AstroNebulee

Thank you, I've never really thought about the use of the mount you suggested. Good tips just what this thread needs. 👍

Good to hear you eventually had a good time with your new set up Stu. I havd thought about the 3/8 "steel one to but as ii don't extend the legs on my Skywatcher one and only image it meets my needs as quite stable. The legs filly extended do add a tad wobble especially with a 127mak as I found when I had one on it but settles very quickly. Good luck with the ios app on your next outing.

Brilliant Stu, pleased you got it sorted. Enjoy those clear skies tonight your mak is going to give you some cracking views of moony tonight. 🌕

Thank you. If you are in alt az mode the 127 mak will be fine as they are sold together in a package. I used to have a 127 mak on my az gti mount in at az and was lovely. I'd be a bit dubious of it in EQ mode though, it's a heavy beast on a star adventurer wedge and when you add a camera on the back will add more weight along with the cw and bar. The long focal length of the Mak needs some stability, not sure its ok for eq mode, a 102 mak msy suffice. I know nothing of taks (my pockets are already bare as it is haha)

Hi and welcome to the az gti owners thread. It's a stunning little mount. What scope are you going to be putting on it? I use a regular star adventurer wedge for my eq setup and is suffcient enough for me atm and whilst the WO wedge is the mutts nutts is more expensive (but on my wishlist 😉) If you want to run in EQ mode you can mount a polar scope on it via an adapter you can get from Ali express where I got one from (see attached picture, yes the az gti is mounted wrong for eq in the picture) but I never used it as I thought it wouldn't be accurate enough and went to using sharpcap for PA then to an asiair pro that does my PA now so much easier and uses your main imaging camera for PA.

Definitely more data helps. Maybe altering the colour balance to less red over the whole image may help. But as I say I know nothing of mono imaging. The dslr comparison sounds good, I'd be interested in the difference. Good luck in grabbing more photons on it👍

That's seems odd to of defaulted to southern hemisphere. I wonder if the alignment needs resetting. Think you go to alignment and reset alignment. I know there used to be a issue with android over version 11 and synscan but like you say shoukd be fixed. Can you try the synscan app on another device? @Ags can hopefully offer better advice. I've found the synscan app manual if any use. enmanual_20200721.pdf

It's looking great and for a first time using mono and filters, you've got your target and nicely framed. I know nothing of using a mono camera and the filters. Maybe in processing can the red channel be lessened. Someone with more knowledge on mono imaging with filters will have a better idea. 👍

Thank you that's great to hear, I'll purchase a 1.25inch one. Thank you for your help again 👍

I've tried to image IC 434 properly for the first time. I live in North Cornwall and I was using my sw 72ed AzGti eq mode and it was my first light with my new zwo asi294mc pro. Processed in Startools and photoshop then a slight tweak in denoise it's 180secs guided subs at 120 gain - 10° for a total of 2.5 hours of data over 2 consecutive nights under a 70-80 % lit moon sitting right above Orion on 11th and 12th January. Calibrated with 30 darks, flats and dark flats. So washed a lot of nebulousity out, but still so happy to get anything like this on my first attempt. I'm hoping to add more data to it soon. If you've ever seen my first attempt with IC434 this is a billion times better. So so pleased.

Thank you, I've read about vignetting on the 294 mc pro with a 1.25inch filter, when it's mounted with the adapter close to the camera sensor is there vignetting?

Thank you Mike, that's very kind of you. I have certain parts of the image a high pass filter, then gaussian blur, followed by darkening in levels in photoshop as it was overtaking the HH, then denoise with topaz.

It's my attempt at IC434, I've posted in the deep sky imaging section. Here's a link to save me typing it out again or duplicating threads. https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/389312-ic434-imaged-over-cornwall/?do=findComment&comment=4198190

I've tried to image IC 434 properly for the first time. I was using my sw 72ed AzGti eq mode, first light with my zwo asi 294mc pro. Processed in Startools and ps, 180 sec subs totaling 2.5 hours of data over 2 consecutive nights under a 70-80 % lit moon sitting right above Orion. So washed a lot of nebulousity out, hoping to add more data to it soon. If you've ever seen my first attempt this is a billion times better.

Good luck with your clear skies, look forward to hearing how you get on 👍

Congratulations, it's a beautiful set up you have there now. Good luck and clear skies

Thank you for the advice on a ir/uv filter, would it be a 2 inch one? Or could I fit a 1.25inch one direct to the 294mc pro? Yes I hope to achieve focus, I think I will have to get the focus tube in a little bit more than without the rotator in. I'll let you know 👍

Hi I have recently been imaging the Moon with my zwo asi294mc pro with my asiair pro on sw 72ed AzGti eq mode. I've taken video files in avi format (which looking at the log file says the colour is just RG) and then images in the autorun feature. I have processed the avi files in autostakkert 3 with auto detect colour and it processes them in rgb, then when I come to saturate in photoshop it doesn't colourise separate parts of the image, it will completely saturate to one colour, if you see what I mean. I tried force Bayer to RGGB and just get an image with the sensor squares all over it. Then I tried the single frames from autorun and autostakkert says they are mono, so tried the force Bayer again and still squares on the image. I'm hoping someone has the 294mc pro and been able to colourise lunar images and looking for advice. Sorry I'm just starting out with my dedicated astrocam so very green still.

Hi Here is my offering of a moony montage taken over 4 yes 4 clear nights in a row,here in North Cornwall. Taken with sw 72ed AzGti eq mode zwo asi 294mc pro, stacked in as3, registax 6 and tweak in ps. Hopefully it's not blurred on here as most sharing places it is. (If viewing on a phone or tablet rotate device to landscape and can zoom in better)

Good news the update worked well for you. Your image is still showing left hand mounting. Are you still on the alt az firmware? Yep update to 3.37 if you wanted to go to right hand side, but your fs will be quite awkward unless you had a right angled one.

Think only the latest version firmware is available via the skywatcher website. Make sure its only the laptop connecting the mount and nothing else, eg phones and tablets not having WiFi on just incase. There is a thread here somewhere with step by step instructions on updating over WiFi. Good luck 👍 https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/305296-sw-az-gti-mount-firmware-update/

I have received my rotator today for my 72ed, I removed the small bezel which was quite hard but as others suggested I used a combination of hot water abd screwing the other part in tight to remove. When connected to my scope on the FF to rotator side it doesn't seem to screw in all the way and a thread is still showing. Hopefully I can still achieve focus with my 294MC pro, will test out on next clear spell.

Hopefully it won't be long for you to get out with the scope again, looking forward to another report 👍. I've been blessed with 3.5 nights in a row for imaging, so looking forward to seeing what the 294mc pro did for me 😊

Brilliant report to read, look forward to more 👌

I agree with @badhex on the North level alignment and that's what I used to do in az mode. Bang on after the 2 star allignment and only gets better as you go to more targets. I maybe think the 127 mak would be a little heavy to run in EQ mode personally (perfect in az mode) , it would be quite shaky regarding imaging too, think a better weight option is a 102 mak.