Ibbo!

Vixen 80mm sneaky Mercury at same scale.

Ha with Lunt 60mm and D/S Chamelon cam Cak with ED 80 Lunt filter reducer & Cham cam. do the clicky thing for full res.

I use a Ikea fold up file box. You can get a fancy thermal cover, when I can find it or a blanket or towel works but gets a bit warm underneath. Remember the sunblock as well, I had a leg sticking out from the cover yesterday and my foot got a bit red.

I have "attended" a couple of zoom meetings without my camera plugged in so yes it can be done without a camera.

Thanks. Yes I do, I have tried an old 102 500mm f/l as well bu it needs a tweak or 2 on collimation. I think the FS60 will be a better match on f/l.

Ha with Lunt 60mm and D/S Chameleon cam Cak with ED 80 Lunt filter Blackfly cam The Detail of the prom and AR was with the Blackfly and 2.5 powermate. Do the clicky thing for full res.

My Chameleon buffered with external HHD

The Chameleon is USB3 the Blackfly is GigE (New power over ethernet injecter arrived yesterday) Larger cams and new toys have another isuue I have collected over 60 of data this afters.😁 Be careful out there apply sunscreen - Imissed a bit and have a red right foot.

I am currently under the solar cover taking sers. I guess mine are out of date as I'm using the Point Grey(now Flir) Chameleon giving me full disc at 50 to58 fps on the Lunt 60mm. This cam will also give me upto 160 fps using ROI on brighter planets. To do this with full disc I had to also upgrade the PC to a fast SSD I have since installed a PCIe ssd (not allPC,scan takeone) and this has eliminated buffering. My Point grey Blackfly gives me upto 45fps I also have a ZWO colour 178 that can do around 200fps but hat ihave only used for planets with the C11 or luna with the ED80. I have pulled the Blackfly out of semi retirement as it does not give me NR,s with the powermatewhich the Chameleon does. It might also be better with the Cak on the ED 80 as the Chameleon gives me a problem with vignetting with BF600. I am waiting while lockdown ends so Ican get my FS 60 back which is more suited f/lwise with the Cak.

Ha with Lunt 60mm and D/S Cak with ED 80 Lunt filter with reducer The Detail of the prom and AR was with the Blackfly and 2.5 powermate. A little disappointed with the disc images as I thought they looked more promising while at the scope. Do the clicky thing for full res.

It had gone tonight as I was having issues with cam drivers.

Vixen 80 mm & Chameleon cam

Thanks for your comments. I have not tried this setup before and it was a test of concept to start with and seeing as the data looked promising & the weather was co-operating even with the issues so I decided to carry on. The 2 nights were dumped as one night one of the ccd's was slightly loose in the focuser and rotated the second lot the focus was not quite right. Maybe Icould have rescued some data from the other cam but it was easier just to not include it.

Ha with Lunt 60mm and D/S Cak with ED 80 Lunt filter with reducer Do the clicky thing for full res.

Vixen 80mm Chameleon cam

Using the dual rig of the Tak FS102 and the QSI doing LRGB and the WO132 and the SX694 doing L. A series of 300sec subs over 3 nights(well 5 actually but 2 nights data was dumped) Total Tak & QSI 5700secs L (19 subs) 8100secs Red (27 subs) 7800secs Green (26 subs) 7500secs Blue (25 subs) WO132 & SX694 23700secs L (79 subs) Do the clicky thing for full res.

Thanks David. I tried upping the exp and gain and could see nothing -maybe it was lost in the murk. More experiments needed.

I missed out today. Question if I may -how do you capture proms in Cak?

Ha with Lunt 60mm and D/S Cak with ED 80 Lunt filter 3 panes Do the clicky thing for full res.

Turn the auto stretch off. Take a very, very short exposure in daylight start at the 0.001 and work up, you may even have to mask the scope down.

If you move the camera you will need new flats. Darks will be OK though, I use my darks for months.

A few years ago when I used the PST mod, small chip camera and the permanent mount I used The Sky mosaic function to automatically do the panes with a 20% overlap. I did 15 sec captures and joined them either using Photomerge in PS or ICE. If that failed I did sometimes e mail them to a friend who had autopan giga (£££££) and if that did not sort it nothing else would. Not sure this helps you.

I think I have a motor like that somewhere. My Eddy is so ancient it only has one speed focuser 😃

For the portable rig Sharpcap and a finder and old cam I rigged up for the purpose. For the home pier/mount Sharpcap then drift aligned a good while ago, maybe 2 years.