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Hi - I wondered if this might result in a useful thread...having just been out in the backyard, sinking some cheap, ornamental concrete slabs in my lawn to help with easy tripod placement and stability, I wonder what other people might have added to their kit/setup for, say, under 50 pounds/euros/bucks that improved their experience. For me there's a set of Jiodux Plastic Ground Anchors and a length of bungee cord (to pre-load my tripod), a 3D printed fine-focus assistant (pic's in my gallery), a hotshoe adapter to mount a red dot finder on my Canon and a pair of pruning shears that have just helped enormously with polar alignment ;) Clear Skies and I look forward to hear some other recommendations. |
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Clearly not as useful as I thought it might be.  |
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A Bahtinov mask made from the glossy cover of a magazine and duct tape. I am not using it any more because I focus electronically, but it was the best spent twenty minutes in 2019.  (It's a little squashed in the pic having just been retrieved from the drawer, wasn't like that when I was using it)  |
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Love it! I spent longer on my first mask, being unsure how accurate was 'good enough' - a few hours with a scalpel and some plastic. The 'holder' was a lid of some kind, that just happened to fit my lens...I've got a new Bahtinov mask now, so ordered some Baader solar filter foil to repurpose the holder for some solar observation!  |
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A little contribution, Home-brewed solar objective filter with a Baader solar filter sheet sandwiched in between a Ø77mm-62mm step-down ring and a Ø77mm UV filter. The combination reduces the telescope's aperture from Ø71mm down to Ø62mm, which is no problem for basic solar imaging. Total cost about USD 15.00.  |
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| Pruning shears? Please explain. |
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| Three x's scraped into cement pad at barn for tripod feets, makes polar alignment super easy! |
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Ah. Very good. I thought you used them as a diagonal |
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Jonas Hall: I've been waiting till autumn to cut back proper on a cherry tree in my garden, that's partly obscuring Polaris - I had to perform a bit of astro-topiary and prune a hole into the canopy at just the right angle to be able to Polar align during summer... On the same note - another cheap solution to add: a few clothing pegs and rubber bands to temporarily restrain the branches of an apple tree in my neighbours' garden, resulting in an extra hour on the Orion Nebula |
