TiffsAndAstro

i reckon it would be too hard to make such a thing as user friendly and customisable. but. this is zwo. an almost completely modular system where the customer can select an option for each component part or later choose to buy upgrade components is probably their wet dream. i reckon itd be pretty tricky but there's a good chance its on their to do list. don't mean to sound too harsh to zwo. from what i have read they make some really good stuff. and its red in colour the f4 120mm guide scope i have from them is a bit crap though. but for £70 or whatever its probably good enough. the 120mm guide cam seems nice.

yeah good point.

Might be worth hanging on for a new bigger better version?

If I get regular major lag via WiFi and a future mini pc on my scope I'll try a WiFi dongle. Failing that, just one more wire for ethernet would do.

Occasionally but my Virgin media router is 🐕 💩 It's not like I'm gaming on it

A really versatile scope really appeals but even cheapest 8" sct is 1300 plus another 300 for reducer plus maybe another 1000 for possible hyperstar. 350 for a nice used RC sounds like you stole it

As a non zwo camera might be turning up in the next 5-11 days, asi air is out. Wouldn't shock me if there's a firmware hack or something though.

one day, this will be my guide scope.

been looking at them and they are really tempting too. also would give me another colour for my "Josepth and his technicolour dreamcoat" telescope setup goal

meh eastenders or osc camera reviews. its a tough call

the galaxy image someone linked somewhere on this website recently of like 22 hours in bortle 2 was incredible. shows its potential combined with being able to take it as carry on a plane.

I don't like tents either. But if I ever want to see a dark sky in the distant future I might have to start appreciating one or both. I'm too old to sleep on a thin strip of foam or air bed though.

My biggest* fault is doing further product research after buying said product. Reading an article on sharp cap analysis of sv605cc says it has a well depth of 73k not 50k and unity gain is 130 not 100. This is close to player ones specs for their version. Wonder if they use same circuit boards or something. If so I'm refering to mine as playertwo in the future * Not really my biggest fault

S50 has narrowband filters built in? It's a very tempting product considering it costs less than my camera alone. And who doesn't like a carbon fibre tripod?

Asiair is very very tempting, but zwo lockin on cameras is a bit ick. Also I've married Nina and she'd be upset with such a fast divorce Raspberry pi and astroberry also an option but I haven't used Linux in years. And still no Nina.

Me too

I've been comparing a lot of fovs. I just got a tracking number for DHL, so I'm sticking with a 533 for now lol Hopefully it will be suitable for a possible sct in the distant future too. Hopefully I get a decent tec cooled 533 with filter draw and UV/it cut filter for less than the cost of a uncooled 585 and zwo accessories....I'm far from certain what's even in the deal. Powersuplly? Probably not but I saw an unboxing video of someone who did. Might be special treatment for a yt er. Ty for your kind offer of astap help. I'll watch a lot of YouTube videos first though. 533 is square and reminds me too much of 1980s TV shows aspect ratio, but that's about my only concern. I already crop a fair bit and mosaics will solve that, though more complicated:( Also more forgiving of tilt/focus tube slop issues than 16:9 or even my current 3:2. I'll have to get a Ha + Oiii dual narrowband filter at some point. Maybe even an S + something second one. Not sure about that. I said elsewhere that I don't like Hubble palette. Turns out it's not that simple, of course. I've seen a couple images I think it works really nicely on, not sure yet if that's the palette itself or the way it was processed. I just need to get good data and I can worry about different ways of processing later. I can't be the only noob who thinks I can map the different emissions to colours different to Hubble palette and get a result I prefer

my plan is one day for a mele with the powered usb i already have plugged in. for now my expert wiring via the usb hub and then into my laptop is doing ok. chrome remote desktop seems ideal for this too. have it on my phone and my desktop to connect the my laptop.

if you have an old windows laptop, id suggest using that initially to test the water (as i currently do) and get an idea of how it all works together. after that you can look at attaching a mini pc to yourscope as youll have a better idea of what you need. i haven't seen any mini pcs with more than 3 usb ports though. usually 1x usb3 and 2xusb2 im very new to this hobby though so bare that in mind

Ty didn't realise astap was free let alone do mosaics. I've looked at mosaics in Ninas framing assistant and not sure how much overlap is needed. Will obviously have a test or two first. I think elp mentioned edge of frame defects being a problem in a thread, which I'd never even considered, so I will need to address any before attempting. I'll look up some astap tutorials and give it a go ty My camera still hasn't shipped, so I have a feeling I won't be getting it. I might have to change my choice and go back to an uncooled 585 based camera. *** seems i already downloaded astap's star databases, i guess for nina?

Definitely good advice to fix problem than deal with symptoms. I'm guessing I'll go PI at some point, I can fix eggy stars in siril to some extent, but they still can look bad in other ways. I'll post a tilt result of the 533 8-11 days

Read your posts on those threads and feel bad for you. Probably me too. Astrophotography is like a box of chocolates....

Yeah, I read those threads you kindly linked and they just scare me. This is my first scope and setup, hopefully completely by my eagerly awaited sv605cc. I'm not expecting perfection, just good enough to impress myself. I can already take passable images of f£&£ing galaxies from my suburban back yard for not that much Dosh. Galaxies! I guess I'll just have to see what happens if I get my new camera attached properly. A bit of tube sag/whatever hopefully won't be the end of the world. I do have an observatory/astro club 10 mins drive away, if I can ever get there, and they might be able to assist with focus tube stuff. They seem very friendly. I should add, I just want a nice pic of m31 and horsehead which with my gear will be far superior to what was possible back when I was at uni a hundred years ago. A few apods would be lovely, but I'm better at managing expectations than i was back then

Houston we have problem. Sorry couldn't resist. How far is it? Maybe Uber?

I think this is what I have, dslr sensor tilt. I'm pretty sure I had same thing previously using my rubbish* vintage lenses. I blamed the T2 cannon adapter and a Pentax to canon cheapo adapter at the time. * Rubbish for astro. For day time or moon stuff they are pretty decent for the cost.