8 hours! Wow! I just got the EAF and learned to use it this past week. I've been struggling a bit with guiding and setting the guide pulse rates, aggression, and the settling parameters. Can you make (or have you already made) a short video on guiding set up?
Wow, great video again Tim! This seriously got me looking into a deep sky setup again besides the wide angle stuff I do. Really love your vlog quality also, can learn a lot from this for my own channel :-).
Great video Tim I've had a bit of a love hate relationship with my autofocuser I think I've just about sorted it out again so fingers crossed for the next clear night. Lovely image of the soul nebula to. Clear skies!!
Great video - the excitement of the next step. I’m not quite ready to take this step yet, but any chance of a set-up video for the EAF. I suspect many of my fellow noobs would appreciate that. (Although I appreciate that kind of video probably falls below the hits:effort ratio).
Excellent image (as usual). Thanks for the video. I'd be interested in the editing video. I'd also be keen to understand how you choose the duration of your subs as 5 minutes seems long with light pollution and a full moon. Is it a feature of using a narrowband filter?
Yes, a narrowband filter allows for very long exposures, even with moonlight. My still running Andromeda Project includes 20 hours of 10 minute subs in Ha-narrowband
I have a question. How do you go about leaving your gear outside? I assume by you getting 8hrs you just left it running for the night? I'm so paranoid that it'll rain so I don't get a whole lot captured until winter has fully arrived giving me from around 5pm to 11pm.
@@AndreasHoecker Guess you live somewhere where the weather is reliable? I've used all kindas of weather sites/apps and even by far the best I've found sometimes doesn't have reliable information. I've had them say there isn't any rain coming and then an hour later it's raining and the weather sites/apps don't show anything. During the day of course. I have to keep checking the sky to make sure I can't see any clouds that look like they could rain.
@@Kyle_Hubbard yes. Our forecast in Germany is quite good. But I also build a rain sensor myself. If it detects rain it automatically turn the light in the room on.
Usually, I can trust the weather forecasts, luckily. And I kind of developed a sense if it will be correct or if it won't. But if there is a slight chance of clouds, I usually stay up, or check regularly if the forecast changed
Put the EAF on my Orion EON 130 a few months ago. Works great, but once it wouldn't turn my Focuser so I had to take my Focuser apart and tweek everything a bit. I believe when winter hits I'll need to clean out all that think heavy grease in my Focuser and grease it up with something thinner. Great set up though. I'm about to start a new 70mm build just like that. Thanks for the video
Would love a PixInsight video! Awesome content man, really enjoy watching these. Keeps me motivated
Nice work Tim it's a game changer the asiair and eaf combination thats for sure
I also use a plastic bin top to keep my cables off of the grass!❤
Superb image Tim. Ah the joy of electronic focusing - makes life so much easier for sure.
8 hours! Wow! I just got the EAF and learned to use it this past week. I've been struggling a bit with guiding and setting the guide pulse rates, aggression, and the settling parameters. Can you make (or have you already made) a short video on guiding set up?
I'd be happy to make such a video, but it will take a lot of time, which I don't have right now :(
Wow, great video again Tim! This seriously got me looking into a deep sky setup again besides the wide angle stuff I do. Really love your vlog quality also, can learn a lot from this for my own channel :-).
Thanks, such a nice reply :)
Great video Tim I've had a bit of a love hate relationship with my autofocuser I think I've just about sorted it out again so fingers crossed for the next clear night. Lovely image of the soul nebula to.
Clear skies!!
So happy for you! I love not having to go outside every 2 hours now!
oh my lord!! that's really amazing. Can we get an updated breakdown video on your main imaging setup please?
That's a good idea, but a long planning process. I'll see what I can do!
Great video - the excitement of the next step. I’m not quite ready to take this step yet, but any chance of a set-up video for the EAF. I suspect many of my fellow noobs would appreciate that.
(Although I appreciate that kind of video probably falls below the hits:effort ratio).
Excellent capture! (ZWO should sponsor you ;-)
That would be cool!
Excellent image (as usual). Thanks for the video. I'd be interested in the editing video. I'd also be keen to understand how you choose the duration of your subs as 5 minutes seems long with light pollution and a full moon. Is it a feature of using a narrowband filter?
Yes, a narrowband filter allows for very long exposures, even with moonlight. My still running Andromeda Project includes 20 hours of 10 minute subs in Ha-narrowband
@@AstroAddict Thanks Tim
I have a question. How do you go about leaving your gear outside? I assume by you getting 8hrs you just left it running for the night? I'm so paranoid that it'll rain so I don't get a whole lot captured until winter has fully arrived giving me from around 5pm to 11pm.
I only leave my gear outside when the weather forecast predicts no rain at all.
@@AndreasHoecker Guess you live somewhere where the weather is reliable? I've used all kindas of weather sites/apps and even by far the best I've found sometimes doesn't have reliable information. I've had them say there isn't any rain coming and then an hour later it's raining and the weather sites/apps don't show anything. During the day of course. I have to keep checking the sky to make sure I can't see any clouds that look like they could rain.
@@Kyle_Hubbard yes. Our forecast in Germany is quite good. But I also build a rain sensor myself. If it detects rain it automatically turn the light in the room on.
Usually, I can trust the weather forecasts, luckily. And I kind of developed a sense if it will be correct or if it won't. But if there is a slight chance of clouds, I usually stay up, or check regularly if the forecast changed
Great image Tim! I have similar setup to you and was wondering if you have any trouble getting good flat frames from your L-Extreme?
Cheers
The flats look a bit peculiar, but they work. I try to keep the exposure time above one second mimimum
Put the EAF on my Orion EON 130 a few months ago. Works great, but once it wouldn't turn my Focuser so I had to take my Focuser apart and tweek everything a bit. I believe when winter hits I'll need to clean out all that think heavy grease in my Focuser and grease it up with something thinner. Great set up though. I'm about to start a new 70mm build just like that. Thanks for the video
I can recommend the 'Synco Lube' or similar ones, people also use them to re-grease their HEQ-5's
Great video. Just setup an EAF and ASIAir on mates Esprit 120. Really impressed with it! Makes my laptop seem like a dinosaur compared to it!
I agree, it's so much easier
Excellent! Need a processing tutorial plz
Alright, will do!
cool dude
Why is your Channel not in German Language? Greetings from Norddeutschland .
To reach more people
@@AstroAddict We have so many Channels in English and good ones too. But in German we need more in your style. But is your choose. Bye