Stuart1971

I don’t think it is yet obsolete, certainly not in some parts of the world, but here in the U.K. when you would need at least 5-10 min subs with CCD to match a 2-3 min sub in CMOS, I would say it is, or at least CMOS is far better and you can get much more data in a much smaller amount of imaging time. I was a long time user and supporter of CCD and was stubborn and did not want to change, but in the end I did, and never looked back, one of the best decisions I ever made, albeit late to the CMOS game…

I might just do that…thanks 👍🏻

I would have thought with the size of the Skywatcher company and there mount range it would make sense to produce there own EQMOD equivalent driver, but more up to date, along the lines of GSS, but get the point about technical support, but a user based forum could take care of most of that…

Yes, I totally agree here. Thanks for the reply…..👍🏻

Very useful tip, I have used this loads and never got the finish that they show…👍🏻

The rust will not continue if both air and water can’t get to the metal… now on a car when you treat the rust and sand it down to bare metal, then treat, you are only doing the outer surface, a lot of rust on cars comes from underneath or the back of a panel, so really you need to treat both sides to stop it altogether..I found this out when I renovated my first car 40 years ago, I spent 18 months on it, only for 6 months later it to be just as bad and all the paint I had put on was bubbled back up with rust form underneath…☹️☹️ learnt my lesson

@FLO What is the item here above the QSI camera…??

Yes that is an EQMOD cable which uses the third party EQMOD driver…I was asking why skywatcher don’t provide a driver, I have owned a few SW scopes so I do know how they work….👍🏻

I like the look of the new Harmonic mounts from Skywatcher….🤔👍🏻

So I have owned a few Skywatcher mounts, including the EQ6 and EQ8, and I have always used third party ASCOM drivers such as EQMOD and GSS, but with all the modern latest mounts from all other mount manufacturers, they provide an ASCOM driver for you to connect your mount direct to a PC via the mounts USB port, so my question is.. Why don’t Skywatcher provide their own ASCOM driver that allows the connection of the mount direct to PC from the mounts USB port…?? Why do they rely on the third party drivers that people have to use…?? is this just laziness or for a reason…? I know they provide a Synscan Ascom driver that connects the mount handset to a PC, for control but this is not the same…I am talking about direct connection like all other mounts on the market with USB connection Or am I missing something here…

😂😂 no we won’t…it wouldn’t be around Yeovil anyway, looking more like Wells, or Shepton Mallet…👍🏻

Hmmm, and here are us looking at moving to Somerset…in the next 6 months…😮

You don’t even need USB 3 cables, you get far too much interference with them, USB 2 is perfectly fine and better in nearly all cases of long exposures, USB 3 is only needed for fast frame rate capture, like planetary imaging with a ROI, give yourself less headaches and just use a USB2 cable and set the USB traffic on about 10, in saying that i use 0 on my 268 with USB 2 and it works flawlessly..👍🏻

One little scope comes to mind, that’s the Skywatcher Evoguide ED50, very light and good FPL53 glass, with an optional flattener if needed, it’s an non rotating helical focuser, but it’s used a lot for imaging too, but in your case you only want for visual so no need for the flattener. I think a scope with a traditional focuser will always be in the realms of 1.5 ish KG…just my thoughts for an ultra lightweight little scope.

Yea, back up again now….👍🏻

Down again for me, this is becoming a real issue for them, but if they will insist on using cloudfare then theses issues are not at all uncommon…and to be expected

It happens because the earth is flat…which is obvious to anyone…👍🏻 Sorry but you started it…..😂😂

Suffice to say those numbers are excellent….👍🏻

Give them a break, it was there first post, probably joined just to try and get help with this issue, you were a beginner once…like we all were…!!

I have a set of the new Askar C1 & C2 filters (Ha / OIII and OIII / SII) coming from Askar for review purposes, if I like them I will buy…

Very nice indeed, 👏🏻 maybe create a blue mask and up the saturation in the blue, and it will pop a bit more…

Can you upload a link to the original fits file..?

Not the one from the yahoo user site, the one from GitHub…? As I think they may be different….

Alls well that ends well….👍🏻

So these stars don’t look magenta to you on your screen….? 🤔