johnoelliott

I managed to get at look at Neowise this morning just rising over my neighbors roof. it's my first comet through a telescope ! I tried to capture it but by the time I had my camera ready, it was already lost in the Suns glare. Hopefully I'll be better prepared tomorrow morning.

You did verify that SGP is set to turn the cooler on?

Sounds like the fan just died. I believe they are fairly easy to replace. Either from ASI or Amazon as long as you order the correct size.

I've just downloaded a trial copy of AstroPixelProcessor so I can compare it to PixInsight to see which one I like more.

No it's the 5 position 2" EFW

I have the ASI 5 position EFW and usually run my darkflats in the morning with the sun shining on it with no light problems.

The UPB only has USB2 ports. Don't you have a problem with amp glow at usb2 speeds? I'd try plugging everything into the UPB rather than trying to use the 1600 hub.

Yes, but the EFW and Focuser are USB2. The first port is for USB 3 devices only, the other 3 are USB3 or USB2

I think you managed to capture the Matrix Mr. Smith will be coming for you now!

It mentions on the website that the 1 USB3 port won't work with USB2 devices.

Are you planning on using it for just visual or mostly visual? If so, polar aligning is not really needed. With my AVX if I setup roughly aligned to Polaris' location and run through the two star alignment, it is almost always good enough to have the gotos fairly well centered for the evening. If I want even better accuracy, I'll add a couple of calibration stars. The polar alignment routine in SharpCap is really easy to use or you could use the Celestron All Star Polar Alignment if you do need to Polar Align.

Everyone has their own opinion of which ones work best so my solution to the problem was to buy a 5 position manual filter wheel and put in UHC, Deep Sky, Hb and Oiii filters leaving one empty. I can quickly go back and forth comparing them to see which ones work best for the target I'm looking at

I just had my first look through my double stacked PST which arrived yesterday. I was expecting to see little or no activity but those proms on the lower left just popped right out at me with the included 18mm Then I put my 10mm ETHOS in and WOW! Hopefully my ADM bits and pieces arrive soon so I'll be able to mount this on the AVX and be able to really enjoy the view rather than fight to keep the sun in the field of view....really want to see how the 6mm will perform!

I live in Toronto Canada at a lovely Bortel 9. I just picked up the Altair Tri-Band and am completely impressed! Here is a single unprocessed 40 second unguided sub of NGC7000 from my balcony this past Friday just before the clouds started rolling in. Please ignore the framing, was my first ever attempt at this target and I really didn't think I'd get anything from my location Have a field flattener , guide cam and scope on order and am looking forward to seeing just what this little setup can accomplish from my balcony... Celestron AVX, ES ED80 f/6 Air-Spaced Triplet, ASI224MC Pro, Altair Tri-Band The SharpCap polar alignment process is incredible! The way my balcony is situated, when I have my scope pointed at Polaris, I can just barely see it in the scope next to the edge of the balcony above me and I can't see it at all in my finder but SharpCap finds it and in just a minute or two, I have an excellent alignment ! NGC7000_00173 01_19_05_.fits

Mine just bought me a shiny new ASI294MC Pro, ALtair Tri-Band filter, ZWO ADC , DewMaster and thunderstorms for the next few days