Hi Lars and welcome  to Roboscopes

You have very similar equipment to what I use home, I have a Lunt 80 Double stacked and a Intes MN 10" F5.5 Deluxe which is my visual instrument :)

I love my Intes and its the sharpest telescope I have ever used

Steve

Welcome to Roboscopes Lars :)

Yes welcome to the forum Lars. Definitely a good decision on your part which should save you a lot of money while learning more and allow you to share in the vast knowledge of existing subscribers. Don't worry about asking for any advice. When I first joined I received a lot of help. I try to assist other people these days as much as possible if I think I can. Do you have a preferred pier in mind to make use of first, and the kind of object you'd like to try?

Cheers and CS,

Ray 

Hi all,

thanks for the warm and kind welcome :-) Without having done or contributed much yet, I appreciate the encouraging tone here :-) 

@ Steve: Intes MN 10" used to be my dream instrument - yet even bulkier to handle than my MN86. So I decided to be kind to my back ... Due to its small secondary mirror the MN86 is limited in terms of photography (excellent for planetary imaging though). Visually it has absolutely stunning contrast and sharpness. 

@ Ray: Well, hard to say as a newbie. Currently Im thinking about starting with some some "easy" and well known objects - objects that I "know", how they should look like and that are well known in terms of visual scoping too. I love stellar clusters, so that could be a starting point. Next step for my could be a deeper look at emission nebulae - like NGC 3372 - or others areas, were stars are born (how ist the right term in english?) I find these especially fascinating. What would your advice be regarding Piers?

CS

Lars

Hi Lars,

Thanks for the reply and answering my questions. There are many nice emission nebulae you can pick from, but I wasn't familiar with the one you mentioned. An easy mistake that I also make when browsing images for something really interesting to try. When you look them up so many of them turn out to be southern hemisphere objects. Lol. I'm sure the same applies to those down under who find something that turns out to be a northern hemisphere one, much to their frustration.

Yes you are correct they are regions where new stars are being born. 

Personally I think you will be limited to choices of piers on this site for imaging star clusters. Steve may well correct me on this though. Again and just personally, I think you need something with good resolution, typically 1.0 arc seconds a pixel or less. Pier 7 with the William optics refractor would be a good choice, or, maybe a pier with a OSC camera for your first go such as pier 6. For that pier something wide like M45 would be a good choice to get you started, that's if you haven't already imaged it.

I'll leave it there for now while you gather your thoughts and look for something to have a go at. Please don't hesitate to ask further questions.

Cheers,

Ray 

Hi Lars,

any chance you heard about this great remote service last Wednesday @ASL?

Then welcome my friend :-)))

If not: welcome anyway!

Lass mal schnacken,

Martin from Lübeck

Hi Martin,

absolutely right :-) 

CS und bis demnächst

Lars