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All sorted. Thank you Peter

Hi everyone. So I have a HEQ5 with a broken saddle and I can’t seem to find a like for like replacement, only upgrades. Does anyone know if there is such a thing? thanks , Dan

This worked. Thank you knew it would be simple

I didn’t. I’ll have another go today. I didn’t change any settings when stacking, but I will go through and check. Does white balance need to enabled in DSS?

Ok, I’ll give that a go next time I get a clear sky. Thanks

Shooting RAW, but I believe white balance is set to auto.

I did think that, but when I watch the videos, or read tutorials, the dialogue box shows RGB, same as mine. It is probably something really simple that is really obvious to most. But I always told there is no such thing as stupid question

Hi everyone. Not new to Astronomy, but new to astrophotography and especially the processing process. So the past few months I’ve been getting data on some targets, no filters. The single exposure images looks good, once they are all stacked in DSS, the whole image comes with a green tint. I have tried the HLVG, plugin in photoshop, but this ca sometimes kill off any detail, or make the whole image look blue and washed out. Has anyone encountered this issue before, are there some settings I’m missing when stacking? I leave everything as default. My second issue I have is in photoshop. I have been following tutorials, YouTube videos etc to try and get this right. But the one thing I notice is, when I go to adjust the levels, I have 3 curves in the dialogue box, on all tutorials I see there is only one. Any help here would be appreciated. I am using a DSLR, unmodified. I live in around a bortle 5 are. thanks.

Can it not work as a stand-alone guider through a finder scope, and then images are taken with a DSLR? I will have to have a read into it. Getting information overload again 😂

This looks very useful. Is my understanding of these setups correct? Can you use this just to guide and not take images, and use a DSLR to take the images. Because these only work with the ZWO type cameras, right? Sorry for all the questions, there is just so much information it’s quite overwhelming. And yeah, I can see this happening already. Which is why I want to make the right decision, it’s so stressful 😂

I will look into this. I have a few spare Raspberry Pis. This would be ideal. Thanks

Auto guiding is a subject I need to research more as I’ve always seen it as something I can add later, but the more and more I delve into this hobby, the more I realise how important guiding can be. My problem is I have a new, quite expensive desktop pc, so definitely cannot warrant a laptop. Is it possible to get guiding software on a tablet and run a raspberry pi on the mount and guide over WiFi from the tablet? Or would this bring latency? Thanks for the feedback, mate. What exposure times do you get with your set up?

Thanks for the response. I can already see this being a slippery slope with the bank account, I can’t believe I’ve got my wife to agree to these new purchases. Predominantly my set up will just be used for the back garden. As of right now I will only be using a redcat on the mount, so not much payload, but without auto-guiding, I’m not sure how long the EQ 3 will track for before you start seeing star trails. So it’s a toss up between what’s overkill and what is necessary. I suppose I can always get an auto guiding system in the future with any of those mounts

Hi everyone, long time lurker here. I have given up and resorted in asking for help, I usually try to struggle on my own, but it’s not working As of today, I use a celestron 130 SLT, which I’ve had for a few years and I’ve loved it. But as time has gone on, I’ve wanted to get more and more into Astrophotography, rather than just viewing. So I have been using this scope to practice, but as I am wanting to do deepsky stuff have been struggling, the mount and scope haven’t really got what it takes, albeit with some persistence some good images can be taken. So it’s upgrade time (scope and mount) I have been looking at the Redcat 51 or the z61. But in terms of mount, I’m unsure what is necessary and what is overkill and also not regretting I spent that little bit Moreno in a years time. So my options are; the EQ3 pro, EQM-35 and the EQ5 Pro. Any advice or experience with any of these mounts would be much appreciate. Thanks, Dan