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Bortle 1 🥹 The best conditions I have experienced so far was Bortle 4-5. Clear Skies!

@@KopLamp I live in Bortle 5 and drive an hour to get to Bortle 3. Bortle 2 and 1 are more like 3-4 hours away. This weekend should be epic, except for that pesky full moon!

@@zrofuxgvn I think it was a 5kg iOptron counterweight (the black one in the vid). The white counterweight is 3kg I think.

@@Martinreij 2032mm x 0.63 = 1280mm. Dat stel ik dan in als brandpuntsafstand.

Dank je voor je antwoord, We hebben een soortgelijke setup. Ik heb een C8 OTA XLT Op een Skywatcher HEQ-5 Guide scope is een SVBONY SV106 50mm focal length 190mm Zwo asi 120 mini ASIAIR PLUS Celestron dew heating ring En een dslr canon 1200d unmodified Een belangrijk verschil is dat ik nog geen enkele foto heb kunnen maken. (Wolken) En mijn recente sprong van visual naar EAA. Dank voor je heldere uitleg. Ik hoop binnenkort een gaatje in de lichtvervuiling te prikken en wat data te verzamelen. Ik hoop dat je het okay vind als ik je af en toe met wat vragen bestook. Zoals gebruik je filters en zo ja welke en hoe? En hoe kom je dan tot de juiste backfocus? Groet uit Langedijk Martin

Correct. I need to revisit this topic soon when I find a worthy alternative to the street view app

Yes indeed. But to be fair, the coming days/nights look to be clear. Unfortunately summer at my latitude also means that I get 0 astro darkness.

The coming nights (and last night) prove to have some potential.

Thanks 👍

Just checked the weather in NL. Looks clear on Monday. What RMS guiding errors do you get with your AM5 and your SCT on that last target you showed in this video. I have a C8 SCT and I’m researching for a new mount. Too many AM5 owners review with short focal length scopes. I’m currently located in Utah, US, near the mountains and it clouds up every evening. I’m missing out on Bortle 2 skies but the full moon is out. Thanks for the update. I’m still subscribed.

Still have to make that video about collimating with the tri-bahtinov mask. I usually don't fuss too much on my collimation though. It seems to hold pretty well on my current scope (EdgeHD 9.25")

Bigger aperture telescopes are more susceptible to the seeing-conditions. A smaller aperture will give a sharper looking result, but you will not be able to resolve details as small as on the bigger aperture telescope. Secondly, on the EHD800 - especially doing planetary/moon shooting - you need to have proper collimation to get the best results.

@@KopLamp do you have a proper way to go for collimating an EHD800? Or some tools for this?

I have found that a Tri-Bahtinov mask can help. But collimating should not be rocket science. Dylan O’Donnell has a good one on his channel explaining the process.

This expression takes the Oiii and Ha data to make the data for a Green channel. I got the expression from this site, that probably can explain it much better than I can: thecoldestnights.com/2020/06/pixinsight-dynamic-narrowband-combinations-with-pixelmath/

It was a long time ago for me too. Yes, from the other video (th-cam.com/video/cwCJF2163J8/w-d-xo.html) you see me do Starnet on the HOO combination. There are several ways to go about star-removal and star replacing. All have pros and cons. This was a quick way to achieve a pleasing result (not necessarily the best result).

There are far worse habits possible 😅

@@KopLamp 😂😂😂

For the original video (EdgeHD vs classic C8) I thought it was funny to be acting out twice on screen and in post edit it as if I was talking to myself. I thought it would be even funnier if I dressed up like someone else. I already had a labcoat so the choice was easy ;-)

And? Did the video “push you over the edge”? I have upgraded the 8” to a 9.25” EdgeHD a year ago by the way. Again not a thought out decision but just an opportunity that came by…

Yes. I now have an 8” Edge HD. You have a great presentation style. Thank you. Subscribed.

The 9.25” has super resolution optically. Congratulations!

Thanks. The video I made about the upgrade is this one: th-cam.com/video/i9SymknulPk/w-d-xo.html

Good luck and clear skies!

Fingers crossed for some clear skies then! 🤞👍

@@KopLamp si hay q esperar amigo

I would advise to use astronomy.tools website to determine the image circle of your camera in relation to your optics and deduce from that if you can get away with 1.25”. I have no experience with this specific optics. I do everything on 2”

@@KopLamp: Thank you very much for the kind response.

Indeed. I need to find an alternative and remake this video.

Plate solves sometimes fail but that is mostly due to external factors such as high clouds, not dark enough (52°N) or the focus being off. Finding a guide star works almost always with the 174MM mini. My scope is by the way the 9.25”. No idea whether or not it would be just as smooth with an 11”

Yeah it has been deprecated... I think I will need to revisit this story once I find a good alternative

It definitely is just as good as the CEM40. With guiding. Unguided is impossible due to the PE.

In the video I use my iOptron Literoc tripod.

When out traveling I use the TC40 carbon tripod. When at home I have a PE200 which allows me to mount the AM5 on my iOptron Literoc tripod

Hope you got it sorted! And… sorry for the slap 😅

You’re welcome

Thank you

You usually don’t really get within the outer limits of your focus travel. I recommend making sure you have the latest firmware in the EAF so the max amount of steps increases. What I did was manually focusing on the Moon and then setting the current EAF position in the ASIAIR to something like 30000.

@@KopLamp Thanks. Thats what I ended up doing!

I never did this, but that is because I am either using an Optolong L-Pro or the Optolong L-extreme. Secondly my scopes are fairly slow and my cameras are not full frame. That gives me some leeway

I don’t know for sure. I only have experience with the mounts you see in my videos.

When using an OAG there usually is no other way of rotating the prism other than I show. If you would rotate it separately from the camera you risk seeing the shadow of the prism in your images.

You’re welcome?

I had to rewatch my own video 😅 I combined them by putting them both in a separate layer and putting the blending mode of the top layer to “screen”. I then played with the contrasts and noise before I used the result as a luminance layer.

Combining Solar astrophotography with parenting and work is difficult, so these moments are sparse. Also, my PST is not the best. I borrowed it from the observatory where I am a volunteer. It is not mine.

You should Google my surname 😇😎

@@KopLamp lol.. u da man

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It was not directly related to the CEM40 issues. Those were resolved by the time I got the opportunity to test the AM5. After testing (actually during) I decided to sell the CEM40 and buy the AM5 from the shop that loaned me it for testing purposes. The performance is very similar to the CEM40 but with much easier handling.

I have no idea about Apple. A possible alternative route is to put your changed files into a ZIP file. And then in Stellarium you can use the button that says “Add new landscape” (or something similar). You then get to point to the zip file and it should then be installed into Stellarium.

You’re welcome

It was a 8 clear nights in January. Since then, every clear night did not align with my calendar... ;-) Clear nights will return

Glad you enjoyed it

I had issues initially, but since I have the ASI174MM mini all problems are gone. Also bottle 6-7

Those scripts I made myself indeed. Find them here: files.located.nl/s/siril-scripts

Thank you. These were all from January. Not seen many opportunities here either since then.

Yes. January it was. But you have had other spectacular things on your channel in the meantime. Everyone reading this, go to the StarScaperPhoto channel and check out the Aurora video!

@@KopLamp haha, thanks for the referral Martin 😅

Thanks. Yes those came out very nice. It really is one of those targets that the EdgeHD native focal length is a plus (even though it is f/10

Dank! ;-)

Thank you! Cheers!