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Yup I've got half finished projects to finish to Andy as I still need to get the Newtonian sorted but I just haven't got round to it, mind you it doesn't help when your astro mojo is at an all time low but hopefully I'll get back to it soon. I only got myself a dome as it was £155 on eBay & money is tight, it's a home made one & quite heavy to shove around so I cannot see it ever being fully automated plus I wouldn't have a clue on how to do it either. Not that I mind staying up keeping an eye on things as should anything go wrong I'm there to sort everything out, ideally if I could of afforded it a roll off roof or roll off shed would have probably been the way to go for me.

Great video Andy nice to see you two have a few unfinished projects so it's not just me lol, looking forward to seeing more of your content

The circle for the observatory looked so small until you stepped next to it lol I am just an amateur in programming, but I managed to use chatGPT to go far beyond my abilities. Maybe it could make an observatory more plausible, too Otherwise, I am excited to see how the dual scope will perform! The tilt is definitely something I didn't think about before

Nice work on the scope gimble 3d printers are now assembling a market here in South Carolina Columbia university of S.C students started 3 D for many projects they usually couldn't afford to make now it's a matter of collecting bottle plastic 😅

Droids and the intelligence of its continuous loops of information it does a lot of work for little time but that's a pretty expensive thing to buy but they will assemble anything that shows the value it draws information in and products out there is a literal expression of intelligence itself a droid will be on the market place before we know it and cheaper then a car

Yes, we all have half finished projects lying around. I finally finished my allsky camera, and I'm slowly finishing up my 3x135mm samyang setup. Btw, I can highly recommend the Altair dualband filters - zero halos!

Come on Andy mate - 2 weeks and no reply?

Does this Prime focus with a DSLR

I feel your pain, I’m selling my 8” Orion because of this.

I had two nights of imaging last week after six months of rain and clouds. I too had to update everything and try to remember how to image. I was only able to get a few hours of data in total due to lots of issues.

Nice overview. Consider printing a different material, PLA isn't robust. I've been wanting to 3d print one of these but hesitated because my experience with 3D printing has been that most objects available for download were created by people that learned the software but have no experience or education in design, so the tolerances are too tight, the edges aren't rounded or chamfered, pieces are undersized for plastic, they don't account for shrinkage, etc.

It's such a beautiful region! I often just look up there when I am outside aiming at something different (Milky Way is my challenge at the moment, but the center is so damn close to the horizon, that gives me all kinds of troubles aka challenges ...). And being into astrophotography for 5 years now I am aware of some of the beauty that's hidden within this Cygnus area, what is only dark sky for our eyes. Sidenote: 1:56, that's why until now I stick to my dslr on my Star Adventurer Gti and process in Siril and LightRoom 🤣. This keeps the number of updates, but of course also the quality of the data, what is wonderful to stay outside late with just a t-shirt is terrible for the noise of the camera 😩

Thanks for sharing your setup and workflow , I've been going through the same update routine after not doing much imaging for that last two years. I had to replace a few USB leads. I'm curious why you think dark flats are useful. If you have darks, bias and flats they should cover all your non-lights needs I think.

Be interested in how you get on with the SVBONY SHO. I was looking at those as a budget set

Looks like a nice set of data Andy

Looks good Andy. Thank you.

That's turned out great hope you get some more data on the other channels soon so wishing you clear skies

Great video, FYI, you don't / shouldn't use Bias frames when you use Dark flats, its one or the other for best results…👍🏻

Ooh, this is brilliant! A hydrogen-alpha filter on one, O3 on the other, and you can capture both in the same session, simultaneously, so under identical conditions. Gonna need a beefy tracking mount though. I see you have two more videos in this series. I'll definitely watch those as well. Clear skies (hah, as if we even get those in northern Europe lately), and best of luck with rhe project!

After 30 years of collimating scopes when I see any this far off my first thought has the 2nd mirror is twisted. Loosen all to the point of falling off and slowly re-tighten. Some scopes have the dimples that will settle the 2nd but cheap will not and you have to turn it by hand once close to tight and see of you can get the laser to point center. BTW cheap scopes will not have the center circle to aim at. For me I make one when paid to collimate. Some customers think this blocks view, we know it doesn't! Then I got go to the primary, if the springs are over 8 years I replace them with much stronger ones. Once aligned, I use a cap, if that looks good I finish on a star. Primary only I can't stress that enough, Secondary is centered as good as it can get it's the micro adjustments to the Primary until you see the clips holding it. Now defocus the other way and finish. If you see no high points in the circle then it's good to go! If you do repeat primary adjustments and recheck

Look into adding klipper to your 3d printer, you'll half your printing times at minium, and other nice features

I goit the Altair 269C also. Good cam!

Good information on flocking and 3D printing Andy.

Looks good Andy. Thanks.

Is your spider on thingyverse? Haven't got a printer yet, but plan to one day.

I'd love to do this someday. Looks like it's gonna be both great and a bit of a headache at first. Re: alignment, I just saw a 13 year old video by Astronomyshed on adjusting cone error. That got me thinking that these methods could be utilised for your alignment dilemma? Good luck Andy!

Great progress Andy

Great video Andy. Love your own music that complements really well

You might be interested in a volcano clone nozzle for your ender. They cost like 2£ on ali and come with a non-stick coating. They increase the possible flow rate quite a lot. I am looking forward to the collimation! It would be cool of it eas possible to have one camera feed at like 50% opacity and overlay it on the other one. Then you could adjust the angles potentially a bit easier

Lasers will be of more a headache and probably won't work. Point the scope to the stars, loop the cameras and adjust one till it matches the other. Close as you can get anyway. Good luck.

Hi Andy I'm the one who suggested the laser idea glad you picked it up hope it works out for you and thanks for the acknowledgement

If you are worried about 0.01mm, then maybe don't use a calliper. Use a micrometer.

Are you aware that .01 mm is actually .0004 ish of an inch? 15.5-15.49 is less than a gnats watsit

Another great informative video Andy

Andy, a sidereal day (I.e. the earth making a 360 degrees rotation so that the same star is directly overhead the next day) is 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds long (86,164 seconds). That’s the amount of time it takes for the earth to do a 360 degrees rotation on itself. The extra 3 minutes and 54 seconds to get to 24hours is the extra time for the sun to return directly overhead because the earth has itself rotated around the sun an extra 1/365.25 of a circle. I had to learn about this when I code my own mount stepper motor controller for a GC-4 I mechanized. My tracking was too slow and accumulating lag until I did the math using sidereal day.

Thanks for sharing.

Always remember this. There will be very few pople in the world who are willing to study at later stage in their life and even fewer who pick astronomy. So well done to you for pursuing something something you enjoy.

Great video. These videos give a sence of happiness when you do astrophotography and you see the numbers popping in the screen. Please make more of these along with your usual astro videos.

Congrats 🎉

Loving these techy videos Andy👍

I'm thinking about doing the same. Best of luck, Andy!

The ND filter is fixed permanently in my wedge as well as the polarising filter on the rotating eyepiece holder.

Hi Andy, you really are plagued with things breaking or failing in some way, funny you should make an orerey, back in time there was one you could build monthly from a magazine, I got to 2 thirds building it then kinda got bored buying the mag as it went up in price.. Something I wanted to ask, did the Svbony 405CC work out OK for you, I have an Altair 294C colour fan camera and thought maybe selling this to upgrade to the cooled Svbony hopefully a good solution as ime now retired and on a budget🥴, I've recently been having fun with an ASI 585 uncooled planetary camera zero amp glow with HGV it works amazingly well on my 62ED for DSOs, this had originally been bought for my old 9.25 SCT for the planets but is now part of my travel rig sitting on a modded AZgti mount.. The cooled camera being used on 900mm fl C100ed. Anyhow always good to watch you and your projects, well done with the OU course, it looked hard👍.. Regards best wishes Tom.

Not all the panets, does it miss pluto like NASA do 😅

Hello! Can you tell me what is the 2" adapter (with compression ring) you have on your focuser? I have the same telescope, and want to upgrade 2screw adapter with the compression ring adapter, but there's no such thing on AliExpress (at least I couldn't find any). Wondered where you got that

Thanks Andy. Too bad it kept breaking.

It looks amazing! I hope that it won't cause any issues in the future. A motor would be really cool. Reminds me of an arduino project I saw, which had two servos that always pointed at the current position of the ISS

Brilliant & frustrating at the same time, it'll look good all painted up, I wonder if it could be powered by an electric motor at a nice slow speed.

Nice model-FYI, Dzhanibekov is pronounced like “johnny-beck-off”.

Well done Andy. I know from experience about how frustrating OU courses can be. 20 years ago I studied a course about object oriented programming as part of a computer science degree, amazingly it was one of the few courses where you could not email a TMA. The post back then was similar to how it is now and to guarantee delivery I would hand delivery each TMA.