Hi james
I had the A340 on radar on sunday so you might be in luck.
all the best
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Hey leedseagle!leedseagle wrote:hi there
a couple from monday 21st Dec with barlow
Aeroflot (i think) overhead flying west
sorry bout the quality but had to put this up Air Force jet with radar disc on the back heading north
all of my shots from a distance are coming out distorted with barlow only shots from overhead are semi usable
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DC10 your distance shots are superb any tips?
All the best
leedseagle
Collimating the scope with a laser can bring you to think the scope is collimated but actually it isn't. It has happened to me. Usually the laser is used only to check if the scope is already collimated or if a new collimation's needed. To collimate your scope my advice is to buy a cheshire eyepiece. It's much more simple than using the laser and you understand what you're doing. With the laser is everything isn't already perfect ( i mean the focuser is perpendicular to the tube and the laser is well collimated) you can get a wrong collimation.leedseagle wrote:i have collimated my scope with laser and left scope outside to aclimatise with fan on back but, other than overhead, images are still out of focus on planes with barlow and primary mirror moved up from lowest position three quarter turns on screws next to collimation knobs at back of mirror. What tweeks should i make to focus?
PY .... black magic mode true parrots (transponders).contrailwatcherUK wrote:The Suriname is nice DC10! Will keep a good eye out for this one. The 747 used to fly over me quite a lot, but It was hard to catch because it never showed its position on the radar.
david_scotland wrote:I don't know what plane this is as I'm just starting out with this hobby. Planes fly over my house all the time.