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Rob, Yes, I do have a TEC-140ED. I think unfortunately it has assumed a back seat when I got my TEC180 and set up remotely only to have a huge number of technical issures with the camera, then the rotator, bad fittings, and finally a recent discovery that the TEC180 flange on the OTA was moving enough to negate any attempts to reliably remove tilt from a large sensor. At times I was so despondant that I didn't want to image with the "baby" scope. Big mistake, obviously. Now, I've seen the light. The TEC140 is quite amazing. So can be the TEC180 as I am extremely close to finally resolving the issues over the past 4 years!

Thanks All for your kind and encouraging words! After a 4 year break from imaging (moving, building a house and observatory!) this was a most satisfying experiment that just haoppened to go right. I went into it expecting nothing. Now, I'm anxious to try this setup on my TEC-180 that is currently out of sevice due to an OTA flange that has too much movement. The new custom flange will, I'm sure, solve the problem with my 6+ kg of equipment hanging off the rotator.... Thanks again! Peter

As an experiment after a long break from imaging I tried my TEC140 with an Astrophysics BARADV (2x barlow). I didn't know what I expected imaging at f14 and .5 arc-sec. I was pleasantly surprised! This is not a long integration: 29 5 min subs in Luminance at f14, and 27 subs 5 min at f7 (9 each in RGB) or a total time of 4.7 hours taken from my new observatory near Rylstone, NSW, Australia (about 4 hours West of Sydney) The camera was a mono Trius SX694 and the L filter was a 2" Astronomik, color was through Baader 2.5" RGB. Processing was 99% in Pixinsight, also a first for me. Full res here: https://www.astrobin.../full/voc1ex/0/ Thanks for looking. Peter

Hello, Any chance any of you own one of these Snap Caps by Gemini? I have one on my TEC180fl and it works well. Unfortunately, Andras, of the Italian company Gemini, passed away last April. His website is still up but as for drivers and firmware is now pretty useless. I guess nobody has taken over (yet???). I'm auditioning Voyager. It should control a Gemini SnapCap, but mine refuses to connect. Leonardo says it must be the firmware I'm running. The cap r7uns fine with the supplied Gemini software which is now 5/6 years old. I noticed that Voyager will run scripts and the SnapCap is supposed to run by script. Unfortunately I could never figure out how to run it this way and gave up. Does anyone here know how to do this or have a working script? Thanks! Peter