Calvin Klein

On 05/03/2024 at 09:18, SamAndrew said:

I thought the focuser is excellent, one of the best I've used, no issue with a 2600MM + filter wheel.

The problem I had was the blue channel was much softer than the red and green; all the reviews I've seen have been OSC which I think will hide the issue because you'll focus to an average point for all colours, but when using mono and refocusing between colours it was very noticeable. I was probably expecting a bit too much for the 0.6x reducer. Shame as it was so well built, It would be fine for narrowband, I nearly kept it for visual use, but FLO were happy to accept the return. Plan to share my analysis once I get chance, the data is hard to process to an acceptable result.

I will be extremely keen to see your analysis results.  I was very excited about this scope and 0.6 reducer having just read every post and review I could - until I saw this.  I was thinking of using this combination with a 2600MM/EFW and Antlia Pr LRGB filters but am very concerned now with the performance of the blue channel.  As you say, all testing so far is with OSC.

Hi.  I'm a new EQ6-R owner, having graduated from a Skywatcher Star Adventurer.

I have a couple of questions regarding the polarscope.  I live under quite dark skies - tonight I can make out the 4 stars of the Octans asterism. However I can barely see anything through the polarscope even though I have the DEC axis rotated correctly and can see through the shaft hole.  There's nowhere near enough star brighness to do any sort of visual polar alignment.   Am I missing something ?  Am I supposed to pull out the whole DEC head to see past the shaft ?

 The Star Adventurer was MUCH clearer and allowed me to get very accurate polar alignment.  

Thanks, Kelvin