The moment I took the solar filter off the camera: 😎 Bill

That was officially the most amazing thing I have ever seen! I wish we had the same clear day as yesterday. There were light clouds, but the view was ...

We have several hazy clouds today, nowhere as perfect as yesterday. Getting a good image of the Sun and the tracker is working beautifully. The moon c...

Here is a rather boring test video made with the DSLR on the Sky-Watcher mount. The quick movement at the beginning was me playing with the align...

My initial impression is that it is very well made. Certainly, it would have no issue supporting the 5 Kg they claim it holds. It's aluminum construct...

Well, I just finished a test run with the Sky-Watcher mount, and I have to admit that I'm very impressed! Tried it with both the solar telescope and ...

@zander The 80 is the length; the width (43.5mm) is the critical dimension. If your plates were intended for a telescope, then they should fit.
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@zander It's a "3.15"/80mm Rail Bar Vixen Style Dovetail Plate, Metal Mounting Plate Saddle with 1/4" 3/8" D Ring Screw for Telescope Mount Adapter Ba...

The new toy arrived a few hours ago, and I just finished assembling it. I plan to download the app and start playing with it. I'm certainly impresse...

I have been thinking about ordering one of those, but I never considered it for astrophotography. It should be an interesting experiment. It is supp...

I really hope so, too; I suspect it won't. It's sticky snow that brought down a few tree branches, and there are currently over a thousand outages on ...

Well, we just lost all our electricity on the anniversary of our ice storm. Here we go again! 😖 On the plus side, the weather for Monday ...

@codecage If it helps Steve, I found the best focus was with the tube nearly all the way into the telescope body. Another thing to note about the ...

@zander It doesn't arrive until Friday, and the only test day may be Sunday - Saturday is "partly sunny," so it may clear in the afternoon. So, I won'...

OK, I'm officially infected with eclipse fever! I looked at the weather again, and it looks like this: Assuming we survive what will actually be t...