Desperate For Good News

Those are not gold coins. They are Brass and Manganese. See below:




Unless the hoard looks like this, you probably don't have much more than melt value.

.... That's why I personally enjoy it. If it were easy, it would be boring & everyone would be doing it.... kinda like being a tiktok influencer.

@N A F H


Yes, some of us are 80+, but few collecting since age 3. Personally, I re-started collecting a few years ago, after a hiatus of about 40 years.
Collecting and still learning about coins and this hobby.

Ps - even found a few Sacagawea dollars, they are the same size and similar colour as our loonies.

only in my fifties here.

Like most of the old timers I started with a book, at age 9. That's how we did it in the old days books and magazines.

Today with the power of the net information is everywhere. Only problem is that anyone can post to any site, and they do. People who have 2 weeks experience and are excited to find out there rare pocket change is worth thousands of dollars (when it really isn't) will also get the most views/hits because everyone wants good news.

In 75 finding bad information was rare. Today it takes some effort to avoid it.

Well, I'm 62 years young but feel like 80, Started collecting when I was a bout 10

You need 2 telescopes mounted on top of each other.

The smaller scope is used to lock on to a star and keeps that star within a pixel throughout the night.

The second scope is linked to the mount and it has a larger camera. When I start the imaging session, I enter the coordinates of the object I want into a program on the laptop. There is another program called Plate Solving which you enter the telescope, camera and mount and it knows where 3-5 bright stars are supposed to be (based on the coordinates entered). Based on those stars the telescope goes back to the same location (within 50 pixels) every night and starts the routine again.

I probably spend an hour setting up the program before I even take my first picture.

I need to select the object, so I use https://telescopius.com/ to see what's available. Use the program to see how the object will be framed. Then get the coordinates, enter the coordinates to my laptop.

Set-up how many frames (of each filter) and how long each image should be.

And then hook up everything.

Align the scope and set-up a model of the sky.

Once the scope and mount are ready to go. You run the acquisition program. And hope that clouds don't come in and ruin your sequence.

In the case of the above picture, one day of 4 was ruined, but I needed a lot of images as this object is faint.

And people think coin collecting is hard

That is quite a set-up Helder, thanks for explaining it - now to get my head from spinning..