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  1. Just to follow up on my fairly negative comments earlier, I do hope the show was a success for the organisers and the vendors. It’s only by having shows like this can we see kit in person and discuss them with sellers, and maybe meet familiar faces too. Basically I’m saying thanks to those who organise the shows and long may they continue doing so. 😃
  2. I didn’t post any because I didn’t take any ‘wide field’ pics of the whole show .. only a couple of specific items that interested me. As here … Something I noticed very starkly, although I realised this already, how refractors now dominate the telescope scene - albeit probably made by the same few manufacturers. All Chinese of course. Kit from companies like Skywatcher barely get a look in amongst all the red. Their stuff is also looking somewhat dated too.
  3. Just got back. I have to say I was slightly underwhelmed. Seemed smaller than last time, but maybe it was a bigger hall. I am glad I got there reasonably early. By 11 o’clock it was getting so you couldn’t easily get to see the sellers’ displays. I decided I’d bail out a tad early. A plus was that I bought a small scope cover, so saved myself 10% on that plus postage, and a couple of 2nd hand 50p books on the history of astronomy stall.
  4. Sounds good but I think Apple don’t allow an app to be downloaded to an iPad or iPhone except from the Apple App Store.
  5. Interesting. I don’t allow my iPad to update automatically, but the App Store app flags up the number of apps needing updating. I find I have to do this every few days.
  6. I see what you mean about people reporting USB port failures. I think I’ll give it a miss for the moment particularly because I recently installed a ZWO EAF to my ASKAR. I’ll wait until I’ve tested that in use before updating the software.
  7. Mmmm. I’ll look into that. I don’t know what you’re running ASIair app on but on the iPad the App Store lets you know when apps need updating.
  8. Anyone updated yet? How is it performing. I noticed this update flagged in my iPad but haven’t yet pressed the button to install. I am wary of doing so after the recent updates. Hopefully they’ve improved things, but once bitten twice shy and all that.
  9. Yes. GHS. I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with it. I often have to have several goes before I’m even vaguely satisfied. Although admittedly it’s a better tool than what was available before. It can sometimes leave an image looking a bit flat ie lacking contrast. It’s not the final stage of course. There are other tools to apply after GHS. But part of me has a feeling that there’s got to be a better way of doing this than GHS …. it’s just that no one has come up with it yet.
  10. I can well imagine because the crescent nebula is very bright and bringing up the surrounding hydrogen must be a challenge.
  11. Marvellous wide field view. There’s a lot there isn’t there?
  12. @Tomatobro Hadn’t thought of that. 🤔
  13. I believe clutches are available to disengage the ZWO focuser to enable manual focus. I don’t know where to buy them from. Maybe something for a homemade solution?
  14. Oh, and you wanted to know how to input coordinates into the ASIair. I know I can do this but unless software is open in front of me I can’t recall how to do it. Someone else will have to describe that for you. It’s quite easy. I hope to fire up my telescope later and if no one else has posted I’ll let you know.
  15. You ask a perfectly sensible question. There are probably lots of ways of doing this. In safari you can click on the object of interest - star, comet etc - and then select Info. It will give you the position in RA and Dec as part of the information listed on the left hand side. You can also change the the coordinates to equatorial in Settings. Safari then shows the coordinates of the centre of the screen in RA and Dec as you scan around.
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