Cursed setups

[slim tree]

https://tenor.com/view/rock-one-eyebrow-raised-rock-staring-the-rock-gif-22113367

[civic wraith]

i like wooden tubed newts they look very nice

[hollow kiln]

"Night sight? Nah never heard of it"

[remote solar]

Now I want a nice 24" Newt made from a tree trunk.

[sly egret]

LMAOOO I ALSO SAW THIS

[cosmic basin]

whats this from?

[glad smelt]

Bro looking at his wiener

[slim tree]

Text in English below

"Good evening, I am here to present my astronomy project.
A telescope inspired by the James Webb to photograph various stars, planets, and especially the moon. It still needs some details, but it is 90% ready. If you want to see the photos, I will post them here."

[humble orbit]

backlash? yes.

[delicate mural]

Poor mount did not deserve that

[tired rapids]

Actually looks slick

[hollow kiln]

https://tenor.com/view/crazy-eyes-steve-buscemi-big-eyes-gif-7464480073860349282

[sly egret]

Was about to post and saw u Already did

[slim tree]

tf is that

[calm timber]

Didn't have any string to catch the hood when it fell off but i did have a 3d printer with a chain link STL 🙂

[cosmic basin]

How about no

[rough relic]

what was the point here

[slim tree]

I suspect it might be a test by Celestron itself to "certify" how much weight the corrector plate can handle.

There are some pretty heavy cameras that people use. If it can’t handle much weight, it might break like that due to the camera’s weight. That’s probably the purpose of this test

[potent flax]

Those are some heavy cameras for a hyperstar

[jolly basalt]

the moan of agony and despair

[winged carbon]

At least it’s only a rasa

[civic wraith]

wouldn't the pressure even way before breaking cause a distortion in the correction glass

with just regular heavy equipment

[delicate mural]

Its not a rasa

[copper heath]

its got the optical path of a rasa

[delicate mural]

Not the design

[delicate mural]

Scope is pointed the wrong way

[uneven sparrow]

ye

[civic wraith]

they should really use a small SCT design for scopes

actually those would need collimating

[light granite]

In case of a plane is in the view of the telescope when you take a 1200s sub

[hollow kiln]

Negative ghost rider. Cassegrain at small apertures are terrible optically compared to refractor type. There's no need to zoom in too far either, you can see heat haze/mirage through the optics after a couple of hundred meters

[cursive flare]

Well, help me i cracked my filter (red filter too)

[quartz fiber]

that chip isnt the worst of it 😭

[cursive flare]

It is tho, thats a weak spot and if i handle that brittle piece of glass a bit wrong it will break

[quartz fiber]

large as scrape in the green aswell

[royal moss]

The funny thing is that in theory this would actually work really well.

Hol up… the more I look at that image, the more cursed it becomes… like that focuser… and the „tube rings”

[winged carbon]

The wedge

[zealous pivot]

I just noticed the alarm clock being used as the motor 😭 😭

[slim tree]

Would it work if there were no reduction from the clock axis to the mount axis

[patent oar]

Clock 12 hours, day 24

[trail kayak]

Cursed CEO is back say hi (please)

[copper heath]

hi

[rough summit]

please present your work

[still wasp]

hi

[royal moss]

My new travel rig

[winged carbon]

Please no

[remote solar]

I don't know. I think the blue tape on it brings everything together.

I had to go with the classic electrical tape. #1087219932900638720 message

[delicate mural]

Now release your grip

[vague sail]

[royal moss]

I'm not trying to repeat what Astrobisquit did with his tak... at least not today

[sudden mist]

Hello, I am here to confiscate your tak

[potent flax]

Is this an atapter?

[trail kayak]

took this with my phone and a dob untracked, idk how

[light granite]

Is this a 6D?

[quartz fiber]

bout to pull the greatest focus ever with that ong 🙏🙏🙏

[sudden mist]

If Valve released a camera it would look like this

[glad smelt]

LMAOOOO

[royal moss]

Why would you have such a thick knob just to then connect it to the mount with a tiny screw?

[hidden finch]

Dude, there is an address in the picture. Maybe not yours, but would delete or crop it.

[vague sail]

looks lile he wanted to put thwm ngl

cuz they are upside down and just i. the corner

[sudden mist]

Maybe he wants unexpected visitors

[vague sail]

heh

[sudden mist]

By the way now I know where to look for a mount, thanks!

[glad smelt]

I want friends🥺

[glad smelt]

Bruh

[sly egret]

Not that cursed but whatever

[umbral hornet]

mildly cursed

[sudden mist]

what?

I meant sites like cloudy nights or the #1023613540587810846 chat, totally not someones backyard

[glad smelt]

K

[sly egret]

HIII was thinking if ur active still

[sacred pawn]

a Mac mini just for a seestar is crazy

[slim tree]

Seestar in a remote observatory pier is crazy...

[hidden finch]

Sounds like a plan to me. Cheap telescope with everything in it, cheap mac to control it. In a remote location… but weird to pay as much for the pier in about 8/9 months what you also paid for your setup…

[sacred pawn]

not if you have some extra space for it, If there's just a empty place sitting there and no scope and mount to put then why not put the seestar

[hidden finch]

Because it’s a commercial rent-a-pier… $150 per month or so, for the cheapest spots?

[sacred pawn]

the Mac mini is like the same price as the seestar, it does NOT need that to just control it

[hidden finch]

No, I’ve been looking to a raspberry pi to do the same. But hey, I don’t have remote rent-a-pier money atm either 😂

[sacred pawn]

oh damn it's that much? yea nvm then it's just cursed
this slowmode is killing me

[hidden finch]

The cheapest pier; https://starfront.space/mini-pier-reservation-deposit/pier/item

[sacred pawn]

yeah that's absolutely not worth it😭

[hidden finch]

To be honest, it’s that this is in America. If they would offer the same service for the same price in Europe, I might be interested. But at least twice as expensive, far more clouds…

[daring salmon]

i meaan, if you think about it. 149 a month for bortle 1 skies and like 270 clear nights a year. Its not bad, there are other observatories which you can rent a pier and they cost way more

[old ice]

And next ti that roki, that roki gonna be atleast 15x better than it

[sly egret]

why.

[quartz fiber]

wtf

[potent flax]

They better push that Seestar to its limits

[winged carbon]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/873888728848936960/1337571955750076547/IMG_4127.jpg?ex=67a7ee75&is=67a69cf5&hm=194e5ed3d3e386a304a9875c182fa6174065ff513168eac9f71225834d4b7156&

[copper heath]

youll outpay the cost of the seestar in no time. people are incredibly stupid to send a seestar of all things, remote.

[sacred pawn]

Ik that now, when i said that i didn't know how expensive sending something remote actually was, i never looked at it

[glad smelt]

Diy dovetail

[stark gale]

bro has a rig inspector not an imaging cam

[glad smelt]

What u mean

[stark gale]

isnt that gonna point at the tracker

[glad smelt]

I may js get resl dovetail when i buy the sa gti

[hidden finch]

Best way to do darks idd. Image the specifics of your sensor with another sensor…

[glad smelt]

oh hell naw

[sly egret]

I WAS JUST ABOUT TO POST THIS AND SAW U DID

I’ll do anyway

[quartz fiber]

😭

[zealous pivot]

Can't tell if that's smart or dumb..

[quartz fiber]

full axis guider 💀

[cyan ferry]

Doubled the weight capacity

[kindred trail]

I'm bored so I scrolled through a lot of this chat and this is definitely most caused thing I saw here, even more cursed than the newt in a dishwasher

[sacred pawn]

scope claustrophobia

[remote solar]

I'd bang the tripod, mount, CW, OTA, my knees, elbows, and head trying to get that thing in and out of that closet.

[hidden finch]

Oh, nothing wrong there. Just some hot pixels. Make some darks, lights and bias-frames and you can adjust for that.

[quartz fiber]

i think the flame could cause some distortion so you may have to take more than average amount of data

[remote solar]

That poor Meade! 😭 What did it ever do to deserve that?!

[dark thunder]

what the actual f 😭

[sudden mist]

This must be photoshopped

[delicate mural]

there are flames coming out of the tube and its clearly burnt at the bottom

[sudden mist]

Its just photoshopped well

[delicate mural]

why are they doing this

[sudden mist]

I dont believe someone burned their 14 inch

[slim tree]

Of course it's Photoshop . Who would put their eye on a burning telescope?
I just took the image from a group.

[sudden mist]

I would

[stray dock]

I would

[scarlet oyster]

This looks like me trying to hide in a dryer when hide & seek

[glad smelt]

lmao

[cosmic minnow]

thermal noise bouta be crazy 🔥

[rough relic]

i don’t think bros finder scope is aligned

[remote solar]

Don't underestimate people.

[quartz fiber]

ive put many acids on my hand to test how burny they were :3

when we were doing electrolysis i sniffed the chlorine gas coming off the HCl :3

[remote solar]

Eep

[quartz fiber]

its pointing too high up, it isn't

[kindred trail]

looks like a sad scope, looking down

[dark thunder]

the telescope being pointed like that isnt the cursed part, its that a 10" or 12" rc is on a eq3-2 or eq5 pro mount

[kindred trail]

looks more like an HEQ5

[dark thunder]

oh yeah now i see when taking a closer look

[glad smelt]

[glad smelt]

Why It looks like a compressor

[sudden mist]

My man imaging with a volumetric flask

[quartz fiber]

litterally like my telescopes dew sheild

[sacred pawn]

how did you make your name like that

[vagrant frost]

Bold + italics

[civic wraith]

omg those ones look so weird

i see them everywhere

[sacred pawn]

how
i tried to add the ** and it didnt work

[vagrant frost]

I just copy and pasted my name here when I typed it in a separate program with bold and italics

[delicate mural]

poor mount

[glad smelt]

No mount vere broken

[subtle helm]

https://tenor.com/view/sack-boy-shocked-turn-gif-6205091617477847398

[copper heath]

bro got inches and mm wrong for a tube ring 💀

[delicate mural]

bro i said 5cm not 5 inches

[remote solar]

😐

[silent rapids]

wtf

[smoky basin]

I also saw it and thought "wait a minute, isn't that a zwo camera?" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AjqK7MEym70

[royal moss]

How old is this photo? Almost looks as if it was taken on a VHS camera or something...

[cyan ferry]

Bro fell into the zwo ecosystem

[tight moon]

You don’t need ZWO drivers if it’s not plugged in

[dull briar]

When I did the solar eclipse

[vague sail]

Results?

[snow egret]

SAW THAT TO

[quartz fiber]

why ur phone so wide

[delicate mural]

results? fried sensor

[vague sail]

Ayooo

But the question is, was it worth it? A camera per picture

[zealous pivot]

ay, 80% less sun = 80% less light, so perhaps the sensor didnt get fried :D

[dull briar]

It didnt ruin it 😭

[vague sail]

🙏

[quartz fiber]

cooked to perfection

[delicate mural]

medium rare

[royal moss]

I'm really sorry but when I saw this I thought of some VERY dirty thoughts

no comment on those

[quartz fiber]

woahh

[slim tree]

I didn't take the screenshot. I just sent it here in the group

[quartz fiber]

tripod + bipod 😭

[potent flax]

= Pentapod

[kindred trail]

sounds like a dinosour

[tight moon]

Cursed but also very not cursed

[umbral hornet]

i dont even know whats goihng on

[slim tree]

It´s a Schiefspiegler Teleskop. Cursed looking, but it´s interesting

[sly egret]

What the

[sly egret]

?

[rough relic]

GP spotted @empty drift

[empty drift]

Survey says: ✅

[sudden mist]

Vixen gp dx is the best mount ever

[slim tree]

A friend is using it with a 254mm f/5. Mount abuse

[delicate mural]

hell naw

[remote solar]

I'm not sure which is suffering more here; and I wonder if it's actually the OTA

[slim tree]

An EQ6-R Pro here in Brazil (converted) is 3,500 US dollars. So, some people take the risk of doing these crazy things with an EQ5

If you don't convert, it's even more expensive because we don't earn in dollars. Anyway, astrophotography is complicated here
Many dumb taxes on products that are not available in the domestic market

[small pollen]

That is my setup

[small pollen]

It's a telescope on top of a telescope. I wanted a finder scope that could zoom that could fit in the budget so I bought it from a flee market for $10.

[sly egret]

yes

damn 10 bucks nice lol

[small pollen]

I don't like telescopes that have corrector plates. They could shatter.

[cosmic minnow]

dual-wield setup

get twice the integration at the same time

[sly egret]

Yes fr

[cosmic minnow]

Dual-wield setup budget edition

[sacred pawn]

does it not tip over?

[rotund cedar]

no surprisingly not lol

[sacred pawn]

it looks like it would
add a stepper motor and make it track😼

[shell sierra]

rectangle frac

[trail kayak]

cursed community report yourselves!

[patent oar]

You should not be allowed to own cameras

[sly egret]

Real

[glad smelt]

Literally my rig rn

[slim tree]

Poor mount

[shell sierra]

bro never heard of a counterweight

[still wasp]

This is exactly why they say eq mounts are not for beginners

[elfin vector]

Cursed?

[delicate mural]

@sly egret do it

[sudden mist]

Mount snapping experience

[elfin vector]

it’s under the payload capacity

[vague sail]

Yk a guy that foes that and kinda works

[sacred pawn]

oh hey this is nearly the same as what i have, just an eqm35 pro instead of the gti

[elfin vector]

Eqm35 pro has a 22 lb capacity. Gti has 11 so bit of a difference

[vague sail]

I wanted to do it too a couple of months back

[elfin vector]

I wanna see the images.

Also to note, I only had the heritage on the gti. I took it off after it felt like it was going to tip over. Counterweights were on but I took them off before I took the photo

[vague sail]

I can give you his tiktok account, its astro ticktalks

[elfin vector]

yes please I need to see this

[sly egret]

I would rather die

[delicate mural]

omw then

[kindred trail]

Us that a double dob?

[sacred pawn]

what's the cursed part

[remote solar]

Is that a SeeStar mounted on a large ball mount, holding a guide cam that's being guided by a DSLR?

[slim tree]

Bro
This setups look´s like an AI generate telescope. It´s all cursed

[kindred trail]

and it's using another dslr as a counter weight

[stray dock]

Idk why this got a skull emoji, modern problems require modern solutions

[sacred pawn]

where is the seestar

[sacred pawn]

im genuinely going to do this in the future, the other side of the ra axis spins too so it tracks the sky normally. Nothing wrong with it

I may just tape my phone on there when the milky way core comes back

[elfin vector]

i cant see it either

[sacred pawn]

it looks like a normal mount

[sacred pawn]

is that one of those cheap phone cooling fans 😭

this counterweight also looks like it was in a war

other than the fan though it really isnt that cursed

[elfin vector]

Does that fan even do anything

[glad smelt]

Cooled dslr

[royal moss]

New LTT video: We watercooled a DSLR and overclocked it to the absolute limits!

[subtle helm]

words cannot explain how disguisted i am, but this drawing i made can

[vague sail]

This is honestly amazing

[potent flax]

[stark bison]

The finder scope has a red dot finder

[slim tree]

200mm on a cg3/eq2

[delicate mural]

Fantastic sight isn't it

[glad smelt]

Noooo

[coarse parrot]

How

[elfin vector]

I think you need more scope bro

[glad smelt]

Wtf

[tired rapids]

Just needs orange paint then it'll be a traffic cone

[tulip cloud]

new lens

[elfin vector]

wtf am I looking at

Why is the focuser bigger than the scope

[sudden mist]

🇵🇱

[tight moon]

Tair 3S is a blessing not a curse

[remote solar]

Gotta put that focal length somewhere

[kindred trail]

DUDEEE! i felt every muscle in my body contract in a single moment

[kindred trail]

i think those are 2 barlows, they move the point of focus further away making the whole train od stuff on the focuser longer

[sacred pawn]

this is blessed not cursed

[vague sail]

Whats this even about

[small pollen]

Where did you find that? Is that a frenel lens?

[kindred trail]

I got a telescope from temu

[sudden mist]

My man wants to end up like that one Polish police Commander

(For context a polish police Commander got a grenade launcher as a gift and ended up firing it in his office)

[kindred trail]

That was 6 hilarious incompetence incidents ago, I only just heard about some 250 land mines that went missing and turned up in an IKEA magazine 😂

[tired rapids]

Thick

[royal moss]

Im so thick of it

[rough summit]

ehy does it have a 1.25 inch focuser 😂😭😭

[lean shore]

im in the thick of it everybody knows

[copper heath]

User has been Blocked.

[quartz fiber]

good

[quartz fiber]

looks ok to me

[fossil gazelle]

Key in guide scope

[quartz fiber]

Looks like a laser

@fossil gazelle

[fossil gazelle]

Oh, my fail

[kindred trail]

why don't people ever learn, stop leaving keys in the ignition you won't be so happy when someone drives your baby away

[kindred trail]

I don't know if that's cursed enough but I'm making my own counterweights because I'm a cheap ass student
(I will pour concrete after filling it with scrap)

[tired rapids]

Its smart

[umbral hornet]

how heavy is it gonna be?

[kindred trail]

3-3.5kg

[umbral hornet]

you must be superman to bend that rebar

[kindred trail]

it's just 8mm, vice and a metal pipe did the trick

[umbral hornet]

ah nice

[tired rapids]

I thought it was a whole big bucket

[kindred trail]

it's a 3d printed "mold" cylinder r=80mm h=60mm and the hole in the middle is 22mm wide

[tired rapids]

I can take wide shots with this

[kindred trail]

nothing cursed here, id guess at least 70% of people here started with AP using a smartphone

[tired rapids]

This time i don't have to place a piece of tissue on the floor and put my phone flat on it to take pics

[jagged sand]

Taken with a phone and a swasa 2i polar scope, its jupiter, you can see one of its moons i think

[tired rapids]

Damnn

[glad smelt]

Bro polar aligned to jupiter💀

[sacred pawn]

i thought the mini tripod legs were drone propellor blades

[royal moss]

I don’t even know what I’m looking at… looks like a modern art piece

[sacred pawn]

Atleast with other setups you can still identify the lens or scope and the cam, wtf even is this

[tired rapids]

Why does the tube look like a big pot

[scarlet oyster]

I want to do it

[delicate mural]

do it

[sacred pawn]

The 50mm looks so tiny compared to the 60mm

[cyan ferry]

nice tilt aswell

[sacred pawn]

OH GOD

The frac was saved by the table but that poor sct

[old ice]

what a stupid observatory design

[tired rapids]

I saw the heavens above 2 times

[tired rapids]

Lamppost mount

[remote solar]

I'm not so sure the frac survived, who knows what sort of internal havoc was wrought.

If that's a remote observatory, I'd be cancelling sub, demanding refund, and 2x cost of the setup I sent.

[sacred pawn]

you prob wouldnt be getting 2x

[remote solar]

That's what I'd be telling them that they need to pay. "Your setup broke my setup, you were careless."

[sacred pawn]

i dont think they would give out that much more than what was lost, maybe 1.5x the value of the setups at most

[elfin vector]

Probably signed a contract that prevents suing for more than it’s worth or something

[remote solar]

I'm sure they did. However, if the door didn't rise before the roof came back then that points to negligence and might be something that the owner can take action.

[winged carbon]

Inb4 it’s starfront and you get no refund and no reimbursement and you have to pay the rest of your contract plus repair costs for the garage door mechanism and safety system.

[remote solar]

You serious? Well call that another reason to not work with them. They can't properly maintain their equipment but it's the fault of the user. You'd think that they wouldn't want to mess with people who have tens of thousands to invest on equipment, then another couple hundred monthly to put down, basically "spare cash" they're using. Someone with that sort of resource might have some access to legal resources

[winged carbon]

Not serious and this isnt starfront, but i wouldnt be surprised if it was.

[copper heath]

afaik starfront dont have a contract system?

[winged carbon]

sush i am dissing a company

[elfin vector]

Why do dislike starfront

[copper heath]

sketchy management

[sudden dove]

Laptop powers the entire thing :(

[kindred trail]

that can't be enough counter weights

[cursive flare]

What if the primary is made from carbon fiber

[kindred trail]

i've seen light weight mirro designs but never made from carbon fiber

[cursive flare]

Would be a cool project to try and make

[near token]

Not cursed, but bloody hard to watch

[sacred pawn]

#1087219932900638720 message

[sly egret]

Oh God that hurt

[river nexus]

250mm F1.2 … Juwei 17

[delicate mural]

Where do i buy this and how much does it cost

[river nexus]

Well…ya could try “Retired Cold War Survillence Ltd”… and about 400 bucks

[delicate mural]

Jeez thats cheap

Now do visual with it

[river nexus]

Double curse!

[high canyon]

Ayyy why the hell do the stars and the field look so good on this thing!

Have you tried imaging any nebula with it, not just the stars?

[river nexus]

It’s got a 60mm imaging circle and field seems pretty flat with a 2600MC but, and there’s some cursed BUTs - the focal plane is only 15mm from the metal back, so hard to install filters…Nebs I’ve tried a bit with no filters but I’m under Bortle 8 so it struggles. At F1.2 filters probably gonna struggle. I’ve taped a Baader 50mm square 34nM Ha filter rated to F2.8 to the camera window to see what happens. It’s cursed I tell ya! So much potential but just out of reach.

[high canyon]

filters?? I dont need no filters this thing is going to destroy em galaxies

This thing is quite cheap, like damn 400 bucks for a 250mm f1.2

I wonder if i can attach my dslr on it and us it as a lens for street photography

[river nexus]

Yeah, but it is 40 years old, with limited use cases these days…originally it was strapped under a RAF Canberra flying high fast to spy on gawd knows what. It then had a life spotting supernovas for University Astro society.

[river nexus]

Sort of what I was thinking… I got a old medium format Phase One 45+ camera back which I was hoping to try with it.

[dense gale]

Well now I need to design my own

what design is it?

[river nexus]

Not sure what it’s called, it’s got a front corrector plate with a Mangin mirror, primary and another corrector

[dense gale]

is the corrector plate similar to a mak's?

[river nexus]

Not entirely sure the geometry of the front corrector plate… it is like a “Gregory Spot Mak” with its slivered mirror, but this has a secondary corrector at the camera side. Don’t know much more at this stage of things

Filter seems to do something at least…18 x60s stack straight out of ASIAIR, graxpert, BXT, GHS

[hollow kiln]

I need one! For...... stuff....

[dense gale]

Would you mind showing the photo before BXT? I’m trying to design a similar system and want to know what level I’m striving for 🙂

[high canyon]

That’s sharp!

[glad smelt]

Nooooo😭💀

[unborn dove]

ouch

atleast it didnt happen on the other side with like 7 diffrent telescopes

[river nexus]

Will do when free

[river nexus]

This seems on first glance to be the same or very similar design https://www.primalucelab.com/astrographs/officina-stellare-veloce-rh200-f3-athermal.html

convergent front corrector, Mangin primary, Gregory spot, two lens flattener

[stray dock]

That looks killer for outreach with EAA

[sacred pawn]

oh god

[still wasp]

🤣

[tired rapids]

I would trip so much times

[potent flax]

So that's how they discovered the WASP catalogue

[quartz fiber]

primary mirror heater?

[elfin vector]

I know the Gti can handle the Askar 71f, but even that is pushing it. But THAT reflector?? Oh hell naw

[tired rapids]

I saw this on facebook one of the most coolest scopes I've ever seen

[shell sierra]

hexagons are the bestagon

[kindred trail]

I'm done, 3d printed counter weight

[stray dock]

I'm now tempted to cast my own counterweights with lead

[kindred trail]

that's way more efficient than concreate and steel

[stray dock]

Uranium would be more efficient but something about "nuclear proliferation treaties" prevents me from purchasing any

[kindred trail]

but also, uranium finnaly ends up as lead anyway so i don't think it's worth the hastle

[stray dock]

Good point

[umbral hornet]

how heavy did it turn out?

[glad smelt]

[copper heath]

My setup

[kindred trail]

I weighed it but my scale only goes up to 3kg and it spits out an error so

3Kg

[kindred trail]

Doesn't that Tring going down to 1.25" introduce some awful vignetting?

[copper heath]

not really

[kindred trail]

intresting, maybe i can use my 1.25' barlow with my dslr for some galaxy shooting

[kindred trail]

i checked and after some tinkering and magic of 3d printing im gonna shoot M101 with a 2x barlow, when looking at distant trees i didn't see any wierd abberations but stars wil show it for sure, thnaks for the idea @copper heath

[quartz fiber]

litle cheap frac?

[glad smelt]

I SAW IN INSTA😂😂😂

And i saw that bird shat on ur lens😭

[copper heath]

Yes

[quartz fiber]

the best astrograph is a cheap guide scope

[sacred pawn]

#🤩-show-us-your-rig message

[quartz fiber]

the guide scope is the 6" newt btw

[sacred pawn]

why

[glad smelt]

[stray dock]

I've wanted to hand guide exposures using my RC as the guidescope lol

[quartz fiber]

ita a joke 😭

[high canyon]

smool

[delicate mural]

F/1?

[quartz fiber]

that is the Greatest imaging Newtonian ive ever seen, got a larger central obstruction than an rc

[stray dock]

I actually suspect it might not be larger

[tight moon]

This one was probably quite difficult to collimate

[delicate mural]

The shit people do just to not use a newtonian. (joke)

[rotund cedar]

and for good reasons

[patent oar]

Focal length of 20 fridges

[tight moon]

What's that? You don't want a f/450 refractor?

[scarlet oyster]

this thing looks like a fire hydrant

[sacred pawn]

you could probably use this as a periscope if the focuser is strong enough

[hearty solstice]

I wanted to do wide field

[elfin vector]

I think your rig is over payload capacity for that mount. Sorry to break the news

[hearty solstice]

Sometimes you gotta take a risk or two

[copper heath]

where counterweight

[hearty solstice]

The smallest counterweight I had was a 5kg and the hole setup is less then a kilo

[copper heath]

get a lighter countweight.
NEVER use a mount without one

[hearty solstice]

I found if I bring the bar out far enough that was enough weight

[quartz fiber]

perfect 😭

[slim tree]

Use the bar as a counterweight... It alone should be enough.

[hearty solstice]

I did

[sly egret]

Not even cursed

[fallow wolf]

Bro saved 30£

[hearty solstice]

“We have a Astro cam at home”

[stray dock]

At that price I'd be tempted to buy one to see what it could actually do. I'm sure it's garbage, but it would be a fun trial

[hearty solstice]

I’m quite tempted to

[unborn dove]

2k 4 million high definition😱

[hearty solstice]

I think the 4 million is referring to the pixel count

[high canyon]

Hot pixel count*

[stray dock]

My setup was cursed by the weather gods

[hearty solstice]

You should just give it to me then

[native raptor]

A little cursed maybe?

[hearty solstice]

Maybe we’ve been doing it wrong the whole time

[slim tree]

..

[hearty solstice]

I thought that was bird dookie

[slim tree]

It is

[hearty solstice]

I bet that happened mid season

[slim tree]

Now I see... My phone pasted some text when I tried to send the photo.

[remote solar]

@slim tree Okay I think I found an advantage to using SCT vs. Newtonian. Cleanup for that is "carefully wipe off the outside." Newtonian is "Ohhh f." and take apart the OTA.

[hearty solstice]

There’s alway a advantage with a sct

[sacred pawn]

reasons to buy a dew shield

[delicate mural]

Use dustcaps next time 🙏

[copper heath]

been there before

[sly egret]

Lmaooo

[umbral hornet]

just saw this on cn classified, idk what im looking at

[hearty solstice]

Now that’s how a Dobson telescope should look

[fossil gazelle]

Eq Dob

[unborn dove]

big screw

[remote solar]

Helical focuser, I've heard of. Helical OTA is another level altogether.

Imagine if the focuser was helical and all the gearing was also helical.

[quartz fiber]

helter skelter

[tardy pewter]

sorry i had a little accident 😔

[quartz fiber]

their fault for using an sct

[cosmic minnow]

how could you...

[tardy pewter]

i will not tolerate the sct hate

[delicate mural]

absolutely not, now say sorry!

[quartz fiber]

sowwy :<

[tired rapids]

Budget starsense

[stuck meadow]

I also doing this, and it works very well with Stellarium. I can find anything with this method

[tired rapids]

I'll try it out next few days my finderscope literally wobbles when I align something

[stuck meadow]

But very important you also have to Aline the stars with the App and you telescope

[tired rapids]

Yeah true inaccurate gps within phone could be problem but worth trying

[stuck meadow]

The App will show all the stars left wisch is wrong

[stuck meadow]

I have a method it works so easy and accurate

[tired rapids]

I'll change location in the app to align stars at High magnification

[stuck meadow]

You don’t have to I found with this method Jupiter in daylight Venus and even the iss

[tired rapids]

Damn what

[stuck meadow]

I tell you later how I did this

[tired rapids]

Alright thank you brother there's slowmode here

[fossil gazelle]

🚙 tripod

[umbral hornet]

aura. is he staring at the sun?

[kindred trail]

i mean with that it looks like an f/10 or more he probably can

[delicate mural]

Things people do just to NOT buy a newtonian 🙏 🙏

[mighty hull]

i think thats much more than f/10

[hearty solstice]

This + a loan

[hearty solstice]

Probably has the f stop to look at the sun without a filter

[glad smelt]

Made with chatgpt from my actual setup image

[remote solar]

Well, let's see. That might be an 8" so ~200mm. Length ~20', or ~240", which is ~6,096mm, we'll round it to 6100mm.

6100mm / 200mm = f/30.5

However, I can't find anything that establishes an F/stop at which it is safe to view the sun without a filter.

[quartz fiber]

it looks about f30 to me

[quartz fiber]

i think f100 would almost allow you to it has to be a really high f stop

[fossil gazelle]

6100mm fl for seeing craters on the Pluto

[mighty hull]

yeah that’s a rounder number

[tardy pewter]

is this a star adventurer 2i and a rokinon 135mm?

[winged carbon]

I think it’s more down to front aperture not focal ratio. For energy reduction. Still going the be stupidly bright.

[sly egret]

I can’t find it

[sacred pawn]

i asked chatgpt and it said f/316

[glad smelt]

Swsa mini and canon 55-250mm

[tardy pewter]

dang

[quartz fiber]

i wouldn't trust that personally

[sudden mist]

Why

[tired rapids]

Bro needs to double align his finderscope

[mighty hull]

finderscope for the finderscope

perfectly normal

[high agate]

Now but these three scopes on this and you have the perfect rig

[rich vector]

Get another guide scope for the guide scopes guide scope

[tired rapids]

Portable right?

[near token]

Hopefully won't need a rain cover! 😂

[kindred trail]

the kid got sold for a telescope lmao

[remote solar]

Everything is portable, with the proper equipment.

Sometimes you can hold it in your arm, sometimes you need a hand truck ... and sometimes you need a CH-47 Chinook.

[elfin vector]

Sometimes you need a space shuttle

[remote solar]

Yeah, that would take care of having to figure how to image through atmosphere.

[elfin vector]

https://tenor.com/view/hubble-space-telescope-telescope-solar-system-nasa-nasa-gif-gif-11911127

[sly egret]

[stray dock]

You know, I might seriously suggest this to a friend who works with the university's scopes of the same form factor

[tired rapids]

It kinda works the eq mount is much stable than it looks

[shell sierra]

IMPROVED???

[unborn dove]

this might work for "all telescopes"

[sudden mist]

Is this enough for an 8" newt?

[tired rapids]

It looks like a small fork is just being used

[high agate]

Hi, can you ask the seller if this is enough for a 20" Ritchey-Chrétien? Thanks.

[sacred pawn]

it says all, so yes it is

[coarse parrot]

I mean it says all telescopes

[kindred trail]

the only thing cursed here is that ladder, wide boi

[umbral hornet]

and one supporting leg on the back

[kindred trail]

oh yea i didnt see that, one wring move and the whole thing goes

[zealous pivot]

Kinda what I imagine tw's scope to look like

[cosmic basin]

Probably also the like 6' finderscope. Might be an 8'?

[light granite]

Became a little create

[stray dock]

8 foot finderscope? Jeez

[glad smelt]

Me when i get my gtii

[kindred trail]

if it saves money AND works it's not stupid

[sudden mist]

Is that a a piece of floorboard

[light granite]

It actually does not save money. Im just making holiday in bortle 3-4 region and forgot that thingy to attach my Camera to the gti

[light granite]

Its wood I found somewhere

[cosmic basin]

Damn it "

[kindred trail]

back when poons-broks was supper bright i was planning on going to a dark site to observe and photograph it, i knew i was gonna use my telecope for photographing it as long as i could see it but i really wanted to see it with my own eyes so i wanted to put my binoculars on a manfrontto mount for ease of use but i didn have a stupid L-shaped piece of metal to mount it properly so i went on a scavenger hunt on my bike to find a piece of wood i could make it out of. i found something better, it was on the side of the road, a piece of those aluminium side bumpers on trucks, i took it home, cut it, bent it and now i have a lovely adapter out of aluminium
and i managed to finish it before going out so my friend and I had pretty nice views of the comet
good times

[hearty solstice]

Would this work

[grim onyx]

The most inpressive thing about this image is the fact that the refractor is so huge that it makes sense to have a c8 as a guidescope

[tender meteor]

Seestar users will do anything but use the az mode (I also use seestar )

[cosmic basin]

Dear god what is that?

[sacred pawn]

big teleskop

[tired rapids]

Wow

[mighty hull]

the extremely large telescope (no dome)

[cosmic basin]

(ik but why is it in cursed setups)

[mighty hull]

for this cursed thing

“for any telescope”

[cosmic basin]

Oh yeah I didn't think it was related haha I thought you were just saying the elt was cursed

In that case, might as well include the dome

[mighty hull]

lmao

[cosmic basin]

The Extra-Ordinarily Large Telescope?

[snow egret]

overwhelmingly large telescope
never to be built

[cosmic basin]

Yes I knew there was a name I couldn't remember it that's much better than extraordinary. It would be overwhelmingly difficult and expensive to build.

[shell sierra]

unless

[mighty hull]

bake sale time!

[light granite]

Bruh

[kindred trail]

May not look cursed but when you zoom on the tripod...

[cosmic basin]

No that's cursed

[high agate]

You know it's serious when the secondary is 4 times bigger than an rc1000 🔥

[cosmic basin]

Oh no....

[stray dock]

So I saw this thread on CN about Apertura 6" RCs and someone asked if it would be better at planetary observation than a ZenithStar 73.

I quickly realized the secondary mirror of the 6" RC is larger than the objective of the ZenithStar.

[high agate]

It's probably gonna be 10 times better lol, altough cdk's are better for planetary afaik

[slate granite]

Cdks have larger CO tho

[glad smelt]

What am i looking at

[cosmic basin]

looks like it's a really crudely slapped together radio setup

[slate granite]

bro got a eq mount for a radio scope

[stray dock]

that only slews in RA

[slate granite]

ah

[winged carbon]

Yeah, otherwise the images will trail.

Maybe not noticeable at this resolution but still

[tulip cloud]

[umbral hornet]

is that camera zip tied to the dovetail

[tulip cloud]

yeah

[umbral hornet]

[cosmic basin]

ngl the zip ties are the only cursed thing in that the cardboard is fine. Astro cam on a lens is odd though

[umbral hornet]

a kit lens at that i believe

[tulip cloud]

a kit lens that actually didn't come kit with my dslr too, bought it separately a few years ago

[umbral hornet]

yeah that canon lens was my first lens i bought for astro lol

[cosmic basin]

ok ya kit lens is pretty weird

[kindred trail]

Seestar EQ mod
(Not mine, from FB)

[tulip cloud]

I'm a newt guy so idk how well the cardboard is actually gonna work on a lens like this lol, but it was about the best option I had for this test/for fun thing so here i am

[cosmic basin]

I haven't done much widefield so idk either but I'd say cardboard should be fine

[quartz fiber]

😭

[high agate]

Cardboard is fine 🔥

[potent flax]

frfr, I wouldn't spend $170 on a slightly prettier aluminum one

[austere zephyr]

this is beatufyl

[austere zephyr]

alot of theese telescopes look Ai generated for real

[high canyon]

cardboard gang

[fossil gazelle]

No, i have the same mount. It real setup

[hearty solstice]

Some nice binoculars

[scarlet oyster]

and that mount is not

[high agate]

Never flame the AZEQ5 again

[hearty solstice]

Bros defensive

[high agate]

That thing is doing 60s unguided subs with 9kg of payload just fine, goated mount fr

[austere zephyr]

I know they are real im saying it looks like a AI attempt to make a astronomy rig

[slate granite]

Wat da hail

[tardy pewter]

not mine

[orchid storm]

Alright hear me out. Steam powered telescope. Use pistons to turn a crankshaft, connected to a gear, to spin the telescope to where it needs to look. (Absolute genius)

[remote solar]

I believe that the word we're going to learn in this setup would be "Turbulence". With a descriptor of "severe"

[orchid storm]

Steam emgime

[austere zephyr]

i can hear the sound of it crashing down

[sonic basin]

This is a completely appropriate amount of counterweights

[sacred pawn]

please make it functional

[tardy pewter]

i love this

[sonic basin]

Thanks lol

[coarse parrot]

Yo that's actually awesome

If you made little plastic or metal ones i would definitely buy one for my desk

[sly egret]

This is so cool

[kindred trail]

I added a dowetail to my 3d printed telescope and it's balance plus a slight high spot on the bottom makes it sit on a single point of contact removing pretty much any friction with the surface it's on, makes for a really cool fidget toy

[sonic basin]

I can make a tutorial vid on how to make a mini SCT model if you’d like! I don’t think I can do the edgehd11 on the eq wedge as I only had the materials to make 1, but I can do a Celestron Nexstar 8SE or even a dobsonian if you want! 😊 though it wouldn’t be optically functional and just a toy lol

[coarse parrot]

That would be awesome. I'd definitely try it

[potent flax]

the hot glue. That's so cool though

[sonic basin]

I know 😭

[potent flax]

I love the tiny Celestron logo

[rocky wagon]

how can you call my setup a cursed image? its balanced and stable lmao!!

[sly egret]

[rocky wagon]

its perfectly balanced on my taps, i cant see no issues haha

In case anyone is wondering wtf this is, a gopro 10 on the end of my selfie stick powered by my powerbank sticking out my kitchen window haha

Balance perfection 👌 🤣🤣

[sly egret]

Narrowband with 18/55mm kit lens from canon

[glad smelt]

how bro did that

[humble orbit]

[quartz fiber]

flavour

[grim onyx]

explain. also can you know attach this to a dslr?

[sly egret]

It explains itself

[umbral hornet]

astrophotographer but can't focus a normal picture

[sly egret]

brudda i took a pic before my phone autofocused

[umbral hornet]

can't focus with autofocus

[cosmic basin]

Excuses

Should be manual at all times

[humble orbit]

If you manually focus your phone you are a complete psycho

[delicate mural]

I manually focus my phone

[humble orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/no-gif-18394025

[hollow kiln]

Anything can be achieved with enough tape/zipties

[kindred trail]

yea me too, i get better focus then the automatic one so why shouldn't we right

[glad smelt]

Wellwellwell

[knotty ledge]

mailbox light blocker

[austere zephyr]

seestar s50 Setup not the worst

[copper heath]

Not cursed.

[cosmic basin]

Not cursed at all

[austere zephyr]

is this cusrsed for testing focus on a tree far away?

[sacred pawn]

the setup itself isn't cursed

[quartz fiber]

wil be when i steal the focusing knobs

[cosmic basin]

Well that could apply to any setup in fairness

[glad smelt]

[austere zephyr]

yeah....

[rocky wagon]

wanna try and make the most of MW season when it gets here 😂 dslr, phone and gopro

[elfin vector]

Does…. Does that even work….

[rocky wagon]

yes lol its on a star tracker so all 3 track fine

i can slide the bar across and also the phone and gopro separately so balancing is easy as well

[elfin vector]

I was thinking of trying this

[rocky wagon]

https://amzn.eu/d/5YVJSvM this is what I got, it has 3/8 thread on bottom and then adapters for 3/8 to 1/4 for on top

[sonic basin]

Has someone made this a real image yet lmao

[hollow kiln]

I like putting random things on my mount, so I probably could make it happen

[austere zephyr]

barbeque

[grim onyx]

Flower pot

[kindred trail]

Equatorially stabilased cactus plant, 100% photosyntesys automation for your convinience!

[grim onyx]

This will revolutionize global food production. One problem: how will the cactus get sunlight when its night. Will the rays pass through earth and reach the cactus (which is conviniently pointing to the sun)?

[kindred trail]

you an youse an equatoriam mount during the day tho

but we hear your concern

so we developed a NEW product!!!
i here by present to you
an artifitial SUN!!

[austere zephyr]

it always points towards the sun

[hearty solstice]

Eq dob mod

[grim onyx]

Actually insanely useful invention. Where do we test it?

[sudden mist]

France.

[grim onyx]

Good idea

[austere zephyr]

the actual weight of that is gonna be sad

[sly egret]

Under ur bed

[grim onyx]

What about at ur guide scope?

[sly egret]

how about ur stomach

Already sneaked it in ur food

[grim onyx]

No wonder my coffee was so hot. The bomb probably exploded there

[sly egret]

[grim onyx]

Wait i have a banger idea

Lets put a gaming setup on the equatorial mount. And on another equatorial mount we put a chair with straps so we dont fall off. And along with gaming monitor we can put like a guidescope. So we do gaming and when we are bored just spin around the whole setup to our desired DSO/SSO and look through the eyepiece

[grim onyx]

INSANE IDEA:
Attach a solar panel on this and make it track the sun. So the solar panel will get most optimal sunlight for the whole day

[vague sail]

[sly egret]

Absolute cinema

[unborn dove]

(eq)^2

[stray dock]

this avoids gimbal lock

[grim onyx]

This looks kinda cool

[cosmic basin]

That is a sick looking mount

[sudden mist]

Berlebach tripods are hot af

[remote solar]

All that for a DSLR? No, wait, a vintage late-'90's cell phone camera. Just the sensor and lens

[ivory pivot]

which of these is more cursed as a weight

[sacred pawn]

i shouldn't have reminded you about the weight bag

[ivory pivot]

no i reminded myself after my rig keeps on almost falling over while polar aligning

[sacred pawn]

why can't you just put a weight in it like everyone else does

[ivory pivot]

i don't have any weights here, its either objects or rocks on the ground

[sacred pawn]

use a big rock then

[ivory pivot]

yea but the 2i is right there

[sacred pawn]

It's cursed tho😿

[harsh notch]

ZWO tripods look a lot bigger in photos (Insert "That's what she said joke here"). Imma go for ol' frac

[ivory pivot]

if you missed general i did this afterwards

[harsh notch]

Add a brick too

[copper heath]

bob learnt today that he can extend tripod legs

[ivory pivot]

no i already knew that, today i learned that bigger triangle means more stable

[harsh notch]

Not my setup

[copper heath]

im more concerned with lack of counterweight

[harsh notch]

But hey... he got a guidescope on top of a guidescope

[copper heath]

piggyback rig

[harsh notch]

Just slap every piece of optics on top of an unbalanced EQ6 and call it professional settup🤣 🤣 🤣

[austere zephyr]

you give that one Little Tip and weeee!! Crash

[sly egret]

WTF

[harsh notch]

Nightmare fuel

[high agate]

Poor EQ6, without counterweights too 😭

[sly egret]

NO COUNTERWEIGHT??

[harsh notch]

Who needs them? Guy thinks that belt drive and harmonic drive are the same

Can you belive me that when I started astrophotography I was taking advice from that dood?

[stray dock]

Which dood

[harsh notch]

The inventor of the abomination that I posted earlier. I shall keep him anonymous

[sly egret]

[gilded gull]

Yall i finally found a mount for my spotting scope ☺️

[cosmic basin]

A fellow dob on EQ user

[gilded gull]

Yes

[sacred pawn]

how many wars has your counterweight been through

[copper heath]

Gone through hell and back

[high agate]

Wtf? There's no way he pulls 5 second subs on that thing.

[harsh notch]

I don't think he ever imaged anything

[harsh notch]

Still waiting for someone with a RASA and a 20mm eyepiece in front

[austere zephyr]

To he fair to me its a temporary solution

[gilded gull]

Too much

[harsh notch]

Definitely looks like it has been used

[gilded gull]

But hey i does its Job perfectly

[harsh notch]

Well... yours looks like a counterweight, mine looks like a suggestion

[harsh notch]

See? Suggestion

[grim onyx]

This seems more for aesthetic purposes than to actually help in anything

[gilded gull]

Yeah it looks tiny 🤏

[harsh notch]

Adds about 2kg of counterweight. Helps me sleep better at night 😂

[gilded gull]

the mount suffers from no mount woblle look at a ower line almost 5 kilomiters away

[austere zephyr]

Rather have too much then too little

[harsh notch]

I'd rather have something than nothing

[austere zephyr]

Yeah

[harsh notch]

Plus I need to find a way to put the counterweights from the HEQ-5 to the 20mm shaft on the 150i

[high canyon]

I don’t have a guide scope cap

[glad smelt]

Cool😀😀😀

[remote solar]

I see that you found a handy solution.

We know you're serious when the glove comes off.

Before then you're just kinda pointing in the general direction.

You have the essential things to get a grip on your task.

The only question is how to give a thumbs up?

[remote solar]

😂

[harsh notch]

Give it a high5

[kindred trail]

PHD2 : "(taking darks) Cover the guidescope!"
you: "time to glove up."

[trail kayak]

sup

havent really been active here lol

[kindred trail]

means your astrophotography jurney is going great

[rain folio]

bob why are your feet not extended and more importantly why is there one missing

[copper heath]

He didn't know tripod legs corks be extended

[quartz fiber]

https://tenor.com/view/blue-archive-yukino-shichido-yukino-absolute-cinema-peak-cinema-gif-5444997693361054402

[shell sierra]

that song
embedding shikonokonokokoishtantan into my brain permanently was very funny but a bad idea

[remote solar]

I'll see that tune, and raise you "Barbara's Rhubarb Bar"

https://youtu.be/ZYkBf0dbs5I

[trail kayak]

meh, with my new setup (dobson untracked and my phone's shitty camera)) i was able to progress alot tho, this is my progress : P

[still wasp]

for a phone, this is great

[cursive flare]

Lobotomy kaisen

[subtle helm]

nice jupi man

[scarlet oyster]

Jupitune

[delicate mural]

hell naw

[umbral hornet]

But it's a skywatcher they said

[humble orbit]

I think you are forgetting this is a kids server

[median path]

yeah please everyone don't post stuff that's NSFW, thank you

[subtle helm]

what did they post

[stray dock]

At some point in the future I will be getting a dumpster refractor to image with.

[cursive flare]

Cheese

[harsh notch]

I got one. Perfect SkyWatcher 70/900 achromat

[dark thunder]

did somebody post a picture of a 50/2000 telescope which had a cooled camera, filter wheel and an eaf attached to it?

[delicate mural]

worse.

[sudden mist]

Was it corn

[delicate mural]

close

[cursive flare]

What was it

[delicate mural]

Dm

[cursive flare]

REALLY CURSED FOR A KIDS SERVER

[cosmic basin]

Very cursed ya ngl

[umbral hornet]

central obstruction = yes

[quartz fiber]

it didnt sit right with me

[umbral hornet]

i feel like thats gonna cause weird patterns on your images too lol

[shell sierra]

defo an easy way to get messed up diffraction spikes

[umbral hornet]

that setup has some stance

[vagrant frost]

Quick, strike a pose for the camera!

[sonic basin]

Stability: yes

[harsh notch]

Atleast is not a visual eyepiece

[austere zephyr]

don't make me even think about that

[light granite]

I'm now curious too

[delicate mural]

Last one.

[royal moss]

I’m also curious

[hearty solstice]

Here me out widefield and deep space in the same lens

[grim onyx]

Better to buy an ferrari and use it as a camera stand

[kindred trail]

small wheel for qick focus changes

[tired rapids]

Its diy fine focus

[kindred trail]

to get fine focus adjustment you need a bigger wheel than deafult

[harsh notch]

Bonus points for style. Try to find the chrome ones. Put some bling on that thing

[hollow kiln]

Toob

[high agate]

I'm hoping this is some sort of baffle tube and not the backfocus you need.

[sonic basin]

not a cursed setup but i think lyra looks more like a kid's drawing of a sailboat then a lyre/harp, ya'll cant unsee it now

[kindred trail]

Double tracker = double tracking accuracy

[sly egret]

This fricking hurts me how dare you imbecile

[humble orbit]

AYO

[sly egret]

What

[dull briar]

ouch

[sly egret]

[hearty solstice]

Celestron mount 🥀🥀🥀

[austere zephyr]

oh mine god

[hollow kiln]

Toooooooooooooooooob

[austere zephyr]

why do you need dat do?

[hollow kiln]

I don't

[austere zephyr]

Oh good fair i bet it's just a wouldn't it be silly if i- Moment?

[hollow kiln]

Precisely

[austere zephyr]

Fair enough

[quartz fiber]

celestron is awesome

[delicate mural]

there is no way

[harsh notch]

I'm having a heart attack and PTSD at the same time

[sonic basin]

I’m surprised how this even works, and I don’t even use a regular eq mount 😵‍💫

EQ wedge is the meaning of life

[harsh notch]

I have my harmonic mount balanced... well not 100% but just enough the help me sleep at night

[sonic basin]

How does it even balance at all? The altitude motor must be hanging on for dear life

[harsh notch]

You can install a counterweight shaft

[sonic basin]

Oh okay

[harsh notch]

My mount can do 15kg unbalanced

[sonic basin]

Dang alright

[harsh notch]

And balanced can do 25kg max

[sonic basin]

Sorry I meant to say “rIgHt aSceNcioN” 🤓

But that’s crazy, they gotta build those to be incredibly strong. You got an SCT on it like in the photo or something else?

[harsh notch]

#🔭-astrophotography-chat

[sacred pawn]

Phone ap, dslr ap, and visual at the same time

Or just peak laziness, look at your phone with one eye and do visual with the other

[hearty solstice]

I might need more back focus

[hearty solstice]

You need counter weights

[hollow kiln]

Perfectly safe

Oh no...... its going to die!

Because no counterweights 🙄

[kindred trail]

it puts unnecessary strain on the mount and there is always a risk of you relecing a cluch and your lovely telescope going down hitting the tripod and maybe you. i woudn't risk that

[hollow kiln]

That's not how anything works bud

[zealous pivot]

i love putting strain on my strainwave mount

[trail kayak]

every time i text here this chat revives, so hi

[copper heath]

https://tenor.com/view/riselordvader-star-wars-darthvader-gif-22128593

[tired rapids]

This counts yeah?

[cosmic basin]

Ya sure why not

[sonic basin]

That’s insanely cheap for such powerful optics

[royal moss]

I genuinely think this piece of clay looks like 4 different things all at once

Nevermind, 5

[quartz fiber]

Put a f*cking counterweight on it

[hollow kiln]

Make me

[quartz fiber]

I hope you get dew on your secondary while imaging

[hollow kiln]

I hope your socks are always slimy

[quartz fiber]

I hope your collimation slips so your nebula or galaxy looks like a turd wiped across the screen.

[hollow kiln]

I hope you always get the worst possible service at any shop or restaurant

[quartz fiber]

, I hope you drop your ota while putting it on your mount

[hollow kiln]

I hope you never have clear sky and bortle 9 conditions for the rest of your life making imaging a worthless task

[quartz fiber]

I hope your ra clutch slips so gravity pulls your ota and mount down.

[hollow kiln]

I hope you get severe IBS every time you sit down

[quartz fiber]

I hope its too hot or too cold for you too sleep

[hollow kiln]

I hope every meal you eat has the taste and consistency of sawdust

[quartz fiber]

I hope every meal you eat is lukewarm

[hollow kiln]

I hope your ceiling leaks everytime it rains

[quartz fiber]

I hope an unexpected rainstorm hits your gear while imaging.

[hollow kiln]

I hope you get sent to North Korea

[quartz fiber]

I hope you get bitten by a snake while visiting Thailand

[hollow kiln]

I hope you stub your toe every time you walk through a doorway

[quartz fiber]

I hope everytime you close a door your finger goes in between

[hollow kiln]

I hope your car windows break and you can only have them open

[cursive flare]

I hope a kid hits both of your shins with a scooter at full speed

[hollow kiln]

I hope your skin gains the ability to taste

[cursive flare]

I hope a rock gets stuck in your shoe and you cant get it out

[hollow kiln]

I hope you become repulsed by the smell of food

[quartz fiber]

I hope you get a rat infestation

[hollow kiln]

I hope every sandwich you eat is made with mouldy bread

[cursive flare]

I hope your dog spits in ur mouth before u go to bed

[sacred pawn]

You're gonna get this thread closed lmao

[cursive flare]

He started it first

[copper heath]

damn...i acc liked this thread

[cursive flare]

Is it too late to delete the message

[copper heath]

you've thrown away the chance to get red nerd, thats for sure

[cursive flare]

Are you sure that mods saw it

[still wasp]

what just happened lol

[copper heath]

even if you delete/edit it gets logged so mods can see what youve said

[still wasp]

quickly type huge amount of things so that it gets burried lol

[cursive flare]

Yeah im cooked🥀

[dull briar]

ouch

[quartz fiber]

WAIT, WHY ARE YOUR SOCKS GETTING SLIMY

[sudden mist]

[cursive flare]

ANYWAY TO CONTINUE OUR STREAK, I hope that your mount is cursed with infinite backlash

[stray dock]

I think you cursed the wrong person

[dull briar]

Mines bad aswell lol

[hollow kiln]

No i didn't

[glad smelt]

I hope ur pillows both sides are warm

[hollow kiln]

Its coming up to winter, that would be pleasant

[glad smelt]

Summers coming tho

[hollow kiln]

Not here

[glad smelt]

Oh lol ok

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[high agate]

This entire interaction was hilarious

[tired rapids]

Naww what is that

[remote solar]

It's the tape that gets on the inside of the cover that bugs me. If it would only have been on the outside then that would have been one thing. But the lunatic folded the tape over INTO the dew shield 😱

[silent rapids]

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[patent oar]

Weak, …

[dull briar]

Nah how?

[hearty solstice]

Anything but buy a newt

[humble orbit]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1018612234819223632/1377087696899674112/IMG_2278.gif

[delicate mural]

i do that to refractors every single day

[dull briar]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1133160663271866409/1375929964536397887/togif-1.gif

[high agate]

W

[grim onyx]

Based

[delicate mural]

nah its just plain true

[slim tree]

https://tenor.com/view/social-credit-credit-social-уважение-плюс-уважение-gif-1626328442317885176

[delicate mural]

smol camera

[dull briar]

Dang bro got his

[umbral fulcrum]

Bought it on CN and I’ve had it for 3 weeks and no chance to test bc clouds smh

[harsh notch]

Why?

[dull briar]

Well cool

[high agate]

I'm really unsure if physics like this to happen

[grim onyx]

No way this is real and useful

[slim tree]

https://tenor.com/view/social-credit-credit-social-уважение-плюс-уважение-gif-1626328442317885176

[fossil gazelle]

This mount🥶

[cosmic basin]

actually kind cool ngl

[warm nebula]

I figured this would count as a cursed setup. An old 60mm Artillery Spotting-Scope with a DIY solar filter fixed to the front of the aperture, made using the film from solar glasses.

The filter structure utilizes a Pringles can, styrofoam on the inside to make the fit tight, a layer of card paper on the front and back of the solar film for rigidity, and a layer of aluminum foil at the front to reflect away any light that isn't hitting the solar film. The corners that stick out let you align with the sun pretty easily, as their shadows disappear when pointed directly at the sun.

Not easy to use, but still kinda fun and cool. Probably won't use it again, for the sake of safety.

[kindred trail]

yea, mine looks the same. i just gave up with guiding in Dec if you polar align well enough you can get away with no guiding in dec just change dither to "only Ra"

[patent oar]

Maybe something is loose. That was what happened in my case

[kindred trail]

i have a lot of backlash in the worm gear, i tried to get rid of it but never went below 13000ms

[tired rapids]

Scope made out of chopping board

[harsh notch]

But check the size of that mount.

[high canyon]

the mount looks super cool

[still wasp]

Cw on the mount is at its minimum 💀

[harsh notch]

The cuy could have used the power supply as counterweight. Have you seen the size of that PSU?

[still wasp]

Yeah lol

[dull briar]

Weak

[patent oar]

your mount atleast corrects eventually

[dull briar]

Only when I ask it nicely

[stray dock]

Hold on, I think I can give you a worse one

[stray dock]

This was from last night and somehow I still managed to guide below 0.5" for almost the entire night