Hi From Australia, and Jupiter images

Hey bird great images you got there and the 13.1" scope looks great beautiful piece of engineering

Is Jupiter upside down down-under?

Super images - well done. Keep us posted on any of those beautiful Southern objects we never get to see.

G'day Bird!

I just had a look at your web site - those are some very impressive images. What kind of f/ratio are you working at and what sort of image capture regime are you using?

I was especially interested in your mirror cooling and temperature sensing set-up. I am in the middle of building a 14" f/15 folded Stevick-Paul scope for high contrast planetary work and am still considering how to cool the four surfaces and eliminate tube currents in this folded arrangement. I haven't finished all the surfaces yet, so I have a bit of time to decide!

Beautiful work!

Phil.

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Wow!

Those are some awesome pictures there Bird!

Welcome to the IFAS boards.
Please don't be a stranger and jump right in to the discussions....

It looks like your mount is buried in the soil.
Is it left there all the time?
The very thought of doing something like that in rainy Ireland
would be insane!

Keep those pics comin'!

Super images - well done. Keep us posted on any of those beautiful Southern objects we never get to see.

With views like this of Jupiter, I'd love to see what he can do about th Magellanic Clouds!

Totally!

Please Bird, image / photo stuff we can't see here....
that would be a real treat!