Finally used my Askar135b - on elephant trunk nebula

[aramitsharma]

First light of my ridiculous setup.. the guidescope is only 5mm smaller than the imaging scope 😅

Edited June 17 by aramitsharma
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[Bivanus]

🙃 Picture of the setup please !

And the image looks beautiful.

[PeterC65]

I never cease to be amazed by what the FMA135 will let me see.

 

[bosun21]

Amazing detail from such a small scope!

[Stuart1971]

I have just got the Askar 180 FMA pro, as a guide / wide field imaging scope, so looking forward to trying it out…👍🏻

[aramitsharma]

On 15/06/2024 at 03:15, Bivanus said:

🙃 Picture of the setup please !

And the image looks beautiful.

 

[Bivanus]

!!! There's the tiny giant 🤗

[ollypenrice]

Great result and a classy little setup. This may be a silly question but does the power cable clear the guide camera?

Olly

[aramitsharma]

On 23/06/2024 at 09:25, ollypenrice said:

Great result and a classy little setup. This may be a silly question but does the power cable clear the guide camera?

Olly

Yep. I think so.. haven't noticed any issues in rotation

[Elp]

Very early I I tried mounting my GS like you have, you better be absolutely certain the mount doesn't have other ideas about how to rotate in Dec.

The result from that scope is crazy.

[Vroobel]

I thought that my FMA230 looks small on the CGX... 😁

 

 

[aramitsharma]

1 hour ago, Elp said:

Very early I I tried mounting my GS like you have, you better be absolutely certain the mount doesn't have other ideas about how to rotate in Dec.

The result from that scope is crazy.

F. You're right. Guess I never had the scope point that way. Time to rethink this before winters. Going to put my c8 on the mount and going by the number of times I get a chance to go out, I can park this setup for a while. 

 

Thanks for preventing a disaster

[Elp]

For a small setup like that you have a number of choices:

1. If you've got the fixings, mount the GS on top of the lens collar,

2. Get a short dovetail and associated hardware to mount them side by side (two dovetails in a cross formation),

3. One of my favourites, get a few cheese plates (camera/videography hardware which are infinitely configurable), mount them onto a dovetail and you can place the optics however you want. I've managed a dual setup with minimal pieces.

[Whistlin Bob]

Nice one  

135mm is a real sweet spot for widefield images. Just enough to get great detail, but still a huge amount of sky.

[Ags]

Nice pictures!

My little 135 IS the guide camera! Although there is the theoretical possibility I will use it as my imaging scope sometimes and use the RC6 as a monster guider!

I am also thinking of adding an Evoguide 50 as a third scope although I'll need a second capture computer as the ASIAIR seems to be a one camera only thing - annoying.

Edited Monday at 23:04 by Ags

[ollypenrice]

12 hours ago, Elp said:

Very early I I tried mounting my GS like you have, you better be absolutely certain the mount doesn't have other ideas about how to rotate in Dec.

The result from that scope is crazy.

 

12 hours ago, aramitsharma said:

Yep. I think so.. haven't noticed any issues in rotation

I was thinking along the same lines as Elp. Sometimes mounts go spontaneously mad and rotate in any direction they can, so if you're relying on the mount behaving properly you'd be taking a risk if collision between guidescope and power cable were physically possible.

8 hours ago, Ags said:

Nice pictures!

My little 135 IS the guide camera! Although there is the theoretical possibility I will use it as my imaging scope sometimes and use the RC6 as a monster guider!

I am also thinking of adding an Evoguide 50 as a third scope although I'll need a second capture computer as the ASIAIR seems to be a one camera only thing - annoying.

Reflectors make poor guiders because of mirror movement...

Olly