mr saddo

Hi I can get it to work during day...but on scope takes me forever to get anything on the lap top screen, camera seems to lock up when you start messing with the sliders in the menu seems a delay, weather the cold his affecting it I don't know. I did get jupiter but it disappeared screen went black. Gave up spent 2 hours no footage, gave up.

Read the above Ile give it another go when clearer!

Hi, I've just bought on if these zwo 120..had a go on jupiter last night, cold! Clear, I could not get image on screen using sharp cap, it was just a round light properly the front correcter plate on the mak 127 tried inward outward focus, I focused on a 10mm e.p then put the camera in to the diagonal, does the diagnal need to be off, with the camera up the back of scope, or in a barlow in the diagnal, spent 2 hours nothing, gave up, very annoyed. Scope skywatchher 127mak.

I've had to buy another laptop top! Windows 11, got it now the sync scan apps on .

Nope still won't let me down load, his it because ive downloaded it on the phone? I've read that google apps are not allowed on Windows?

Hi, how do you get the skywatcher app on a windows 10 computer? The down load button his grayed our, it says available for all devices but it's grayed out. Another thing his iam trying to connect to stellarium, says connected using a usb astro link cable from flo, but the scope won't move, it's on the correct com port. I can connect via wi fi to cares du ciel. I have read all the posts regarding this, yours Paul.

Hi , yes I'm finishing up and right, I have pulled the sliders right across on the the phone setting, it does not do it on point and track. Yours Paul.

Hi, all , can you help me with the AZ Gti mount, when I center on a object either in alignment or go to and it's a few degrees off , I put it on target but it keeps moving it back off, I have to over run the target to bring it back in center, it's very hard to get say jupiter or saturn in a 10mm e.p. I have owmed the mount and scope a few days mak127, location correct, pointed level north, scope on left side. Yours Paul.

Hmm I have a dedicated canon 120d moded with a ha filter in it.. the red filter was takern out and s proper hA fitted, i shot Orion on my first go stacked 20 odd frames iso 1600 21 secs.. and it was a nice light purple nebula no moon was out, shot same exposure same time and very red! Moon was out quite bright, had to drag the ISO down to 800 and time down. Still red. So does the moon effect the HA? Yours paul.

yeah, it was aright sight they reckon its space junk now and not a meteor, has i suspected anyway.

Out in garden with scope it was 10.56 pm turned round looked up in east and....saw a massive fire ball coming overhead!! very low in sky, it was green with bits of red coming off it, a huge white tail with bits of blue red spewing off it AWESOME site, i dashed in house for camera but missed it has it disappeared west over the houses.

yeah not too bad now with the pipe over and loads mor concreate in.

Hi, out last night for a few hours quite cool but clear sky's around 9 pm till 10.30 pm, never seen so many stars in Cygnus!! here in the city, i was most impressed!! did try the camera on the dob but failed miserably, even found the Globular cluster in Hercules which has eluded me for some time!! with the help of Andriod sky map held on the eyepiece, and it points telling you where to go!! cheaper than a go to!! LOL was disappointed!! just a gray smudge!! nothing like the pictures i have seen. mind you Andromeda was the same just a gray smudge. UP this morning 4.30 am to 5.30, wow so clear, out with the evostar, Venus, our crescent moon, Jupiter, Orion you could actually see the nebular with the unaided eye thats a first been in the city. Pleiades was... jaw dropping!! i have not seen it this good for ages!! Jupiter was very bright, had to filter it a bit to see bands better, Then loads dirty black clouds rolled in at start of dawn, ah well! crawled back to bed!! quite pleased with my self.

yep ive just done this, and behind the conifers there is a halogen light coming on and off!!! not happy. and a told you so off the wife!!

Well finished the pier mount for EQ5 head and bolted it on the scaff pole which is in a foot square of concreate......looks good .....but the vibration on top end is terrible!!! i even pored postcreat down the scaff pole to numb it out a bit. plan is a 2 - 3 inch pipe over the scaff pole and more concrete in. Right ordered the 150mm flue liner pipe off e-bay £18 for 9 ft!! got it the next day!! very good service. i have chiseled 20 mm or so out for the pipe to slipe over scaff pole and concreated it a quarter of a way up, going to wait for that to set, then sink the box pier in to pipe set in concreate/ or post create quick set, thats the plan. margarine tub fits nicely on the scaff pole to center the flue pipe. Now its rock solid!! wants to be enough gears gone in it!! well heres the scope on the peir

Hi, was out Tues night this week set up early, and waited for dark, was looking at Cassiopeia clusters on the bottom m tail half way down, thought i would put the eos 300d on and have a go at it.!! well what a pain trying to look though the small view finder in the camera and focus, i had to put Barlow in eos T ring for more mag, just could not see much. Took a few shots!! 001 frame dont know what this is suppose to be two clusters?!! i had to keep taking the camera out of tube and putting ep on to make sure object was still there and in some sort of focus. 004 loads of noise in this frame if you zoom theres a lot of hot pixels? that was 12secs 009 pic much the same just a red mass, again 12 secs. using bulb exposure, remote switch, mirror lock up, raw mode, canon eos 300d with eos ring with Barlow screwed in and straight up scope barrel focuses tube. SO FRUSTRATING. I even bought the book "making every photon count" this suppose to be for beginners, i would hate to see the book for experts, talk about rocket science!! i am getting my head round it! slowly.

well finally hacked the canon eos 300d , for mirror lock up!! at last, been thinking to do this for months, i used the unduchable mod, i downloaded the canon software for update 1.11 and replaced the fir file1.11 in the down loaded folder with the unduchable one , just dont mix them up has there the same number 1,11!!, now then did all that but could not understand why it was not updating? you have to open the card reader cover then shut it to start the down load to the camera!! opps! did i forget to read that bit!! any way it asked me to press set button on camera and finished, went in to menu and custom functions were there!! mirror lock and raw image mode. just need a clear sky now, did set up last night but usual clouds rolled in at 10.30.

yeah it want the level i was worried about ,but the stability of the stack of bricks that high. and all that weight on it.

i got up at 11.30 till 1.30, saw one at 17 mins past 12 a right fire ball streaking thought the great square of pegasus, wow i was impressed!!! and another 3 small flashes, first time for meteor showers seen for me, usuall the weather cloudy or raining here in york, it was quite a clear night, layed on patio with sky masters binoes.

well i got up early hours Friday Saturday and Sunday hoping to see something but usual gray cloud cover here disappointed again. although Venus and Jupiter were just visible but no stars out.

well started the pier tonight. for th the eq 5 head. height to go up to 54 inches. WELL i have abandoned this , i built it up, and to be honest it was 45 inches high and unstable and looked like a chimney stack!! i will put a pipe in to the concrete base, and fill with post create (fast setting) oh and make my own pier plate has there £45-55 each!! need two bottom and top . see other post in opps dont fit.