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Thanks for this bud! I tried to go off another video before I found yours and I couldn’t get it to work. This was a simple step by step with 0 ambiguity. Thanks again!

Very interesting video well explained. Thank you

Still the best platesolve installation video on the web! Thank you, sir!

Wow! Unbelievable how overly complicated this is!

Great video. Best view of Horsehead I have seen. Lots of detail. One question I have is with the auto focuser you have. How is it programmed to keep the proper focus through the night as the ambient temperature is changing. Does it check the focus when the temperature changes a degree or so or is it on a timer?

Interesting video … I’m not sure that old one even makes a good visual focuser. How do you think this new one would work for visual use? The knobs look like gear teeth - are they comfortable? And is there any backlash? Seems attractive to retain the tilt mechanism and original base.

In the bin

If you have access to an LTSC version of windows, they only update every 3 years, this might help in the long run or if the registry edits stop working.

I'm getting the same focuser on a 8" RC with carbon tube. Does the focuser have a 360° camera rotator? I see 2 yellow knobs on top, one is to rotate the entire focuser and the other one is a camera rotator?

Thanks for the great review! I just ordered this from High Point and have a spare EvoGuide 50 that I plan using with this scope. Curious what the silver mount is attached to guide scope??? And that Horsehead image is absolutely beautiful!!! It’s what sold me on this scope.

Very helpful. Thank you.

Well done, very clear and detailed, much appreciated by another newby🙂

in the parameters, must i change the "default image size" to the what my camera has?

Great tutorial. Thanks.

thanks, your tutorials are very helpful

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Hi Dave, so what do you think of the CYCK Universal Telescope Focuser? When you unthread that blue compression adapter thread size M48 or M54? Thanks! Found out the thread is a 54mm 0.75 pitch..

It’s not that complex. Zwo ecosystem make it ez pz

hi thanks for your great video !!focal lengh of quattro 150 with coma corrector is about 517. in option menu we must set 600mm or 517?

As it turns out your coverage of this topic was very good and I don’t think I have any questions at this time

I am a brand new student of Nina. And everything that I have found so far does not go into detail about the SkyAtlas or the framing wizard. I don’t have any questions yet because I’m about to open up Nina and play with everything that you just did, expect questions to come in a little while. Thank you for your efforts.

I live in Scottsdale and also go west for Bortle 2 skies.

I Urban Have you tried Pec Predictive in the PHD algorythms tab? It works very well. good sky and nice captures. Patrick from France

Nice image, it´s a good reminder of how faint the Squid is, considering how bright it appears in many images! I like the faint look of the image

Well done for such a dim target

Nicely done. That target is super faint, especially the OIII. Hopefully you can sought out the PHD2 issue

Great image BTW, excellent…👏🏻👏🏻

Also you won’t be able to dither properly without it set on auto…👍🏻

Great Video, having that set in North instead of Auto will mean it will only send corrections on DEC in one direction, so normally for that to work well you need a bit of misalignment, so it only needs pulses in the north direction, normally you would have that set in Auto, that would be the correct setting really….

Nice! I was hoping to capture the bat and squid at a star party last weekend in August, but was positioned too close to the tree line. A couple of others were trying to image the squid and bat as well, but weren't having much luck with it. It's not an easy target. I think those images turned out well! Check your focal length settings in PHD2 - you need to enter your focal length in order to show the measurements in arcseconds. Clear skies!

Great image!

Thanks for sharing. 👍🏻

I already watched your video about a year ago already. But I did not comment. I just watched the video again. I have an 8" RC and I love it. Unfortunately I am also struggeling with the collimation but I usually get it to an ok collimation. As a camera I also have a 3.76 pixel size camera which is a bit too small. So I am thinking about to afford a 294 monochrome camera that I can make use of the 4.6 pixel size with the RC8 and the 2.8 pixel size with my shorter focal length telescopes. As you have mentioned that you were very familiar with collimation of Newtonian telescopes and that they are easy to collimate I need to say that I have less problems getting my RC to an ok-ish collimation compared to my Newtonian telescope. Greetings from Germany and Clear skies to you Dave!

Hi Dave! Thanks for this video! Recently I have also purchased this focuser. It is mounted but I have no idea how to properly adjust the focuser to the optical tube. Maybe you could do a brief video how you have managed to get the focuser into the right position. Thank you very much!

Super news, thank you and clear skies. Just got the book based on your recommendation

Thanks Dave.

Dave, greetings from NZ. Thoroughly enjoyed your video - you have clearly demonstrated a methodology that is very worthy of following. Being based well placed into the Southern Hemisphere I find most books to be focused on the NH audience. I too have taken on a task of developing an extensive spreadsheet using the four volume "Night Aky Observer's Guide" by Cooper, Kay, and Keeple. I use the WO GT 102 triple refractor with a ZWO294 MC. To filter out unsuitable potential targets I too used the tool in Telescopius to ensure the target fitted camera/scope. The time spent will be a great time saver in the future - so important for a 72 year old just getting started into this fantastic hobby. Keep up the good work. Kind regards, Charlie.

thank you!

can you share your Xcel spreadsheet?

This is something I've always wondered about. In Japan we can see 100F easy during the day in August and into Sept and probably much higher humidity than you see. In the past I packed up for this period, but this summer, I tried doing AP anyway by setting up every night (still 90F at night + high humidity) but I experienced frequent disconnects of the mount and auto focuser. I thought the heat might be the cause, but I was also worried about the sensitive camera components. I can cool to 0 but the cooler runs at 80% or more. Frustrating...

HOT!!!! gonna be October and still crazy HOT!! We in Yuma feel ur pain! CS Dave!

Here in southern England it's 16c, but raining, where is the best place in this world to astro photograph.

I feel your pain. I'm up the road in Prescott where it's typically 10 - 20 degrees cooler, but I stopped imaging in the summer months when I fried one of my air-cooled mini PCs.

Wow that’s hot, I could not stand that at all, I don’t know how you do, but I assume you have AC in your home…🥵🥵

I hope it cools down for you soon. Sounds pretty hot.

FWIW I have imaged many times in similar temps here in Melbourne Australia. I keep my mount permanently under a telegizmo cover, and have done it for a few years. As long as there is a slight breeze the Mele Mini PC seems Ok. The only struggle is cooling the camera's but normally possible to get it in the ball park of useful cooling. I wouldnt worry about the grease - unless its REALLY poor stuff it should hold up with those sort of temps. Do hope it cools down for you though.

You might not want to put your address on screen.

Thank you. I can tell you got some sunburn on your face.

Time to get some liquid cooling :)

I have a new DSD flat panel that I will be using remotely so I am setting it up here at home to use my LRGB filters and an ASI2600MM camera with my Epsilon. So far I have followed your video on the flat wizard in NINA. But do I not have the current NINA version? Because I have a blank on each filter setup for "flat step size". You don't seem to have that on your version.