AstroNebulee

Thanks Ray, like the idea but I have a small blue plate attached to the underneath of my az gti and can't move it up any. I woukd if thought there's some sort of different bolts with bigger heads in the or replacement knobs to fit over the knurled ones.

Hi I have a William Optics high latitude wedge for my az gti mount and when polar aligning the Dec I find it hard to adjust the knurled screws as there's a bit of weight on the wedge and it's tough to get them to turn easily with clutch off. I'm wondering are there different bolts I could use that have bigger grips on them to make turning them to adjust declination during pa easier. Cheers Lee

As @Shimrodsay above check out the az gti mount owners thread. You maybe able to pick up a cheapish asiair pro there's a few for sale on abs atm then you can do it all from an app and power tank for power. You can also get a polar scope adapter from Ali baba that could work with polar scope, check out the az gti thread. I was going to try the polar scope adapter but got an asiair pro soon after so never tried it. But to much of a ballache trying to calibrate the polar scope. So I went more expensive easy option 😂

Hopefully a wedge will become available soon and your there with sturdy eq mode 👍

It's a lovely set up there Phil, I love what you guys are doing with the evoguide and lenses. Regarding set up weight I use the star adventurer tripod that you can buy with the az gti and the total weight on the set up is near 6kg! The scope, guidescope, asiair and 294mc pro all come to 3.9kg but add on the 2 kg of counterweights takes me quite high.

Thank you Michael, at least I know it's sensor tilt rather than scope tilt, that gives me hope and hopefully will adjust this with my tilt adjuster now.

Hi I have been suffering with eggy stars in my images and tried the test of taking an image and then rotating the camera 180 degrees to se if its camera or scope tilt. To me the eggy stars still seem to be generally in the bottom left corner in these 2 images. I've run the two images through ccd inspector but not sure what I'm looking at to be fair. My set up is sw 72ed AzGti eq mode zwo asi 294mc pro ovl field flattener. Any help is much appreciated as I'm losing my mind after 2 months of this. These are 10 second unguided subs just to test the issue. Cheers Lee

You can edit the exposure time by ticking the box next to the exposure time, I used to do it with my Canon 600D I think I used 0.00032 or something, the asiair will tell you the minimum if you go to quick. As said before don't worry about taking darks with your 600d they don't do anything and may make your image worse, save your time and grab more light frames instead. Just take lights, flats, bias. Can't remember if I used to shoot flat darks with my Canon 600D or not. Regarding the noise in your images as you say, can you try stacking and processing without the darks. With your flats have you tried adding a t shirt stretched over the scope end or a few sheets of blank paper to diffuse the led screen a bit. I know I use a 294mc pro, but with my led light panel set up I always try to shoot 2 sec flats and get the histogram to just below halfway. I use my led screen (with mod casing seen on sgl) on lowest setting and blank paper sheets to get to the desired histogram and 2 sec exposures. After testing this, I can now keep the led panel set up the same and just pop on the end of the scope at the end of an imaging session and fire off 30 of them.

Definitely more integration time will make your 8mage better and less noisy too. Your guiding rate is good for the mount, hopefully you get your clear night tonight, good luck Ray and keep going, as I have found there are good times and bad with imaging and the good times certainly make you forget the bad times 👍

I would of thought you'd still need one as why would they make a reducer flattener for the 100 ED else, but I'm probably wrong 👍

Storm Dunlop arrived in Cornwall back in early January 😉🤣

Probably worth sending an email to skywatcher or flo maybe they can confirm but should be OK 👍

Here on flo website its 7.5v-14v 0.75a, I use a 12v power supply via an AAP and previously used a 12v talentcell battery pack. Cheers Lee

Hi I use the AAP with my az gti mount. I use a lynx astro eq dir cable from the mount to AAP. Then USB from the AAP to guidecamera and set eq mod mount in the AAP software. As above no need for st4 cable or any settings to change, the AAP with recognise the guidescope camera automatically. Cheers Lee

Plus 1 for this @OK ApricotI always used to align this way and was very accurate indeed.

Beautiful set up, she's a beauty when observing and imaging the sun 😊

Was it any better using the new downloaded software? Maybe see if anyone has an el cheapo device to use or buy cheaply. I used to use a spirit level on my mount, scope and tripod as I think the spirit bubble on my tripod and mount were off and very badly put in.

Really pleased you've got vthis mount now, it's a beauty. Regarding your poor guiding, I suspect the poor PA and windy position wouldn't of helped you in your guide rate. I use my set up in EQ mode via an asiair pro so can't be of much use with the raspberry pi and I'll get around 0.5-1.5 guiding on a good night. Could you send a picture of your set up. Cheers Lee

Thank you. My first time imaging it and I was pleased to get something on it this year with all the imaging issues I had and rubbish weather. Will spend more time on it next year as this is only 24 minutes. It was clear here last night but blowing a gale so no imaging for me. Really pleased it was a good session you last night, I hope your processing goes well, I'll look forward to the result 👍

Brilliant thank you David, gosh I'm so thick! I couldn't find anything on it anywhere

Good luck tonight, hope it stays clear and you get those photons, you deserve it. Clear here tonight but blowing an absolute hooley so no go here.

My Rosette from last night https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/391423-ngc-2244/?do=findComment&comment=4216681

My somewhat hmmm rendition of NGC 2244 the rosette nebula taken last night on a test mission to see if I've cured the eggy stars in my images. 8 x 180 sec subs (all I could manage as the transparency went awful after and the Meridian came up and for some reason my set up didn't like after the Meridian) 120 gain - 10°, 30 darks, flats and flat darks 😉. Skywatcher 72ed AzGti eq mode, zwo asiair pro, zwo asi294mc pro zwo ir uv filter Yep and my framing wasn't quite right and chopped part of the rosette off.

Yep this one that's arrowed David 👍

Thank you David a fantastic tip indeed. Love the ingenuity and hope it serves you well 👍can I ask with the WO wedge is there a way of adjusting the clutches on it to clamp a bit tighter or am I being thick and they just have a standard tightness as my RA clutch is all the way over tight but still doesn't feel as though it tightens enough, maybe it goes and it's just me.