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Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
johnoelliott replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
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?
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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.
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Light-tight Electronic Filter Wheels
johnoelliott replied to TerryMcK's topic in Imaging - Discussion
No it's the 5 position 2" EFW -
Light-tight Electronic Filter Wheels
johnoelliott replied to TerryMcK's topic in Imaging - Discussion
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.
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Help! ASI 1600mm Pro weird issue
johnoelliott replied to Bigfoot 9907's topic in Discussions - Cameras
I think you managed to capture the Matrix Mr. Smith will be coming for you now! -
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.
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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!
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Should I get a narrow band filter?
johnoelliott replied to Bc0428's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
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
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Vx mount slewing problem in ra
johnoelliott replied to Incetes's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
I believe his problem was resolved last night by doing a factory reset. Turning the mount off and holding the 0 key down when turning it on -
If you are new and you don't want your daughters bored to tears, I strongly suggest a decent goto mount. Star hopping with a manual mount is possible, but it's not easy to learn and it is slow Even a Meade ETX or one of the small Celestron goto scopes would be better than a manual mount no matter what mount it is or what scope you put on it. Unless you want to spend most of your time trying to hop from star to star looking for what you actually want to see. If you want something that's easy to use and will last for a few years at least and let you slowly upgrade the rest of your equipment, I would look at the one of Celestron SE or Evolution scopes
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Internal reflection artifacts?
johnoelliott replied to gasdoc's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
Maybe if you post a photo of your setup, someone may spot a problem -
STARSENSE question for users ....
johnoelliott replied to Vortex's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
The only other thing I can think of is calibrating the starsense. After the starsense alignment completes, press STARS and use the Menu to select a star and go to it, then using the HC, roughly center the star in the eyepiece and press enter, then finely center the star in the eyepiece and press enter,then press ALIGN and you should get a message REALIGNMENT REQUIRED and press enter to perform another starsense alignment. One it completes you should be good to go. In theory, if you don't remove the starsense or knock it out of alignment, you won't have to do the calibration again and sometimes even if you remove it and put it back on you might not have to do a calibration. But I do it every time I setup anyway, once you get used to it it only takes a few extra minutes and as with just about anything, the more you do something the quicker and easier it gets -
STARSENSE question for users ....
johnoelliott replied to Vortex's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
Not really clear on your process but it looks like you are doing a polar alignment after your starsense alignment. After you do the polar alignment, you need to do another starsense alignment and then you should be good. -
Help with Firmware update
johnoelliott replied to Kluson's topic in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
You will need the following Celestron 93920 Nexstar RS 232 PC Interface Cable And USB to Serial Converter Both are available from Amazon