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Hi everyone It's big telescope weekend, so we looked at taking advantage of filling more of the frame. No filters, so maybe this colour is correct (?). Always a challenge, colour. I sometimes wish it had never been invented! Oh, and just hate those refractor halo stars; cheepo cc. Anyway, thanks for looking. All comments as always most welcome. canon 700d @ ISO800

ASPS won't solve locally without it. If you had it working before, just restart it. http://www.astrogb.com/astrogb/All_Sky_Plate_Solver.html https://adgsoftware.com/ansvr/ HTH

APT was mentioned so assuming windows. Are you sure ansvr is running? HTH

Hi My guess is no. Your camera has a very small sensor so you probably won't notice. Worth a try?

Hi Nice shot. A few ideas... The stars are trailing which give the impression of inflated stars; guiding/tracking/polar alignment. Out of focus (?); use a focusing mask. CC; the Baader makes stars fatter; lose the cc. I don't think you'll need one with your camera. HTH

Hi. Triangular stars; I'd put good money on it. But hey, you have to go looking;)

Try both and see which is best for you? But no, no need to disconnect the camera. Just flip the dial around to Av and leave the indi control panel on M. Just flip back to M when you have the exposure time. If you want a complicated an alternative method, you could use ekos' flat calibration module: HTH and do let us know what you decide.

Hi. You could set aperture priority in the indi panel or, easier, set the camera to Av pointed at your light source, depress the shutter to get the exposure, set it back to M then fire off the flat frames in EKOS using the shutter speed you just found. Just two of many methods... Cheers and HTH.

Thanks. Yeah. Scary: four people lost their lives. We now have rainforest humidity and either high haze or low cloud. Only 3 ap worthy nights in September but hey, we live to tell the tale. Cue mosquitos...

That is an amazing achievement. We once tried a c8. Couldnt get anything like. Cheers and well done.

Hi Not sure what this is. Is it the bias that is causing the banding? Are you sure it's not simply artefacts left after aligning the frames during stacking? Leaving edge aretefacts -particularly as you dithered- before stretching may produce the type of localised banding along one edge. HTH.

Hi Substitute a value not greater that 59 for the 67, then on the toolbox screen, hit 'ASCOM Connect'. HTH

Hi. Four times bigger pixels. More area to collect light. Easier to calibrate. More guide stars available. HTH

They are pi internal. You may get more help posting in .tif Cheers

Hi That message is simply FYI. It has no bearing on the guiding which takes only the north mount movement into account. Don't worry that the graphs look bad; that's the next stage. But in any case, you are quite correct to look at the images taken with your imaging camera. It is all too easy to become a graph watcher! Congratulations anyway:)

Hi. It looks as if the front element is held by a simple retaining ring which is visible after the name plate ring is unscrewed. http://whitemetal.com/pentax/smct_105_28/index.htm HTH

OTC, my fault for not reading your post properly. So yeah, you're gonna need to guide both RA and DEC to avoid the trailing. Cheers.

Hi. It's a Bresser Mon2. HTH.

Hi IIRC, the OP's mount can only guide in RA, DEC should be set to off and no algorithm should be selected. If all else fails, you could try the rather exellent PHD2. HTH

Hi. On our sw, the thread is on the rings, not the dovetail. The new dovetail needs non threaded holes -which it seems to have- for the existing screws. Your new dovetail may need counter drilling to accept the screw head or, better, allow the heads to protrude thus providing safety that the telescope does not slide. The thread on the our rings is 1/4 UNC -available here- so metric m6 will not fit. Or just drill out the thread on the rings and use bolts of your choosing. HTH

The nikon 3300 and canon 450d sensors differ by less than a mm. My vote is for the 450d: nice big -light sensitive- pixels. HTH

Meade and Canon are supported by indilib. You can use EKOS to take the photos without need for a hand controller. You could do moonscapes and planets. HTH and good luck.

I don't think that will retry anything, wheras the 'scheduler' scheduler keeps on trying.

Yeah. I remember something similar. Was this a 'capture' capture or under the scheduler? IIRC, using the latter solved the issue; it kept retrying when capture gave up. Cheers

Sorry Gina. I misread.