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Great, I was looking for that. I will update my Eq6R Pro and the hand controller too. Many thanks.

Wow, this was incredibly ambitious to run dual scopes on a livestream. I started an astro live stream the other week as well. I use an ASIAir for the main screen so we get a full screen view, and a fast scope for live stacking. But it's a complicated process. Dual scopes must be twice the complication. Kudos to you for figuring it out as it's not an easy thing to do. It's kind of like spinning a dozen plates all at once lol.

Merry Christmas Andy! Thanks for sharing your experience. You are attempting something much more complex than most astrophotographers do, and I think that's cool. Keep doing what turns you on.

Merry Christmas Andy, wishing you clear skies for 2025.

Merry Christmas Andy! Got a bit hit by reality watching your video sumarizing the dual-telescope setup, since I'm about to go that same route xD all the best wishes from germany

Why dont you try off-axis guiding? Looks like your setup for the guidescope is quite heavy, so it would save you some weight there and possibly improve your guiding a little bit. It really is an interesting project but it looks like you’re disappointed with the results and i thought it would be a shame if you gave up on it. I hope we see more of this!

I feel your pain - so few clear nights and then the Gremlins come in and ruin it. I generally go with the KISS principle :). Lovely video though

Invest in Astropixel processor to stack and when you use LNC the edges will be so much smoother But you will definitely with trial and error get some stunning results. Merry Christmas Andy

You got a thumbs up for me just for the song. Everything else was good too but the song really pushed it over the edge

Wersja ocal 1.3 działała poprawnie, ale wersja 3.0. nie działa. Próby ponownego zainstalowania programu to masakra. Program pobrany z oficjalnej strony a windows pokazuje : uszkodzony plik, skontaktuj się z producentem oprogramowania. Ja się poddaję.

Happy Christmas Andy. Very brave with the dual set up, I am sure extremely frustrating at times but stick at it and I am sure you will win and then it will feel like a huge triumph. Wishing you clear skies or snow and a happy New year

Oh man I had that struggle too. Being the but of jokes after spending a very significant amount of money and my mount actually binding and not slewing properly. It was not enjoyable to receive so much angst. I too nearly gave up. Having taken months to fully strip and repair my mount it now works. There is a sense of accomplishment im sure and thanks for sharing it as part of your journey too. It’s not always just instagram but posts of perfect images. This channel is very real.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Andy hope you all have a great time. I agree that the EQ5 & EQ3 are pretty poor performers as compared with my other half's HEQ5 which is now ancient & still out performs a lot of mounts & it's not even belt modded. I used to own an NEQ6 which I sold when I bought an AZ EQ6 & out of the 2 the NEQ6 did guide better but the thing that let that down was the latitude bolts as after setting up & tearing down a lot the thread started to go very stiff over time whereas the AZ has a better system. You can buy HEQ5's at a pretty decent price second hand a guy we were speaking to bought his dirt cheap, admittedly it were a few years old but a well looked after one. I do still use my EQ5 with a lightweight setup & it's ok with that but I have to keep things at a minimum weight wise.

Love the song. Wishing you clear skies, keep looking up.

Merry Christmas Andy, I enjoy your channel 🔥🏆🔥 You’re the best! 🤠

Oh Andy i nearly spit out my coffee😂

Cant you put a power box and a usb hub on top of the OTA and have all your cabling above the scopes with only power and main USB cable dropping from the set up rather than a nest of cables.

hey Andy! I see you have a considerable amount of gear but none working properly, focusing on a single rig and making it work flawlessly will bring you more satisfaction (guaranteed) . for example, that dual telescope setup is really cool but could easily be outperformed by a single 6" f4 or 8" f4 newt, cheaper, faster and WAY simpler, Merry Christmas!

A dual scope set up is a great way to go, I'd love SharpCap Pro to develop into this. Thanks for sharing.

The problem is in the UK winter, there are so few clear nights that you don't want to be chasing gremlins on the only clear night of the month. That said, it looks like a good candidate for a couple of raspberry pi s and EKOS.

Nice video Andy, the twin scope set-up is looking very different to sort out and get working but it's a fantastic project, maybe time for a break from the frustration of the twins and get the small refractor set up just to have some fun , thanks for taking the time to make these video looking to seeing what 2025 has in store for you, hope you and yours have a great Xmas

Nice rigg. Don't be so hard on your self. Everyone struggle in one way or another.

Merry Christmas🌲 and a happy new year to you and your family. 🔭

Merry Christmas Mr. Andy! I hope you can translate becose my english isn' quit good. Usted es un valiente astrofotografo!! este hobbie de por si es sumamente demandante con un solo telescopio, ahora con dos es una pesadilla. Sin embargo le repito es un hombre valiente que " toma al toro por los cuernos". No desista, tome un descanso, disfrute la temporada navideña con su familia. El proximo año quiza pudiera considerar, dadas las condiciones climaticas en su pais, el utilizar sus dos telescopios pero en monturas separadas. Con todo lo que ha aprendido estoy seguro que se le resultará más fácil. Un abrazo desde México and God Bless you and your family!.

That was absolutely delightful!

You might want to consider using a telegizmo cover and leaving it setup for a long period. I leave my stuff outside pretty much the entire year. If I had to setup the gear each time, I think I would go nuts. In terms of cable management, that setup is about as hard as it gets! I have the iOptron CEM70, and one of its best features is through the mount cabling, and has power and USB on the saddle. Not cheap though.

Merry Christmas Andy 🎄

That was me 2 days ago :) everything that could go wrong did

Great video, and super image, I think you need a bit of a reset, don’t give up, we have all had these wobbles in the hobby. Take a break and have a think about it. Also on a side note, you don’t, or even shouldn’t use both Dark flats and bias for calibration, as they do the same thing with modern CMOS cameras, just use one or the other. Merry Christmas to you too..👍🏻

If you want something light I can highly recommend the HEM15, 8KG without counter weight 12KG with. If you need heavier payload. The HEM27

Sounds like last night, only I wasn't singing. Windows is installing a update!

Merry Christmas Andy. I'm wondering whether you'd be able to outsource the second instance of NINA to another laptop? I suspect you're running out of bandwidth having 2 cameras running. They use USB 3 because they need to for transfer volume. Re: Cable management. Surely you can tie up the cables as you need and then remove them all in one as a "wiring harness"?

I am not an expert on Newtonian telescopes, but I do think the material used in the 3D printer should be stable at a wide range of temperatures to maintain the collimation. Being it one piece instead of the multiple piece construction of most Newtonian telescopes, it could be an improvement if the temperature sensitivity of the printed parts is less.

Hello, I tried to follow your steps. My mount is an Orion Atlas EQ-G, with Version 4, SynScan. The firmware downloader shows that the remote controller connects with the firmware loader. But when i clicked the update button, there was no indication of the loading process nor the successful loading of firmware, the firmware loader show an error that the remote is not connected.

Thankú Andy. Interesting video.

If I stack two difrent nights saparetely it will not aling stars on Ps when I blend them in

Hi Great video If I stack multi night it will not lighted up in Ps Then I use difrent method Stack calibration tacking method Than take calibrated and stack on calibrated alinged stacking method Then take all session of night the alinged and stack on sigma clip stacking method but then the resonate have to many artifacts on the edge . My question is. What is the most multi night session to stack in astap

I missed the live stream. Great to see you got the dual rig up and running.

Just ordered one today and will use it on the new wide field scope i purchased during black friday.

I've found for these sorts of things, reverse engineering an INDI driver, getting the protocol and implementing it in arduino is actually really very easy. I'm not convinced the dome part is the hard bit (especially since it looks like you cut those bits left handed, in the dark! :P)

Well I've just managed to bag a new SV405CC for a crazy low price. I've watched your video so before it gets first light I wanted to run through some sanity checks. So I got setup with a light panel, set the camera for 4 seconds exposures, looking for the gain range as you show in the video. To my surprise the "problem" range is a lot smaller on my example. I would get full saturation of the sensor at the HGC mode gain of 127. So my plan is to use the gain 130 for images and Flats etc. My question is would I have to do super long Flat exposures still. I've been taking calibration frames to build a dark library ready for clear skies and first light. I tested flats with my light panel and 3 sheets of paper, the Flats are currently 0.27 seconds.

Hi Andy sorry I missed your live stream , looks like you got the twin scopes up and running, excellent work my friend looking forward to seeing what you can do with this setup

Wouldnt the 3d printed spider obscure more light than the stock one?

Have you no longer got the iOptron?

Hi, After your previous issues with the 200P-DS did you have anything major with the Stellalyra. I'm considering buying the Quattro 150P but have also been looking at the Stellalyra 6" F4

Andy I'm impressed that looks like a wonderful Rig and I hope to see more soon. Here's to wishing for clearer skys.

Love the 3D printed parts and the twin rig, it's awesome! Well Done! My friend, here in Liverpool and NW England generally, we've had, by my count, just 12 cloudless night skies all year!! And some of those "cloud free" nights were actually "scattered clouds passing by with openings" kind of nights!! It drives me nuts!! LOL.

Good stuff Andy, thank you.