Reckon he's looking to give you a taste of his sauce.

If your heart rate was 80085 then possibly even more so....

Sorry Ma'am. No stars for me today then. Again.

Perfect! 😁

You planning on going back any time? We need good teachers Mrs Johr• on!

Heartbeak

He's clearly a total duckwit.

Now see that's what I mean, I'm interested but without any domain knowledge. Of course you don't need amazingly dark skies for the planets, that never occurred to me. Thanks for the steer.

Out of interest what would the OP likely see with that kind of setup when training the lens on some nearby stars. Other than our own sun of course 🤭

Cheers, I got excited when I saw the notification for your reply on my phone, as it truncated that figure to $250 😁

Still $2500 seems very reasonable and these days would be some £2500 I expect. I just need another £250,000 on top of that to afford the upgrade to a house in a dark skies part of the country 🥴

Excellent, thank you. I suspected it would need to be automatic of course, I remember as a young lad with a basic as beans "my first refractor telescope" trying to keep up manually with the moon. My first and only telescope. If I lived in a properly dark skies area of England I'd think about getting another, 40 years later, it's just mind blowing what you can see.

Do you mind me asking what kind of ball park cost we'd be talking for a setup like yours. No probs if you'd rather not say.

Fantastic images, much appreciated.

As an astronomically interested (though completely unknowledgeable) engineer from a totally different field, what is the process you use to locate, zoom and then track a body that moves across our night sky so rapidly. At that distance doesn't it move across your field of view very quickly?

Apologies if that is a really dopey question, but I'm old enough now to not care what people think of me 😁

It's not a dumb question given how the scientific community often present images to the general non technical public without properly explaining that they are completely made up representations of how these astronomical entities might look.