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Skipper Billy

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  1. As a person who makes things and sells things I can tell you with first hand knowledge that life is extremely difficult if not impossible just now.

    Try ordering from UK wholesalers any of the following (and probably loads more besides) - steel, computer chips, paint, wood, stainless steel parts, epoxy resin, anything from the EU, lifejackets, dinghies, outboard engines, polyester resin - the list goes on and on.....

    There are various excuses given - usually Brexit, Covid and Suez - the truth is that most manufacturing and processing ground to a halt and workers were furloughed and 'stuff' wasn't made/processed - then when the world started to open up a bit there was nothing in the warehouses to sell to retailers. How the hell am I supposed to trade my way out of this mess if I cant get the materials to make things to sell ????

    I have every sympathy for Lucas - many of the materials he needs are simply not available. Yes, its important to keep customers informed and most of our customers have been understanding but there is always a small minority who cant resist having a go and constantly asking the same questions again and again. This minority have no care whatsoever for the people running micro businesses working 16 hours a day 7 days a week (and often not even drawing a wage) to make quality items under the most challenging circumstances ever experienced. I have fully refunded a couple of clients who fall into this category along with a clear message to try our competitors.

    Yes I own a Mesu mount and I am extremely happy with it - that doesn't make me a 'Mesu fan boy' - if there was criticism to be levelled I would be honest about it.

    I am not sure what point the OP is trying to make - is he trying to create difficulties for Lucas or generate sympathy for himself ????

     

     

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  2. I still haven't pressed the 'BUY' button - its not like me to suffer paralysis by analysis but I want to be sure that the R6 will do all that I want it to do.

    One thing I have discovered is that all images are treated to a dose of noise reduction and it cannot be turned off !!!!! This might be a deal breaker 😞 

  3. Anyone using the Canon EOS 'R' for astro use??

    Care to share your thoughts???

    I am torn between a Canon EOS 5D MkIV and the EOS R - part of me thinks mirrorless is the future and part of me likes the tried and tested.

    It will predominantly be my daytime camera but sometimes used for Aurora timelapses, Milky way widefield etc.

    I don't think an intervalometer is available for the R which might be a deal breaker.

  4. Processed almost entirely in Pixinsight.

    RGB

    DBE

    Channel combination

    DBE

    Background Neutralisation

    Colour Calibration

    Histogram Transformation

    Mono

    DBE

    Histogram Transformation

    Star Alignment 

    Combined Mono with RGB

    Dynamic Crop

    DBE

    TGV Denoise

    Morphological Transformation

    SCNR

    Curves

    Corrected Iris colour in Selective colour in Photoshop

    Saved as TIFF and JPEG

     

     

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  5. 1 hour ago, OJ87 said:

    Wish you have fun with it. 

    You won't have any fun at all with it. 

    Turn it on - guide to sublime levels of accuracy - turn it off.

    Where is the fun in that!!??

    Nothing to twiddle with, disassemble, degrease, replace parts, regrease, reassemble, adjust for best performance, fit new bearings to it, swear at, swap parts for belts etc - now that is fun!

    😉

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  6. 29 minutes ago, OJ87 said:

    Hi Everyone, 

    can anyone tell me the actual payload of the MKII is for Astrophotgraphy? i know it all depends on OTA length and etc... i just want to know it limits, i planing to use an 16 inch RC telescope  on it. its length is about 1100cm, FL 3250mm, weight with Equipments is about 40kg. What im considering is some reports about the Slippage of the friction drive. Does anyone have an Experience with such heavy load or very long focal length?   

    Clear Skies,

    100kgs - personally I wouldn't go over about 70kgs but as long as its balanced properly in all 3 axis it will swing it around all night without breaking into a sweat.

     

  7. I vaguely recall a problem with the felt on the inside of the rings some time ago with this scope. I think thicker felt was sent out to people with affected scopes. I thought this issue had been dealt with though??

    From memory it was only a couple of mm but made all the difference.

    I am sure the folks at FLO will be back to you soon.

     

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  8. I can only speak from my personal experience but I installed NINA when SGP changed its business model with the intention of running the two side by side to see if NINA was any good.

    Within a month I had deleted SGP.

    NINA needs careful set up and it does things the NINA way not the APT or SGP way.

    Its worth persevering with. My setup is remote (end of the garden and controlled from indoors) and I use electronic focussing etc. and NINA has performed superbly and been completely reliable.

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  9. 23 minutes ago, iapa said:

    PS assume you will be cleaning/tuning/tweaking all the kit  over yhe next 6 months until autumn sets in?

    Hope to see updates on that work.

    Take care

    Yep - it gets put into a coma in a temperature controlled and dehumidified life support container (spare bedroom!) where it can enviously watch me playing with my summer toys - 1963 MG Midget and RC aeroplanes etc!! 

  10. This season just ending has been an unmitigated disaster weather wise and I have just been through my saved images and I have managed just 11 images this season and two of those were widefield nearby images of the moon and the Milky Way leaving just 9 deep sky images and one of those is particularly rubbish! We all must have a masochistic streak!! My rig gets taken down next week and packed away until August - lets hope for a better season next year. Here is the fruits of my labour from the winter season just ending......

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