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My Daystar Quark has suddenly stopped working
Davey-T replied to Dave Smith's topic in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
I had one that the light turned green when indoors in the warm but as soon as I took it outside it turned red again. Dave -
My Daystar Quark has suddenly stopped working
Davey-T replied to Dave Smith's topic in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
Sounds like it needs sending off to Daystar Dave although this isn't without it's problems in my experience. First insured courier isn't cheap and necessary export / import paperwork is confusing. Then you have to hope that they actually fix it when they get it as I have had them returned as bad or worse than when sent so obviously they hadn't bothered to test them before returning. Communication with Daystar is a bit hit and miss, generally I've phoned and emailed the lovely Tiffany who is sometimes very helpful and others incommunicado. As said it should have a five year warranty but this isn't made clear if it covers the whole thing or just the etalon. Customs can be a pain when it's retuned as they appear to have no concept of something coming back into the country after repair, they hung onto one of mine for weeks trying to prise some import duty money out of me. Dave -
My Daystar Quark has suddenly stopped working
Davey-T replied to Dave Smith's topic in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
Does the LED change from red to green ? Dave -
Remote control of Asiair 100m away ?
Davey-T replied to Coriorda's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
I use an iPad for the ASIAIR don't know if Apple have something like Windows remote desktop for remote access, I use a USB WiFi extender from my obs'y at the bottom of the garden, not quite 100 feet away, to monitor it from indoors using RDP. Dave -
Remote control of Asiair 100m away ?
Davey-T replied to Coriorda's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
My ASIAIR saves images to USB stick then have to remove that to transfer them to PC after session, not sure if it's even possible to download them on the fly. Dave -
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Hi Stu, it improved during the day but the wind got gusty which didn't help with the 150mm refractor, got a few vid's then AS3 started playing up, ran them all through it but it only saved the first one and said something about checking settings whatever that means but haven't had time to investigate yet. Dave
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Woken early the Sun shining in the window so set up solar rig hoping to catch some steady early seeing but it's so bad it's a job to even focus so not holding out much hope ATM Dave
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Water entering pulsar observatory
Davey-T replied to David at Bythel Obs's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
Silicone doesn't wear well outside, as said above CT1 sticks like s*** Dave -
Water entering pulsar observatory
Davey-T replied to David at Bythel Obs's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
Some sort of acrylic sealer not silicone. Dave -
Very nice David, had a go myself yesterday for the first time this year 😄 Dave
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Probably, just had the knob centred, to be honest I had a job remembering how to set it all up 😂 Dave
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C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS
Davey-T replied to bob-c's topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Nice one Bob, haven't done much astro' this year but got a list of comets to have a go at now. Dave -
Finally got solar imaging rig setup. A few from yesterday, Tecnosky 152mm, Quark Chromo', PG Bly, .5x fr
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Redcat 51 - focusing issue. What am I doing wrong?
Davey-T replied to AstroGS's topic in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
Looks very similar to mine when it was new from FLO, they sent it to Es and got it fixed. Dave -
Nice one Den, haven't even set up solar rig yet this year as have had a few problems so missed all this activity but will try to get back into it over the next couple of days if I can remember how to set it all up 😂 ATB Dave
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Grey Blobs When Using Reducer/Flattener - Dust?
Davey-T replied to Sabalias's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
Just the normal dust bunnies, flats should take care of them, might need a microscope to actually see them. Dave -
25 years in the making now 25 minutes to go 🤞
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Can anyone tell me why Stellarium thinks comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is between the Moon and Jupiter but Sky Safari thinks it's below the horizon ? Both seem to have the right time and date set. Dave
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Had another go and now got some sort of icon that says loading but seems to have stalled. Dave After ten minutes or so it suddenly started moving along and installed.
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Just tried to download SS 7 Pro to my new iPhone and just got a grey icon with waiting on it for twenty minutes. Anyone else downloaded it successfully ? Dave
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Sharpstar 150mm f/2.8 HNT collimation
Davey-T replied to Davey-T's topic in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
Flaring in the corners as I recall, it took a couple of attempts to get it right not helped by the fact that we never get consecutive clear nights to test anything. Also tried an assortment of collimation tools including a very expensive Howie Gllatter but found this the best HoTech SCA Laser Collimator with Cross-Hair | First Light Optics plus a Concentre to accurately align the secondary. -
Not really, it's just remembering to tick the right boxes, I've been using Maxim for years and it requires practically no human intervention compared to APP, watched a good tutorial and managed a decent widefield rendition of Horsehead and Flame that needs more data, should get some soon hopefully, I was up late / early recently an Orion was showing well. ATB Dave
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Nice one Tom, I'm still trying to get to grips with APP and my new ZWO ASI2600MC. Dave