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EQ mount - at last it dawns! Thanks

Well, 4 years later and you helped me realize that the circles with the look of small secondary mirrors all over my screen was actually stars. All I had to do was fine focus and I would have been good. Thanks! Also me from the future, you are going to love the new Astro cameras! lol!

Finally someone talking specifically about tripods not just mounts.

I guess this also works in the App (iPad)?

Greay beginner video!

I was looking for a Nikon P1000 until this caught my attention. Now I see that the Dwarf II only has 675mm equivalent focal length while the P1000 has 3000. Can I conclude that for use during daylight I better wait for a successor of the P1000?

Visual observations only it is very hard to beat a 150mm F/15 Refractor on the Solar system objects At 150mm the seeing remains more stable most of the time. The visual images in my Long Focus Refractor look very nice indeed. Afocal images with an iphone 8 are very nice and no stacking of images. However what the Human Eye sees is still better the most cameras. Now days it is all about letting the camera have all the fun. Very nice presentation.

You know it's a shit video and someone is just regurgitating when they can't even tell you what format the location goes in lol.

Can you explain how you use the moon no as a reference to size?

My iPhone will not take a 360 pan. Only about 180 degrees.

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no more videos? :(

You don't point to the adjustment Laser screws, only talk about it. Also this Svbony is pre adjusted and it double glued so adjusting will be hard. FIRST check to see if when you rotate it if the laser does not stay in the center FIRST before using or adjusting the laser screws! To confirm if the Svbony or any laser, take a 2"x4" x 6" piece of wood and used 4 round head screws 2 for the front and 2 for the back of the laser laser and place the screws so they are placing the Svbony laser in the center if the laser and then when turned on point to a wall 25 feet away and see while rotating the laser that it stays in the center, maybe be take a white sheet of paper and put a circle about 1/4" and place laser wood towards the wall and turn on and tape the sheet of paper putting it in the center of the laser and then go and rotate the Svbony laser and see if the laser stays in the center. If not adjust or if you just got from Amazon return it and get another as newer generation lasers are pre adjusted? P.S I don't like how large that center hole on the laser angled scale is. Also if you find the 2" Svbony adapter or the 1.25" is a bit loose just take that scotch tape and wrap a bit fully around the metal part that goes into the EP holder and if 1 layer of tape makes it snug your done, if it's still wobbly then 1 or 2 more wrappings of tape should make it snug.

Hi Chris, thank you so much for this tutorial ! Really helpful To avoid the same struggle I had when implementing into Stellarium : it seems the .ini file should be named "landscape.ini" exactly. If not the software will keep saying that there is no landscape in the zip file.

WHAT ABOUT HTE ANGLE UP?> how do I know what the actual dec and ascension is?

Might be nice to have a power line/poe connection kit for longer runs. With long term improvements I could see attaching a retractable dome/base onto a solar install rail and help with object tracking/data gathering. Long way to go but some of the choices they made seem like that could be more viable in the next decade.

Very well explained! The visualization with the lines really helped, and the emphasis on "summer/winter/9am/10pm" haha. And now I can't see the night sky without imaging the lines across the spherical night sky!

Brilliant 👏👏

Nice video ! It makes sense but it's basically still the same with photography that the wider the aperture the more light you get (plus depth). I always like to think about aperture as just being able to see a object from different positions but mashed up in one single and so the wider the more of an objects light can be summed up.

Possible in smartphone?

I got the Svbony laser collimator. It has two problems. First, the movement of the screws is not enough to collimate the collimator itself. Thus the laser is always pointing at an angle no matter what I do. Second, the electrical switch is defective: I turn it into position, knock on it, and sometimes it turns on.

Thinking in terms of moon diameters is really helpful. The moon is fairly easy to photograph, and it's easy to learn what focal length/field of view corresponds to how large the moon appears.

What is name of Camera? Bramd name?

Is that the Skywatcher EQM-35 with Quattro 130pds? I just bought the same setup, literally! Am I in for trouble? Nothing but problems? I was afraid I should get a mount with heavier payload capacity.

Nice video. Thanks

Thanks for a great video. You have a very soothing voice 😃

the drinking parts really kills this otherwise great tutorial

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How much of the setup process can be handled via script? Seems like acquisition of darks, flats, etc. could all be done via a few scripts interfacing with the camera, mount, and a small Raspberry Pi.

When I was learning about spherical coordinates, I wish I would have known about telescopes: alt = theta, az = phi, focus = r. Now that I teach it, I'm going to start using a camera with zoom lens and tripod so it's immediately visible.

I have a physics degree, but surprisingly, astronomy doesn't figure much into the curriculum. I got a cheap telescope a few months ago, and now I have this intuitive sense of which way the Earth turns, and I feel connected back to historical astronomers. Can you believe that Tycho Brahe didn't even have a telescope?

I photograph with my phone camera Are 10-20 MP photos good?

I dont have a motor so my exposures can be only ⅒ of a second so my photo will have only a minute of exposure

❤you said this video would be about using a laser collimator but instead you instructed how to use a collimation cap which is DON’T have!!!!!!! How frustrating!!!!!!!!!

Probably the best explanation by far

Amazing thanks !

Can this be mounted equatorially?

Wow, like so many things in astrophotography, good, clear instructions make life much better. This video is one such instruction. Thanks Chris! One QUESTION: does anyone know if my backyard image can be imported into my mobile version of Stellarium??

But, for the smartphone which camera are you using? the middle(normal lens> Or, the macro lens? IT seems logical to use the macro lens on the phone since the image in the eyepeice is VERY tiny.

Hello , Hello, are you still producing videos as of 2024? congrats! Great work.

FYI, I wrapped the tip of the collimator with blue painter’s tape going all around by not overlapping, this will make the collimator straight and there is no need to use the thumbscrew so no misalignment.

best tutorial on youtube regarding custom stellarium horizon, thanks!!

I have the same mount unfortunatly this hoby is insanly expensive and this is relatively cheap mount so you you need to fidle with it. what I do is tighten the back knob little bit more than it needs to be and adjust with front know. you have to be real close to perfect polar alignment before you try this. I am using sharpcap and try multiple times. Good luck.

Nice insight...keep exploring. One question, in the Cadioptric telescope the effective distance of focus gets shortened. How do you calculate F ratio there.

They should add a stacking software as well with support and easy to use. Suggestion. Also add a polar alignment that could be a tripod.

Your explanation was well illustrated and well explained. Other explanations weren't doing the trick. Thank you for being an excellent teacher.

I wasn't sure this was achieveable with a newtonian, but only a SCT. So glad I ran into this video, cause my 10 " Starfinder is a real challenge when collimating. Also, the analogy of a music instrument in comparison was spot on. Thank you so much for such great content.

amazing video!! I am part of the astrophotography committee at CSULB and want to introduce astrophotography to people just with iphones!! i was down a rabbit hole of videos and found your video to be to the point, informative, while having excellent recommendations. Keep it up!!