Looked like a meade 6.3 reducer. Note that those are for classic scts, the acf optics will be defeated somewhat, unless your main camera chip is pretty small
@@skatter3112 and they are designed for SCTs which by celestron and meade have only been available in 3 focal ratios, not counting the early blue and white celestron pacific ones. And that is, the great majority are f10, only the c14 was f11 (so f6.93 effectively f7), and meade had a run of not so great f6.3 scts that reduced to f4. F8 meades have always been ARC/ACF models. There has never been an f5 sct. And it would not be practical to do so. And on any other design they wouldn't be a reducer/corrector, just a reducer, and in many cases, a reducer/abberator, since when you put one on a scope that already has a flat field, like a mak or HD/ACF, it will de flatten the field, or incorrectly try to flatten a field that has different curvature or edge abberation profile than an SCT, such as if adapted to work on a refractor, something we used to do with a 2" sct threaded nose piece, when we were too cheap to buy the correct reducer. So yes you are correct, it just does not apply to the proper use of that particular reducer/corrector, and the fact that in my day many of use called them 6.3's is just semantics. By the way, Optec makes a proper reducer for the ACF meades, and it is a .5x and I believe it is called the lepus.
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Great vid..now I know how to hug my telescope to carry it outside...seriously tho' I will learn much when I get to actually watch the entire video! Thank you, kind sir!
I would prefer comments in english, but I will leave this. "That's why NASA doesn't fake moon landings anymore, because now everyone can see it LOL" you write. Well, NASA did indeed not fake the moonlanding. The russians would have objected strongly if that were the case. They were in a race they lost, and they did observe the landings themselves as they happened. Furthermore you cannot see the landingsite from Earth, even with the biggest telescope you could imagine.
Thank you, I am happy you like the video. I do not connect my guidecam to my controller. This cable is a ST4 cable, and it is not good enough for guiding. I connect my guidecam to my pc, and from my pc to my mount via ascom
Hi, I followed your advice and got an Altair 183C. I am pretty new to astrophotography. In order to use my DSLR I modified my 130 SLT and “pushed” the mirror inwards to get a decent focus. However when I now replace my DSLR with the Hypercam (using a T ring) I get blurry focus and cannot get it focused at all. Did you modify you 130 SLT or did you simply attach the Hypercam to the “out of the box” scope?
@@skatter3112 Thanks! I had another question, since you make look all so easy to do live stacking in this configuration. I had a drifting problem while live stacking the Orioin Nebula. How did you align your telescope and how do you deal with drifting while live stacking? Thanks!
WHY do you have to fill the silence between your speech with load noise?????? AND it's even louder than your voice!!!!! So I gave up watching - so very unnecessary and irritating.
What a wonderful DIY telescope video. I have an old Celestron 6" SCHMIDT-CASSEGRAIN telescope in moth balls from the Halley's Comet 1986 event. I think this would be a great project to do if the optics are still any good? Thanks for all the how to tools like SharpCap pro. The scope needs a nice hobby camera. 😎 Thanks a lot.
Greetings! I have a question for you. At minute marker 6:16 you set your dial to 12. Why do you set it to 12? When I am trying to polar align, I have the marker set to zero. I wonder if this is why I am struggling with good polar alignment? :-). Thank you!
Klaus, love the videos. I have the same scope/tripod. I will be using an X-wedge. What main camera do you use? I keep reading about "oversampling." I have a .8 focal reducer and QHY 268 mono ph. I have not tried the gear yet. Just want to know if you think it will work. Thanks in advance.
I am happy that you like the videoes. I really cant help on what camera to use, as I did a fault myself. I bought a cam that even with a 0.63 reducer does oversampling. I just went for resolution. 🙂 I use a Altair 183c camera with only 2.4 microns pixels, but at a whooping 20m pixel res. :-)
@@skatter3112 How do I align the mount to the scope. I know you just don't slap one on and there straight. Plus the assembly has to be aligned with the tripod..Real important if you have one that has Polar Alignment features. And don't chase the little stuff. I figured that out real fast. Not worth the effort...
@@skatter3112 I get that. But the Tripod has to stay dead still. Or all that effort is gone. If it moves just a fraction of an inch...As wind, motor movement can upset one. Why I sand bag my tripod. If it moves. It's because I hit it. Wind gust, vibrations or the tracking motor moving upset it. I had it happen. As these things get heavy adding all the extra stuff on them. Why Balance is so important.
@@WizzRacing You got it spot on. The focalratio on a sct, is unforgiving. Keep it all as still as possiple. Do recall though to have a good time with your setup.
I have Meade LX90 very longtime, but I have been struggle to make it work with guiding scope. Your tutorial is very helpful to setup all the hardwares and softwares which I need. Thank you so much.
Great video ! As a beginner I really like the way you clearly explain, then clearly show, each step of the process - not all of us have worked out how to do every step yet. Many thanks and keep it up !
Great Video, I am just getting into the Guiding side now, I have a Meade Lx90 also, Could you tell me your settings in PHD2 Advance Settings that you have to work with your mount?
@@cstevens6692 always to the hc. If you use the aux, you will need an adaptor. Plus you loose choord readouts from your mount, because you will then use st4
Great video! One question, When you use APT with your Meade hand controller, Do you strictly use APT to slew objects, or area's? I find that my hand controller does not update to where my mount is pointing after using APT, or Stellarium.! After you have used APT to slew to an object or area, is your hand controller updated to the current area? Thanks
