Hello World.
I have been at this hobby now for about 10 years.
Started out mostly messing about with Webcams on Planetary using a Mak. Then graduated onto a DSLR (which i modded for Ha) and using a ED. (Was using a Skywatcher EQ5 and 80ED) I milked these type of setups for about 3 to 4 years then my passion died off.
The move up to narrowband and a dedicated cooled mono camera, was just to expensive.
Then when Covid started, I saw a new and interesting company called ZWO.
The price points for the camera and the resolution just made sense to me, so i decided to jump back in. (yaay)
This is where i have landed on my new gear. (comments welcome please)
iOptron GEM45 - 20kg at 7arcsecond error peak to peak.
Altair Astro Pier
TS Photon 150 F4 (Newtonian)
TS Coma Corrector (Reduces to F3.6)
Optolong L-Pro (Bortle 7 Skies)
ASI294MM Pro
ASI Mini Wheel with Filters (RGBHaOii 31mm)
ASI EAF
In terms of acquisition i run Indi Ekos on a Ubuntu Nuc on the mount.
The whole mount is powered through a 100w 12v power supply. (So it is portable)
Also modded the mount head with a customised integrated guider.
30mm F4 with ASI174m mini - I get about 1 to 0.75 RMS on both axis
Mount is capable of 0.25 on both axis with a encoder. (just to expensive)
Processing is on 12 Core AMD @4.7ghz and 16GB DDR4 @3600mhz and Radeon 5700XT.
Lastly and most importantly i have a 1TB nvme which has read write at 3.5gb/s.
This makes processing up to 8k images a breeze, using APP and Photoshop.
(Nope still not ready to move to Pixinsight ... sigh)
(Did i mention it is water cooled ... sorry i am a bit of a nerd)
First light with my rig ... still need to get to uploading images onto Astrobin.
Anyways, hope you enjoyed reading this all, hoping to make some friends on Astrobin and learn how to increase my skills.
Regards
Christopher.
I have been at this hobby now for about 10 years.
Started out mostly messing about with Webcams on Planetary using a Mak. Then graduated onto a DSLR (which i modded for Ha) and using a ED. (Was using a Skywatcher EQ5 and 80ED) I milked these type of setups for about 3 to 4 years then my passion died off.
The move up to narrowband and a dedicated cooled mono camera, was just to expensive.
Then when Covid started, I saw a new and interesting company called ZWO.
The price points for the camera and the resolution just made sense to me, so i decided to jump back in. (yaay)
This is where i have landed on my new gear. (comments welcome please)
iOptron GEM45 - 20kg at 7arcsecond error peak to peak.
Altair Astro Pier
TS Photon 150 F4 (Newtonian)
TS Coma Corrector (Reduces to F3.6)
Optolong L-Pro (Bortle 7 Skies)
ASI294MM Pro
ASI Mini Wheel with Filters (RGBHaOii 31mm)
ASI EAF
In terms of acquisition i run Indi Ekos on a Ubuntu Nuc on the mount.
The whole mount is powered through a 100w 12v power supply. (So it is portable)
Also modded the mount head with a customised integrated guider.
30mm F4 with ASI174m mini - I get about 1 to 0.75 RMS on both axis
Mount is capable of 0.25 on both axis with a encoder. (just to expensive)
Processing is on 12 Core AMD @4.7ghz and 16GB DDR4 @3600mhz and Radeon 5700XT.
Lastly and most importantly i have a 1TB nvme which has read write at 3.5gb/s.
This makes processing up to 8k images a breeze, using APP and Photoshop.
(Nope still not ready to move to Pixinsight ... sigh)
(Did i mention it is water cooled ... sorry i am a bit of a nerd)
First light with my rig ... still need to get to uploading images onto Astrobin.
Anyways, hope you enjoyed reading this all, hoping to make some friends on Astrobin and learn how to increase my skills.
Regards
Christopher.
Looking forward to seeing your pictures!
Looking forward to seeing your pictures!
