timastrovirus Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 My name is Tim, living in the North Eastern part of The Netherlands, were luckily skies aren't as bad as in the West. I have been into astrophotography for just over 10 years now. My main equipment is an 8 inch F/5 Newton carried on a NEQ6, guiding with a QHY5/180 mm finder guider combo. I like to do a fair bit of DIY to control the expenses of the hobby. Amongst my DIY projects are the following: Peltier cooled Canon 350Da, Arduino controled motor focusers, Flight cases for storing/moving equipment. I used to image from a 2nd story balcony, where I had a micro observatory constructed.However I had to dismantle this, due to breaking up of my relation at the time. This also ended my imaging for a couple of years, after moving places. This spring, i decided to dust off the equipment put some new life into this lovely hobby. Also started construction on a new, bigger observatory with roll off roof, The Sting Of The Scorpion Observatory, or [TSO]2 for short.In addition, I also moved from my modified DSLR to a genuine astrocamera with the Altair Astro Hypercam 269C Pro TEC, as my DSLR finaly gave up just before dismanteling my old obsy. Recently had a serious first light testing both my new setup, as well as my bortle 5-6 skies. Looking forward to contributing and interacting with you all on this new forum. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
don4l Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Welcome, and I love that image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carastro Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Welcome Tim, love the Observatory, and also the Ghost Nebula, it's a tricky blighter, but you have probably got better skies where you are than the rest of the Netherlands.Welcome to BYA. Carole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkulin Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Welcome and enjoy Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timastrovirus Posted October 7, 2020 Author Share Posted October 7, 2020 @Carastro Well my skies are certainly much better as in the densely populated Western parts, but I still live in a fairly suburban area, so my skies are mostly around Bortle 6, maybe 5-ish on very good nights. I was very happy with the outcome of the Ghost nebula, as dark nebula are my favorite objects to image, although they do take crazy exposure times with my skies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carastro Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 I live in Bortle 8 - SE london, so you are much better off than me, though I can sometimes go for long weekends to a Bortle 4 location.Carole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyvern Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 Warm welcome to the backyard Tim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gina Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 Hi Tim and welcome ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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