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It might be the Bayer pattern check what you are using for the camera

How lovely to have a telescope that age to enjoy

Astro imaging puts a whole new demand on a camera then daytime photography. I'd search on any intended camera before getting it, for example a DSLR might have terrible ISO capabilities, heavy noise on longer exposures or certain cameras I've read have issues with onboard algorithms eating stars. Full frame sensors put demands on the lens or telescope having good optics to the edges plus increased vignetting. Software compatibility I understand has improved but that is another consideration. Using what you have is a great start much can be learnt even using a static mount. Star trails for example and there are loads of free software to get to learn GIMP , starstax, sequator, deep sky stacker, stellarium for a few Astrobin is a handy place to see examples of all sorts I use a Canon and a ZWO entry orientation Astro camera.

What a green flare with the tail, wow

I've seen this method used to provide over wintering earwig homes on TV Piece of corrugated card rolled up and placed into half a plastic bottle, hang bottle inside an apple tree canopy. Maybe if you provided your own alternative home they'd go there.

Welcome When placing the mount on the ground a level base is best and with the telescope tube opening pointing north and the tube is level. Next turn on the mount and enter details as requested.

The planet images in that video are not likely single frame images but created through a capturing and processing process ending up with what's in the video. On a lucky day with a stable atmosphere you might get good single shot Moon images

Planets move super fast in general you take videos then the processing software (not ASICAP) takes the best images from the thousand or so in the video (which ASICAP took out other software like Sharpcap) and stacks them, this gives a clearer image. You then process this image to create your final image. This is done on a PC Software might use ASICAP, Sharpcap, Pipp, Registax, autostakkert, astrosurface, winjupos, GIMP The entire Moon would need to be a mosaic if wanted a full disc The more expensive the camera then less noisy it is and bigger the sensor as a crude observation

If you do get a ZWO camera and pick one up second hand you'll need one with a USB3 port to be able to use it with the mobile app ASICAP which is quite good. These cameras can also come with a small very wide lens which can get a great swathe of sky. Under resources check out the field of view calculator to see what field of view you'd get but there is a member on here using a manual dob and tracking but hand and an ASI462MM taking fantastic images of the planets and international space station. A colour camera would be easier then a mono.

I've removed comment as I don't know the particulars of the am5 though I have the Celestron 7ah lifepo4 orange/black tube tank, It's a great cable fitment it doesn't fall out

Star trails starstax or sequator DSO deep sky stacker or siril Processing star tools, GIMP, affinity photo

@PeterC65 I'll try again tomorrow with 140 and the above

Is that with the newer version looks sharper then previous

I've had feedback to my emailand was suggested to do the following as connections had all worked fine with 140 as the various firmwares in running with; 'recommend to check the setting of the Scan App Driver for ASCOM, you may try to uncheck the “Search devices when connecting” and enter the IP address that runs the SynScan Pro application.' I'll give it a try with 140 with the above added to the below step 4 Edit: using ascom 130 driver this is note to me for order to connect using synscan dongle 1- connect pc wifi 2- connect mobile wifi 3- start mobile app and connect 4- start ascom and connect 5- start phd2 and connect mount etc. 6-sharpcap and connect 7- start stellarium and connect Edited Wednesday at

The quickest to get going with is the onboard shutter timer delay if the camera has one. I picked up an intervalometer for about £10 which works well

If you have restricted sky viewing can you define where your visibility is?

and I've just looked sequator is also doing trails now and that's great as can I think mark that static foreground in the picture

you could take lots of images say 20 seconds each and stack then using startax or similar as another way then you wouldn't potentially blow highlights out

What power supply are you using with your AZ-GTix

The flange to sensor distance of a Nikon generally means you can use Nikon lenses (not all) on a Canon but not the other way around. Though you might want to read more about that before making purchasing decision not all lenses the same. I have a Nikon Q200 I used with an mount adapter with a Canon 1100d. With the lenses you have particularly the 10-22 could have a go doing star trail images using an interesting foreground scene. Capturing the wide field milkyway could also be done. Lots to learn capturing, stacking and processing with a static mount. Free software starstax, sequator, deep sky stacker, siril, GIMP, stellarium plenty to get into without spending that budget Essential items warm hat and remote trigger release But if getting a different camera I wonder whether to get an Astro camera instead as can get adapters to use with manual camera lenses, it's a thought maybe depends on your next plans and ideas

Went through the above using 140 and got a bit further but it got flaky and dropped connection, went back to 130, I'll keep an eye on an updated driver, we'll see

I use the synscan dongle on the AZ-GTi for the increased wifi signal and its part of my portable setup operated from inside and Ascom is central to that.

If I can find an appropriate email to use I'm emailing skywatcher to let them know I could not use 140 ascom driver with the dongle and I'm optimistic for a fix

Stunning images looked at them all, well done all, the animations mind blowing

Why not wait until you get hold of an earlier version of the skywatcher ascom driver try version 130