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so had a problem with collimation on my skywatcher 130pds ive got it roughly collimated i believe and im taking an image in apt to plate solve and its suddenly not plate solving would bad collimation cause this ? ive tried going to cappella and centering the star taking a picture and plate solving it and apt isnt working so iam at a loss at weather its my collimation way of or apt playing up any advice would be helpfull firt clear night in weeks any quick tips at a loss cheers

its early days a new scope so trying to get to grips with it and planetary imagings new to me also ,i will keep trying weather depending many thanks

im findng with a barlow the screen goes black ,i havent had chance to get out and test the barlow with an eye piece yet but i did try out eye piece projectionwith dslr with a 20mm eye piece lastnight with better results i could find the target the telescopes im findng with a barlow the screen goes completly black and ive tried all different settings ,i have the TS-Optics 6" f/12 Classic Cassegrain many thanks

iam thinking of getting a colour planatary imaging camera moving from dslr and i was wondering about eyepiece projection as ive had problems with barlow i have the eyepiece extentions and i have a mono guide cam ive tried to see if it will connect to one and im at a loss and wondering if anyone would know of any adapter i can ue to connect the ccd cam to eyepiece projecton adapter which normally has the dslr mount on that unscrews and i cant seem to find an adapter to connect the 2 so m42 to ccd any ideas many thanks

i use the 130pds on an eq5 pro and tracks really well and id say just about right for dso imaging a good starting point and relitevly cheap to get going im sure the 200pds will also work but limited field of view

trying to bag mars ,cant seem to get the barlow to work with the classic cass scope nor 5x zoom in eos movie record so not as sharp as id like but first attempt with the scope and dslr camera

i found with modding my 650d i hadnt leveled the sensor chip on the camera when i did the mod i used a bahtinov mask and focused everytime for months and imaged away thinking i was doing ok until someone pointed out my stars were not sharp accross the image ,i re leveled the sensor on the camera and now stars are pin sharp just a thought the extra level of red will be from the mod and can be aligned in software after imaging bubble neula image when sensor was off odd looking stars and ngc 869 after leveling the sensor

many thanks i will have a look into that cheers

i use apt to plate solve ,and it dont plate solve planets i dont think unless i make a custom object havent tried this is just a new scope im trying to do planets with and apt isnt the best fr those i dont believe

thanks for that reply im using an EQ5 pro eq goto mount and im hooked up to laptop so veiw on screen my thinking is i need better alignment of my finder scope with barlow in hopefully i can sort that next time out weather depending cheers

im liking it just need some more time with it and processing skills working on but yes great scope thanks again 👍

i know that feeling ,it happenend to me when i first got all my gear together and the boxes came with stickers saying clouds inside 😂 But on that note the day comes when your able to get out with your new gear ,and well then the fun begins ,if all new cannt beat dry runs indoors to get it all tweaked up and working as you would like certainly helps when the day come and its clear best of luck and clear skys 😀

few shots of the moon 1st december with the TSOPTICS Cas6m

so ive just begun planetry imaging or trying to say the least i was wondering if anyone had any experience with where i maybe going wrong i can image the moon no problems but when it comes to jupiter mars saturn etc iam basically getting just a washed out image ,i have tried focusing on the moon,before going over to a planet to image for focus but that dont seem to help with my final images ,im trying with a Dslr and eos movie record that i can acheive the 5x magnification fine put a barlow in an i just cant seem to locate the target again sorry to go on but if anyone could give me a few pointers as to where i maybe going wrong that woulld be great ive seen it done with a dslr on youtube with great results im finding it a little frustrating ,just learn about DSO imaging and planetary is a whole new feild so any dslr imagers with camera settings i maybe doing wrong getting the image n the chip with a barlow am i out of focus the list goes on haha 😂👍 many thanks image attacthed of my results what am i missing

hi ive been looking at celestron and meade F6.3 focal reducers and was wondering if anyone hadd any success with a classical cassegrain would like your input before buying if anyone has any advice thanks

many thanks for the confirmation 👍

So i went about more testing of my equipment lastnight and i was wondering if one would know is this camera noise or red stars iam using a full spetrum dslr filtered but in the test shots of NGC 869 there are alot more red than in the test shots of M45 both tests gots the same exposure time so id assume if noise both pictures should show the same so is it stars or is it camera noise many thanks

think my stars are looking more in focus now anyways 👍

Actually i went about re aligning my camera sensor yesterday ,funny as i hadnt read your post ,and i took some darks and there seems to be no glow and less than there were before. so i am hoping ive got the sensor in a better position ,im hopefully going to be able to try it out tonight on some star clusters maybe all being well with the weather ive got the scope in a better collimation ,and if all else fails ive a canon 450d to try to see if it is actually the camera sensor on the 650d, but for now im hoping ive fixed it ,many thanks for your advice and help cheers clear skys

yes the cable is like a printer cable if you look at the bottom of your hand control there should be like a socket for USB Printer Cable High Speed 2.0 A to B Lead search ebay very cheap and ive found setting up that route ideal once all connected and drivers are in place

i have the same mount i use a 4 port usb hub ,i connect my hand controller into it from the usb port on the hand controller if yours has this you need to download the hand control software from skywatcher,i also connect my guidecam direct into the usb hub and dslr into usb hub then from the usb hub i have one wire extention cable from the usb hub direct to one port on the laptop ,you do not need to connect st4 cable at all you just need the skywatcher hand control software and ascom platform drivers hope that gives a general idea in apt then all you have to do is connect dslr connect mount then open up phd2 when connecting to guide hope this helps fairly simple once its setup good luck

Thanks but no prize winning yet still learning and what would you mean ,take images of setup ,its basially the camera to coma corrector directlt into the focus draw tube many thanks

ive taken an image of the wall as a flat looks pretty even to me but unsure what iam looking for ,and the flat was very pink before changing to jpg its a naked sensor camera many thanks

the first image wasnt too heavily cropped but yes i have noticed most imaging some stars look great and some out of focus i was thinking was my polar alignment a little of or not quite getting sharp focus but i use a mask everytime i image so what would you suggest try an imaging session without the coma corrector its the Baddar coma corrector somtimes when i zoom in on a picture some stars look fine and others seem to have holes in the centre ive always found odd Thanks alot

Thankyou very good points i will do that cheers