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Post by davy on May 1, 2016 13:17:12 GMT
Due to howie doing his video,, I was spurned on to get the finger out and do the upgrade early,I know this is an insensitive time due to ricks untimely demise of his mount, but rick honestly blame howie.. The heq5 pro has been ordered today and hopefully will be here this week,I was taken aback by howies video and how his set up is so close to what I want to do,there is slight differences,I will be using byeos instead of eos utilities and I will be mounting two scopes,ed80 with focal reducer and canon 600d,second scope is the skywatcher startravel 102,this scope will be my experimenting scope,,it will have dslr and barlows ,from x2 to x3 depending on target ,I have the qhy5l11 colour camera, and samsungs,watec 902h,combos are pretty good,flip mirror,offaxis guider,so going to have fun.. Upgrade will be tower extension for heq5 in a couple of weeks then belt mod before end of my summer.
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Post by Dragon Man on May 1, 2016 17:15:07 GMT
. . . . I know this is an insensitive time due to ricks untimely demise of his mount, but rick honestly blame howie.. Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!
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Post by Rick in NWArk on May 2, 2016 19:05:55 GMT
LOLOLOL!! Well, it will be a race I guess, Davy. But I have a secret surprise that I have not let out of the bag yet
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Post by davy on May 2, 2016 19:12:32 GMT
lovin it rick,,,, getting a big shine'y new toy too
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Post by davy on May 2, 2016 19:15:00 GMT
no racing from me rick,,,im 15 years ahead of my schedule..this was meant to be my retirement hobby lol
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Post by howie1 on May 3, 2016 1:13:02 GMT
Gawd ... the pressures on me now ... my fault if the latest batch of HEQ5 Pros is crap !!! Any help needed Davy ... just shout. Rick ... cant wait to hear what you doing!?!?!? If I took a punt I'd say a MegaBob type Evolution + StarSync + SCT or frac? And I wonder what cam ? So many to choose from. But it could be a Paramount!?!?!??! cheers
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Post by Rick in NWArk on May 4, 2016 15:13:45 GMT
I think I posted somewhere that I've got a 9.25" Evolution on order ... waiting for that to arrive. But I also made a different secret purchase that is on a different side of the fence and what I think may be new to Video Astronomy / Near Live and I'm excited to get it up and going and do a review.
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Post by davy on May 4, 2016 15:33:21 GMT
It's here,lol
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Post by Dragon Man on May 4, 2016 15:37:40 GMT
Me need to see photos or it never happened
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Post by davy on May 4, 2016 15:47:52 GMT
Naked
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Post by Rick in NWArk on May 4, 2016 15:48:00 GMT
Don't hurt yourself jumping up and down in joy or in putting it together!
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Post by davy on May 4, 2016 15:49:59 GMT
Still need to humph it ip four flight of stairs
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Post by Dragon Man on May 4, 2016 16:18:04 GMT
Davy, sounds like you need to swap flats with the person on the ground floor
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Post by davy on May 4, 2016 17:03:50 GMT
Funny you should say that,my landlord owns one,the dame he has in it is not paying the rent and he is trying to evict her...would be better for carol as well,,no stairs,has a walkway and carol got a mobility scooter to get around in so she could get right up to the front door..
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Post by Dragon Man on May 4, 2016 17:21:04 GMT
Ask the landlord if he will swap the two of you and tell him about Carol's dilemma with her disability and her scooter access, and he might throw the dame out instead of moving her upstairs LOL!
He wins, you win, Carol wins.
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Post by davy on May 4, 2016 18:16:33 GMT
Oh yeah cooking now
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Post by davy on May 4, 2016 18:59:15 GMT
Davy, sounds like you need to swap flats with the person on the ground floor Nothing wrong wae a bit of weight lifting and peace n quiet ,,,lol.
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Post by davy on May 4, 2016 19:05:21 GMT
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Post by davy on May 4, 2016 20:44:22 GMT
So now the heq5 mount is here,I done a quick build up make shure it works ok and im delighted,its been the right choice,wouldn't we all like to have a neq6 or eq8 but this is quite adequate for my needs, I have mounted the ed80 and reversed the st102 rings and fitted it on top of the ed80,,there was the slight "" oh no"" how am I going to join the two scopes ,the dovetail i have was too long and was not letting me clamp down the st102, I had to use a longer bolt I had and move to next hole down on dovetail not ideal but works,will need to work out angles for focusser adjustment knobs and whether two canon dslrs will miss each other on the mount,focussed on a street light approx mile away with ed 80, aligned finder scope to ed80,,,the st102 with a 25mm lens was a fair bit away from ed80 focal subject..,will be doing a strip an correct setting up of scope at weekend
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Post by howie1 on May 4, 2016 22:43:36 GMT
Whoo Hooo!
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