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Brilliant Carole. I like the colours, it’s very pleasing.

Lovely FOV 👍🏼

I currently match both pixel scale and FOV, but previously I matched FOV. Astro Pixel Processor can scale and combine the data, it’s not easy to do it in PS. I tried initially but it was never right.

I went from DSLR to mono CCD. I haven’t really managed a great RGB image since I switched due to focusing issues between filters. There are more things to go wrong IMHO. I have combined DSLR data with mono luminance, with reasonable results. I don’t think I would buy a colour CCD. Narrowband is great and I don’t want to compromise.

@Kanita Hi and welcome to the forum. I am just back from a holiday in Italy, a beautiful country - great food and very friendly people.

1ms is still too bright for daytime imaging. Any solutions? Does it stop saving images if it doesn’t reach the desired brightness level?

Thanks Alan. Mine came with the narrower lens but I contacted Terry at SX and he was able to swop it over for the wider one. I agree the wider one is more pleasing.

That item you ordered on the other thread looks very flimsy TBH, I wouldnt be too keen on that to hold a guidescope.

Thanks Alan. I did go onto microsoft and tried to download that but there were so many! I now have it working at last, thank-you!!

I’m struggling to get this up and running. Any time I try to connect my SX oculus camera I get an error - cannot locate usbsx dll file.

My suggestion would be to drill and tap the standard finder bracket/holder, and have it held on by six screws in a similar fashion to the rings above. It's a free solution and for me it works well.

Nicely done Paul. I have had this happen on myself too, its frustrating. Look forward to additional data to bring out the bubble more.

Stunning image. Inspired me to give it a go tonight. A stretched 10 min sub and I could just about see (I think) part of a faint outline of the Oiii envelope. I’m guessing it’s pretty faint, as you said 11 hours and it was still difficult!

Nice image, lots of Ha in the background. I had a quick go at this tonight. Managed 1 x 600s in Ha with 383L before clouds came in

This is a test I just done there now. I feel this is more than adequate

I’m getting 4-5mb now via the tplink despite changing nowt.

Ebay.usa is a good place to look. Both my lenses came from there.

My dec axis never moved freely. So when I was doing the belt mod I sandpapered the inside the bell that goes over the big brass cog. It moves freely now and is easier to balance.

I did the rowan belt mod. Previously I replaced the bearings with ones from the local motor factors (SKF) there were a couple of £ each. My head was wrecked deciding on grease. In the end I got some red stuff out of Halfords. The only thing that made a difference was the belt mod.

If anyone could assess the star shapes in the corners I would really appreciate it. I've it spaced out at about 56-57mm, but to me they look at a little elongated.

This was my first night out, giving everything a shake down since the teardown in May. I carefully balanced everything on Sunday during the day, and started last night around 8:30pm. Lots of software issues, connections issues, guidecam issues, several PC restarts. Around 11pm I had it narrowed down to two faulty USB cables. I have five new Lindy cables ordered. I also set up a used 7-postition 2" filter wheel, but discovered it is too heavy for the focuser and even with the focuser not turning (motor fitted) the actual tube slides out. I plan to strip and adjust this later. Then as expected the cloud and mist rolled in and the moon rose, but I managed a couple of subs around midnight of NGC7000. This is 2 x 300s with the Atik 383L+ luminance filter. I belt modded the scope a few months ago, and this is the first time using it with the ED80s. The complete setup weighs about 13.5kg. The guiding is by far the best I've had ever so I hope it lasts and I get a good season of imaging. Thanks for looking. Adam.

Its not slow tonight, and all I did was call BT earlier??

I did two tests tonight on two machines:

Lovely. Saturn is exceptional

Mine works ok on my ED80 with the dew shield in placed