Cable management is really important and good to talk about it. Some remarks however: Instead of wrapping that ridiculously oversized cable around the tube I would advice to buy a properly sized cable instead. They aren't expensive anyways. Especially with the astro cams the long usb3 cables tend to become unreliable and the shorter the better. Makes it better transporatable too when the cable just snugs in nicely. Furthermore the one cable to the mount that you zip-tied and just let hang surely has a lot of potential energy when being able to swing around like that. I would velcro that zip-tied part to the tube instead.
You are absolutely right Isbeorn, I will pin this comment - I made do with the cables I have. The last time I bought a USB cable was maybe four years ago :-) I bought a short one for cable management, and somehow it was very unstable for my ASI 1600MM, so I reverted to the thick 3m cable at the time. I have no idea what was wrong with the cable. Will need to go out, measure precise cable length, and buy that. Thanks!
Cuiv, sorry to hear about your bike being stolen! I hope no one have experienced a home break-in as I have. Really sucks, so think like a thief and prepare by having good lighting at both front & back doors to start with, put up Company Security Signs!!!!! You can buy these online... I think if I have a sign I would not have been broken in! Be safe all and THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS SERIES, look forward to the next series.
Thanks for the tip Christopher, and sorry to hear about your experience as well! I thought Japan was much safer in that respect, but in any society there will be outliers... You're welcome on this series, lots of new content coming up soon too! :D
Thanks Shawn! Exactly - I got some halfway clear skies for the full moon yesterday, so I did some quick planetary imaging, polar aligning the setup, and first guiding tests of the AZEQ5GT!
Thank you so much for all of your videos. I have become totally automated including acquisition and downloading the images to my processing computer indoors using your recommendations for batch syncing. As you said, it is a lot of work to set up but totally worth it especially in Florida, where the mosquitos eat you alive so its nice to be indoors in an airconditioned house and watch the images being taken using NINA and then having the images downloaded directly to processing computer. You are incorrectly labele "LAZY" as it is a lot of work but you are one hundred percent correct in having everything automated so that you can be "LAZY" indoors while the scope , focuser, filter wheel and camera take care of all the work. Again, thanks for all that you do and share. the meridian flip in NINA is awesome, works perfect.
Oh man, Salomon, that is great! Congratulations on your fully automated setup, it's game-changing right?? It's long term laziness :D I am so glad this is working so well for you!
Good video. The new EQ6-R Pro has a USB connector on the mount. Looks like (and behaves) a COM port on the PC. EQASCOM is unchanged and is still required. Cable management is good, but I wonder just how many cables were saved with having a PC on the mount vs having all cables drop down and connected to a laptop. EQ6-R Pro comes with a tiny stick-on cable fixing. The purpose is to not flex the power lead as the cable twists - never tried it but seems a good idea? Simon
pour l'equilibrage j'ai une methode infaillible : une pince amperemetrique sur l'alimentation de la monture ! je fait tourner les axes avec les moteurs et je lis la consommation en Ampère . je déplace les poids ou la position en dec en fonction des valeurs lues et quand c'est égal ( ou en léger avantage pour le contrepoids si on le désire) . L' avantage de cette méthode c'est que ça prends en compte la friction de l'axe qui crée une zone morte ( surtout en AD) qui rends un équilibrage précis impossible . Et surtout le guidage étant en impulsions ca permet d'egaliser le comportement des les deux directions de chacun des axes et donc des impulsions symetriques dans un sens ou l'autre . ca aide grandement Phd2 pour la calibration et l'optimisation des parametres de guidages . c'est la methode d'equilibrages des montures 10micron d'ailleurs .
C'est une excellente idee - il me semble d'ailleurs que iOptron avait reflechi a faire qqch comme ca - cette methode fonctionne aussi bien avec des servos ou des steppers? En theorie les montures avec belt drives doivent etre parfaitement equilibrees, donc ca devrait aider. Je vais acheter ca et essayer de voir si ca marche!
@@CuivTheLazyGeek les deux :) apres certains moteurs n'ont pas le meme rendement dans les deux sens de rotations . donc l'idée c'est de ne pas s'arquebouter sur des valeurs d'intensité identique mais juste choisir un sens et trouvez la position d'equilibrage qui permet de minimiser la consomations ( un peu comme une v-curve) . sur les monture haut de gammes par contre on peut affiner pour avoir des valeurs egales .
Nice once again. I took a couple of zip tie tips and I believe I've got my set up as good as it can be cable-wise. 1.96K subs! 2K on the near term horizon!
I have never used my built in polar scope either :) Sharpcap is currently the way to go. Keep adding those cable ties you are now officially their bestest customer :) Grats on 2k subs this weekend!
wonderful video series, watched them all back to back today, cant wait for my NEQ6 Pro and William Optics GT71 II to arrive and then the experience begins, and the wallet bashing costs of course too, all the best
Hi Cuiv! How do you connect your camera+EFW+coma corrector to the focuser ? With a specific ring (screwed) , or with the basic "annular" holder/clamp, which allow rotation, but also tilt...? Thx ! Ludo
I always recommend plugging into the same USB ports you have been using. I have had some issues if I changed ports. If I change ports I go into device manager and look for hidden devices and remove them. With all those cables coiled up you may be altering Earths magnetic field 🤣
Yeah, older versions of Windows struggled when changing ports sometimes! But newer versions seem to handle it fine (even serial adapters keep the same COM port). Good point though! And yes, my goal in life is to alter the Earth's magnetic field mwahahaha :D
Hey Cuiv, I m sorry but are you sure taking flats while waiting sunset is a good idea ? I mean , how can you be sure your focus is perfect ? IMHO I think the flat frames need the exact same focus than the one used when imaging, due to the shape of dust spots which could be quite different if not the same focus. That’s why I shoot flats just after the lights session. Or am I totally wrong ? just asking ! 😅 Cheers !
Woooops, you weren't supposed to be able to see this video (although I see how you got to it through the playlist..! Oooh TH-cam! I will properly set this to private after I answer this). So to be clear I would be taking my flats after it gets dark - my way of putting it wasn't ideal though. As for the focus for flats, it doesn't actually matter: th-cam.com/video/XJePhGDH9tc/w-d-xo.html - well it does for some systems that change the focal ratio while focusing, but changes in focus will have a very, very small impact. Dust motes don't care about focus, only focal ratio and distance to the camera sensor, which doesn't change! Cheers & Clear Skies!
Get yourself a 3d printer :) I printed all kind of cable clips / holders for my setup + a usb hub holder on top of the scope. (So only 1 cable down from the scope).
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Cable management is really important and good to talk about it.
Some remarks however: Instead of wrapping that ridiculously oversized cable around the tube I would advice to buy a properly sized cable instead. They aren't expensive anyways. Especially with the astro cams the long usb3 cables tend to become unreliable and the shorter the better. Makes it better transporatable too when the cable just snugs in nicely.
Furthermore the one cable to the mount that you zip-tied and just let hang surely has a lot of potential energy when being able to swing around like that. I would velcro that zip-tied part to the tube instead.
You are absolutely right Isbeorn, I will pin this comment - I made do with the cables I have. The last time I bought a USB cable was maybe four years ago :-) I bought a short one for cable management, and somehow it was very unstable for my ASI 1600MM, so I reverted to the thick 3m cable at the time. I have no idea what was wrong with the cable. Will need to go out, measure precise cable length, and buy that. Thanks!
Cuiv, sorry to hear about your bike being stolen! I hope no one have experienced a home break-in as I have. Really sucks, so think like a thief and prepare by having good lighting at both front & back doors to start with, put up Company Security Signs!!!!! You can buy these online... I think if I have a sign I would not have been broken in! Be safe all and THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS SERIES, look forward to the next series.
Thanks for the tip Christopher, and sorry to hear about your experience as well! I thought Japan was much safer in that respect, but in any society there will be outliers... You're welcome on this series, lots of new content coming up soon too! :D
Love the humour! Makes me laugh. The lazy setup looks awesome. Now you just need some clear skies!
Thanks Shawn! Exactly - I got some halfway clear skies for the full moon yesterday, so I did some quick planetary imaging, polar aligning the setup, and first guiding tests of the AZEQ5GT!
Congrats on 2K. well deserved.
Thank you Salomon!
Thank you so much for all of your videos. I have become totally automated including acquisition and downloading the images to my processing computer indoors using your recommendations for batch syncing. As you said, it is a lot of work to set up but totally worth it especially in Florida, where the mosquitos eat you alive so its nice to be indoors in an airconditioned house and watch the images being taken using NINA and then having the images downloaded directly to processing computer. You are incorrectly labele "LAZY" as it is a lot of work but you are one hundred percent correct in having everything automated so that you can be "LAZY" indoors while the scope , focuser, filter wheel and camera take care of all the work. Again, thanks for all that you do and share. the meridian flip in NINA is awesome, works perfect.
Oh man, Salomon, that is great! Congratulations on your fully automated setup, it's game-changing right?? It's long term laziness :D I am so glad this is working so well for you!
Good video. The new EQ6-R Pro has a USB connector on the mount. Looks like (and behaves) a COM port on the PC. EQASCOM is unchanged and is still required. Cable management is good, but I wonder just how many cables were saved with having a PC on the mount vs having all cables drop down and connected to a laptop. EQ6-R Pro comes with a tiny stick-on cable fixing. The purpose is to not flex the power lead as the cable twists - never tried it but seems a good idea? Simon
pour l'equilibrage j'ai une methode infaillible : une pince amperemetrique sur l'alimentation de la monture ! je fait tourner les axes avec les moteurs et je lis la consommation en Ampère . je déplace les poids ou la position en dec en fonction des valeurs lues et quand c'est égal ( ou en léger avantage pour le contrepoids si on le désire) . L' avantage de cette méthode c'est que ça prends en compte la friction de l'axe qui crée une zone morte ( surtout en AD) qui rends un équilibrage précis impossible . Et surtout le guidage étant en impulsions ca permet d'egaliser le comportement des les deux directions de chacun des axes et donc des impulsions symetriques dans un sens ou l'autre . ca aide grandement Phd2 pour la calibration et l'optimisation des parametres de guidages . c'est la methode d'equilibrages des montures 10micron d'ailleurs .
C'est une excellente idee - il me semble d'ailleurs que iOptron avait reflechi a faire qqch comme ca - cette methode fonctionne aussi bien avec des servos ou des steppers? En theorie les montures avec belt drives doivent etre parfaitement equilibrees, donc ca devrait aider. Je vais acheter ca et essayer de voir si ca marche!
@@CuivTheLazyGeek les deux :) apres certains moteurs n'ont pas le meme rendement dans les deux sens de rotations . donc l'idée c'est de ne pas s'arquebouter sur des valeurs d'intensité identique mais juste choisir un sens et trouvez la position d'equilibrage qui permet de minimiser la consomations ( un peu comme une v-curve) . sur les monture haut de gammes par contre on peut affiner pour avoir des valeurs egales .
@@mehdiabed6942 Genial, merci!
Nice once again. I took a couple of zip tie tips and I believe I've got my set up as good as it can be cable-wise. 1.96K subs! 2K on the near term horizon!
Excellent ! Yeah, 2k on the horizon, boggles my mind!
I have never used my built in polar scope either :) Sharpcap is currently the way to go. Keep adding those cable ties you are now officially their bestest customer :) Grats on 2k subs this weekend!
Thank you! I love cable ties :-D and Sharpcap just make things too easy!!
wonderful video series, watched them all back to back today, cant wait for my NEQ6 Pro and William Optics GT71 II to arrive and then the experience begins, and the wallet bashing costs of course too, all the best
Woohoo! Thanks for watching, and good luck!!
Hi Cuiv! How do you connect your camera+EFW+coma corrector to the focuser ? With a specific ring (screwed) , or with the basic "annular" holder/clamp, which allow rotation, but also tilt...?
Thx ! Ludo
I see you got your answer :D
Great series - have enjoyed these. I would love a Pegasus Ultimate Powerbox to reduce the number of power cables on my rig, but they are so expensive.
Exactly my thoughts on those power boxes. I'm kind of in the mood of "if it works, don't fix it" right now!
I always recommend plugging into the same USB ports you have been using. I have had some issues if I changed ports. If I change ports I go into device manager and look for hidden devices and remove them. With all those cables coiled up you may be altering Earths magnetic field 🤣
Yeah, older versions of Windows struggled when changing ports sometimes! But newer versions seem to handle it fine (even serial adapters keep the same COM port). Good point though! And yes, my goal in life is to alter the Earth's magnetic field mwahahaha :D
Hey Cuiv, I m sorry but are you sure taking flats while waiting sunset is a good idea ? I mean , how can you be sure your focus is perfect ? IMHO I think the flat frames need the exact same focus than the one used when imaging, due to the shape of dust spots which could be quite different if not the same focus. That’s why I shoot flats just after the lights session. Or am I totally wrong ? just asking ! 😅 Cheers !
Woooops, you weren't supposed to be able to see this video (although I see how you got to it through the playlist..! Oooh TH-cam! I will properly set this to private after I answer this). So to be clear I would be taking my flats after it gets dark - my way of putting it wasn't ideal though. As for the focus for flats, it doesn't actually matter: th-cam.com/video/XJePhGDH9tc/w-d-xo.html - well it does for some systems that change the focal ratio while focusing, but changes in focus will have a very, very small impact. Dust motes don't care about focus, only focal ratio and distance to the camera sensor, which doesn't change! Cheers & Clear Skies!
Get yourself a 3d printer :) I printed all kind of cable clips / holders for my setup + a usb hub holder on top of the scope. (So only 1 cable down from the scope).
Do not tempt me!! :D
Cuiv...if you are overheated then take off the hoodie! Sorry about your bike.
Haha yes! The hoodie was there to protect the mic from the wind (e.g. a hammer to kill a fly). I really need to get a wind muffler!!