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Shawn Davidson avatar
I've been browsing for a few weeks and decided to join up as the site has helped me a lot.

I've been fascinated by the night sky since I was a kid but I've only ever used cheap wobbly refractor scopes in the past which have left me disappointed.

However I recently acquired a reasonably sized Dobsonian, that needs work, for £50 which, thanks to this site, I was able to identify as a Darkstar 8.75" 52"fl F5.9.

I'm an engineer to trade so I'm happy to do some DIY restoration and improvements on it.
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arnaud le coz avatar
Bonjour à tous du Tarn et novice depuis un an.je me lance dans l astrophotographie surtout planétaire.Mon setup skywatcher newton 150/750 PDS monture eq5, quelques oculaires.svbony  20 mm ultra wide 66.celestron omni 4 mm .un 10 mm,un 25,un,un 6,5 mm,un Magnum zoom omegon 8 24,une Barlow X2.Camera svbony sv 205, chercheur point rouge svbony et onstep exos 2 pro en cours de livraison.logiciel Sharp Cap pro,stelarium,pipp astoSurface.voila en gros.bonne journée à tous.
Jim Raskett avatar
Hi Shawn! 
Very glad that you joined us.
A lot of us started with a wobbly refractor and I even tried AP with it which only led to a ton of frustration.
Happy that you found a good scope to check out the amazing beauty above us. 
Very helpful folks here snd some amazing Astrophotography!
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arnaud le coz avatar
Merci beaucoup ravie de vous rejoindre
Brian Diaz avatar
Welcome aboard, I hope to see your images soon.

CS
Brian
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Martin Bailey avatar
Hi All,

I'm completely new here, having just picked up a Sky Watcher Quattro 250 and EQ6-R and hoping to learn a few things as I get started. I had a small Newtonian when I was around ten years old, and had so much fun. I always wanted to get back into Astronomy, and as a photographer by profession, I am now waiting for an M48 camera adapter for my new scope and will start creating images as the skies clear in a few months. I will play around with scope, get used to setting it up, and perhaps photograph the moon for a while during the summer, then try to look deeper as conditions allow. 

If any of the admins see this, your system just correctly identified that I am in Japan, but my welcome email was all in Simplified Chinese. Someone might want to look at that.
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Read noise Astrophotography avatar
Hi Shawn !!
Welcome !
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