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[Howard Smith]

Hi all, well, I think I was a member, a long long time ago (pun intended), and have rejoined. Not sure how active I can be, but will hope to join you at Kenley and Shirley from time to time. My story: 35 years ago I built a 6-inch Dobsonian (David Hinds optics). It's still very nice and crisp.  I got re-engaged to give some advice to a friend wishing to get into astronomy, and then got 'intrigued' myself with the possibility of things like the Dwarf 3 ... BUT, before I get one of those using my Canon 90D for some stacking. Hoping for some results, starting simple, no tracker, 50mm lens, 6 second exposures ... bought myself a Pixel TW-283 to run the shoot ... and then ... what I fear most ... learning Siril ;-)  Hoping for some advice and help on that.  Realize this is all a bit 'amateur hour' compared to you guys, but I'll share an image or two ... if I ever get any. Thank you for the society. Regards, Howard

[Roy Easto]

Hi Howard,

Good to hear from you. I have also been trying shooting the sky with a Nikon camera with all sorts of camera lenses including 50mm with similar 8 seconds undriven images and using intervalometers and stacking the images. Its early days with for me to with this setup. My skies are rather light polluted but if I get it working I may try it from rural Surrey. It will be nice to see your results.

Roy

On 17/12/2025 21:11, Howard Smith wrote:

Hi all, well, I think I was a member, a long long time ago (pun intended), and have rejoined. Not sure how active I can be, but will hope to join you at Kenley and Shirley from time to time. My story: 35 years ago I built a 6-inch Dobsonian (David Hinds optics). It's still very nice and crisp.  I got re-engaged to give some advice to a friend wishing to get into astronomy, and then got 'intrigued' myself with the possibility of things like the Dwarf 3 ... BUT, before I get one of those using my Canon 90D for some stacking. Hoping for some results, starting simple, no tracker, 50mm lens, 6 second exposures ... bought myself a Pixel TW-283 to run the shoot ... and then ... what I fear most ... learning Siril ;-)  Hoping for some advice and help on that.  Realize this is all a bit 'amateur hour' compared to you guys, but I'll share an image or two ... if I ever get any. Thank you for the society. Regards, Howard --
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