Hey everyone - Cody here! I strive to provide quality astronomy, science education, astrophotography, instructional videos, telescope/equipment reviews, and the occasional firearm safety/instructional video - a nice "blend", so to speak. Thank you for visiting, and clear skies!
Hi, my problem with this cooled OSC 183 is the strong horizontal banding clearly visible on the photos after the usual calibration with flats, darks and DF. What could be possibly go wrong ?
Apologies for the motion blur - I am investigating my camera settings to see why this occurred and get it corrected. EDIT: Problem fixed. This will not be an issue in the future!
For information I measured the motor noise level of the C8 Evolution HD with alt-az mount: about 50dB at 10 m, which for me is too high for respecting the sleep of neighbours.
Damn it, RTFM 🤣 i just do always a minimun alignment with 2 stars... i just not read the AVX manual to go back to home for the ASI air. Thanks for your hint, so now i will do so! Good job!
I heard backyard Eos for the laptop, whats the camera you use ? I've seen some weird / shitty Amazon stuff and it's kinda hard to cgoose. I'm fine uaing my phone but laptops kind of end game as it were, so I want something banging for a laptop camera.
Excellent video-and the limited edition is so cool, matching diagonal too! Does the special plaque state what number of the 600 produced yours is? 13:52 one of the neatest images of Copernicus I’ve seen :-)
With a guiding error of 0.8 to 0.9. Is that still less than your pixel scale with such long focal length to get sharp stars? What camera did you test this with please?
Very helpful video. Thank you. As a newbie who just setup a new Edge 8 HD I have been anxious to setup Starsense and get out and try it out. Clear weather this week so I should be good to go. Your video helped me a lot and it seems less intimidating now.
Thank you Simon. I bought an adaptor and followed your instructions. My Celestron Evo 8 is now up to date! I had loads of issues with crashes and slewing and other little bugs. Now it's time to go outside and see if this has actually solved those...
Nice video. I have enjoyed my 183MC Pro so I bought the mono version last fall. I did a narrowband shot of the Heart Nebula last fall and noticed a grid pattern. I think it may be from the Ha and SII flats. Have you noticed this at all and if so what can be done to minimize this? Thanks, Tom
I just got an asiair and I got everything working the first night out. However my autoguiding wasnt so great. This turorial answered alot of questions I had and improved my guiding the next time I went out. Thanks, subscribed
This mount is only good for visual use it had always a lot of backlash and other problems which made me very unhappy, for photographic better use Skywatcher EQ6R which does the job
Any chance you can make a video on how to then take photos and get focused with this setup? I try and do live view and I can’t see anything from my screen and when I take photos I don’t see anything. I’m ready to give up
Thank you so much! From a retired Electronics Technician. I’ve been a Mac user for the past 30 years and with limited Windows usage I’ve been able to avoid the platform until I took an interest in astronomy. Anyway, your videos are very helpful and in this case allowed me to “Easily” update the firmware packages for my Evo9.25, Hand controllers and Star Sense. Keep up the good work.
I'm looking at this scope but don't quite understand why you think the sensor is a good choice. It's low res and large pixel size, basically like two year old sensor, right? Can you explain why you think it's actually the right sensor further please? How do you know it's a well designed or simple app? No one has used it and you say a smartly designed app is a big advantage.
Dude. You are such a wonderful teacher. I am a 47 year old man in 🇦🇺 and I was schooled…so interesting. I now have so much more interest in the hobby. Exciting
Thanks for the review man. I just found one set like this one on ebay for 260 canadian $ after watching your video. I have a 8se telescope with skyportal wifi, 2in dielectric diagonal, luminos 2in barlow and now this set. I might get televue 4mm eyepiece soon on marketplace. What should I get next?
Hi Cody, just a quick question. I use a similar setup but a SCT Edge HD with mirror locks. What about those locks in case of auto focusing. I assume the have to be unlocked but than in a remote observatory the mirror could flop. Or what du you mean?
I don't understand why it's so important to get exactly 133.35 mm back focus. Can't we just focus the scope a few mm or cm forward or backward to make up the difference? I don't know what the focus range is, but typically I am able to get my cameras to focus. However, whether or not they are capturing the entire FOV, etc. is a different matter. I am going to go ahead and order the celestron T-adapter anyway - I just mean theoretically.
What has been your experience guiding your Celestron Edge HD / Celestron OAG combo with the AM5 . I'm reading that because o the PE of strain wave mounts that longer focal lengths , primarily over 1000mm are not recommended. I;m looking for total RMS error to be under 1" for a session over an hour. The AM5 seems to work fine on short focal lengths but doesn't it really work on 1400mm to 2032mm? Thanks
Thank you!! It works for me. I live in the San Francisco Bay area, and from May to November we have clear nites. I feel I need to go out each night and shoot something. 😂
Thank you for the review. I am hoping to get one of these second hand. I was wondering if you think it is possible to install an zwo electronic focuser on it? It’s been a long time since they released it so I’m not sure
Great video, I'm getting ready to buy one of these! Do you find that you need to have a dovetail counterweight when you have all the imaging optics on the back end of it?
Hey Cody, would you consider doing a follow up video after a year or so in use with am5 and 9.25” together. Any issues with images and tracking and guiding. Have been getting mixed responses from CN. Also would be interesting if you could highlight the performance of AM5 when the 9.25 scope is used at its native 2350mm focal length. Thanks
This thing is dead on arrival. Nobody with a clear head spends 4K on an altaz mount and an old uncooled sensor. Heck the 678 is cheaper than the 178. What are they thinking?
What exactly does stripping them down do for testing? To me the test would be, which one cools down faster, which one is easier to carry and set up. Which one is more stable. Weight is important but real world is going to be a MUCH better test.
The test was all about the weight of tube materials. To be accurate the scopes had to be stripped down to minimize any variables. Cool down time depends on several factors.. tube material, glass substrate and thickness, optical design (Maksutov corrector lens? Schmidt corrector plate? No corrector lens?) and atmospheric conditions. It’s not easily tested as there are too many variables, and hence why this test only focused on the tube materials.
Thanks for this video it made me make up my mind I was going to get one of these up-to-date modern telescopes but I'll stick to my old aluminum I have one I use for night time in the winter I insulated it on the outside with a automotive windshield sunshade does the job does fiber optics do have a nice look to them
I have a star sense hand controller maybe i am missing something somewhere but nowhere in the menu is a focus controller? The Star Sense auto Aline is less than a year old. Fortunately, the Sky Portal software has a focus control on it, but it can be very tedious getting focus with it. Signed Struggling with this.
