Hi, I wanted to ask a question. I bought the same adapter and filter that you recommended, but when I tried to use the telescope, it couldn't align and I could see the reflection of the spider being projected in the image. What could this be?
It became a cat 5 cause Russia launched thousands of missiles in the skies and waters in the Caribbean and Atlantic oceans look it up those missiles can get up to 7,5000 degrees
I remember this. True story I’m A Gator fan and my brother in law is a hurricanes fan and this was the year our teams played each other. The Gators won that year and I joke with him about the Hurricane missing Florida and the Florida Gators beating the hurricanes at the same time.
Pretty sure celestron filters use baader film. Unless they cheapened out to mylar. If the view is blue, then it is mylar. Glass filters tend to have a warm tone and a tad of softness from the glass, but they are more durable except if dropped where glass can crack, and film will survive unless punctured by a sharp object
@EarthtoSpaceScience then it was changed from when I used to sell them 2006-2011. And even the costco special nexstar 80gtl which was my fist scope in 2004 came with a solar filter than used baader film. Celestron used to be the main source for some of the baader filters, with celestron branding, the contrast booster and uhc/OIII, and astrosolar on their solar filters. But things change over the years and baader has increased many of its prices since the hyperion was such a huge hit on the forums back in 06. The celestron OIII and UHC were the cheapest way to get those baader filters for a long time.
Those defects merit returning it, but to each their own. It would be more stable with full contact, felt wont cut it. And bad gears at that price is unacceptable
Its cool you can make a table like you we're discussing towards the end of the video, and the hand controller actually tells you that number. Not having that kind of information and just having to guess where the focuser is at is rather annoying when you are doing everything by hand. If I do end up getting one of the evolution series, getting the auto focuser is definitely going to have to be a must buy with it.
You think there would be some software update on this model to make it more useful at night by tracking at least the moon . Also that was probably just a normal satellite passing at 3:25 , with well over 11, 000 of them orbiting the earth .
It is basically a software-limited version of their GTI mount but with the solar tracking camera. Yes, it would be nice if it still had all the other functionality.
Any smallish scope (around or under 10 pounds or so) with a vixen rail should be fine. The tripod is pretty light so you can probably put a somewhat heavier scope on it if you upgraded the tripod.
It tracks pretty good. I haven’t tried it at high magnification, so not sure on that. It will keep the sun in the field of view for a long time with the tacking camera (it did the entire eclipse without issue, for example) but I’m not sure about how well it would keep a specific prominence in the center of the field of view.
I've just purchased this flip mirror and have got a similar set up, with the eyepiece attached to the flip with a helical focuser. I have the ASI462MC with a 1.25" nose piece + filter on that I'm struggling to connect to the flip, so will look into a baader clicklock, or something similar as they're quite pricey. Is there anything else you'd recommend? As for backfocus, I'm struggling to figure that out as well.
Yeah, they have lots of threaded adapters. The click lock is nice but you can always do one of their cheaper 1.25” adapters and upgrade later, especially since you can use two of them. Backfocus can be tricky to measure. I didn’t try too hard to get it optimal, I mainly just focused on getting a setup that worked physically in terms of all the connections and just tried to get in the ballpark. Since I use it with an SCT, reaching focus isn’t an issue but of course you don’t want to have the spacing too far off optimal.
I bought my C90 as a spotting scope for taking to the range, and also for taking pictures of the abundant and varied wildlife here in Australia. This 'scope performs these tasks admirably. It's only now that I am working out that I can use this for taking pictures of the planets too? Awesome. I understand that from an Astronomer's perspective that the C90 leaves a lot to be desired, but from my perspective, this gets me better results than some very expensive glass I've seen around on dedicated spotters.
It is one of the very best “bang for your buck” telescopes out there. For the price it performs amazing. Obviously you can spend $3,000 and get a much better telescope, just like anything else. But for the price it does well. You can certainly get nice views of the planets with it when the atmosphere is steady.
Great video. I did the planetary processing many times but I didn't know how to delete bad frames in AS!. Always something new to learn - Awesome. :) Thank you! cs
No sure why, but I can not change FOV in AR in SkySafari 7 Pro on iPhone. Whenever I click different FOV in AR, nothing happens. In Compass it works, but compass does not have compass offset feature like AR.
It can be hard to figure out where your focus is since it will be dramatically different than with an eyepiece. If you have an eyepiece in that is in focus and then swap out and put the camera in, likely it is so far out of focus you can’t see anything. Set the gain up much higher and maybe use a longer exposure and try to go through the full focus range. Depending on the setup you might need to pull the camera out a little from the focuser to get a bit more focus range.
Great video! It's been 8 months since you posted the video. His the mount still working well? How long does a fresh set of batteries last under normal use?
I still use it and it worked great during the eclipse. Not sure how long the batteries last, but it is quite a while. I’ve never had them die as if I’m concerned that they might be running low I just swap them out.
Collapsed length is 27”, shortest height with legs spread is 25”, tallest height with legs extended is 44” without column. The extension column adds 8.5” so max height would be 52.5” roughly.
Should track through setting ok, but rising will be harder since it won’t be able to track it until it finds it which it won’t do until it is risen. It is easy to find the sun at sunrise, so you could probably align it manually. But not sure how long it will take to start tracking it correctly. I’m not sure what it would do with the sun if it was only part way up.
It's a shame Celestron can't design an adapter set that would allow use of this autofocuser on different types of focusing systems like Crayfords and the Feathertouch. I have the Feathertouch you show mounted on my Edge 8 and it is marvelous for visual use, and no way do I want to remove it to put an autofocusing system on my scope for astrophotography. It seems that an adapter similar to what you have to use for the factory focusing knob could make using this autofocuser work with the Feathertouch; it would be win-win all the way. I generally focus with a Bahtinov mask and then lock the mirror both for visual and DSLR photography, but it can be a bit time consuming. I don't have the vibration issue when focusing, I'm using a GEM with my SCT, either an AVX or an EQ6R Pro.
Yeah, there are a lot of different auto focusers on the market but a lot of them require taking some part of the knob off and what not. I love and hate the Celestron one. It is great for focusing without causing and scope vibration but at the same time it is slower and a lot of times I just want to reach out and do it manually. But swapping it out is a lot of work.
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I got mine on sale at the same price as the none HD + starsense. Since I had the intention of getting starsense at some point anyway I figure might as well get it now and have the better OTA.
It is big, but still manageable. Any bigger and it becomes a much bigger effort to carry outside and setup. I also have a small refractor as well as a ZWO Seestar now that are super lightweight and portable. Great for travel and when you don’t want to spend time setting up the bigger scope.
