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Interesting, wonder what the price range will be on the Asiair 2600 duo air🤔

Welcome JP You have landed in the right place. Best Astronomy forum on the net, lots of different sections to help you on your journey. If you can get the family hooked, that’s Galveston the journey. Manual for that mode is Here

Computer: Late 2017 27" iMac - 4.2GHz i7 Quad Core - 64GB DDR4 - Radeon Pro 580 8GB Early 2024 -24" iMac M3 - 16GB Ram- 500GB Flash, ASIStudio, Software: PixInsight, Siril, Photoshop, Topaz Labs, ASIStudio, QuickFits, I find large files are Graphic and Processor heavy, especially using PixInsight and ASIStudio, I have other Macs, but I tend to use this 2 for my Post Processing.

Welcome to SGL Lovely looking 🐈

Hi Paul, Great in-depth video, glad you got to shoot the Aurora. I've been chasing it for years in Scotland, but so far have not managed to get a look in. Your video has encouraged me to pull the trigger on take my chase to Norway. All the best.

I like it 🤗 What is your setup?

Very nice 👍 I love the almost 3d depth and feel.

Nice pic, would be interesting to learn about your work Flow Pat

Many thanks for this 👍

Dorset get my vote 😃

Welcome, This is the best Astronomy forum online hands down, so you will do well here.

Ghost in the Machine 😄

Well, you were spot on there Ouroboros, Saved me a lot of head scratching. Much appreciated Thanks

Actually, I am using a 500gb memory stick, I will remove my Light files and format it I will try shooting the dark library on the internal storage and see if I get the same results, that should eliminate the USB as the culprit. Thanks

I’ve tried several different devices, all are pretty new and quite fast, I’ve even tied android devices. With the same result, My next step will be the software, I will try different versions, I am leaning more to this as the issue as I’ve just started getting lots of issues when I deleted my old dark library and started a new one. (see attached pic) Also horizontal lines across the bias frames, some frames coming out white, some with lines and very few decent ones, same with the darks, set of 100 darks, 1-20 fine, then 21-70 blank, then 72 ok, then the rest white. Not sure if this is related ,or if my 3 month old camera is on the blink, will be spending the today trouble shooting. Thanks for your suggestions.

Yes, pics are instant, I can check the folders as the pics are being taken, the issue is just the time lag of the preview window. i.e. today I was shooting my dark library, when I checked the flats folder, about 20 flats are already in the folder and the preview window still had not shown the first flat on the main screen.

No firewalls, or VPN’s

Hmm, didn’t think of that, thanks 😃

Hi Elp, I am hard wired in via LAN, I have the latest version of the ASIAIR Plus. I never use wifi as I have lots of metal in my house, learnt that years ago when the Asiair first came out and I had constant dropouts. I actually had the latest 256 model which is supposed to have a faster data transfer rate, but I thought it was faulty and sent it back, then bought the Plus again. Same Sanrio, so i'm scratching my head, wondering if its my LAN cable, as i've had that about 4 years 🤔 Thanks for your help Pat

Hi, Wasn't sure which section to put this in, but hey ho 😀 I have an issue with my Asiair Plus (pretty sure its the Asiair Plus) But looking for some advice on how to trouble shoot this issue. When I shoot any subs with the Asi2600 connected to the Asiair Plus, the preview of the image take nearly a min to preview, even if its only a 10 sec sub. At first I thought it might be the Asiair, but I bought a new one, and i'm still having the same issue. Ive change the cables to good quality USB 3.0 ones from the Manufacture, tried the round ones, the flat ones, now i'm using the Red USB 3.0 cable that comes with the new Asiairs. Preview does not go any faster than 600KB/s ( see attached pics ) most times around 500KB/s My setup is : Mounts: EQ6-R Pro/ZWO AM5 Main Camera: ZWO ASI2600, William Optics GT-81 IV Guide scope: ZWO ASI178MM Thanks in advance.

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Loving it, great job.👍🏾

Looks brilliant Kriss, You certainly did a great job there, I must pop over one day and have a look 🙂 Another SG member had a pier extension custom built, you might want to reach out to him and see if he can hook you up with his guy.

Anyone??

Hi, I have an Intes MK72 aka Santel MK7 ( see attached Pictures) Fantastic optics on this Russian made scope, however the focuser is absolute rubbish. I know there are some who have the same scope and have lived with their, but mine can't hold any eyepieces of any discernible weight, and it constantly slips. 
I have done lots of research, and posed the question on a few forums, yes even Google, but cant get a concrete or definitive answer. Hoping someone here can point me in the right direction, or have even done the upgrade themselves. Main issue is the 68mm ring supporting that supports the focuser, is fixed to the main scope ( see pictures) my thoughts are that I need something that fits on the ring, that can accommodate the focuser. Any thoughts or suggestions are warmly welcomed. Thanks in advance