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If you read the thread about trying various reducers on here I'm surprised that skywatcher released this ! It's always been difficult finding enough focus travel, this just makes it worse 😒

Don't get me wrong, I love my ED72 but with a William optics 0.8 reducer.

I use the Baader IR cut on my 224 / C8 and an ADC does help ... A bit but not massively.

Looks good Brian, is that just Ha and OIII ?

Nice image, it's really tough shooting through the low down murk, you did well.

2 hours ago, John said:

The Universe will still be there for you when you do feel like having a peek at it, thats for sure

Said firmly tongue in cheek, but the way we're treating the planet ... It might not be 😂

Have a look at M57, nice and high up away from the low down murk and always amazing to see a tiny smoke ring up there 😃

OK, finished flogging dead horse, this is my last attempt at planetary for maybe a few years ! I believe Damien Peach says he doesn't bother with planets below 20 degrees Drove to darkish field with @skywatcher250 and @Blazar for a better chance at capturing something decent.

Usual kit C8 - TV 2 x barlow - Altair ADC - ZWO 224. best 15 % of 3500 frames, Autostakkert and Registax wavelets ( very heavy to pull out any detail )

🙂 got halfway there and remembered camera was in other case ! ... good night though.

Thats better than my stacked image taken around the same time 😉

Sorry, just looked again, Ganymede was just North (above)

Cheers Stu, Ganymede was just South (below) and to the West (right) so makes sense I guess.

Still plugging away at Jove, re kindled interest since getting the Altair ADC.

90 seconds approx 5000 frames stacked best 20% in Autostakkert, RGB align (very minor adjustments needed) sharpened in Registax.

I believe the shadow is from Ganymede.

Have you tried updating firmware ?

Mine has backlash in the Az axis ...

Works well though.

Any one that balances 🙂 but joking aside approx 2.5Kg should do. I struggle to get my 5Kg to balance mine as too close to mount.

It's very tough this year, seeing / transparency forecast good last night but I have similar results to yours from the UK

Nice job, way better than I managed in sunny Essex 🙂

Excellent ! I did something similar to my Dob in the early days off scrambling around and getting frustrated ... found M13 and was so chuffed !

Long shot but take the mount to the furthest point away from house  / router. Turn wifi off on Ipad, turn mount on and when its been on about 2 mins turn wifi back on but with your body in between mount and router, should see the mounts wifi then.

Powerline aren't too bad if on the same ring, I have one near the main router - one in the kitchen at back of house and a cheap access point cabled to it which then reaches the garage fairly reliably.

100 meg at router, about 70 at kitchen powerline and 50-60 in garage.

Did you maybe miss the grub screw at 39 mins on this video ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im7DV2O4Eh8

Had a dabble on Wednesday but only clear for 20 mins, looks like too much fiddling around to me ! focused with L filter, then moved to R and (to be expected I guess) had to mess around with exposure as very dark 🙂 .

I'll possibly try again one day when I have more time but looks doable.

I'm going to stick with the 224 and try an ADC

Not sure if you're after a PC or tablet app but https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rupiapps.cameraconnectcast

Works really well on Android, I use it with my Nikon wirelessly, works on Canon too.

Try RGB8, ser or Avi both fine.

Set the gain to mid point to start and get the histogram just over 50% by balancing gain and speed.

Try to get FPS as high as possible by using a small ROI 

On the plus side ... They're not getting any lower 👍

I'd try re downloading and then 'run as administrator'

Nice one, stripped my SAM recently as stuttering, nicely engineered aren't they. (No pics as I forgot)