Stuart1971

The Astap databases have been updated and renamed, and you need to download the new ones and point NINA to them….👍🏻

I assume you are referring to the Tak I owned, if so the I’m afraid you are wrong, I used that new flattener with mine, and it makes a very small difference…and why should you have to use 2 flatteners with such a premium scope, it’s a joke…I agree they SHOULD look excellent but they don’t at all….☹️

Oh don’t worry i’m not fretting, just curious I know Pegasus well, and I can assure you anything they make will be to work with there own kit only, and not to work with other manufactures kit, regardless of what they have told you…👍🏻

I am just a bit confused too by your post, why would Pegasus release a conversion kit for an ioptron product to work on a samyang lens, surely they would want people using there own focusers…🤔

Why would they release that, for a product that is not there’s…🤔🤔

Wow, good idea, but what a ridiculously hight price….😮

The issue is the Wi-Fi, I use a little tiny TP link USB Wi-Fi aerial (£13) instead of the internal one, I use to use it on the raspberry PI too, and it was far better than the built in wifi with is pretty dire on the RPI… the VNC on the pi is also really slowwwwww, and so is any VNC you use on it, the cursor drags when moving around the screen, that’s not the connection it’s just the RPI Remote desktop is far superior and just works, but it means you need windows, I have never looked back after swapping out the RPI for the Mele 3 and windows 11, with NINA, and was a real supporter of Stellarmate and the RPI too…

Mini PC such as the Mele quieter 3C or 3Q on the mount and NINA to control everything, then remote into that from PC indoors, never let me down, and I have come from the Raspberry PI and Stellarmate which was ok ish, but compared to the mini PC….well it just works all the time….👍🏻

Well it does, as it shows that the readouts from the ASIair are wrong, so to take no notice….👍🏻

One thing I will add, is that it’s a lot cheaper than the rest of the Askar range, so am guessing that will be for a reason…probably the glass….👍🏻

Looks a very nice scope, and a good spec for the cost…but the only real way to know is for some real world reviews… I bought a Takahashi FSQ85 and thought it would be superb, and ended up selling to buy an Esprit 100, due to the Tak being really poor with astigmatism due to me using a modern small pixel camera, QHY268m, it was superb with my old CCD cameras with massive pixels….it’s an issue with them for sure, and to try and cure it they bought out another flattener for it, which is not included in the package, so with this Petzval design 4 element scope, to image, you have to use 2, yes 2 flatteners together, the one built into the scope and another on the back, it’s ridiculous TBH… But this one being a new design should be fine on that front…it does seem a really good buy on paper for sure…with good spot diagrams, .If you do get it, keep us informed how you get on…

So you are losing 1v between your PSU and the ASIair, assuming the input display is correct…😮 how long is the cable between the two..? I would guess that the displays are wrong, your input should be close to the 12.5v and show that, hence why the outputs are higher, but you shouldn’t really be losing 1v unless the cable between the PSU and the ASIair is long…over 3m… 🤔

How do you manage to get a higher output, than the input….obviously the reading are skewed on the output side…🤔🤔

This was the best thing I ever did, and I did it a time when was getting fed up with UK weather….and almost gave up and sold it all, it re ignited my interest, and then 18 months later I built an obsy around my pier, and have never looked back, you can just grab a few hours here and there with no set up to worry about….👍🏻

I don’t do any Astro between the end of March and October, it’s just not worth the frustration, it’s mountain biking all summer for me….👍🏻

Ok, so like me and @scotty38 you have an obsy, we both started without them so our rig was outside on its own, so a mini PC on the mount was the way to go, no trailing cables apart from 1 power cable to the mount, then we moved to an obsy and just carried on the same way, so I only have one cable up to my mount, and all the other items of kit are connected to my Pegasus UPB and then in turn that is connected to the mini PC which runs all the NINA and other software. then we sit indoors and remote in to the mini PC for full control, in my case wirelessly… if you already have a bigger PC off the mount, then yes of course use that with a USB hub on the mount, then you will still only have 2 cables to the mount, USB and power…it just comes down to personal choice…I nearly moved my PC off the mount when I built the obsy but then though why, 🤔 I will have another trailing cable that way…so left it on…

Well you are in the exact same position imwas 18 months ago, I was a Stellarmate user, with Kstars and Ekos and loved it, I was a real advocate for it, and worked a lot with the developer in helping make it better… ‘Then I started to get issues that none of us could sort out and so I made the move away, and chose NINA and a cheap mini PC on my mount to run it all, and it’s absolutely the best thing I ever did, hands down, NINA is superb and the development team on the discord forum are superb at helping with issues and it’s constantly being developed, and it’s FREE… It has everything you need and more, and Kstars and Ekos does not have anything that NINA does not…. My advice is to watch some videos on NINA as I found that the layout confused me a bit especially when I wanted to re arrange panels for my own needs…its take a bit of getting used to, but once you do, you will not regret it at all.. Mini PC on the mount something like the Mele Quieter 3 and then remote into that from a PC indoors to run it all… HTH

Hi, I will fit my Esprit, as I have the Pegasus made Esprit 100 adapters which have the proper 0.75mm pitch…as I was going to get a motorised rotator, one adapter goes on the back of the scope and gives M54 male and then the rotator and then the other adapter goes from the rotator and into the M65 of the flattener…so all good…. Cheers anyway…👍🏻

Looking for an M54 camera angle adjuster (rotator) and saw the StellaLyra M54 / M63 and M92 Angle Adjusters on the @FLO website, they look good and the price is excellent, just wondered if anybody has one and can comment whether there is any flexure at all, as I have gotten rid of my tilt, the last thing I want to do is add more back… they look very similar to the Williams optics versions but at half the price… Any thoughts anyone….

I think the OP has provided the picture for the guy from the original thread to use to offer help, as if the picture will help him offer a diagnosis, but yes it’s an 8 year old thread…..so maybe not much chance….🤔🤔

Thanks for the heads up, and sorry you had issues….but good to know…😮☹️

I had this in my DEC axis only on an EQ8 and it was the connection plug for that motor where is plugs into the motherboard…one of the wires had come adrift.. But you seem to have covered everything there and you would have re seated those plugs on the new m/board…so I am at a loss…🤔🤔

Have a look here too https://web.archive.org/web/20160507164742/http://qhyccd.com/Download.html and here may be an even better option… https://www.astrolumina.de/kamerasysteme/alccd-qhy/software/

Have you looked under the “discontinued camera” drivers on this page lower down… https://www.qhyccd.com/download/

I put a very loose cover over my kit in the obsy in the winter, and then just heat the space under the cover, so it’s a few degrees above the rest of the obsy, I built a heater using a 12v heat pad between two 100mm square heatsinks, it runs at 25w and costs barely anything, and works superbly, keeps the temp under the cover at 5 degrees above the rest of the obsy, and is controlled by a temp and humidity sensor, using the humidity as the control to turn in or off…. Much better than trying to heat the while obsy…a very large SCT dew strap wrapped around the base of the mount would do the same job, for very minimal cost…..👍🏻