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I find adding shims or increasing the distance makes it worse with my samyang 135mm. Just not enough travel to reach infinity focus. I have asi183mc pro + the supplied 11mm spacer, and the Zwo canon filter drawer 26.5mm. With the 6.5mm built into the camera this makes it 6.5mm+11mm+26.5mm=44mm. I have also measured it and it’s bang on. The only way I can achieve infinity focus is by putting a 2mm thick filter in the drawer, which obviously adds by its refraction.

Is my Samyang 135mm faulty? Just not enough travel to reach infinity focus. I have asi183mc pro + the supplied 11mm spacer, and the Zwo canon filter drawer 26.5mm. With the 6.5mm built into the camera this makes it 6.5mm+11mm+26.5mm=44mm. I have also measured it and it’s bang on. The only way I can achieve infinity focus is by putting a 2mm thick filter in the drawer, which obviously adds by its refraction.

So if you can’t achieve exact focus with thin spacers, is it better to be just over or just under under?

Agree, I thought all az-gti’s had same boards.

I mainly use redcat 51. So went for the 183. A no brainier when you look at the match. Amp glow is not a problem with darks which are always a necessity with other calibration files if looking for top quality astro photos.

Let’s get this back on track. Can I control my SA with PHD2. My guide camera does not have a guiding port but connects directly via usb to the laptop. So if using ASCOM how do I connect from laptop to SA. My SA is not Wi-fi version using the az gti the mount guiding is just controlled by Wi-fi when set up in this way. The SA has an st4 port but what cable is needed to connect to the laptop to enable control. Is it an eqmod to usb for example. Anyone know.

“So to set up a Star Adventurer to be guided do I use the same wiring configuration as I have with my main mount but plug my EqDirect cable into the ST4 socket on the Star Adventurer , everything else is the same and PHD2 issues ST4 commands based on images from the guide cam ?” Is the above possible as I want to try something similar in guiding my SA. I have a 1.3mp HD camera with guide scope. So if I connect camera to laptop via usb and then eqdir cable from st4 on mount to usb on laptop will I be able to guide this with phd2? The camera sends signal to laptop/phd2 and then corrections are sent from laptop/phd2 to mount to guide.

The problem with the Synscan app on iOS is that it doesn’t run in the background. So after alignment in the synscan app and the initial handover of the synscan link data to any other app like Luminos or SkySafari, the two apps no longer are able to communicate. So goto’s are compromised. Your better off continuing any syncs to other objects in the synscan app and then the purposing the hand over. Not sure if this is the case in android. In any event Luminos works far better than SkySafari pro. It has better sync options albeit these are only local to the target selected.

Is this still the case with latest iOS 14. It’s meant to run apps in the background but the synscan pro app does not show in ‘settings-general-background app refresh’ list?

If it’s primarily for controlling your az gti, don’t bother. I have had sky safari for many years and as a stellerium app it’s very good but for controlling and syncing my az gti mount it’s useless. The sync function just doesn’t work in iOS. I have changed to Luminos and find this app is far better for control of my mount.

Did you ever get this to work.

This seems to be set up in AZ mode. Are counterweights required in this mode? If so how do you bajance?

Has anyone an answer to how you can find out the current firmware version installed on the az gti mount. Can it be found in the loader app or synscan pro app?

I reprocessed this image in Startools. A great bit of software. The image is low quality because I was using trial version and took a screen capture. Finished in PS. Yet to use full potential of startools still learning the trial version but will purchase as it does such a great job and relatively inexpensive. Only trial limitation is can’t save final image. Wirth trying but a steep learning curve.

It’s the handheld remote on this model. Bit annoying as having to increase interval by 2 sec amounts to another 16 minutes for a 500 photo session. I’ll report back if I get a response from hahnel. As I said I have an older hahnel giga-t pro and that works fine even down to 1 second. So clearly a problem with their new units. Looking at getting the asiair guider kit as Peter Zelinka video. Is it a good bit of kit?