Forgive me if this isn’t what you need. I use this to connect my heq5 pro direct from mount to my pc. 
Lynx Astro FTDI EQDIR USB Adapter for Sky-Watcher Mounts

I tried it out a few times during the day on distant chimneys and it worked well. but on the nights i tried it i was getting frustrated with it and decided my Bahtinov  mask was the faster option .

when i inquired about oag for the 130pds the dealer kindly replied i wouldn't need one for this scope. so you could save some weight

I was often having trouble with this happening. I found that resetting the alignment every session helped. Hope it helps you

I have the 130pds and the skywatcher Gti with a skywatcher wedge which I used in Eq mode  With counter weights. I found the after putting  an electric focuser on it with a guide scope and finder scope and using a coma Corrector it was too heavy. I’ve replaced the mount with  a heq5 pro mount and not looked back. I wish I had bought a bigger mount in the first place. 

I had the same issue when both the asi120mm mini guide cam and the Asi294mc which were all plugged into the same powered usb hub. I bought another powered usb hub and now plug the Asi294mc into one of the hubs and the asi120mm mini in the other. I plug the mount usb into the one with the asi120mm and the focuser into the one with the Asi294mc. Just meant I had to run two cables into the computer instead of just the one. Never have a problem now

Thank you for these recommendations. The pictures are beautiful.  Much appreciated 

Thank you Stu. Love the picture. Very impressive. Many thanks for your recommendation.

Please can I Have your recommendations for a good filter for red nebula. I live in a bortle 4 area which has the led street lighting using a skywatcher 130pds with an one shot colour Asi294mc uncooled camera. With a skywatcher coma corrector which reduces by 0.90 

thank you 

colin

Please can I Have your recommendations for a good filter for red nebula. I live in a bortle 4 area which has the led street lighting using a skywatcher 130pds with an one shot colour Asi294mc uncooled camera. With a skywatcher coma corrector which reduces by 0.90 

thank you 

colin

I use a 5m active usb cable from the camera into the house, and operate it in comfort with my laptop. Staying warm and not risking the laptop

38 minutes ago, Greymouser said:

Celestron Omni. Still £39 elsewhere, £69 on FLO, though it wasn't a couple of days ago. Not the best of eyepieces but half decent and will give a good idea if it fits in my scheme of things.

Competitive Pricing

found this on the FLO website

In the unlikely event you find a lower price please email us details. We will then do our best to match. 

Please note: 

The competitor must be an authorised retailer (appointed by the manufacturer or manufacturer’s distributor). 
The product on the competitor's site must be identical to the one on our site. 
The comparison price must include the competitor's delivery price. 
The product must be in stock with the competitor or available for delivery within five days. 
If the competitor includes a ‘free’ accessory or some other bundle we will do our best to match or offer something similar. 
If the competitor is offering a product at below cost price we will bury our face in our hands and sob. 

I use the same camera. if I use the asi driver I Have the same problem. If I use the ascom2 drivers it works ok. Might be worth a try

We were lucky here till about 9.00am. Cloudy now with rain showers. Need to be luckier with clear skies when dark now hehe

Thank you MarkAR, Much appreciated.it stood out well with the sun low in the sky

I always had trouble with this Mount when using batteries. Sometimes pointing down, parking then moving again. I noticed that the battery connector is a little iffy and sometimes lost connection as the mount skewed. Since getting a power lead it’s been More or less trouble free.  I was overloading it in the end so got a heq5 pro for my scope and use the Gti for my dslr 

A stunning image, you must be so pleased with it

Hi there. I started with a skywatcher tabletop Mount. The 114p heritage. But after buying a 130pds found the mount useless. Too long a scope. So I bought a skywatcher Gti. The tripod gave me a better working height. I Then put a motorIsed focuser on and a guidecam and more finder scopes etc. Purchased a wedge And counter weight. Then had to add more counter weight to balance. updated the firmware for eq operation. I am really happy with the GTIMount. But struggled with guiding in Phd2 Managed about 2-3 arc secs at best. Weighing the kit I was well over the 5kg limit. I use this Mount now  with a dslr and up to 300mn lens. It’s light and really easy to setup and been wireless no power issues when out. Saving to the sd card on the camera.

I have now purchased a heq5 pro with belt mod. For my scope setup. Only had one clear night so far but had no problem guiding. And very sturdy.

I love the Gti Mount.  And will never part with it

1 hour ago, jonathancd said:

First night of imaging with my new planetary cam, an Altair GPCam3 290c, telescope was a TEC140 with a 2.5x barlow.  Each picture is the best 15% of frames from around 1 minute, 2500 frame stacks.  Stacked in Autostakkert with wavelets sharpening and colour balance in Registax.  Seems a really versatile camera as I was able to use the same camera and scope to do some DSO live stacking  (pictures in the EAA observations section). Thanks for looking.

Jupiter with Callisto shadow transit

 

 

Saturn

 

 

Mars

 

 

 

Beautiful captures 

On 03/07/2020 at 09:08, GavinC said:

I thought the recent email exchange between Skywatcher support and myself might be of interest, as there appears little information available on this feature.

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Hi Gavin,

Regarding "Alignment Sharing", please see the description below.

## Alignment Sharing
Alignment data is stored in each individual app instance. This means if you performed alignment using one app instance, only it will have the newly created alignment data. If another app instance connects to the same mount, it will not have access to the new alignment data.

The alignment sharing feature (**Utility > Alignment Sharing**) allows one app instance to send a copy of alignment data to another app instance. For it to work, the devices running the app instances must be on the same local area network (eg connect to the same Wi-Fi network). The sending instance turns on **Share my alignment**, while the receiving instance turns off this option. The receiving instance should then see the shared alignment data appear in a list. Loading alignment data overwrites the previous alignment data.

You can use the Alignment Sharing to transfer the alignment data to another device after completing a Star Alignment. For example, you have done and successfully complete 2-Star alignment with your smartphone and then you can use the Alignment Sharing function to share the alignment data to the SynScan Pro App Windows program which is running on your PC. Then you don't have to do the alignment again to control the same AZ GOTO mount with the Windows SynScan App because it has the same alignment result as your smartphone has.

If you have any questions, please feel free to let us know.

Thank you.

SynScan App Team

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:22 AM Gavin Cox wrote:
Hello,

I have just seen you have updated the Synscan app firmware to 1.19.  I have this installed on a Win PC and Android phone and use it to control a AZ GOTO mount running the latest firmware using the Synscan Wifi Dongle.

There looks to be some new functionality under the utility menu called 'alignment sharing', but I can't find any documentation in the help files on this?

Please can you detail how it can be used?  If both my phone and PC are connected to the SynScan WiFi hotspot and I perform an alignment on my phone will the app on the PC recognise this too (or vice versa)?

Thank you,

Gavin

Many thanks for this message. Just tested it out using my iPad outside to align the sun. Then parked it. Shared the alignment with the laptop. Then using my laptop  I slewed to the sun. Spot on the dot. Been wanting to be able to do this for ages. Saved a lot of effort 

2 minutes ago, sloz1664 said:

Hi Colin and a very warm welcome to the Lounge

Steve

Thank you Steve

32 minutes ago, Pete Presland said:

Hi welcome to SGL from Peter in Bedfordshire 🙂

Thank you Pete

11 hours ago, Dave Lloyd said:

Hi Colin, welcome. 

Thank you Dave

Sounds good, just what I need. I’ll give it a try. Thank you