More mobility in astrophotography with PU foam in the mount box.
Category: Equipment
For capturing astrophotos, it doesn’t always have to be a cooled astro camera. There are reasons to use a standard DSLR or DSLM camera. However, in the case of astrophotography, an astro modification is recommended.
Pegasus Astro Indigo OAG
My real world requirements-driven purchase and test of the Pegasus Astro Indigo OAG Off Axis Guider.
Sky-Watcher HEQ5 PRO Hypertuning
After some months of thinking, my new high end APO and some bad guiding results forced me to find my luck in hypertuning my Sky-Watcher HEQ5 PRO mount.
My 3D printed model to use a TSOAG9 with a Takahashi FS-60CB. It works like a charm and makes a perfect mobile setup.
Star Test with this setup: Takahashi FS-60CB, 1.04 Flattener, APS-C, TS-OAG9, Pegasus Astro Focus Cube and a self-printed Adapter.
Here is what i have chosen as my mobile power supply for Astrophotography.
Is it necessary to use an UV/IR cut filter? If yes, is this something you can really see in your results?
A short tutorial howto configure the FoV in the Stellarium Mobile App.
Here are a few examples of the so called CANON Banding, just to show how it looks like. I had to stretch a lot to get some.