knobby

So much choice 😃

Have you entered the guidescope length correctly ?

58 minutes ago, Magnum said:

cant spend any more time on this as I need to go watch the latest episode of Star Trek Picard 😛 

Fantastic end to a fantastic thread 😂

Another vote for Sky Safari here 👍🏻

Yours is better, I should have gone a bit heavier on the denoise !

Very interesting challenge 🙂

Rough tweak / recombination in Photoshop, levels / curves ... nowhere near the stretching on an astro image and some saturation and hue adjustments.

Very noisy and couldn't get near the original.

But I am supposed to be working 🙂

Nice job, well presented too 👌

@Blazar

You might want to post this in the solar section of the main forum ? Not many people will see it otherwise ... The cloud Dodgers are ... Very rare 🤣

Blimey, life in the cloud Dodgers group 🙂

They've come out really well Steve 👍🏻

That's very nice 👍🏻

You basically need to find where Polaris is on the smaller of the 2 circles (It's North and up but not bang on so will rotate throughout the day / night.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/polar-scope-align/id970157965 this can help on Apple or this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.techhead.polarfinder&hl=en_GB&gl=US on Android.

If you're just visual, don't worry too much but for imaging you want to get it as good as possible.

Might be worth a tiny squeeze of the usb connection, my laptop used to have issues with connections (possibly contracting when getting cold) - squeezed ever so carefully with pliers and now all good.

Cheers, they were 180 second guided subs.

Hi Ray, have you tried the firmware to use your AziGti in EQ mode ?

On 18/03/2022 at 16:49, Elp said:

It's not perfect by any means but if anyone's got a doubt about the azgti in EQ mode I'll leave you with this:

+ 1 for the Az-Gti in EQ mode

About 70 mins each of Sii, Ha and Oii

3 minutes ago, Ratlet said:

I thought that would be the case.

I've always wanted and 130pds.  They're pocket rockets!  It'll need to wait for a better mount.

I'm not saying it won't work, just hard work 🙂 I think if it's all well balanced on a sturdy tripod in good conditions it's worth a bash maybe.

6 hours ago, Ratlet said:

Can you image with the 130pds on the az-gti?

I'm just planning out potential upgrade routes and was thinking about getting a 130pds down the line.

I think once you add a camera / some method of guiding / maybe a coma corrector to the 4kg tube you'll be  pushing things a bit ? One gust of wind and you'll be struggling.

2 hours ago, Adam J said:

ok thats probably going to push me down the Skymax 102 direction then. I keep it n the garage so hope the cool down wont be excessive as its for use with a 4/5yo and they have no patience. 

I own a AZ EQ6 GT also but thats not grab and go no matter what you put on it. 

Adam

Several helium balloons 😂

1 hour ago, Ed the Fox said:

Just a thought..

What percentage of people here use the mount purely for visual rather than AP?

Purely imaging here. Bought it when I damaged my shoulder and couldn't move the Heq5.

Blimey, running out of ideas ...

CCD inspector might show something but it's a paid app.

ASTAP does something similar and is free. Her is your jpeg, migh show more info from a fits ?

Could it be tilt ? He camera is a long way from focuser ? Plenty of scope for tilt.

Maybe try a star at the zenith to test ?

Haven't posted in ages but came across this thread when googling Az-Gti.

Lost mojo due to constant clouds etc but managed a 4 hour run on the Monkey head last week. Roughly 90 mins on Ha, Oiii and Sii filters.

Tweaked and dabbled with in DSS / Siril and PS6 

On 06/03/2022 at 15:12, Ed the Fox said:

Took the scope out last night for the first time in ages using electric for the first time and an older phone as my current phone is now android 12 and the skywatcher app no longer works. 

Then all hell broke loose. Did a North/level alinement then asked it to go to Sirius. No. The scope pointed down and away from Sirius. Tried again .....no. So just asked it to go to another star instead. Again totally different part of the sky.

So I started to wonder if the phone itself knew where is was in the world. It did but was unable to get a GPS lock. So after disabling the "find my location" on my phone things got slightly better though only once was it in the field of view after asking it to find a target. I will now have to look for another used phone that can get a GPS lock on my position.

A frustrating evening all told.

Synscan pro version 1.19.12 on Skywatcher site works on Android 12 ... it's not on the play store for some reason.

Check in windows device manager which port the lynx cable is using - then make sure thats selected on the synscan app.

Hi all, what a lousy year for astro 🥺 still itching to get imaging, just seems cloudy or full moon all the time 🤣

Have a great Christmas and a better new year 🤞🏻