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I made my self this one for skymax 127, focuser driven by onstep: https://www.printables.com/model/801609-skymax-mak-127-nema-14-17-autofocuser

Just advice on controller, not sure are you awarw of its existence, but I think OnStep is a grear thing to go for as a controller, it is well supported, open source, and full of features. You can start with fystecE4 for ~35eur, that has drivers already installed, tmc2209.

This is actually super cool idea and never heard about this gear, and gave me another idea, planetary+strainwave drive. Bottom drive planetary x3, and top drive harmonic x30, 90 reduction from single drive, and on top drive you have benefits of harmonic drive(smaller tooth more contact, less chance of slipping)

This is soooo stunning! Regarding magnet drive I had an idea like that as well but I thought natural magnets would be too weak, and doing electromagnets would be just too much. I also dabbled in my own mount design, tried to do 3dprinted harmonic drive for nema 17, but that ended not being so precise in the end, so I put it all on hold

Quick question, what would be "class 5"? You mean eq5, cg5? Also what performance do you expect of it? I am looking forward to more detailed post!

@MalcolmP thank you so much I was playing for days with this, itnwas nerve racking, and then by S. Holmes logic, if we have exactly the same settings here, issue must be on another place, so I have searched and searched and remembered that I clicked Auto debayer option. As soon I have disabled that solver did its job in 1.5s. Thank you so much on your help I would have palyed with this settings for months I think haha. Now, I got 18.98 SQM. I have also made home made arduino SQM and I am eger to test it and compare!

As an owner of 127, 127 definitely! brilliant little scope! And i think in newer they fixed primary mirror size, but I might be wrong. Just read that online somewhere.

Can you please send me screenshot of your settings, mine is simply not solving... Got 8 core 16 thread ryzen processor

Hi, I just found this! Although I do use astap on my astroberry that version does not have this awesome feature. Bit as it would have it, something does not work on my end. I am trying to solve and get data using Dwarf2 smart telescope, but D50 base does not seem to be able to solve it, despite being a quite wide field. Here is fits. I did try those tips and tricks 0000.fits

Some time ago I purchased Stellarium app, and then they removed that app or what and basically canceled the app, and then rereleased it and I lost my purchase, assy move if you ask me. But I do not kind as I am more than happy with Sky Safari 6 Plus, it is great, i connect my telescopes to it( OnStep and Dwarf 2 using adapter app) it works as a charm, it has observing lists, object highlight fov indicators and loads of other stuff. Good mature app.

There is ZWO Seestar S50 now in as well. It has narrower FOV, it is more competition to Vespera than to Dwarf, but at Dwarf price. Dwatf is Undoubtedly better for daytime use due to wide camera and wider FOV, also for those few big targets on night as well, but for most night targets Seestar is better option. Dwarf sales will no doubt take a hit, but I do not know why would anyone buy vespera after this goes out. Here are some images done with ZWO Seestar

I went around home and picked all wall chargers I have and checked voltage with my water pipe : OnePlus charger 0V Realme Charger 0v Dell Laptop 0V Some 65W usbc 0V Xiaomi Charger 45V Samsung Charger 45V Official Raspberry Pi charger 85V +Class usb Charger 85V 12V Mount power supply 65V 24V mount power supply 65V So all in all it is possible to isolate currents in small package, but makers are cheap!

So all in all if I get this meanwell I, and OP are good?

I am having exactly the same issue, I swapped Chinese PSU for relativelly expensive local psu, ended up being basically the same on the inside. You can test it with electrician screwdriver/tester, it glows a bit. And I use shelly smart switch, that switch cuts of just one line, and in Europe you can rotate as you wish. So if you rotete it "incorrectly" and live wire iz not cut off, it zaps even more.

Few more works with dwarf2 NGC4236 713x15s under steet lamp M46 and M47 300x4s stacked in Dwarf2, edited in Lightroom mobile, and just Background Extraction done in siril I tried to extract star colors here. Triangulum 300x10s All editing done in siril and lightroom mobile if not specified otherwise

I would recommend you to contact DwarfLab they certainly have people from UK they have shipped already and know is it included or not.

Ok I just see in a last post I forgot to upload images and ended up being a fool. So regarding import taxes in EU, I was said as a kickstarter everything will be covered. But it was not, I had to pay, but dwarf sortof compensated me. Mguess is you should count on import taxes. Regarding addons, only magnetic filter adapter should be bought.Then you can source filters from where ever. If you plan to watch the sun, take ND filters straight away from them, although you can source them later as well.

Comet is 11x15s straight from the dwarf to Lightroom Mobile crop a bit of noise reduction and tweeking Horsehead and Flame nebula 360x15s gain 80, EQ mode Stacked in siril, then did photometric calibration and then deconvultion. Background extraction applied on whole sequence before registration and again on finished photo. Cropped, and a bit of aditional editing done in Adobe Lightroom Mobile Bode galaxies are right under streetlamp 300x10s

Few shots from dwarf

I tried to image medusa nebula few days ago from light polluted area, it is rewarding too see something! Also I have one of most custom setups on one hand (custom telescopse, custom mount - onstep) and on other hand dwarf, telescope that has been where big setup has never been and will never be.

dwarf 2 has a limit of 15s max exposure

300x10s under street lamps.Siril

All 3, full res, no edit directly stacked and copied from Dwarf All under 1000s

Got mine It has a bit of coma, but tested only 600s orion, 1000s 7 sisters, and rossete but did not download that one. Also app has some stability issues, guess they will sort it out, only thing I am missing is ability to conenct to local network. Telegram cropped m42 attached

Mine is coming this week, I expect 3 weeks of rain 😁