PeterCPC

Evri are not in my good books. I bought something which was sent by Evri - it eventually came 18 days after it should have arrived. By this time I had bought another (scanner) elsewhere so I sold the one Evri brought on E Bay and they lost it. How can you lose a package as big as a flat bed scanner? Something else we bought came via Evri and it was 6 days late. They are hopeless. I have never had any issues with RM until the strikes.

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No it's just business as usual 😟 Every year is like this now.

With BYE as suggested above you can actually zoom in by 5X or 10X - the only caveat is I am not sure about your camera but a free trial would prove it.

Basically one with a USB3 connection and best if it had a SSD rather than HD. As best as you can afford. Most imaging software will work with Windows 10 without any issues.

I got mine direct from Astrodymium - they are in Canada.

That's not good. I got the Astrodymium system and am quite impressed with it - no slippage. https://astrodymium.com/

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This is the sort of view that you will get without the flip mirror.

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https://www.otelescope.com/files/ An alternative is APT https://www.astrophotography.app/ which is free but I can't tell you if it would be as useful for zooming in because I have never used my Canon with APT. Best of luck with it all.

I would not use EP projection for planetary. You would be much better off using a Barlow lens. When I do planetary with my C8 I use a 2.5 televue barlow, a flip mirror and the ASI224 camera. It can be challenging finding the planet sometimes to get it centred but the flip mirror is invaluable in this respect. I don't know what camera you are using but you can get Canons to zoom in using Backyard EOS.

Interesting. I would have thought that the Reflector being the biggest would be for planetary and the refractors for DSOs.

I would not presume to advise you to do that - my sky conditions are different to you and equipment. I use an Esprit 100 and an ED80 Evostar. I suggest that you try what you have and come to your own conclusions.

Thank you for your kind words. I actually tried the L-extreme filter but I did not like the results that I got (maybe just me). For LP I use an IDAS D2 which I am much happier with.

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I use an AVX as well. If you want the best performance then you have to polar align but you don't need to do that for planetary imaging (I don't). Just do an accurate 2 star align. It's not unusual to have to slightly adjust it when doing planetary imaging - just keep it more or less central. If you do an accurate 2 star align and PA the AVX will be good for 2 min exposures without guiding. I generally guide for DSOs and do 5 min exposures with no issues.