I’m a fan of the cropped version. The pillars are more prominent and interesting! The wide field feels like it has some empty space on the outside edges. Cool to see the way it fades outward in the wide field, but not as cool as the pillars and central details to me.

Same! It’s wild how intuitive they were.

In my first 5 years in astrophotography it was really fun to start seeing patterns like shifting moon/sun rise and set positions on the horizon and how the constellations move throughout the year. I always wonder if the first humans who recognized this felt the same way.

That’s awesome! I was reading that the XLT coating is optimized for visual and CCD/photographic imaging, that was the win for me.

As for the C6, I feel like that convenience of use wins about every time. When I got my Seestar I used it constantly just because it’s so easy!

The forked tripod is epic!! Great setup, and such a cool backstory to it. I bet the high quality optics really pay off now too.

Thanks! That vintage C8 sounds amazing, is it the black tube assembly with the vintage hand controller? How is it holding up?

🤣 I feel like I hit these every day I drive to work

That’s great to know! I’m using this for Lunar shots only right now. I did test it out last night and it really struggled to find Saturn, had to do a bit of manual wandering to find it in the end.

Hey! Thanks for the offer, I’ve read great things about starsense! My scope has the NexStar hand controller with GPS and alignment/tracking features that work really well already though, not quite looking to upgrade yet. But I appreciate it.

Yeah probably just need a WU-TANG galaxy

This is the WU-TANG nebula

#Astronomy #hiphop