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Thanks matt, I will give it try as soon as it stops raining and becomes clear again.
kind regards simon

good morning group, I have not been too active of late due to various reasons but I have just invested in a rather smart new camera. It is the Canon eos 600d, as of yet due to cloud and lack of contrail when the sun has been out I have been unable to use the canon on the Skywatcher. On my previous c...

leedseagle, you've got no chance bud, the met office is saying the rain is with us until at least the middle of june, just had a fortnight off work and not one day was it clear enough to get the scope out, typical!

i presume thats why ive been getting the 404 server not found message for the last two days?
i was rather worried and thought the site had gone for good.

cheers simon

dc, that bmi airbus is one hell of a shot fella, superb clarity and detail, weathers not been great here very hazy and due to this my pics have been very distorted. hopefull should get a couple tomorrow morning (cloud dependant) btw my viewfinder images ap[pear crisp and sharp but looking at the pho...

hi pete if you look at https://www.aviation24.be/forums/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=46433&start=20#p259243 and look on page 2 about a quarter of the way down, you will see my pics. alternatively click on my name on a post and look through my posts, there you will see my very first ones up to my lat...

if you do opt for the 6" make sure it has a 2" focuser as standard, i have a 6" skywatcher dob and once id ordered the 2" barlow i found to my dismay that my focuser was indeed 2 and a quarter inch so i had to fabricate 2 tubes to make it fit. if you dont want to use a barlow tho...

i must add that PH-KCG was a MD11not a 777 as i wrote, also when i was capturing the beluga there was alot of high cloud behind it. i didnt bother with descriptions for the british airways pics as i thought they were pretty self explanatory. also all the larger photos have been cropped which is why ...

a few more from me taken yesterday and late this afternoon,any advice comments welcome, enjoy!!

hi james,thanks mate im getting there, i especially like the first monarch one as i caught the strobe light illuminating. im actually in a small town called chudleigh just SW of exeter. i have two routes that cross almost above my head a transatlantic one and the berry head radial one. seen the belu...

i think these can go into this section as they are all pretty much in focus albeit a bit small.

i know they are pointing at different obscure angles but i was concentrating on getting the focus right instead of angling the camera.

thanks James, im getting there and there's a lot of sound advice. i bought the camera from LCE s/h and it didn't come with any software but ive just downloaded a program called 'gimp' and have just been practising on a photo of the moon that i took with very good results. i will persevere , well whe...

james, you was lucky, i had a break in the cloud for about an hour or so and took a few shots (see my new post) i was rather hoping for a few breaks this afternoon but it just steadily got worse.

tomorrow is looking even worse.

btw what is your set up? as your pics are stunning.
cheers simon

helps if i upload the photos - doh!

as per title, these were taken with iso 200 and shutter speed 1/320 but despite them appearing sharp in the viewfinder they still came out blurred, the scope had been outside for over an hour to acclimatise but im still not happy with the shots. i used canons zoombrowser ex to reduce the brightness ...

Hi to you, Set you camera as per the link below-----35/45 degrees to the scope(your 1st picture has the aircraft going down the frame). http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn191/niemilce/PRIV/P1050769.jpg iso=200/400-------------------------shutter speed 1/320 or above with BARLOW if you can get the...

thanks james, i use that one all the time but occasionally use this http://www.radarvirtuel.com/ but dont find it as accurate. would you recommend a 2" barlow or could i get away with this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/270762883442?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_1201wt_78...

Squelsh wrote:V nice first pic

many thanks, hopefully there will be many more to come when it stops raining
atb simon

hi james thanks for the advice mate, after id taken the photo i realised that a) id forgot to focus it and b) i had it on the night time mode as i was so exited that id took the photo id forgotten to check lol. im not using any eyepiece or barlow, just prime focus. here are two pics of my set up. 20...

hi dc,
thanks for the link buddy, ive read it many timesand im struggling to use my camera to its full potential.

i bought a canon 300d last week and have just managed my first picture.

what camera settings are best?

many thanks simon