Excellent video Tully, nicely done mate, very clear, will surely be very helpful to people with a scope like yours! Nicely pimped 200PDS👍 Look forward to the first light test! Clear skies
Thanks so much much Simon for you kind words! I really want to try to make my videos also suitable for less experienced people, so I hope it will not be too boring for the pros like you. 😄 Clear skies mate!
@@tullyfisher I'm that less experienced dude - and I can say I enjoyed it, I hope to get an 8 inch Skywatcher like this one day is what bought me here to research the quality of the scope and images and any problems you encounter with the size, as I do ALL my astronomy out of my specially converted solar powered mobile observatory station (SPOMOS) ....... (a peugout boxer campervan) 😊
@@tullyfisher yeah it still helps me :) I finished to attach most items now, but need to do collimation and balance next. And I need to attach ASI air somewhere as well. So it will take some more time until I can have fun 😅
Thanks so much again for watching my stuff and taking the time to comment. I appreciate that very much, I really do. And I really like that people can take something out from my videos, maybe some helpful or interesting stuff. THAT motivates me to go on with my relatively little channel here. Have a great day & clear skies mate! :)
Hey Tully hope the first test goes well for you. Interesting to go with the OAG setup on this and will also be interested to see how this goes. I really struggled with my setup even when it was seemingly collimated so I hope yours goes better. Clear skies pal. !👍
Hey Ollie! :) Actually, I just had this OAG spare since I wanted to give this a try one time..(I bought it months ago) and in the end I had the chance to do this for the first time, save weight (compared to a guide scope), less additional surface area (most probably it doesn't matte anymore anyways.. 😂 , no trouble with balancing and it was also cheaper. What issues do you have with your PDS? Would be interesting to know... After some tests I saw some indications for "Pinched optics"..also tried to solve it, but It's not perfect yet. Thanks for watching again Ollie and clear skies pal! :)
@@tullyfisher Hey Michael - I found my 150 pds was always losing collimation. Even when it seemed perfectly collimated I couldn't get good stars to edge, it always felt random. I tried a bunch of methods and a good quality collimator. I have heard of people getting bad copies as they are obviously mass produced, or it's also possible I didn't know what I was doing (very possible too😂). Clear skies pal.
@@AstroSoundscape Ah, interesting..most probably quite frustrating, I guess. Yes, I heard about bad copies as well. Maybe that's really caused by production. Haha... I'm sure you know what you are doing! So you sold your newtonian already? cs
Hi, since I'm not familiar with this CC I can't help you unfortunately. I recommend to ask the service team are your bought this CC. I'm sure they can help you. clear skies
Nicely done Tully, you’ve got yourself a sweet set up for sure, you’ll love it. I noticed in one of your videos from a few moths ago about the ASI585, I’ve been thinking about getting one to get close up on some galaxies and maybe even some lucky imaging with it, what are your thoughts on the camera? Thanks.
Hi Tevor, apologies for the late response (didn't get any YT info about it). Thanks very much! Unfortunately, I didn't have many clear skies to test the 200PDS...but what I can so far it's working quite well. :) I think you are talking about my 385 MC planetary camera (?). It was my very first dedicated astro camera and I really (still!) love it. Its affordable and great for planets and good for galaxies as well. Although many people are using the 224 I decided to go for the 385..because of the specs and the price. But I also have to say (since I remember (hopefully correctly)you are using the 2600MC Pro) you will really get some significant noise with it when imaging galaxies. Partly it's not easy to deal with that in post-processing (I did a video about M106), especially during high temperatures. DSOs are possible to image but when coming from the 2600MC Pro you may will be disappointed..(?). But to be fair it's just not designed to do DSOs. I hope this was somehow helpful for you. If you have any more questions please don't hesitate to ask. ;) Always happy to help, if I can. Clear skies and thanks for watching.
@@tullyfisher thanks Tully! I was was thinking between the 224 or the newer 585, my main reason is DSO lucky imaging which iv seen a few people do, and the amount of detail is absolutely outstanding, taking say, 5000, 1 second exposures on a galaxy. A great topic to experiment. Thanks again and clear skies
@@AstroPilotchannel Ah, right the new 585..I heard about that one. (But did not test myself.) I will check that out, sounds amazing! Have a great day & cs
I'm scared if I buy a lasee collimator, the laser callimatrr will need collimatimg and I will collimate the laser collimator wrong and thus collimate the mirror incorrectly.
You can use 2 ( V ) blocks to cradle the collimater for collimating it.
Will try that! ;) Thanks for watching and commenting. cs
Excellent video Tully, nicely done mate, very clear, will surely be very helpful to people with a scope like yours! Nicely pimped 200PDS👍 Look forward to the first light test! Clear skies
Thanks so much much Simon for you kind words! I really want to try to make my videos also suitable for less experienced people, so I hope it will not be too boring for the pros like you. 😄 Clear skies mate!
@@tullyfisher I'm that less experienced dude - and I can say I enjoyed it, I hope to get an 8 inch Skywatcher like this one day is what bought me here to research the quality of the scope and images and any problems you encounter with the size, as I do ALL my astronomy out of my specially converted solar powered mobile observatory station (SPOMOS) ....... (a peugout boxer campervan) 😊
Thanks a lot for your video. It helped and is helping me setting up the same scope as my first one at the moment with nearly the same parts 😊
Hi Bernhard, thank so much. I am always happy to hear that my content is helpful. :) Hope you are having fun with this scope?! Clear skie
@@tullyfisher yeah it still helps me :) I finished to attach most items now, but need to do collimation and balance next. And I need to attach ASI air somewhere as well. So it will take some more time until I can have fun 😅
Looking forward to seeing it in action! CS!
Thanks very much James! I'm still testing but was already facing several issues. But I've got some results to show in the next video. ;) cs
I'm surprised you're not swimming with the big boys with the quality of your RUclips channel bro
Thanks so much again for watching my stuff and taking the time to comment. I appreciate that very much, I really do. And I really like that people can take something out from my videos, maybe some helpful or interesting stuff. THAT motivates me to go on with my relatively little channel here. Have a great day & clear skies mate! :)
Hey Tully hope the first test goes well for you. Interesting to go with the OAG setup on this and will also be interested to see how this goes. I really struggled with my setup even when it was seemingly collimated so I hope yours goes better. Clear skies pal. !👍
Hey Ollie! :) Actually, I just had this OAG spare since I wanted to give this a try one time..(I bought it months ago) and in the end I had the chance to do this for the first time, save weight (compared to a guide scope), less additional surface area (most probably it doesn't matte anymore anyways.. 😂 , no trouble with balancing and it was also cheaper. What issues do you have with your PDS? Would be interesting to know... After some tests I saw some indications for "Pinched optics"..also tried to solve it, but It's not perfect yet. Thanks for watching again Ollie and clear skies pal! :)
@@tullyfisher Hey Michael - I found my 150 pds was always losing collimation. Even when it seemed perfectly collimated I couldn't get good stars to edge, it always felt random. I tried a bunch of methods and a good quality collimator. I have heard of people getting bad copies as they are obviously mass produced, or it's also possible I didn't know what I was doing (very possible too😂). Clear skies pal.
@@AstroSoundscape Ah, interesting..most probably quite frustrating, I guess. Yes, I heard about bad copies as well. Maybe that's really caused by production. Haha... I'm sure you know what you are doing! So you sold your newtonian already? cs
Nice Rig Tully. Hope you had a Chance to see The comet ZTF! I did it was On a very Close Proximity to mars! Pretty good Capture session!
Thanks Avanteesh! Really a cool telescope and a nice instrument to capture comets as well. :)
And Action!!!😉😊👍
😁 clear skies!
@@tullyfisher Mo , Tue , Wed, am i in Oberstdorf ( Germany ) . CS !
Would it be useful to go with the baader RCC1 and have 91.5mm bf. Can you with this setup.
Hi, since I'm not familiar with this CC I can't help you unfortunately. I recommend to ask the service team are your bought this CC. I'm sure they can help you. clear skies
Nicely done Tully, you’ve got yourself a sweet set up for sure, you’ll love it.
I noticed in one of your videos from a few moths ago about the ASI585, I’ve been thinking about getting one to get close up on some galaxies and maybe even some lucky imaging with it, what are your thoughts on the camera?
Thanks.
Hi Tevor, apologies for the late response (didn't get any YT info about it). Thanks very much! Unfortunately, I didn't have many clear skies to test the 200PDS...but what I can so far it's working quite well. :) I think you are talking about my 385 MC planetary camera (?). It was my very first dedicated astro camera and I really (still!) love it. Its affordable and great for planets and good for galaxies as well. Although many people are using the 224 I decided to go for the 385..because of the specs and the price. But I also have to say (since I remember (hopefully correctly)you are using the 2600MC Pro) you will really get some significant noise with it when imaging galaxies. Partly it's not easy to deal with that in post-processing (I did a video about M106), especially during high temperatures. DSOs are possible to image but when coming from the 2600MC Pro you may will be disappointed..(?). But to be fair it's just not designed to do DSOs. I hope this was somehow helpful for you. If you have any more questions please don't hesitate to ask. ;) Always happy to help, if I can. Clear skies and thanks for watching.
@@tullyfisher thanks Tully! I was was thinking between the 224 or the newer 585, my main reason is DSO lucky imaging which iv seen a few people do, and the amount of detail is absolutely outstanding, taking say, 5000, 1 second exposures on a galaxy. A great topic to experiment. Thanks again and clear skies
@@AstroPilotchannel Ah, right the new 585..I heard about that one. (But did not test myself.)
I will check that out, sounds amazing! Have a great day & cs
I struggle to gear you. Either speak lauder, or turn your mic up?
Thanks for the feedback. I will try to improve the audio next time. cs
I'm scared if I buy a lasee collimator, the laser callimatrr will need collimatimg and I will collimate the laser collimator wrong and thus collimate the mirror incorrectly.
I think I would also not love to do the laser alignment of a collimator. But I think in case RUclips can help us both out. ;-)