Jerry Yes the Orion 16” extension is what Andrew was mentioning. It fits into the exos2 tripod mount and also holds the mount head. I have one. As mentioned you have to open up the azimuth adjustment

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An extension would work for me or a pier I could put legs on, it's mainly to stop any collisions. Had no luck with Google trying to find anything so when home tomorrow I will measure everything up and

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Andrew, I don't see the pier on the Orion site. I only found a Meade pier that was very spendy. Are you talking about the tripod extension? I'm in the process of building a concrete pier with a 1/2 in

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Thanks will look them up Get Outlook for Android

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The Orion pier will work well with a slight modification with a hack saw to widen the slot and shorten the pin.

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Hi all One last question for now. I'm in the UK but is there a pier for the EXOS-2 PMC-EIGHT? In the last year I have had a couple of collisions with telescopes hitting the tripod legs. Do Explore Sci

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That's Great Robert, well done. I cant get that target from my backyard , its too low for me and the house is in the way!. Here are my last 2 offerings I am having a hot pixel problem at the moment bu

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On PHD2 I have been using auto for exposure time, it seems there are a few settings I need to play with and test out. I assumed that as it worked with the ED80 all settings would be the same as its th

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On PhD2 you have to do some trial and error with the settings, and read their very good documentation on troubleshooting guiding issues. ..but the main things I find is that 1 sec exposure times give

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Hello! As recommended by others, your biggest improvements will come from careful balance and achieving only 'Good' polar alignment. Your Aggression and MinMo settings in PHD2 usually only come into p

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Good day all, I’ve decided to make the leap from using a DSLR to a dedicated astrophotography camera given my results using a guidescope camera for planetary imaging. The camera I decided to go with i

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Thanks Bob more for me to try but must ait I made guiding more aggressive but that did nothing, never crossed my mind to try making it less aggressive! So you suggest a rough polar align rather than s

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Kevin, When I was using my refractor for imaging, my rule was basically: balance first, then bias weight to RA: East-heavy and DEC: camera-heavy. For the 130, I've carried that forward as East-heavy,

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Brilliant I have an extra bar so will attach it like yours I just need an adaptor for the guide scope mount. I'd be happy to get 60 second shots so next time the clouds are gone I will give it a go Is

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Hi Kev, After about 6 months with the EXOS2-PMC8 and a 200DPS scope, my experience is that it is possible to get good guiding with this setup, I frequently get 0.80" total error on PHD2. ..but it is v

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Good to hear that there is success maybe I won't give up with it yet. Guide scope to camera is probably something like 2 and 6 so sounds like I need to make a bracket so I can mount 6 and 12. I am sti

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Kevin, We do have members here using both larger and longer-FL scopes successfully, so it can be done, but with this mount's hardware, technique will play a role. I'm just switching up from a 4" refra

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Thanks for your reply I had excellent polar alignment according to Sharpcap and balance was as good as I could get due to guide scope being off center, maybe I could rotate more to balance out better?

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Howdy, Just so you know up front, I mostly do planetary imaging. I’ve dabbled a little into DSOs. I don’t think it’s the mount. The EXOS-2GT PMC8 can hold a lot of weight. I’ve seen it handle over 80I

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Hi all i have had my mount just under a year now with no real issues. Generally use ED80 with ZWO 290mc camera and guide scope and can easily get 300 seconds and 600 second images after a decent polar

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