New telescope.

dlofnep

So I'm now the proud owner of a Celestron C11-SGT. It's an 11" Schmidt-Cassegrain scope, on a computerized heavy duty German Equatorial mount. Still figuring her out at the moment, it's a big step up from my 8" dobsonian.

Hope to start taking some quality shots and footage with her soon. Here's a picture of her, almost assembled. She's HUGE. (And heavy).

Nice, have fun with it

Plug

Weapon of a thing! Fully goto I suppose?
Hopefully you get a few clear nights. These past 6 months have been rubbish

dlofnep

Yeah, full goto. Need to get to grips with her first though! Haven't had it out yet.

Calibos

New scope! Yeah thanks for that buddy, no wonder its been cloudy for the aurora. IMHO all astro purchases should be made at midsummer when its not worth observing anyway. Didn't anyone tell you about the new scope cloud curse. A bloody 11" SCT means about another 6 weeks of cloud. Thanks...Thanks alot :rolleyes:

dlofnep

LOL I know! Clouds are here to annoying me

ThatDrGuy

I have an 11inch celestron too. Its a curse. It draws clouds from the entire northern hemisphere. They also take about 6 hours to cool down so plan your observing early unless you have active cooling. Also be careful moving it. You jostle it at all and you will have to re-colimate it. Make sure the mirror is secured (turn focusing knob all the way to left before moving). Also they dew up in seconds. If you dont have a dew shield buy one now. And a heater. Hair dryers dont work.

dlofnep

Cheers - I'll be ordering a dew shield soon. I have a foam case for it to transport in. What are they like for collimating?

Cú Giobach

Calibos wrote: »

New scope! Yeah thanks for that buddy, no wonder its been cloudy for the aurora. IMHO all astro purchases should be made at midsummer when its not worth observing anyway. Didn't anyone tell you about the new scope cloud curse. A bloody 11" SCT means about another 6 weeks of cloud. Thanks...Thanks alot

+1

Dlofnep, congrats on your purchase, but why don't you bugger off up to Donegal with it for a few weeks, and let us on the south coast get a look at the sky before the summer comes.
Buying an 11" indeed, tut tut, how inconsiderate can you get.


P.S. Enjoy.

dlofnep

Hah, looks like it's going to be a cloudy summer!

Popoutman

I'm not jealous! Not much anyway!

Best of luck with it.

jumpjack

dlofnep wrote: »

So I'm now the proud owner of a Celestron C11-SGT. It's an 11" Schmidt-Cassegrain scope, on a computerized heavy duty German Equatorial mount. Still figuring her out at the moment, it's a big step up from my 8" dobsonian.

Wonderful moment to buy a telescope, you can currently see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and the Moon all in same night in a few hours! (at least at my longitude, in Italy).

dlofnep

I already have a telescope, this is just a better one But indeed, it is a great time for astronomy.. Or at least, it would be if the clouds would go away.

dlofnep

*kicks clouds in the face*

Go away already!

Cú Giobach

dlofnep wrote: »

*kicks clouds in the face*

Go away already!

The Boards Angry Mob Bus has been collecting people all night, we should be at your house around lunch time.

dlofnep

That's the spirit!