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

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

Some basic questions  since I'm looking at maybe picking up one of those power boxes.

What are you powering the power box with?

What else is connected to the power box?

Do you still only g,t 7.5 if the camera is the only thing connected?

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

Maybe if you post a photo of your setup, someone may spot a problem

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

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.

You will need the following 

Celestron 93920 Nexstar RS 232 PC Interface Cable

And

USB to Serial Converter

Both are available from Amazon