Astroblagger

Thanks Onnikken, excuse my ignorance what is a raspberry pi? The asiair gets rid of the laptop completely which is what I'd like to do. Unsure if stellarmate and atikbase need a laptop?

Sorry if this is in the wrong section. I feel it's time to get rid of my laptop and freezing to death outside when imaging. Iv been away from imaging for quite some time and I see things have moved on somewhat. Iv watched afew vids on YouTube of people using the ASIair box to get set up then monitor the imaging session inside (nice and warm). I own an Atik 460 and my guide camera is qhy, is there a similar product to the ASIair that will work both. Is the Atikbase the same thing? I don't really fancy changing my camera as I do like using Atik. From the vids iv watched the ASIair looks very simple to use.

Is team viewer free? i have a netbook with windows 7 and a laptop with windows 10 will this work?

As the title said iv just got going with eqmod and want to set up during the day and go inside to keep warm into my kitchen when imaging. Obviously don't want to have to keep the door ajar if it's Baltic outside. How do you set your gear cables up?

Finally added the soul to the heart Nebula 3 years later, got the heart data in 2019 and the soul neb last week, dont have anything wide enough to cover the area in one shot. Taken with Atik 460ex and canon 200mm f2.8L series lens, hour each on each narrowband filter. Thats the thing i love about astrophotography you can leave it for a year or 2 and just jump back in when time or weather allows.

Thanks symmetal that has sorted it was com.11. thanks for everyone's help would be clueless otherwise would t know where to start. Will be odd not using the handset. Just need to figure out the star alignment using stallarium and eqmod now. Any good tutorials on YouTube you can recommend?

So iv got usb plugged into computer and the ascom cable into the hand controller socket on my heq5. Iv clicked on the com port selection box binocular symbol it then displays com 16. Iv went to my device manager windows 7. But I can't see the com port anyway in the lists? Don't seem to be getting anywhere am I missing something obvious?

Can anyone tell me why I'm getting this error came up when I opened phd2?

Thanks did you turn it down on lathe?

Can I see your 80ED homemade solar filter. By my measurements the diameter of the dew shield is 117mm. Is there any house hold object IE round plastic type lid that's a close fit? To mount on the dew shield. Just looking for afew ideas.

Any idea what's up with this focuser and why it's running rough. Also the fine control doesn't move. The scope has just seen daylight after about 2 years due a new baby etc. I'm guessing it due a strip down?..... It's the upgraded SW focuser. VID_20220316_152607.mp4

Thats the set up id like, where did you get the bar and we mini clamps on the scope from? is that guider basically the same as my 9x50 finder guider? also do you think an heq5 is pushing it as a mount, iv been looking at getting an eq6 someday.....

Amazing as usual Olly.

Iv recently aquired a Rc 6", iv used my 50mm finder guider for ever.... but not sure its suited to the focal length of this scope iv got an st-80 handy but not sure how to get it all connected with the Rc 6". Can you show me how you do yours or do you use a OAG? OAG sounds too fidlly for my liking.

thanks for the vid, its just an external clean not brave enough to remove the whole corrector yet.

Iv never ever cleaned my C9.25 corrector plate in the 6-7 years iv had it so it looks abit dusty grubby, Will a 50/50% pure alcohol/water mix be ok to use on it with a suitable lint free cloth?

didnt know there was a program that can do auto focus between filters? what software is this?

Hello, What's your thoughts on electronic filter wheels, i see the benefits for having it change round the filters remotely etc but my badder filters still need refocused anyway with my manual filter wheel. i would assume people set it up to rotate round after a certain amount of subs at the start of their imaging session and then leave everything to run. but if you need to refocus every time anyway it kind of defeats the purpose or am i wrong??

Thanks for the Info David. There is just one very close. One of the neighbors has put up a mega bright outside garden light but luckily most of it is blocked by the house.

Great story Neil👍

Hello Iv just moved into a new house recently (new build) and as they are progressing the build two street lights have been put up. Can I see how you deal with these (problems). Only consellation At least is modern led street lights actually mainly 90% I would say point at the ground. Should add Im an Imager. Don't really do visual astronomy.

Finally dusted the cobwebs of my gear, taken with C9.25 and asi120 mono. still think my collimation is a tad off. but enjoyable to be doing something Astro pici related.

very nice.

Hello is my collimation off judging by the pictures as it looks ok at the eyepiece. Been doing abit of lunar imaging and my images always seem to look abit soft. Looking at the pictures it looks fairly central but seems soft out of focus on the lower side? What software can I use to aid to get perfect collimation?

Hello I retro fitted this power plug to my heq5 about 5 years ago. It's a 2 pin twist lock male/female plug. I think I got it from maplins but maplins is Now shut. any ideas where I can get one of these. I only really need the female part as I'm going to fit it to a 240v to 12v supply.