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I’m still looking for mechanical drawings - Pegasus do not do a puck for the AVX so I need to have one made somewhere.
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I use home insurance for kit that isn’t bolted down, with items over £2k explicitly detailed. Glover and Howe provide specialist insurance for photographers and astrophotographers.
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As I have a ZWO 294 MM and MC, I did a search and found this supporting thread https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/792863-asi294mc-pro-strange-recurring-color-pattern/
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I understand that, due to a bereavement, Rusted is no longer progressing with astrophotography. It may be polite to allow some time before contact?
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Fire and Theft: How can we avoid it and stay safe?
iapa replied to Sp@ce_d's topic in DIY Observatories
I had a Pulsar observatory installed earlier this year, and had some difficulty insuring it and semi-permanent located equipment. My house insurance was happy to insure the observatory and my astro kit in in the house, garden or remote location but not so much for stuff kept in the observatory. After some time browsing I found a company that specialised in photography equipment, including that for astrophotography. The former increased my premium by <£20pm or there abouts covering some £15K+ of kit over £2K. Under £2K value was ready covered e.g. most of the cameras and some of the mounts and OTAs. The latter covers c£10K detailed kit (pier, IT, optics etc.) for £200pa Seek and ye shall find -
Image Stacking and processing with IPAD
iapa replied to Semih's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
I keep looking, and so far, best I have found was Adobe Lightroom. There is a new app, Video Sack for Galaxy which I just saw which may have potential. -
Is the total exposure always the same?
iapa replied to Bugdozer's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
Roger Glover did a presentation, Deepsky CMOS imaging, which does (in my view) a good explanation. Note that this is NOT “gospel” and some may disagree. -
I’m thinking that the gap between fence and obs could be minimise by using that space for pollinator friendly wild flowers - minimal effort required. That’s my position for my dome - between fence and base is wild flowers
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I feel I should add to this… Since I bought my first desktop IBM PC for c£1700 or so, with a 4.7MHz 8088 cpu, 16K of RAM with no disk drives, you can now buy something the size of a ‘vape’ with 64G RAM, 128G storage for a couple of hundred pounds. I did own several other machines such as Dragon, Amstrad 512 and TRS-80. These smart telescopes may have a market, particularly in education, which can drive production up and costs down. i’m just noting that if a product takes off….. it can develop rapidly. Nothing else to add to this thread.
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Looks like an alien shuttle craft. Or a parachute
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Asterion is not listed in the compatible mounts list on ZWO’s website. Most Sky-Watcher mounts seem to require an EqDir cable, or you can add the Sky-Watcher WiFi module.
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The ‘beauty’ of collimating lasers is that they themselves need collimating. Here’s one way: I tried this on a couple of these (£+) and it work OK - then I just settled for a Howie Glatter Collimator (£+++) before another company took over manufacture, I can’t comment on the current quality, but the original was excellent.
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ASIAIR started with a RPi in a plastic case, the progressed to metal case and power management, then added antenna, then an improvement in power management, their own chip and board. Progressive improvements.
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Progressing from a Redcat 51
iapa replied to Bargy's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
I tend to agree the C6, fairly flexible with the reducer and weight. The c8 will come in at around 14lb with a evoguide, 2600 and focuser. The mount will support easily. I think the OP probably needs to look at existing tripod as the AM5 is capable of quire a large load, but needs a good base to sit on. -
Progressing from a Redcat 51
iapa replied to Bargy's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
It is ultimately the one you use the most. Bad news, it can take years to work out what that is. I still don’t know my favourite, 2yrs lack of interest but still buying OTAs on the ‘off chance’ Got the mojo back so, looking at everything in, what I think, as a (slow) step by step process -
I remember that, had to memorise it “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”