Orion and Running Man Nebulas Nikon D5300 31 - 30 second subs. 10 darks. Sigma 150-600 @400mm stacked in dss, processed and cropped in Photoshop and Lightroom. My first astrophoto on an equatorial

Timothy Why does the PMC8 wifi drop? There are two thoughts on this. 1. Interference. This might be true, and certainly could be the reason sometimes. But in.my experience it is not the only

Kent, The new mount performed flawlessly last night at Joshua Tree NP (Peter couldn’t make it), but I still have to spend much more time with it in the daytime to better understand how the

I have the Nexus 7 as well and do not get the screen crop, meaning everything is there. My question however is where did you load the data file (pictures)? -- Celestron 4SE Celestron 8SE EXOS-2GT

Tommy, Nope. Think about what the axes of your mount are doing during tracking and it should become clear. In a perfect world, the RA axis is in line with the celestial pole. The RA's tracking

I have read that my Nexus 7 may not work properly with PMC-8. I should have my new mount within a week and will give it ago, but thinking about other options and saw that the Amazon Fire 8HD does

Thanks for the info. Could I just make azimuth adjustments via explore stars slewing? Or is this not possible?

Unfortunately his Astro Tech AT60ED + ZWO ASI 120MC-S combination provides far too little field of view to do PA using SharpCap. Alternately, if he uses his Nikon D5600 with the AT60ED the field of

Thanks Taro!

Yes, unguided. I too would recommend the Azimuth adapter. Full disclosure, I have had the iEXOS-100 roughly 1 week, and with the intermittent clear skies I have been chasing rookie mistakes and have

FishWithFeet, Ahhh... A Sigma and 150-200mm, 1/3s shots! No wonder you're getting along better. Are you working unguided? My D5300 + scope were at 621mm and my PA exposures had to go out to

Considering Tommy uses the iEXOS 100 I'd like to add that if he wants to use the PA method as described by Robert and FishWithFeet above, he should consider buying the optional iEXOS100 Azimuth

Hello- I'm frugal, and use Roberts technique. I setup the D5300 to shoot 1/3rd second shots at iso 1600. Pause is set to 2 seconds, 200 frames. Then bootup Sharpcap and use folder monitor camera.

Tommy, I've done a polar alignment with my D5300, BYN and Sharpcap. It did work, but it was slow and clumsy compared to using the guidescope and its camera. One of those things that you do once,

Hello Tommy, Short answer is no, it won't work. SharpCap Pro needs an in-camera field of view of between 1 to 2.5 degrees. When plugging your ZWO ASI120MC-S and the Astro Tech AT60ED into a calculator

Hello everyone, I have a newbie question. I am picking up a ZWO asi120mc-s camera that I was going to use on my 50mm Orion guide scope to polar align with Sharpcap. My question is, can I just use this

Hello Kent, The problem was, as you suspected, that I wasn’t clearing the apps from running in the background the way you advised. As soon as I did this, everything started working like it should

Nice California Nebula MAX!! Good catch in Bortle class 8 -- Living in Pattaya Thailand Scope: Celestron 6SE,WO Z61,WO RedCat51, SVBONY SV48 CCD: SONY Alfa7Sii,SONY QX1, PENTAX KP,ASI 178MC,ASI

Dear Forum Members, I am pleased to announce that Explore Scientific will be holding an OpenGOTO Community Event focusing on the PMC-Eight Platform and Mount Systems on April 1, 2020 one day before

California nebula Canon T3i modded CLS clip in filter LZOS 3M-6A, 500mm F/6.3 52x240sec Bortle 8