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  1. spillage
    You might find if you regrease the larger bearings that they will be okay and just replace the worm bearings. If you use astrobaby's hypertune sectioin (not sure if its on the heq5 but is on the neq6 section) then you will know what thickness of teflon to order. I also found if you do not have the washer on the top of the brass worm gear then the axis will be too tight as the outer collar can rub against the mount. ps I have asked about teflon washers here before in the wanted section and a very kind member sent me a few for free. I should have some hanging around. If you let me know what sizes you need I can try to find them and you can have them foc if I have the ones you need.
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    Work in progress. Lots of issue with flats and focus was out. Tried to remove double refraction's but this has caused an issue in M43. Also tried star reduction but this caused the middle of loads of stars being removed but not the outer, so looks like loads on donuts. But though I would still post it.
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    In apt you can set this using the flat assistant in tools. Just tell it the adu level and which filters to use. It will run and then add an new flats setting (under the light settings in the camera tab). I think. sorry its called ccd flats aid. If you want it to create a plan make sure that box is ticked.
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    I am sure I got the material from Lidl for a few quid. Its a insulation like bubble wrap covered in a silver material taped together with some old aluminium tape I had left over from my air conditioning instillation days. I have always made my own shields quite loose and in a slight cone shape. As long as they do not hang down too far they have not got in the way.
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    @carastro I am sure some will say I have wasted time and money, but since wrapping my scope I have had no dew issues at all. Maybe I have been lucky or maybe it works. Please ignore my rather sad looking camping mat dew shield for the st80 (its works well).
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    @alacant how do you find guiding with this camera compared to the asi120?. I need to replace my old qhy5 and this seems very good for the money.
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    Is this a new mount and have you had it long. It sounds like you have a spacer issue.
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    Your postman must be a giant!!! Let alone the size of your letter box.
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    You call it character and personality, with mine I call it...well I can't as I would probably offend some members and break forum rules. I would not want it any other way. I like having issues as it gives me something to do when the clouds roll in.
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    @carastro Take a look here at the mod @Sunnieboy has mentioned.
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    Hi @carastro, you only need to take out the screws that hold the focus adjuster plate in place. You can then just pull the draw tube out. You can just unscrew the compression ring at the eyepiece to remove it, if it's needed. I would ask him to use a nice flat sharpening stone over the flat part on the tube, This will grind it flat and make better contact with the part that move the tube up and down. There is a youtube vid somewhere. Found it.
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    Do I smell a wind up going on here?
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    TBH I am sure my PA is out, focus is out, I probably have cone error and balance isses on top of this I am sure I need to re-tune the worm gears again. In fact I really need to do a hypertune. You just know the minute you start stripping things down the cloud clears.
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    PA is out as well. I am just playing around with the gain/offset and exposure times to see what is best for me. It definitely a lrf. Once I am happy with the camera settings and sorted out the calibration frames I will pull my socks up and pay more attention. Going from the dslr to dedicated is a bit of a learning curve for me. Even using live view took a while to sort @richyrich_one ASI1600mm. Just updated my sig.
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    I should reply that I am manually focusing for every filter/temperature change. In reality its using my home made bahtinov mask (cornflake box) and live view in apt at the beginning of the night then leaving it at that. I am looking at getting autofocus for the 130 for my next purchase.
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    Thanks @richyrich_one I am really struggling with my flats and darks but as soon as this is sorted I can start to improve things and remove the rubbish out of my images. The sky is looking poor tonight so I may have another go at my calibration frames. I got another few hours out of the rosette last night but my alarm failed to go off at 0230 so also ended up with few hours of data to bin due to the flip. So might add this extra to my attempts.
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    Just a quick and dirty go at the horse head. No flats, No darks, No bias just 10 lights (180s) stuck into DSS and a quick develop in startools. I really need to get my calibration data sorted. spill
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    I would say that if you move your eye towards the front/back then put a bit of packing at the front/back accordingly. Did your measure the holes diameter for the focuser divided by 2 plus the measurement from the edge of the scope to the start of the hole. Just wondering if the focuser needs moving forwards? its been a while since I have stripped mine and cannot remember how much movement you have.
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    I have not got access to my 130 but my 150 has only 3 allen screw on the focuser. Have you worked out the orientation of the issue. If you know which side of the focuser is giving the issue then: I would be tempted to take all three grub screws out to the point that they do not make any adjustments so you are at point zero, undo the focuser and maybe using the plastic from a milk container pack one side out with a couple of slithers and see it it makes it better or worse. Try all four sides and if that make no difference then make adjustments on the grub screws. Just one more thought, have you tried rotating the veins around?? spill.
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    I had fun with mine, it ended up feeling like a rubix cube. I got things close so stripped to add spacers then could not figure out how the bits went back. I ended up buying a t2 extension set from ebay for about £12 and now have the correct spacing. spill.
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    First time mono with my 130pds, asi1600. 15 sec exposure at unity. Messed up and my focus was out and my L,Ha,O111 and S11 failed. R x 20 G x 20 B x 20 Flats, Bias but no flats.
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    Haha, I used to work in a -24 warehouse. Lost count the amount of times I put my pencil in my mouth and got it stuck. Or ran in without my cold gear to do a stock count only to find my biro had frozen I keep my scope outside so do not really need any cool down time and it does look quite cool in its silver jacket..
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    @sagramore sorry might be me...just brought some new kit. It has allowed me to lag my 130 so fingers crossed I get to try it all out.
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    I have one of these compression rings and have added an extra screw.
  25. spillage
    I would strip it down flock it, put it back together and get everything right and then look at doing the focus tube after re-testing.
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