Taking Pictures of Stars at 2000mm Focal Length. 

Will a 120mm refractor be good for astrophotography

Definitely! Awesome that you were able to get the rough target!

Great video and good start with the SCT Trevor. Don't be afraid to lower those exposure times and increase the gain. You can then stack the "lucky frames" as there are many unlucky ones at 2000mm.

I've taken the plunge! Bought a new Celestron Advanced VX mount and found a used but in very good condition William Optics GT102. That is if it ever gets here. The USPS is really having a hard time. My GT102 will be a week late tomorrow. I'm going to get the Canon EOS Ra as well but I don't want it shipped. I found one but it's a 50 mile drive. But if it's still available on Friday, I'm going to pick it up. Then I got a ZWO 120MM Mini to go with a WO 50MM Uniguide scope. Last I want to get an ASIair Pro so I can do it all wireless. I can't wait to get it all together as I have some nice dark sky locations. I remember walking out of the tent around 2AM up in the Colorado Mountains close to the Wyoming border. I swear I thought I was on another planet. I don't think I've seen the Milky Way since I was 6 and I'm 67 now. So I want to go up there for a week and go crazy. Fly long range FPV during the morning. Nap in the afternoon and up all night. Yahoo.. ;o)

Importantly is having fun and joy! cheer !

'Cause that's men do when they feel guilty!

He's married :)

@@Mike-1000 to another photographer

His wife sounds like mine. Supportive but only because she has too.

At least he didn't use the old "look at the present I got for you, Ashley" 😉

Best of luck to you I do not think my tiny Power seeker 127eq is gonna see anything

@@myfishingadventures1509 i have to do wide angle stuff because the one usable telescope with less color fringing is a 99 dollar reflector with no way to mount it to a good mount.

Wide angle star trail and milky way stuff is real pretty though. But it does suck not having good quality big zooms.

People throw the word epic around these days, but that must truly have been!!

@@AstroBackyard It 24,000mm focal length and it is big enough to see the color in hundreds of stars.

It’s still open?

I was lucky to see it through 2 meter Zeiss-2000 telescope at focal length of 27,500mm

Love that place.

Omer Ahmed In an equal relationship there are shared and own expenses. I think this the latter, but nevertheless people are usually interested in what their partners are up to.

"I'll use it for the next 10 years" 😄

@@AstroBackyard "That's what you said about the one you bought two months ago"

@@robsbackyardastrophotograp8885 lmao

Thank you Sir! Ahh yes thats the ultimate test of how comfortable you are with your gear. If its "star party ready"

No matter what my husband is excited about and passionate about so am I so if he wants to buy something I tell him go for it babe !!!! All wives and husbands needs to be more supportive of each other’s passions. it hurts my heart to see people just give up things they’re so passionate about bc of their partner not being understanding but when it’s something they want they expect to be understood

My wife says the same - she says if I'm going to spend lots of time with new gear, it had better be really nice! She always says get the best. She helped me get a C14EdgeHD some years ago - now I do trade some clear nights for date night, fair's fair :-).

Much better investment than clothes and jewelry IMO.

Thank you Elmiko!

Whatever I can do to help! 😄

I use APT's platesolving on the regular for my imaging. Works fantastic

Agreed, starsense is just great for visual observing. Place your sct anywhere on an alt/az mount, let starsense do its thing and watch. No laptop nothing. But for AP it is kind of useless. Btw. No chance of getting decent guiding with that tiny guidescope on a 11" sct, oag or a really big guidescope is a must with these monsters.

Yeah man globular clusters are almost always well smaller than open clusters (like the Pleiades). GC’s are much older, and so gravity has had way more time to pull all those old stars towards each other. Also, old stars are typically not big bright stars. All the massive, super-hot, super-bright stars (like you typically find in open clusters) don’t live all that long, so super old globular clusters typically have a lot of smaller yellow, brown, and red dwarf, main-sequence stars. GC’s are like zen monasteries of old wise men, whereas OC’s are like a coked-up 80’s rock concert.