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Thanks Dave, I've gone ahead and bought a Svbony 0.5 from China, should be arriving in a few days time.My thoughts are it's so cheap as to be a throwaway item, if it's half good then it's a bargain, and I can then think of getting something better.

Hi Robin

Thanks for that, I think a focal reducer would probably be the less expensive option. Although looking through some of these websites only just!!!
Will try again when the moons up.

Thanks

Steve

Hi Robin After a fruitless night trying to focus on Spica I opted for a daytime session on some hills about 1.5/2 miles distant and had some slight success in viewing a house and the trees behind, images where blurry and the heat rising from the ground wasn't helping a bit. Today I set up a football...

Hi All Total newbie to astro photography so please bear with me, hence my purchase of a fairly low entry model in the shape of a Svbony 305 which I hope to use for planetary and moon.Scope is a Skywatcher Mak 127 on an EQ3-2 with RA motorised drive. Having set up ok and everything looking good with ...