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I thought Id post a quick review for Bernard at Modern Astronomy. I first started buying off Bernard 10 years ago almost to the day. I recently purchased a couple of small items from Modern Astronomy. There was a delay in delivery of one item via Royal Mail, and I was on the phone to a very busy Bernard who assured me that it would turn up. Email communication was exemplary, and the article arrived a week after expected delivery date. Highly recommended, and it's nice to see businesses keeping the same customers for extended periods of time. Thanks for reading.

If you even rotate your camera slightly on the same scope you’ll need to retake your flats.

Images taken through a guidescope with the main imaging scope doing the guiding. That would allow me for example to image with the ST80? May be include images taken with the guidecam or the main imaging camera swopped over.

My nice new to me Skyris 618C arrived and getting a run on the moon tonight. Cheers @CosmicOrangutan

Fascinating result using a focuser off a Newt!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt it was a bit poorly thought out. It does just fall off the L bracket! Good job there.

I got the last set from one supplier at the start of the summer there, bit crap you cant get something!

@Highburymark there is a little inward travel left as you can maybe see in the photo but not enough for a 1.6 barlow I guess!

Congratulations on your purchase. I've had good success with mine using a skywatcher binoviewer, with the included 2x Barlow lens, and a pair of 26mm Meade plossls. This gives a nice full disc view. Ignore the different versions of the 26mm. Even though it worked ok I now have a matching set!

I've been searching the forum a lot and reading up on it. Have you a guide that you'd recommend?

I'm tempted to cool my 1000d....

Did a bit of imaging the other night, widefield and then closeup of same target. Problems - not enough dew straps! Increasing the exposure time on the guidescope camera bought be more time it alas it succumb to dew around midnight (planning on packing up anyway )

Spotted these on Amazon US for £24 so decided worth a punt. With Next day Amazon Prime delivery to the holiday villa, they arrived today. Can't say I've had much time to use them as the postman arrived as we were heading out, but a fleeting glance clearly showed a sunspot in the middle of the sun. Should be really handy for quick views of the sun, and a lot safer than home made filters when I let the kids use them.

That sounds like a fair appraisal.

LX = long exposure. I'd want to be taking long exposure widefield photos as much as solar imaging, and I won't really need goto as much as I don't want field rotation either! I've been on the fence about buying an SA, but the more I think about it, it's probably closest to ideal.

I don't think it is, but the ability to use it for LX is a deal breaker me.

If I was looking a portable mount to track the sun and for LX DSLR/lens images, I guess you'd be hard pushed to look past the SA, as opposed to the AZGTI

For astro imaging I'm guessing the star adventurer is a better option, would there be any advantages of this AZ mount over the SA?

More the price of it!

I was about to buy an AZ5 and then this pops up

This guy is also going to try his televue np101 on it for the eclipse hope it doesn't fall off

Thanks, a friend just sent me a photo of the AZ5 that arrived with him yesterday. He has an ED120 mounted on it comfortably. I think I've made my mind up.

Can I just confirm here that this AZ5 will fit onto a normal tripod, via the screw used for the head? I'm not sure what size it is, but I guess 3/8.

Nice choice of scope, hope you enjoy using it

1) I use a geared head on my tripod, but a motorised mount would keep the sun centred in the eyepiece but more £££ 2) I don't think different eyepieces will help. You could invest in a cheap webcam and use this to capture images or even connect a DSLR to the focuser (is it the helical focuser) but see point 1) as you would maybe need a motorised mount 3) The scope is filtered and only lets 656.28nm wavelength of light through so you should be using any other filters with it