Jbro1985

Having moved house and been collecting dust for a while I wanted to show my telescopes a bit of love by having them serviced, cleaned, re-collimated etc. Does anyone know of a good UK service? I haven’t found much online. I’m near Colchester if useful. Any suggestions much appreciated!

I used to have similar issues under the city sky. Switched to Narrowband pretty swiftly but obviously Galaxy hunting is not the best in Narrowband so you need to adjust your mindset towards nebulae too if you can.

Looks like probably LP to me. There's some good tutorials on LightVortexAcademy that may help if you've not been there.

Does anyone have any experience of these? https://www.teleskop-express.de/shop/product_info.php/info/p10904_TS-Optics-TSQ-80APO-80mm-f-6-8-Quadruplet-Apo-with-field-flatener.html

Thanks Mark. That's a massive help!

Cheers guys. Amazing help as always.

If it sheds any light... I'm using the baader c7nm set for Ha OIII and SII and have guided through each filter previously without an issue though, including autofocus. Weird there's an issue this time. I didn't realise there was an option to not guide through autofocus - I'll have a look for that in SGP (or do you mean to manually do this?). I did reduce my PhD exposure setting to 3 seconds from 4 the other day. Perhaps that is it. Thanks everyone

Hi all, Wondering if you can help with an error diagnosis. Ten minutes after I go to bed (very frustrating!) last night I have an issue I have never had before. PHD2 lost it's lock, which put SGP into abort. The frame before hand was a good 10 minute OIII capture and it changed filter to SII, re-focused (I use an OAG and autofocus when the filters change - normally makes the guiding go slightly funny but has never killed it before). The OAG is in front of the filter wheel in the imaging train so I can't see that the act of changing filter would have made a difference to the guiding at all... Here is my SGP log (https://jbconsult-my.sharepoint.com/:t:/g/personal/jbro1985_jbconsult_onmicrosoft_com/ETlde73yTHRBn0OTeM_BL9sB0CFCaY-P3NzzVmeuDoiKGg?e=aG1Bav). The issue starts at : [10/29/18 00:41:17.930][DEBUG] [Sequence Thread] AF is complete, continuing sequence... Here is my PHD2 log (https://jbconsult-my.sharepoint.com/:t:/g/personal/jbro1985_jbconsult_onmicrosoft_com/ESsgHXBl_K5Brg4kYkDXLiEBeyP6eIBxdBZ0RArsx-PZFw?e=iKXpNW). It looks to me like it's possible that the focussing may have interfered with the guiding on this occassion, which would be annoying... Otherwise, the clouds rolled in although the image just before was very clear and the night itself was very clear. If some one has the time, I'd appreciate it if they could take a quick look and let me know if they reach the same conclusion or if I'm missing something. I am only just starting to analyse logs and I find them a little confusing. All assistance appreciated as always. Jason