Hi, I’ve recently began my astrophotography journey by purchasing the following setup:
Askar71f
Sky Adventurer GTI
Altair Hypercam585C
Gemini EAF
MeLE Quieter 2Q
Svbony 220 filter
ASI120mm Mini camera
Svbony 30mm guide scope.
What else do you guys recommend and are there any great youtube channels to watch where I can learn and develop work flow.
Thanks!
I think you are asking a lot of your gti
I used a similar scope with a 533 and my GTi and got decent ish results.
Give it a go and see how you do. I would keep your subs to 120 sec max.
Some ok examples of what you can do, here, but beware you will have a smaller fov
your stars will have less blue halos though :)
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I would agree with keeping your exposures on the short side. I rarely go beyond 60 sec. with my 585. The mount will be the weak link in all this so keeping it short with some reasonable culling will help.
I agree with the above. I suggest you weigh your rig and see how it compares to the 11lbs limit of your mount.
Then try it and see what kind of guiding you can get. Take the time to balance things and get a near perfect polar alignment.
If PA is average your guiding will be too.
The three most important components for astrophotography are :
The mount
The mount
And the mount
The star adventurer, imha, is not fit for such optics.
alpheratz06 · Jun 10, 2026, 06:41 PM
The three most important components for astrophotography are :
The mount
The mount
And the mount
The star adventurer, imha, is not fit for such optics.
It's definitely not the best mount, but with a similar payload mine did roughly 0.8 to 1.5 arc seconds with round stars. Had to throw away quite a few subs though :(
My pixel scale was about 2 arc seconds though, his will be maybe 1.2, so likely have to throw away many subs too :(
Still, we use what we have :)
Hi Alfie,
You have enough equipment there to start collecting image data. I suggest the next area for you to focus on is getting Pixinsight and learning how to use it. The learning curve can be steep, but there are plenty of youtube videos out there to learn from. Some that I have found helpful include:
Introduction to Pixinsight - series of videos produced by the Pixinsight team
Adam Block’s videos
Peter Zelinka
AstroBackyard – Trevor Jones
Sky Story
There are lots of others, I am sure you will find your favorites. For youtube videos keep an eye on how recent the material is, processing tools and techniques are constantly changing.
Kind regards,
Bob