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grztus

Welcome and enjoy new month of our discussion Wink

contrailsUK

Hi,

Sorry that I have not been able to post my pictures for a while. I am having problems with my telescope at the moment Crying or Very sad

I have only been able to capture one photo recently which is this Martinair MD-11:

The weather has been quite good recently, but visibility is poor and the conditions arent good for taking photos.
I have been looking at the pictures in the polish forums, and I have noticed grztus is producing fantastic photos! You seem to have somehow made your pictures larger? as you can even see the windows. Well Done!! Smile

grztus

Nice MD-11 Cool

We have the same problem with poor visibility in Poland too.

Thai's pictures have been taken with Soligor Barlow x2. In Polish section I'm marking photos taken with Barlow by: *
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]

I'm really glad from this Soligor, it's not giving an abberration and photos are very sharp (I didn't expect that quality will be so good).

contrailsUK

That is the best pic I have seen taken through a telescope
The current weather situation looks like this where I live at the moment:
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
So I have nice clear skies. My telescope seems to produce "double vision" results, and I can no longer focus the telescope to its full potential. I think it may be broken Sad

grztus

Don't worry, try to clear both mirrors and collimate it (maybe your scope have lost the collimation between primary and secondary mirror). If you have in Britain some astronautical forum, ask there for collimation tips (if you don't know how to do it).
I hope it will help you Wink

michalw

Not astronautical, but astronomycal Wink

contrailsUK

Correction - Astronomical Wink

Good idea, I will try to find some help on a forum. If that doesnt work I will get someone to correct it for me. If he says its broken then I will have to get a new one Sad

contrailsUK

grztus

Of course it's quite harder to get the photo with barlow lens, planes like B747 or A340 flying in zenit are to big for the field of view Laughing

But when they are flying in some distance (more than 15km) I can take really amazing photos like Thai Wink

It's also harder to get a still image, not becouse of exposure parameters (higher ISO), but due to handshakes and small leeways in the Synta scope construction (leeways are small enought to take photos at 1900mm, but they are comes to my notice with barlow at 3800mm).

contrailsUK

Hi,

More bad visibility making unclear photos Sad

[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Urrgh Evil or Very Mad

The weather is nice and hot though Cool

contrailsUK

Two from yesterday:

THY1 @ 14:55 Heading E on UM140.

CKS333 @ 20:06 Heading W on UN20.

contrailsUK

Hi,

A bit hazy yesterday, these were the only sharp enough images after a bit of photoshopping:
CKS424 heading W:

COA42 heading E:

A 737 in the distance in the evening:

PawelB

Nice shots Wink

Wish you good weather for spotting Smile

Greets

contrailsUK

Hi,
Another from yesterday once the cloud broke up.
LTU566 EDDF-MDPP on UN20: