekolah Menengah standard ), I study at Independent school, therefore the subjects are damn hard comparing to PMR. PMR is so easy...

Nah, I think the maximum is only 90% because we are studying Chinese instead of BM ( certain objects). If I am genius, I am now uni student.

why it happens, the world is doomed?

Who can provide us a car? We directly go to his house to 'fetch' him

By the way, the 3CCD camera's dynamic range is higher than CCD camera, am I right? March05, don't call me Genius. I am appreciated that you didn't call me idiot Solar flare is known as Halo. Do you know what is Halo? One of the best xbox games.