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ForenSeil
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:09 pm Post subject: Meade Astronomical Telescope 291 (F=900mm f=1:14.75) on NEX |
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ForenSeil wrote:
Bought that old and slow lens slow lens today locally with motorized paralactical mount, wooden tripod, Olympus OM- and T2 adapter for a few bucks
I hadn't high expectation on that lens (it was already cheap 25 years ago - it did cost about 120DM with simple tripod = 90-100€ incl. inflation. And it's only based on an simple mutli-coated fraunhofer achromatic two-element lens) and bought it mainly because of it's massive wooden tripod but optical results are far better than I expected
Due it's very cloudy, raining and dark outside at the moment I made a little "spy" on one of my neighbours window
(very little PP)
100% crop, added clarity and sharpened in Lightroom:
Not bad for a distance of 90 meters, 6s exposure time, shot through two windows while it's raining, huh?
From what I've seen it looks much better than Samyang 650-1300mm for example and it costs even less if you can find one or a successor used.
Meade did a really good job on this lens
Now I'm waiting for clear weather and the moon ![Smile](images/smiles/icon_smile.gif) _________________ I'm not a collector, I'm a tester
My camera: Sony A7+Zeiss Sonnar 55/1.8
Current favourite lenses (I have many more):
A few macro-Tominons, Samyang 12/2.8, Noritsu 50.7/9.5, Rodagon 105/5.6 on bellows, Samyang 135/2, Nikon ED 180/2.8, Leitz Elmar-R 250/4, Celestron C8 2000mm F10
Most wanted: Samyang 24/1.4, Samyang 35/1.4, Nikon 200/2 ED
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hifisapi
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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hifisapi wrote:
ah, so youre one of those nosy telescoping neighbors, huh?
kidding aside, nice results. _________________ ===========
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Attila
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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Attila wrote:
Nice find, excellent result seems way to go if need extreme focal length. _________________ -------------------------------
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Himself
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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Himself wrote:
Excellent results!
How far is that neighbour? _________________ Moderator Himself |
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s58y
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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s58y wrote:
Congratulations.
Sometimes these old-school slow achromats on motorized mounts can give great results, especially for lunar and planetary imaging (solar, too, with suitable filters). The guidescope I use (Televue TV-102) is just an f/8.6 ED doublet, and it produces very sharp images of guide stars at the center of the field. I don't know if these very slow scopes need a field flattener for best results
Slow achromats are probably not so good for imaging faint Deep Sky Objects, athough they might be OK for globular clusters. _________________
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ForenSeil
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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ForenSeil wrote:
Himself wrote: |
How far is that neighbour? |
Sorry, forgot to say that
According to google maps it's about 90 meters
s58y wrote: |
Congratulations.
Sometimes these old-school slow achromats on motorized mounts can give great results, especially for lunar and planetary imaging (solar, too, with suitable filters). The guidescope I use (Televue TV-102) is just an f/8.6 ED doublet, and it produces very sharp images of guide stars at the center of the field. I don't know if these very slow scopes need a field flattener for best results
Slow achromats are probably not so good for imaging faint Deep Sky Objects, athough they might be OK for globular clusters. |
Thx!
Unfortunatly I'm living in the center of an area with very high light polution and the (over-sized?) motor needs 220V (!) so I can't take it somewhere else easily. Plus the lens is so slow that a single really useful exposure of deep sky or even bright globular cluster would I guess take about 15-30min, even on comparable high ISOs - no chance without a motor!
So I'm I guess I can forget real serious deep sky with that thing, but the planets or especially the moon should be no serious problem!
I think a field flatener would be useless at the moment - my adapter sits not very tight on the telescope which produces a lot vignetting on the upper right corner
PS: Your using a 3300€ ED 102/877 telescope (= 877mm F8.6 "APO" in camera language) only as a guidescope? WhereTF is it mounted on???? _________________ I'm not a collector, I'm a tester
My camera: Sony A7+Zeiss Sonnar 55/1.8
Current favourite lenses (I have many more):
A few macro-Tominons, Samyang 12/2.8, Noritsu 50.7/9.5, Rodagon 105/5.6 on bellows, Samyang 135/2, Nikon ED 180/2.8, Leitz Elmar-R 250/4, Celestron C8 2000mm F10
Most wanted: Samyang 24/1.4, Samyang 35/1.4, Nikon 200/2 ED
My Blog: http://picturechemistry.own-blog.com/
(German language)
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luisalegria
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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luisalegria wrote:
Good work with that.
I was thinking of using a couple of very old telescopes we have in the garage for terrestrial photography, maybe in the zoo. I have a 8"(200mm) reflector on equatorial mount and a 90mm refractor on an altazimuth mount. The 8" would be quite difficult to transport I think, and the mount is quite awkward for terrestrial photography. _________________ I like Pentax DSLR's, Exaktas, M42 bodies of all kinds, strange and cheap Japanese lenses, and am dabbling in medium format/Speed Graphic work. |
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s58y
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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s58y wrote:
ForenSeil wrote: |
Thx!
Unfortunatly I'm living in the center of an area with very high light polution and the (over-sized?) motor needs 220V (!) so I can't take it somewhere else easily. Plus the lens is so slow that a single really useful exposure of deep sky or even bright globular cluster would I guess take about 15-30min, even on comparable high ISOs - no chance without a motor!
So I'm I guess I can forget real serious deep sky with that thing, but the planets or especially the moon should be no serious problem!
I think a field flatener would be useless at the moment - my adapter sits not very tight on the telescope which produces a lot vignetting on the upper right corner
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Your scope should be a good planetary imager -- f/15 to f/25 is ideal for planenary or lunar imaging, assuming the scope is diffraction limited. Also, you don't want a perfect mount and drift alignment for planetary, since you want dithering between frames of your video (that's what I've read, anyway).
If you wanted to do DSO with this setup, you'd probably need to piggyback a DSLR with camera lens somehow, and use the f/15 scope as a guidescope (if the focuser is solid, and the mount supports guiding). This way you'd shoot at f/2.8 with subexposures of a minute or two, using light pollution filters or perhaps a narrowband H-alpha filter to really cut through the light pollution.
ForenSeil wrote: |
PS: Your using a 3300€ ED 102/877 telescope (= 877mm F8.6 APO in camera language) only as a guidescope? WhereTF is it mounted on???? PS: Yes it's also two-element lens, but it's ED makes a huge quality- and price difference! |
I had been using a cheap guidescope, but the focuser was not really solid, and I got differential flexure during longer subexposures with the 800mm lens. The TV-102 (no longer made) cost a lot less than 3300 Euros (maybe $2500??), but solved the flexure problem. I hope to use the TV-102 for lunar or planetary or solar someday.
This what everything is mounted on:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/s58y/4144045396/sizes/o/in/set-72157622898479554/ _________________
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