michael8554

Judging by the lack of responses, you'll have to contact Starizona and Feathertouch for the pinouts.

Michael

"First i had a canon eos m and i bought all the attachments to get it to connect to the eye piece. I found that when i connected and used autofocus I saw a great picture in the cameras screen and then it went out of focus. I now think in hindsight I  needed to use manual focus,"

A DSLR is usually attached to the scope's focuser without the camera lens.

The scope then becomes the lens, a very long focal length one.

You can attach with a lens, but as you said, with manual auto focus you saw the autofocus struggling.

If the Bresser camera's small sensor is giving you a moon view "zoomed in", you need a larger sensor, such as the Canon has.

But the Bresser making video files is better for tiny objects such as the planets.

Michael

"My question is can I manually use it, is it possible to fix or should I stay clear of it."

Manually will be cumbersome.

If it's the usual five capacitors that age and can blow, yes it can be fixed.

If you don't have the skills to fix it (google for "Meade Classic LX200 Capacitor replacement") then stay clear.

But then I'm the guy selling the £900 one on the mainland........... 😆

Michael

23 hours ago, michael8554 said:

You might have to an consider obscure problem,  such as the sensor attachments in the astrocam being too tight.

Michael

I mean like Pinched Optics - the sensor may be mounted slightly distorted.

Is the lens bad on the 2600MM and on the MC  ?

Michael

That would have been useful for "hands-off" shots of the aurora last week with my 6D.

Michael

If you unscrew the 1.25" nosepiece, you're presented with a female M42 thread.

Hopefully there's a suitable connector in the kit of parts.

Michael

You might have to an consider obscure problem,  such as the sensor attachments in the astrocam being too tight.

Michael

1. As Hals suggests, for Planetary you want to "magnify" the tiny dot that is the planet, so the FR is counter-productive.

2. At the moment the camera is too far away from the mirror, and the eyepiece is too close, because of the helical focuser

The focuser should go before the Flip Mirror.

Because if the focuser is after, if you have to focus the camera, the eyepiece will go out of focus.

Before the Flip Mirror, both camera and eyepiece remain in sync.

In your case you have an electronic focuser on the OTA, so the helical focuser is probably meant for the eyepiece port.

3. As with an Off Axis Guider, the distances from the centre of the mirror to the eyepiece and to the camera sensor must be setup to be the same, for both to be in focus at the same time.

Once that is set up, any adjustment to the focuser before the Flip Mirror will refocus the camera and the eyepiece.

Michael

Or the "Print Screen" (or "Prnt Scrn" ) button at the top-right end of a PC keyboard.

Michael

SkySafari is a wifi alternative to the handset, so will require the Dec motor to be working.

While the Meade fork mounts have been around for over 30 years, and are supported by Meade.

They have regularly replaced their EQ mounts with another model, and eventually spare parts run out.

As you're California based I would expect you would get more chances of getting used spares and advice in the USA.

Try the Meade section of the US based Cloudy Nights forum.

Michael

Might be Bayer pattern incorrectly processed.

Might even be a pattern from your PC screen.

So if you want to fault find or make quality assessments don't post images of the PC screen taken with your phone.

Post actual images as Chris requested.

And what your equipment is.

Michael

So the camera was working in Video mode on the other softwares, probably with the Windows driver.

PHD2 runs in Long Exposure mode, and needed the ASCOM driver.

Michael

"once or twice it runs for up to 12 sec if use low speed, then it drops back to 5 sec "

The motor and gearbox will run slower at slower slew speeds.

So if they were faulty the slew would last longer at slow slew speed.

Which may point to a fault in the motor drive board.

Can you swap the Dec cable to the RA socket ?

Michael

Does the Dec motor run for exactly 5 seconds on the slowest and highest slew speeds ?

That would give a clue to the source.

Michael

Well here's the two images Layered:

As he said, no trees.

I apologise for my sarcasm, but there are plenty of natural explanations, including the clouds in the daytime image.

Michael

Sunset at what location ?

Michael

Nothing like some good ol' US "Fake News".................

I've seen the aurora before in Norway, so I dismissed the unusual radial pattern rather than "curtains" as high clouds or plane trails.

But so many of the posted images are similar to mine, perhaps it's the angle from viewing at a "low" Latitude:

Hand held Canon 6D ISO 6400.

Michael

Clouds ?

Smoke from forest fires ?

Or the Borg Hiveship eclipsed the Moon............ 😆

But looking more closely, I believe the moon is being seen through the foliage of a tree. 

Michael

Looks to me that the third mounting hole is outside the radius of the other two.

So no amount of filling or hacksawing is going to make it fit.

Michael

Hi Laurence.

Which stars did you use for the Star Alignment ?

M81 may have been much closer to the area bounded by the Alignment stars.

But it was on the sensor, which could be considered an acceptable GoTo.

Just needed centering.

Michael

M48 screwed connections ?

55mm from the Corrector to the sensor ?

SW say "28mm image height", which may mean the full vignetted circle.

Even so you'd think your 11mm x 11mm sensor would be in a good part of the circle.

Michael

Dithering is intentional movement between images.

You don't want any movement during imaging.

Michael

So as I suggested, focus using the LiveView images from the Omegon software !

Michael

Hi Miguel

Have you tried focusing while video imaging with the "Omegon AstroPhotoCapture" software that comes with the camera ?

Following the "Finding Focus" instructions in the Instruction Manual ?

This gives you a "LiveView" image, which makes focusing much easier than waiting for individual frames to download.

Or with SharpCap, again following the instructions in the manual.

Michael