AstroNebulee

It's going to be a lovely set up with the horizon 60ed and heard good things about this scope in the past. I think lot of us with a slightly bigger aperture scope are over the recommended 5kg payload and have very little issue, if I remember rightly my set up inc cw comes in at 5.9kg. Will enjoy hearing about your first light 😊

Beautiful 😍, great work 👍

Mist, fog , drizzle and cloud, not a chance of seeing it here in North Cornwall 🙁

Don't think I'll be seeing it either, 🙁 unless a miracle happens 😔

Timber is an outrageous price atm, hopefully you'll get it all sorted abd once done abd completed you'll have an amazing place to setup on 👍

Very interesting to watch your build evolve, I'm very impressed by your hard graft. Looking forward to watching your build. Love the vape and laser line, I thought we were holding a rock concert on your garden 😊

I had a very quick play with noise xterminator free trial for photoshop and I'm quite impressed indeed, I like the softer look to my images. I should of gone back in ps and done a high pass filter but to sharpen it a bit. I haven't played xwuth the sliders in NX so just left at 70 nr and 10 detail so can be changed to increase sharpness. I quickly tested against de noise and astronomy tools deep space no reduction. This is only my old crudely stretched dslr data on the NA nebula from last year as it was the noisiest I had to offer it. Double click images to zoom in higher to check the NR on both. Cheers Lee

It's looking great so far, I'm really enjoying watching your build 👌, lots of fascinating detail, good luck with the rest of your build 👍 Cheers Lee

I wouldn't of thought 2 & 3 can be both yes but I'm being a bit brain addled haha, hopefully someone with a Star adventurer can help out. I used to have one but sold it so can't try on that. Did you put the green dovetail in the white saddle and tried holding the black RA clutch and turning the white saddle counter clockwise? Cheers Lee

Regarding the counterweight bar, your missing the counterweight on it. If you unscrew the stopping screw on the bottom you can slip the counterweight on it and do the stopping screw on the bottom of the bar then. 👍 1.Regarding the RA, So can you loosen the actual RA clutch atall. Not the white saddle of of it just the black bit? 2. Does the black RA clutch and white saddle rotate together? 3. Do neither the black RA clutch and white saddle rotate? Sorry for all the questions, just getting my head around it 😊

Yep the counterweight bar you mean, how is it stuck? Could you take a photo to show what you mean please. Will the big black RA clutch (see images) on the star adventurer not undo? If you hold the white saddle that the dovetail clamps into and loosen the black RA clutch it should undo. Photos or a video of your issue may help us diagnose it 👍. Cheers Lee

Do you mean the counterweight bar and L bracket where tightened together or how where they stuck? You shouldn't need to unscrew the bar from the bracket just move the counterweight up and down to balance. (see images) Regarding the locked RA clutch on the star adventurer, it should just unlocked with undoing it slightly, it maybe tightened up to much. Does this video help you.

@chiltonstar Can you connect your phone with stellarium to the az gti. I've seen something here but not entirely sure on it. https://stellarium-labs.com/telescope-control-in-stellarium-mobile-plus/ Could you put your tablet in a back pack for a bit of grab and go, then room for a nice flask of coffee and a wee nip 😉

This could make interesting viewing for anyone having issues eith the synscan pro app.

Damn I had my eyes on a new filter 😂

Lovely lot of goodies, hopefully your neck will get better soon and you can have first light with your new scope, 👍

Looking nice now the greenish hue has gone Steve 👍. The 'propeller' arms showing nicely too. I agree with you on those satellite trails, even using kappa sigma clipping in dss doesn't get them all out anymore. Keep at it with gimp, it's not that much different to photoshop really. I only use an old cs4 copy of ps so I can use astronomy tools with it. Pity not compatible with gimp else, I'd use that. Cheers Lee

I have place a strip of hockey stick tape in the orange marked section and this has the friction (I believe it's stuck on now so better) to stop the mount spinning untowardly as I've no bolt in the little dimple on the underside of the az gti (not my image of the underside of the az gti mount) Cheers Lee

I found this with my WO wedge Laurence and mine was very difficult to adjust in lattitude the more I needed to go up. Mine was all down to my set up not inline with the centre of the tripos extension. You've probably read my thread about this before. I'm not sure how your setup is loaded and not very heavy though line is only 2.9kg. Now mine is more central to the are tension tube it's so much easier to adjust. Though this maybe completely nothing to do with yours Laurence. Cheers Lee

Good to hear, hopefully can he sorted now 👍

It was a late one for you indeed so yes let yourself off I don't blame you, whrn I've had a night of imaging (whenever that'll be again) all I want to do after packing it up and bringing in, is to get into bed so I applaud you. Definitely the guiding and filter passed, great to hear 👍

The horizontal lines would be Canon banding. My 600d suffered with this, there are ways of processing it out I know astronomy tools for photoshop can though depending how bad it is. I'm sure pix insight has a Canon banding module but not sure. In the astronomy tools for photoshop there a vertical banding action too though never used that. Cheers Lee

I'm pleased you've managed another session to test your set up and your guiding is going great. The L2 filter really proving its worth it's a lovely image, though not a criticism but it looks a tad green in parts. I can't remember what software you use to process but can easily sort that issue. Cheers Lee

Lovely image Ray, well done 👍

All the time for me 😁