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swag72 last won the day on April 25 2018

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  1. Thanks .... I'd missed this as I don't frequent SGL these days 👍🏻
  2. Thanks Carole... I'm hoping to avoid AstroBuySell as I don't really want to sell in UK as I can't get the stuff back.
  3. I'm looking for a complete rig sale ideally which makes the price astronomical based on new prices 😫
  4. I've got 1.25" Astrodon filters in 2 cameras and Chroma in another.
  5. OK thanks for your thoughts 👍🏻 I was thinking that the CCD tech may be harder to shift. I'm at a bit of a loss for gauging price on a scope that is no longer made and I believe could be a decent one and rarely come up for sale.
  6. How is the best way to gauge the proces to ask when selling? Would you say to look at new prices then ask for a percentage? I've not kept up with prices at all in the last 3 years and looking around I can't see sold stuff of what I'm selling to give me an idea.
  7. I am perhaps not considered in an ideal position to agree with this statement as I live in Spain and have more clear nights in general than in the UK, but bear with me. I imaged with one scope for a number of years and to get sufficient data for an image it was taking me many nights. Then I went to another wider scope, so I could get different data each night and widen my data capture. Hell I thought, I can get a dual set up now on the wide field and get images even quicker. Hey presto! So on an average 8 hour night with three scopes running I was getting in excess of 20 hours data a night. Great! Then I got data overload and frankly it has to date killed any interest in imaging for upwards of a year. I got so much data and it ended up consuming my life to such an extent that I have less than zero interest. Observatory hasn't been opened in over a year, no processing for equally as much time. Will I ever find the mojo again? I really don't know. I tried to tell myself to just go back to one scope and plod on with the data and perhaps get my love of the hobby back again, but it just didn't interest me. I guess what I am saying is that had I not been so greedy and wanting, perhaps I'd still be going with my one scope and enjoying the capture and processing. Had my imaging and data been more limited then I believe I would still have had an interest.
  8. I considered piggy backing the two Taks, but as you rightly said the JTD adjustment saddle can't be used unless it's side by side as the adjustment knobs are lower than the plate.
  9. There's little misalignment to worry about there Gina that's for sure. Well done on getting it all together, your 3D printing stuff is great..... You are inspirational 👍
  10. I love my monocular....... Although I don't use it for astro. I bought the Leica monovid 8x20.... they are stunning
  11. I went for 2 mono camera's. In one camera I have a full set of LRGBHSO filters. The other camera only has a 5 position filter wheel so I thought carefully about what to put in there. I settled on Luminance and Ha to start with. Then realised that an additional O3 filter would help..... and that's where I've stopped. It works well. My scopes and camera's are the same focal length and chip so I use a JTD saddle to align them exactly. It works well.
  12. I use one PC for my dual rig...... The cmaera's are different (QSI and Moravian) so there's no confusion about drivers. I have 2x Lakeside auto focusers, and hey run fine as there's a driver for running two together. I've never had a problem with any type of conflict and everything runs perfectly.
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