If you are a DIY person you could try to assemble a budget guidescope as I did. You just need a lens/objective and a sensor. I used a doublet 37mm/130mm and the AR0130 sensor that I bought off amazon.

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So, I decided to see what the Mount could do with just my 300mm Nikon lens, no scope and finally got decent results. I did a rough polar alignment and then a 2 star alignment. Then pointed towards And

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Just because you can never have too much Great Orion Nebula, here's another! This was using the live stack in SharpCap (that qualifies as EAA in my book). A stack of 36 11s subs, so 6.6 minutes total.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy1c9qpMF-Q

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Max Yes. A friend of mine on the forum sent me this link that discussed exactly what you mention: http://www.astrofriend.eu/astronomy/tutorials/tutorial-comet-autoguiding/tutorial-comet-autoguiding.ht

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I had to send my scope back to ES for repair and collimation. This image is first light taken on 12/19/2019 of the Rosette Nebula. This image has the same spacing as the Horsehead image posted previou

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TDM sounds cool. I've thought about designing a mount using shaft encoders. Seems like you should be able to essentially eliminate periodic error, backlash, plus other benefits over counting motor pul

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Hi Joe, The QHY 163C TEC CMOS camera used was set to a QHY Gain value of 20 and an offset of 20. These settings correspond to a Gain of 0.29 e-/ADU, readout noise of 2.2 e- and a dark current of 0.006

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Also, I just switched from APT to NINA. Meridian flip setup seemed simpler in NINA and it works perfectly so far.

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The carbon rigs are used to hold the FOTGA DP3000 focuser knob. The focus is more acurate with it than by hand.

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Hi Jerry, As mentioned by Taro, the problem seems to be gone with the updated firmware. Thanks again for the quick turnaround! Pascal

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Bob, No filters. Astro modified Canon 60D. I just ordered a 48mm screw-in Astronomix CLS-CCD filter. We will see how this works out.

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Agreed Wolfgang, I am still attempting to zero in on the NCP and hopefully, my skies will clear so I can see Polaris. I am having a ton of fun learning. I was only interested in planet imaging, but no

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Wes, The exposure time wasn’t really the problem. I usually just set it up and go to bed… The problem was processing 2000+ images. I spent more time waiting for stuff to process that I actually did im

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Thank you for the kind words, everyone! I appreciate that this is a community where we’re supportive of each other’s efforts. I’ve been a bit checked out dealing with some family issues over the past

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