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What's going on here. No darks, no flats. Auto stretch in siril (channels shown) dark pic is stretch in gimp and red knocked down on curve. Canon 450d full spectrum Borg 77edii Svbony uv/ir cut. (My flats stretch with same gradient.) Idk if you need more info.
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dazed and super confused
Trucker360 replied to Trucker360's topic in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
yes. i mean, cheaper the better. id prefer to be 5-700. id go a little higher if i needed to. im viewing this as most everything. when painting a car, or welding prep work is like 50-90% of the whole outcome. why should i learn to remove tons of problems with my stack, when i can learn to remove a little, and spend less time doing it with a better outcome. follow me? -
I'm not 100% sure which forum to put this in. so, here's the story. i have an Orion 130st, that I've sat on top of a Sirius pro az eq-g. (its a black az eq5 skywatcher basically.) anyway, I have yet to upgrade my scope, as its my first scope. obviously, I've taken basically everyone's advice and got the biggest mount i can afford. i realized too late in this game, that yes visual is fun for certain targets. (m42, planets, maybe dumbell and ring) but things such as cali nebula are impossible (at least in my experience with my scope) i also have a full spectrum modded canon 450d, running on backyard eos. so here's the rub. 1) my camera lenses suck. chromatic, and hazy? and or doing super weird things. green blobs. cant get perfect focus, hard gradients. 2) camera cant be used on current scope. which then brings me to this circular self conversation I keep having with myself. do I fix up the scope to work? do I get a new scope? do I get a new lens? what scope or lens do I get? I've been eyeballing the cf80ed Orion triplet. then I started eyeing the sv503 102mm. I like the idea of the 102, especially with a reducer. but idk what I need to get the best...… intermediate set up. do I need a triplet, or can I use a doublet. things of that nature. what accessories do I need/ obviously id need uv/ir cut, and I have one that's 1.25". I've done a lot of looking and don't seem to be googling the correct questions. any help please?
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Yeah. Not on there site now. Neither is the polar scope. I might have to get belts soon.
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Ebay as "damaged" it wasn't damaged. Guy thought a captured screw was broke. However, this is the same as the skywatcher az eq 6 gt. And orion is no longer selling it, or any parts that go to it now.
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Fixed it with pae
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I do not. I put it out of focus and fill the eye piece that way.
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Not negative persay, confusing. 1) this adapter ring thing. Sounds counter productive. 2) I like close up action. This is less focal than my current lens. 3) another person said stop down my current lens to fix coma, but I'm not sure what to stop down to.
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I'm going to need more explanation and or pics. I don't get how that sounds good.
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But the mount recognizes that it moved and compensates?
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Hey! That's it. Mel maz! I've found out that apparently it's the same as the sky watcher az eq6. Different paint job though. I'm starting to wonder if it's the hand controller. Maybe an update or the v5?
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i need something either a) better or b) a 8" astrograph. currently i have a kit 75-300mm canon lens. i need something better. id prefer it to have 58mm front threads as i just bought 2 weeks ago a kolari uv/ir cut ha pass filter. camera is a 450d full spectrum.
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i have an issue with my orion sirius pro az/eq-g mount. im going to try and explain what its doing, however, i predict this wont end well. so. i go set this thing up when its clear. im pretty good at it now, and do an alignment. usually always two stars. ive tried three star alignments, but idk if there was a glitch or what. anyway....... go to vega, turn the rate up to 7 and move it a good ways to get it centered. its that far off. ok, fine. think itll then do deneb. its closer, but not close. ok.itll say alignment successful. but then pops up a warning about some axis or maz mal something.... 2 sets of what looks like lat and long. then go to m31. m31's core will be right on the edge of the glass of the eyepiece. (orion 130st with star guider 8-24 eyepiece at 24mm which is 60 degrees fov.) which, then everything is off on the pointing. it tracks fine, im getting no trails at 300mm 4.5 min subs not guided. i just dont know what to do to get it to point better. i think that dumpster fire of an explanation is everything. things ive checked so much i can almost recite them. polar alignment is spot on. elevation is correct. lat and long are correct. time is correct. pic i took... lens has a ton of coma, but youre not getting horse head with .9 subs. over 2 nights with a ball head mishap. also, sequator vs dss. lol
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