I take an in depth look at the purchase experience, hardware, software and service you get with these two premium mounts.
First light with the Astro-Physics Mach2GTO
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Project Dumbbell: First light with the Rainbow Astro RST-135E and Celestron EdgeHD 8"
Remote astrophotography with a portable setup: traveling to a dark site
Review of the ZWO ASI294MM-Pro camera
Review of the ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro camera
First light with the Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED
Adventurers with the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
A modern, portable, astrophotography setup with the Rainbow Astro RST-135
Setting up the Raspberry Pi for Remote Telescope Imaging over your home network
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Review of the ZWO ASI2600MC-Pro astrophotography camera
Imaging with the William Optics RedCat 51, achieving great images with beginner equipment
Upgraded to the Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox V2
William Optics RedCat 51
First light with the EdgeHD 11"
Celestron CGX and EdgeHD 11" Schmidt Cassegrain
Narrowband Imaging IC410 and IC417
IC410 imaged on the Explore Scientific 102mm FCD100 APO refractor.
Over the last two weeks, I’ve had 3 imaging nights. KStars & EKOS 3.0 were released which fixed a ton of long standing issues with the scheduler. In addition to that nice software update, I got a Celestron CGX for Christmas! So, those two things combined and I set my sights on the only northern region available to me from the back yard and imaged IC417 on my AT6RC, and IC410 on my Explore Scientific 102mm FCD100 scope.
Here’s a recent photo of the setup.
So far it’s worked great. Average RMS has been between .6 and .8. My AVX was hovering between .8 and 2.0 RMS. I think I can get the CGX tuned a little more in guiding to get those numbers even lower, but have not attempted any adjustments. These are the numbers I’ve been getting without changing any of the default guide settings.
IC 417 imaged on the AT6RC from Astro-tech.