Hello from Cracow in Poland

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Jan Bielański avatar
Hello!!!

My name is Jan and I am living in Cracow Poland. I am taking astronomical images from my family village Sidzina near Tatra mountains, this area have a good night sky with low light polution level (VIIRIS 2019 - ~0.2).

My journey with astronomy started from visual observations. I bought my first telescope at 2008 it was Sky-Watcher Newton 130mm/800mm. At 2016 I bought Celestron SCT 8" on NEQ6 Pro mount and then I started doing astrophotography. After that I had four years of experimenting. During this time I was replacing cameras, telescopes and finally telescope mount too.
I had following telescopes and
cameras:
  • Celestron SCT 8"
  • Celestron SCT 11"
  • Canon ESO 60D with modified uv/ir cut filter
  • QHY 10 CCD
  • QHY 168C
  • QHY 247C
  • NEQ6 Pro Mount

My current and finally primary set for astrophotography is:
  • iOptron CEM60-EC
  • TS Triplet APO 130mm / TS Guiding Scope 80mm
  • QHY600M / ZWO ASI 174MM Mini (for guiding)
  • Atik EFW2 with 2" Baader filters

I wouldn't change it for any othes stuff now. I have also small problems with
setting the appropriate distances between camera and telescope. Fortunately my friend have lathe machine and I can ask him for help.

I have hope that I learn here more things about astrophotography images processing and also my images will be inspiration for others.

Thank you for reading,
Jan

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Daniel Erickson avatar
Welcome, Jan! That's a nice rig you have. I'm looking forward to seeing your images.

Clear Skies,
Daniel
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