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Welcome to SGL MrPizza (nice handle buy the way) We have some great imagers from Florida and other locations as well so you are in for more than you bargined for ? Best of Luck and Clear Skies of course... Freddie.

I dident give it the credit of a cross section drawing, like Gina's failed artist description best so far. My obsy consists of a table some chairs several scopes, cameras computers and other bits all on wheels now newly conserved in garage, completely all utilitarian of course but I do understand the need for an in ground pool and a couple Jaguars nearby...I have built in bar and senic over look close by too ? So I guess I'm not so innocent on the luxury side of things, intresting to know what others posting here have nearby their observatories...

You would get a nice wide field with your 224 and a 50mm camera lens you likely have and with no clicking noises, at that f ratio you've got some fast light so the zwo model is not as critical. Could be another experiment for you ? The clicking thing would drive me somewhere too.

This is ment to be some weird sort of "out of scale with itself" cut away drawing so intoxication might have more consequences in the final build than pictured, do take plenty of money I think the drinks may be pricey and so will the valae parking...

Welcome James, Sounds like you have new friends close by...Enjoy the journey ? Freddie...

That's a pretty tiny scope for such a grand observatory, might be better to look for an architect with bigger hands ?

Welcome to SGL, Best of Luck and Clear Skies of course ? Freddie...

Your asi224 using livestacking might be your best bet, using a Dslr really is an ergonomic stretch for live viewing and then the small screen too. With your 224 you can livestack wide fields with a camera lens or all sky too, I am doing it with my imx385 and it's just fancy with my 16 or 17 inch laptop screens. I don't save anything and delete everything Sharpcap saves as for me this is just a sub for visual observations of the deep sky so when I roll my portable digital obsy back in the garage for covering nothing beyond the shorthand in my logs is undertaken. I am using the Zwo asi385mc as it is their recommended camera for eaa, they have advised me well the camera is very sensitive and has an ampglow reduction circuit that really brings it under my Bortle class 4 skies. I am new to eeva myself...and glad to share what little I've learned so far. Best of Luck and Clear Skies of Course ? Freddie...

Welcome to SGL Miguel, Best of Luck with those location challenges and Clear Skies of course ? Freddie...

Like the idea of purchasing a single self contained unit and think this is another great alternative for those seeking an easy lightweight novice friendly package... For me though the field of view is a none starter and as I have had an eye on Unistellar for some three years now as they push the directive further and further out the existing astonomy camera technology excells at an ever increasing rate...Someone puts a small LCD screen on a mini computer attatched to an astronomy camera with livestacking that can be plugged into any scope and their lead here may be lost, at 90+Qe a tracking mount won't even be needed just small remote sensors for altitude and azimuth for simple push to capability... Smaller better faster, my chief engineers words when we replaced electro mechanical timers with digital logic controllers 30 years ago...The trend continues... Best of Luck Everyone, Unistellar too ?

Welcome to SGL Wes, Best of Luck and Clear Skies of course ? Freddie...

Welcome to SGL, Best of Luck and Clear Skies of course ? Freddie...

Congratulations Avani!

Welcome to SGL, Best of Luck diving in and Clear Skies of course. Freddie ?

Awesome... Looks like a fast f ratio and a good sensor, what phone and camera app is this...

Congratulations to all the winners, some very nice entries all around...

2018 Interview with Robin Glover developer of Sharpcap, discussion touches on the evolution of astrophotography with modified webcams to modern-day (2018) AP and EAA. The discussion also includes Robins take on Cmos technology and how it has drastically improved over time, an interesting >30 minutes.

It is interesting the many reasonings for perusing eeva from battling light pollution to eliminating the dark adaptation requirement for visual observation and as well those more interested in quick and dirty imaging for personal observation or to share those images with other like observer's or just general like sharing as dedicated imagers do, for me with moderately dark skies it's an ongoing physical disability that moves me toward eeva wereas continued visual observations have become too taxing and eeva may be my only comfortable means to continue. The dangerous part of all this is my already accumulating digital eyepiece collection an my wife's newly evolving opinion of it ? Eventually I intend to replace visual observations entirely with eeva like alternatives and develope hardware and software work flows around my physical limitations, this new forum on eeva and it's now many discussions have helped greatly the realization that this is the best option for my particular situation and continued observation of the deep sky. Whatever your reasoning and expectations, Best of Luck and Clear Skies Everyone ? Freddie...

Just bought the asi385mc observe in the northern hemisphere and am liking your post alot, I went with a smaller 1/2 sensor for those same reasons you sumed up quite well. For use on my 150/750 with reducer at f2.5 so 1.1 x .63° and my 80mm at about 2 x 1° f2.5 Thinking of buying a large sensor camera for my finderscope though.

Exquisite and Excellent both...I couldent decide so good this is, published? Indeed this should be...

How about a static mount eeva challenge with a 10sec light limit, open to all comers of course and for an added twist do Nv verses Va as a theme. Did I just suggest the very first eeva only challenge...Its a good possibility ?

Vacuum tube eeva?

Been thinking about the asi290mm mini myself, Qe at 80 and the fov seems perfect for an st80 or ed80 but being a eeva/eaa/astrophotography novice I don't want to be over sampling or anything else unpreceived, if someone could give me a heads up that would be great.

My friend is a police commander in a nearby city, he insists they only catch the stupid ones...