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Just because something isn’t broken doesn’t mean it can’t be improved. The gain in contrast for visual or imaging is always beneficial.

Flocking reduces internal reflections much more than the standard paint job. More normally used with Newtonians around the upper end opposite the focuser and around the area immediately infront of the primary.

Hi All you wonderful people? Has anyone flocked the inside of their Celestron Edge HD 8? Is there a process to removing the corrector to do this and returning it to the same position? Presumably the primary assembly can remain in situ during the process? Hopefully, Francis

Masterful imaging. 👍

Ditto

You will have additional costs for both. Each will need field flatteners for photographic use so factor in the costs of those.

I like those John. Not had chance with Saturn yet, usual weather probs but one day the weather gods will be kind...

@bosun21 Thanks, I’ve put the original collar back in place and before fully installing the eaf motor unit I pointed the scope at a distant tree with the camera in place and just turned the coupling until I had an image. I then fitted the eaf motor unit. Previous to this I found that either the eaf or the eaf handset only allowed 10 full rotations so I’d rotated the motor 5 rotations from an end point before removing it to refit the original collar. So hopefully, having manually adjusted to a distant tree I have +/- 5 rotations from that point.

From FLO's web site: Masuyama 1.25″ 1.5x and 2x Barlow Lenses | First Light Optics Not used one, no knowledge of the product etc etc...

I have just got a SW SkyMax 150 and taken my first images of Jupiter with it on an asi585MC, no filters, no extenders. Just to see what I would get... As a first attempt I'm happy. Mars being smaller you may need to use some form of extender?

Hi Avocette, quick question, when you fitted your Celestron/ eaf adapter did you leave the original circular collar in place and fit the adapter over it? Ive fitted mine and removed that collar but it allows the focuser assembly to float. I couldn’t find a focus first of all so tried sliding the brass barrel of the focus knob further back into the ota and then only managed to get a doughnut of a bright star. I’ll try tomorrow in daylight with the original collar in place and look at some distant trees…

Thanks @Avocette

Has anyone done this? It seems that using the Celestron (RASA 😎 bracket attachment and modifying the coupling allows an EAF to be fitted to the 150 Pro. Before I splash the cash I wanted to know if theres anyone who's actually done the mod? Cheers

Europa's shadow

Having seen @bosun21 's Jupiter I decided to take a look at one of the other sequences I shot and see if I could get anything else from the session... Softer approach to the wavelets