ninjageezer

I tend to image for short sessions, unfortunately its not an option to leave gear out all night. what luxury it would be to set up and go to bed haha...😃

How important is autofocus ? I have been using a mask since I started earlier this year . I notice that most setups have some kind of autofocus .I have 2 setups at this time a widefield Z73 and an edgehd 8 with both I currently use a canon 60d modified. this will very soon be upgraded to a dedicated osc camera.

its ok thank you its slightly lower than the heq5 pro....

hi yes i'm hoping the legs are shorter than the HEQ5 pro when at the lowest .can you possibly measure the actual top of the stainless tube to the floor please. mine are about 85cm .

can anyone please tell me the overall lowest height that the EQ6R pro will go down to please. i have the HeQ5 pro and want to see how much taller it is.

In the market to replace my Astro modified canon 60D . i would like the camera to work well in my 2 current scopes if at all possible,WO Z73 and my recent purchase of a Edgehd 8 . i have the Field flattener on the Z73 and i have the .7 reducer for the Edge. i have also got a loadstar X2 for the OAG guiding with the edge ,i also need to get an OAG and possibly a filter drawer. i have been so far impressed with the ASI 533 pro and the ASI 2600 pro.aslo watching the player one upcoming releases in the next week or so.i have heard good things about these ,i was told they are a breakaway group who used to be with ZWO..... open to any suggestions,

Can anyone recommend a decent off axis guider to use with an edgehd 8 fitted with a .7 reducer,i want to use a loadstar x2 to guide also. plan was to get a celestron OAG but none about in the uk and no one give any time scale for any,so plan b......i do see ZWO have fetched out a new OAG ,not sure if it was better than the last one as all i heard was complaints mainly due to the tiny prism.

would the above camera be a good choice for Celestron OAG fitted to an Edgehd 8 for guiding ?

Got the same info back from the manufacturer's matters not one bit ,thanks for the advice.

Thanks Alan ,there was nothing to indicate any particular direction on the filter i could see.

May be a daft question but I have just received a IDAS NBZ Nebula Booster Filter, when I was fitting it to my W/O Z73 field flattener the instructions for the F/F stated the filters used must be bi directional I have looked but not found any info that tells me if this filter is such.

Hi all just getting started trying some planetary as i've just acquired an Edgehd 8 . I have a ASI 224mc camera with a badder ir cut filter screwed onto the front and then a powermate 2.5 x into a Meade flip mirror.on the top of the flip mirror i have a TV 25mm eyepiece to help location. the slight issue i came across (may not be a problem) is the depth of the nose piece in the flip mirror is not deep enough for the powermate,as you can see from my picture i have just used some 1.25 parfocal rings to give a better sung fit against the flip mirror . i can achieve equal focus it seems with the eyepiece and the camera ,the indicated focal length last night when shooting saturn was about 5000 .is this setup ok or am i missing something.

cool thanks i believe it fits in the Field flattener...

Thinking of trying the above on my Astro modified canon 60D ,seen some good reviews on nebulae... I will use it on my WO Z73 ,do I need the 2 inch or the 1.25 to fit my rig. I have the dedicated adjustable field flattener installed also.

Also from the celestron website. The EdgeHD .7x Focal Reducer Lens makes your EdgeHD 800 one full f-stop faster than f/10, doubling the equivalent exposure at f/10 4-element lens design Maintains similar flat-field performance as native EdgeHD optical design Increases field of view by 43% (double by area) to better capture wide field images Optimized for APS-C sized sensors, including most DSLR cameras and Nightscape CCD cameras Provides generous 105mm back focus to accomodate additional accessories and a wide variety of cameras Compatible with EdgeHD 800 T-Adapter

This is what i found when i was looking if my camera was ok for it. this is what made me look at getting one. What is the optimized image circle for the EdgeHD OTAs and Reducers? August 25, 2009 The EdgeHD optics are designed to optimize an image circle 21mm in radius from the center of the field of view. Doubling this figure gives an image circle 42mm in diameter. This is big enough to illuminate a 35mm sensor. The OTA's image circle extends well beyond the formats of popular APS-C sensors found on many DSLR cameras and many smaller chips used in specialized astrophotography CCD cameras. If you are using one of the .7 reducer lenses for either the 1400 or 1100 Edge HD optical tubes, the diameter of the image circle will remain at 42mm. If you are using the .7 reducer lens for the 800 Edge HD the image circle will will shrink to 26.7mm in diameter. The shrunken image circle will fully illuminate a cropped DSLRs (APS-C) senor or smaller CCD.

Great images are these with the edge hd ?

Great info thanks ,don't know a great deal about OAG,i have a APSC astro modified canon 60D.i use with my WO Z73 atm.

So I'm looking for another scope ,mainly for planetary but also for some of the smaller DSO that are a bit small for my widefield refractor. what i a would like to know ,is the large price difference worth it for my proposed use ? i have not really found and good image comparisons with the Celestron C8 XLT SCT fitted with a Reducer/Corrector f/6.3

Yes i think that is the best idea ,the only reason i looked at the cpc 800 was it seemed a bargain,,,,not so lol.

i pmd a chap on here a couple of days ago about a similar setup for sale i never heard anything .i have another i have my eye on also.

very tatty and dirty, front glass did not look good ,the handset buttons instead of being soft silicone was yellow and hard (probably due to the cigarette smoke in the house and also the gps did not work.not for me .

binned the idea the scope was not in awesome nick. the guiding would have been done on my heq5 mount ...

ok point taken ,i want it mainly for planetary and i got the offer of it quite cheap with a fair few extras.plan was to possibly use it for some DSO on the heq5 pro using its longer reach for smaller targets and use the wo 73 for the wider field ,i understand its a slower scope also. i found this on the celestron website for the dovetail bar.: would i be able to attach my guidescope/guidecam on top of the cpc 800 without this said bracket ? Celestron 8-inch Dovetail bar (CGE) Please note that this product will not work with CPC 800 GPS or CPC Deluxe 800 HD telescopes without completely removing the finder scope bracket.

is there an easy way to mount the above scope onto a heq5 mount ?