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Great advice 👍

Awesome video helped no end thanks

Brilliantly done

I know it is an old video but I was wondering how did you setup the Wi-Fi router. Is it connected to your home network or it broadcast its own network and both your minipc and controller pc are connected to it? Thanks a lot! Great and inspiring video indeed. Ah, btw which length the losmandy plates? 30cm?

My RA axis has play. When I tighten the 2 little screws to a point there is no play, APT can't move the mount sometimes when I do a goto. When I loosen the screws there is backlash and APT can move the mount. Any idea?

Thank you... again. :)

I bought this and discovered the camera was out of alignment when I rotated the mount the camera centre which is marked by an x orbited around the pole spot. Which obviously meant the device did not work properly. Its something you need to check after you install it.

Hey Glen, Got a fascinating new hobby, point your scope at any part of slightly clear sky, plate solve & annotate the stars between clouds, then list and identify all satellites and things that pass by, its so much fun. 🛸👍👍😂.. It's OK still finding my legs after Edinburgh Tattoo...

I’ve had a Mele quiter3q for longer than I care to admit. I forgot the Wi-Fi password rendering it a light weight boat anchor. I’ve tried to load NINA on my laptop but some steps were always missing until today with your help I DID IT, correctly I think on my raised from the dead Mele. After trying nuuuumerous CZcams videos on recovering my password, I found a video that showed how to successfully reset Mele and this is a happy day. I will try to find that video on resetting Mele and post here because it’s like a magic key to open doors to the universe, (and photograph). Thanks again. From one Glenn to another.

Thanks!

Like your setup. Where did you get your shed "warm room" from?

Love your videos and the dark shark. I had to DSLR this in bottle 6/7 and it was painful

What bortle skies are the images taken in?

You answered many of my questions when i started down this rabbit hole. Much further on now and took my firtst photos of galaxies. V pleased. Emission nebula however...😢 I use a 7nm dual narrowband filter. Tracking, guiding ,focusing with a Bhatinov mask..all good. I cannot stack my narrowband lights as i think the filter is blocking out the stars. In Deepsky Stacker the stars aren't enough or non existent. I also have to plate solve and focus without the filters and whack the filter in after guiding has started. Have Bortle 4 here in rural Spain ..missing out. Have done a lot of research on this but to no avail. Hence, asking you. Many thanks. Great move to dark skies. Congratulations 🎉

Hi, I have a Beelink mini PC and followed various video on getting my mini PC to create its own Hotspot and then connecting to it with my laptop using REMOTE DESKTOP CONNECTION. I have had this working at home with no problem, I then took my laptop and mini PC to another friend’s house where I did not have a connection to their internet to confirm I could still connect remotely to the Mini Pc Hotspot, all worked fine. This weekend I went away camping to a darker site than my home armed with my now tested mini PC, set everything up switched on the mini PC and then connected my laptop with Remote Desktop only to find the connection kept dropping and then reconnecting every 30 secs to a minute not even enough time to view Nina setting up. whilst I can follow technical instructions and understand when things are explained I am not very good at understanding some of the issues with IT until they are explained to me. your help and knowledge would be gratefully received.

Great video! I love a star trail ❤ liked and subscribed 😃👍

Why so many old school astrophotographers are saying that vespers and all other smart telescopes they just downloaded pictures from internet is it true as I am planning to buy it soon can please clear this point ?

Perfect for stability and ease of use on any adventure. Great job, Glenn!

Love that target nicely done m8

Nice one Glenn. Lovely video and great image at the end. Keeps me inspired.

Looks a great bit of kit Glen, I like it's features, especially the centre pole reversal for low ground shots, all looks pretty good and light... Regards Tom...

Brilliant

Great video nicely done

Hi. Just found your very informative video, I would like to ask a dumb question, surely by touching the shutter button on the phone to take a photo you will get blur, or is there a delay after you have pressed the shutter ?

Nice review Glenn ,thanks for sharing your findings

wow nice.The price via the link says £679.99? scary.

The mirror cell has a cut out to go around the tube seam, it can only go in one way. The front section is just for aesthetics it doesn't do anything so doesn't need the tape either.

Nice video Glenn. Bet that was a good holiday. Clear skies mate, oh and nice tripod

Super review, great price for a carbon tripod. Thanks

I already have one and can confirm its a great tripod, love mine.

That’s a great tripod Glenn, nice thorough review mate! Cant go wrong with a good carbon fibre tripod for travelling 👍 Clear skies

It's lovely that tripod

Awesome and fantastic, Superb information, Wonderful presentation, Brilliant and Incredible work 👍👍✨🌸

Awesome and fantastic, Super amazing capture, Wonderful presentation, Just outstanding performance 👍👍✨

Do you have a link to the motor??

I see your point with the five rigs Glen, Ive just bought a new mount (SW Wave100i) so I can run four, its never been great where I live for clear nights but it seems to be getting worse so I figure the best thing is to image as much as possible in the relatively short time we have available here in the UK. Great image of the shark by the way.

Great video and thanks for sharing your amazing setup! I noticed you have a ZWO OAG-L on the ASI294MM Pro rig. I recently bought a second-hand ZWO OAG-L for my 294MM + 36 mm filterwheel only to find that it is not really supported by ZWO... But you seem to have it up and running. What is your image train on the setup? I am thinking spacers etc :)

Hi Glenn, 5 Rigs (scopes/cameras)? Holy Moly. I tried 3 rigs one night and vowed to never try that again. The post-processing time was insane with 3, I can't imagine what 5 would do to one's sanity. Non-the-less, outstanding final images. The new puppy is SO CUTE! I've been washed out here with clouds and rain for several weeks now. Clear Skies, Glenn.

Terrific video Glenn, and love the final image 👍👍👍

Excellent image and great framing with the two dark nebulae in the one fov. You must be really enjoying the darker skies where you are now. CS.

Wow, what a beautiful image, Glenn. Incredible part of the sky. 🤩

Damn Glenn, that image has depth to it! Well done. Good work on keeping all those rigs going too. Question : I'm getting a 130PDS. What was the integration time on that scope for the shark nebula? Definitely one I want to shoot. Also please dedicate Harper's next treat as from me! She's a cutie! Also also, CZcams didn't notify me of this again. Just came up in my feed 18 hours later and I'm on YT several times a day.

Awesome image Glenn! 👍👍

Cracking little rig that is Glenn love the fov of the dark shark, hopefully I'll get to try it at Kelling Heath using the 60ED, also love the new edition to the family she's a little cutie. Clear skies

It's a great image Glen, in fact your early attempt was amazing to👍, I like the extra FOV from the Altair scope, I've tried targets with dark nebulosity near home but good old light polluted Portsmouth kills it 😂 you may detect an absence of stars where dark dust bits are, but that's about it..Your CEM26 mount sounds good, maybe a model ide like to consider getting in the near future. Incidentally I retro fitted an ioptron gotonova drive system to an old Celestron mount a few years back, it turned out pretty good for it's time. It's funny I've just been looking at galaxy stats, one of my favorites imaged this year is the Crocs eye M94 @15M L/Y with 40Billion stars, it's surprising how much data I squeezed from the central core using the 585MC camera on a 62 ED, it allowed me to crop close without losing much definition, it also picked out the darker outer ring region to. A cold feeling came over me this afternoon when reading stats on the Pinwheel galaxy M101 @ 21 million L/Y, with a staggering 1trillion stars !!! It, I get moments like this just looking at spiral arms of other galaxies thinking of all those other civilisations like ours, it suddenly made me feel very small and alone, especially as M101 is literally in our backyard !! With all the problems humanity has, we really need to make good use of our time here, or it'll be a sad waste of our moment in space.. Oh yeah my son has a new dog, a crazy cocker spaniel, we often look after, its just bloody mad and runs around our walls !!!

Hard not to be really impressed with that image, great work as always Astrobloke.

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wow 5 rigs...bonkers indeed. Love that obsy set up you have, just so smart. Can't wait to see the other images, Dark Shark is 5 star mate

Superb image Glenn. 5 rigs, wth!! I struggle with 1 lmao....well done, clear skies

That is very impressive indeed