#Touptek 533 Mono Bundle

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steep finch
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Do I buy this?

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gusty relic
steep finch
gusty relic
steep finch
gusty relic
tardy sequoia
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I'd get the 36mm filters, bit less vignetting + leaves room to upgrade to an apsc sensor (this is the bundle I got)

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  • the 36mm filter wheel holds exactly 7 filters just enough for your set wholesome
steep finch
tardy sequoia
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Yes it does what

steep finch
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rc6 reduced doesnt

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the amount of vignetting i get with the 533 is insane already

tardy sequoia
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Blehhhh

steep finch
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idk if this can handle anything larger lol

left haven
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You can upgrade them later though so if you just want to dip Ur toes into mono it's a good option

steep finch
left haven
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Lemme check

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I can show you stacks?

steep finch
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i just wanna know what im gonna be dealing with

left haven
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They might

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I can't remember I haven't imaged in like 3 months

steep finch
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rip

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what do you have? touptek 585 or 533?

left haven
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585

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With a redcat 51

steep finch
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i only have used an asi533mc pro

left haven
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lol this is the only one i can find and ironically it doesnt have anything

left haven
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like i love how i can turn LCG and HCG on at whatever gains i want

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it also cools insanely fast like itll get to the target temp in less than 3s

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BUT

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The filter wheel for the touptek uses an IR sensor to do it's positioning

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It'll shine an IR light within the system which idk why touptek even considered to be a good option

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And if you take a photo right after a filter change it will come up as something similar to amp glow except you can't remove it

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My solution is to just add a 2s delay between the filter change and the starting of the next exposure which does the job

steep finch
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That’s all you need to do?

left haven
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Yes

steep finch
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that’s a non issue then

left haven
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Some people really hate ut

steep finch
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How long does it take to swap filters?

left haven
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You have to change it to bidirectional in the driver settings manually though, out of the box for some reason mine was in unidirectional

steep finch
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What’s that mean

left haven
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Also comes with tons of spaces and adapters which is nice

left haven
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Bidirectional: moves in both directions

steep finch
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Oh I see

left haven
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say you take rgb shots, for after the first cycle of rgb shots the unidirectional setting will need to rotate one whole rotation to get back to red which takes like 5s

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but bidirectional setting will just change the wheel rotational direction to take it back to r

steep finch
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How often do you do your filter changes, after 1 sub? An hour?

left haven
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thats about it

left haven
steep finch
left haven
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depeneds on my subexposure lengths

steep finch
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I do 5min subs

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I’m wondering if I should do every 6 subs

left haven
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and in that case ill do every 2 sub filter change

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depends alot on the weather as well

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if clouds will come in an hour and i want to get a usable image that day then ill do every sub

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if the moons out i might skip O3 and just take Ha or sulfer for the night

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if its a moonless night i might just do O3 or luminance

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really depends

steep finch
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Seems to be the cheapest way to get into mono (for a 533)

left haven
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yeh sure, wait for sales though lik eofy

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i got my 585 for like 400 bucks off

steep finch
left haven
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end of financial year

steep finch
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Is this the sale?

left haven
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also theres a 5% off for new customers whic is like 50 bucks

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idk if touptek still has that

steep finch
left haven
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you put your email in and they give you a code

left haven
steep finch
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Oh no

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I didn’t. But I think that I’m getting a discount / sale price

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With the bundle already

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So it won’t add it on

left haven
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i used that same code on my discounted 585

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if you think its worth it to save 50 bucks you can contact their customer service

steep finch
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See i guess I already have a discount

left haven
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oh

steep finch
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Maybe the 533 is already on sale?

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That’s why it’s $1274 and not $1550

left haven
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yeh idk maybe theve changed their policy

steep finch
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Oh well, guess I need to hurry up and get this in case the discount is only temp

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I’m selling my 533mc pro for $700

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so that covers a lot

left haven
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also itll give an option to pay in usd or chinese yuan

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check both options to see which is the cheapest

steep finch
left haven
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paypal will charge fees

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go in credit card maybe?

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i think itll ask when you are paying

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i think paypal might be more secure though?

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idk

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i paid with credit card and it was fine

steep finch
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i have no money to steal

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💀

last coyote
# gusty relic dont trust the filters for some reason

Touptek filters are correct. They do have some halos the narrow band ones, but otherwise they are perfectly fine. I have the 7x36mm unmounted ones and a friend of mine has both the 7x36 and the 1.25 ones

Very happy with them

opal dirge
# gusty relic dont trust the filters for some reason

I also have Touptek 1.25 narrowband and I luckily haven’t even found any halos in mine, very happy with them. Although people before me have reported some halos so I guess it has a little bit of lottery involved

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left haven
steep finch