2,500mm plus 2xTC

astroNikon · May 22, 2016

Was playing around with my telescope. Hoping for a clear night.
So I put a 2x Teleconvertor on it.

What a pain to focus though.

A street sign at 2500 - look at the Bokeh / OOF !!

Then at 2x

Then an aircraft basically 7.25 miles away

..

minicoop1985 · May 22, 2016

Holy crap!

Peeb · May 22, 2016

We are not worthy.

We bow to the dominance of your glass!
:Hail.sml:

jcdeboever · May 22, 2016

Nice. Amazing. That s**t ain't easy either.

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tirediron · May 22, 2016

NICE!

manaheim · May 22, 2016

That's crazy. lol

jake337 · May 22, 2016

Break out the pocket wizards!

zombiesniper · May 22, 2016

Wow!

5000mm! I can shoot birds from my Lazyboy!

astroNikon · May 22, 2016

This is the moon at 5,000 when it was low in the horizon so not much detail.

astroNikon · May 22, 2016

T'was the night nothing wanted to work.
My Telescope computer was going whacko and wanted to take a look at China all the time. So I put it in Manual ... ugh. Even my corded Nikon OEM remote just stopped working for no reason at all.
Ugh. I gave up after a while. I'll have to reset/reconfigure everything in the day light.

KC1 · May 22, 2016

It seems to vignette quite a bit.
Nice pics though, for a scope.

cherylynne1 · May 23, 2016

Are you going to take some pictures of Mars on the 30th?

DarkShadow · May 23, 2016

You can capture some of those exotic crazy color birds that Donde shoots In columbia I think right from the comfort of your own yard. :1251:

jaomul · May 23, 2016

Well done..

I'd say continous focus is a ***** though

astroNikon · May 23, 2016

cherylynne1 said:
Are you going to take some pictures of Mars on the 30th?

I may but it's still just a red dot to the camera, though a larger red dot streaking across the sky. When I add magnification (such as an eyepiece) then you can see a lot more.