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  1. Santa brought me some upgrades for my Skymax 127 Mak Baader Skysurfer III RDF & A do-it-yourself Autofocuser upgrade kit (Skywatcher Autofocuser, Mini Dovetail, L-Bracket, GT2 Pulleys & Belt) Using a 60 Tooth pulley on the Skymax, and 20 Tooth pulley on the Focus motor, for a 3:1 ratio, makes for a slower focus, but dialled down to the slowest speed allows for a super fine focus adjustment, will give it a few test runs at this ratio and if it works I may add the HiTecAstro unit to change focus straight from my PC!
  2. Beelink U59 Pro Mini PC, for remote operation. Had to come up with a telescope mounting solution, so epoxied the included VESA mount bracket to a spare Lighting Truss Clamp I had lying around Makes for a nice secure attachment to a Skywatcher Tripod Leg
  3. Setting up and adjusting my EQ5 Pro today I noticed that a certain combination of Dec / RA positioning might be problematic, where the Dec Motor Casing can collide with the Dec Out / RA In Cables: Does the Goto already recognise this position and limit automatic slewing from causing damage?, same question for manual slewing or EQMOD control from Stellarium / Cartes Du Ciel? Or do I have to somehow enter limits to stop this collision from potentially happening? (On my Handset / Firmware version question I'm still waiting on a response from OVL) Thanks for any help offered.
  4. Postie brought the Skymax 127 to go on the EQ5, and the EQ5 power supply. And clouds, lots of clouds, sorry all!
  5. Postie brought me an EQ5 Pro, looking forward to them bringing me the Skymax 127T to stick on top of it tomorrow (Oh, and the 12v Supply I forgot to order with it, doh!)
  6. Hi All, I've just bought a new EQ5 Pro from FLO. I wanted to check I had the latest firmware installed, however I'm a little confused over hardware & firmware versions. I see references to V4/V5 handsets on the Sky-Watcher site, but my handset seems to be reporting itself as a 6.00 for both Hardware & Firmware? Alan.
  7. Some amazing images here! That said, pretty happy with my very modest image of Jupiter, my 2nd ever attempt at imaging, unfortunately the iEXOS-100 was faulty, and would neither track nor slew properly (Motors would literally freeze dead with a grindy noise) Therefore the image is unguided/tracked, and produced by capturing 3 x 3000 frames by aiming the scope with Jupiter in lower left quadrant of the sensor, letting it drit then realiigning 3 times. Preprocessed in PIPP, Stacked best 40% of 9000 in Autostackert, then sharpened with Wavelets in Registax. Mount is being replaced with a brand new EQ5 Pro from FLO, at least with that mount I can maybe go for a 127mm SkyMax M-C or an Evostar 72mm Apo down the line.
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