Bignose13

Just a quick question, if I set the gain of this camera to 250 my darks are white out at 2 mins but if I drop the gain to 0 I get black frames I plan on shooting tonight on 250 gain so is it ok to have darks at 0 or have they got to be the same gain as the lights ? cheers

Thanks, I’ll give it a go next time out on the same target 👍

Scope is a SW72ED plus using a mask to focus, this was the first time I used the camera as I usually use a 600D astro modded and found fousing a bit of a pain compared to live view of the Cannon, I did rush a bit,

Thanks This is all a bit new to me tbh Cant understand why the darks had light leak, I had the cover on the scope with a towel over it as well,

Thats awesome mate, thnk you very much Gonna use that as my wallpaper

Just realised I havent updated this topic, Rother valley agreed the complete kit was duff, after sending back to the supplier (Vision optical)who said not once but twice that they had fixed it and was exactly the same as when I sent it back to Vision optical, Alex at Rother valley said he'd replace it, had to wait about 6 weeks but when it arrived I fitted it and worked a charm, nearly 7 months of pulling my hair out was soon forgotten when I asked the mount to go to Deneb and when I took a shot, Deneb in the middle of the frame and no grinding noise from the motors, I'm well happy

Hi Mate I had to do Google as dropbox crapped out on me Heres the link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1c6Z0cXieu0C2Cpdxu4wUdph1QipYs8J3?usp=sharing Thanks for this, appreciate it Simon

Give me 5 mins, and I'll set up a dropbox link Cheers

Yeah sure, not sure how though tbh

Yeah sure, not sure how though tbh

I bought one of these ASI585 from FLO this week, tried last night on the Cygnus wall, tbh I was a bit disappointed, maybe it was my settings I had in it through the asi air plus 🤷🏻‍♂️ or my processing skills in Photoshop i shot 60 lights at 300 sec with 10 darks 50 flats and bias frames the gain was set to 150

Well it's official, It's knackered, Skywatcher asking for everything back, mount, motors etc to investigate the problem, fair play to Adam at Rother Valley, 1st class service I'll keep the thread updated, thanks for all the suggestions

I'll double check mine, I'm pretty sure it's centered, I did it a few weeks back when the weather was rubbish and was bored

The motors sound fine tbh, but being the first goto mount I've owned I dont know if it's wrong or not, I can take a vid of it slewing if you like so you can hear the motors working, but everything sounds fine to me

Yeah I installed it myself, I'll get some pics uploaded today, Thanks

Well I've just spent the last 3 hours trying to get this thing to do what I've paid it to do and still way off, I'm beginning to think the MCB or Hand controller is faulty, I had a faulty MCB when I bought the kit and this is a new one, so maybe this one id duff as well

Yeah its the EQ5 upgrade kit, I use an app on my phone to see where Polaris is on the polar scope and move the mount to the same position, PA Align pro, Also when sending the mount to the home position the weights are down and the scope is pointing towards Polaris, the date is correct also, I inputted last night dates as 03/19/2022 I've even used NINA to polar align making sure the scope is pointing north to give NINA an easier job and get within 1 arcsecond, but even NINA is way off when I slew to a target, doesn't even track 😠

Hi I have the EQ5 with upgrade kit and just cant get the mount to point in the object I'm seeking, I cant even get the 1,2 or 3 star alignment to work correctly, If I start the alignment process and set Rigel as the star then the mount slews in the general direction but is still way off the mark, I have polar aligned correctly and all the info has been put into the hand controller correctly, I triple checked everything Any ideas before I sell up, this has been a few weeks now and I'm starting to get really frustrated, Cheers