Chris-h

How are you guiding? I only had a newt for a short while, but I could never get round stars with a guidescope. The stars improved a lot after switching to a OAG, but they were still not perfect (collimation, CC distance). After a while I gave up, and switched to a refractor

Oh btw, Sony does have the 585 in mono as well. I think ZWO are looking into it, so might be worth waiting a bit

I sometimes do EAA with my Samyang 135. I have the 585 as well, and I don't think you lose out that much to mono with this sensor. I also use it with my Altair Dualband filters. These work well even at f/2! The stars are horrible though, so starless all the way!🤣 Here are NGC1499 (30x30sec) at F/2 And M42 (106x30sec) at f/2.8. Gain 300

All my FLO stuff arrives quickly. Maybe not the next day, but two days tops. The gear always arrives with clouds anyway, so not like we're in a rush to use it! 🤣 My local postmen/women bend over backwards to help you out. Great service! But I guess a lot of that comes from it being the same people over several years. You all get to know each other.

Turns out it was dispersion. I didn't think it would be that bad at that altitude, but it was.

I thought I would give this a go with my C9.25, and it seems to work well. However, I noticed that I'm only collimated in red (I used an IR pass filter when collimating). Green is off, but blue is really bad. I used Capella, which was quite high at the time, so I don't think it's dispersion. Could it be the optics? Thanks!

I bought one of THESE from TS before Brexit, but I'm sure someone sells them over here as well. Lots of holes, which makes balancing things sooo much easier!

We must have different bad seeing! Mine doesn't produce images like that! 😄 Nice image! 👍

Where are you finding this great seeing? I just get a mess everytime I am out! 😁 Great animation!

I had the Astrokraken, which was fine at first, but broke in the end. I now have one from Astrodymium (FLO sells it), and it is WAY better. Very solid. easy to attach a ZWO EAF, and you can mount a guidescope at the top or on the side. https://www.firstlightoptics.com/adapters/astrodymium-ring-system-with-zwo-eaf-asiair-mount-for-samyang-rokinon-135mm-f2-lens.html

Microsoft ICE is now discontinued, but it can still be found on the net. It is free and works well on auto settings 98% of the time. It does not take .fit files though

Amazing images!

A great image

I doubt you will have any problems 😀

More starlinks. They have been very busy sending up more garbage over the last couple of days 🙄