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Sorry for the cloudy/rainy weather🤪.
These two birthday gifts from my wife just came in last week after almost 3 months on order.
One for my 8”SCT, and one for my 102mm refractor.
I just installed this one and got it talking to everything. Now for some clear skies to check it out.
A little over a month ago I got my imaging set up so I can control everything from inside my home, except the focusing. It was a pain going in and out of the house to get on focus. Hopefully it will all work as advertised and planned.
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Scopes; William Optics GT 81mm Triplet, TS Optics APO 102mm f/7refractor, Cestron Nexstar 8SE, Gskyer 80mm x 400mm refractor
Mount; Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro
Cameras; ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro, QHY5iii462C, ZWO ASI224MC, Canon 600D DSLR T3i.
Guide scope; ZWO 60280 f/4.6
Guide camera; ASI290mm mini
Filters; Optolong L-eXtreme 2”, Optolong L-Pro 2”, QHYCCD IR/CUT, QHYCCD IR850
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I recently got the same unit for use with a WO Z61. Works great so far. One key is how you set the zero point. Then you can make notes about the focus points for common distant objects. For me, that was 8600. For testing with close objects around the house, it was in the 13,000 range.

In my case I found that flipping the focus bracket and knobs on the top worked better than on the lower part.
Scopes: Celestron Nexstar 8SE, Celestron C6N, WO Z61, WO GT71, iOptron RC6 .
Mounts: Celestron Nexstar, iOptron Sky Guider Pro, iOptron HEM27 w/iPolar
Cameras: Nikon D780, Nikon Zfc ,ZWO ASI224MC, ZWO ASI120MM-S, ZWO ASI294MC Pro, ZWO ASI485MC, ZWO ASI174MM, ASI662MC, ASI294MM, ASI2600MC Pro iPhone 14.
Tools: Raspberry PI4 with Stellarmate OS, Intel NUC Mini PC, Beelink MiniPCs.
Accessories: Celestron focus motor, ZWO EAF focusers, F6.3 field reducer, assorted eyepieces, 11" video monitor, polar scopes, iOptron iPolar
Computers: Dell desktops, MacOS MacMini, ASUS laptop, Intel NUC, Beelink MiniPD, PI, assorted software packages, iPhones, iPads
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Ed217 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 10:12 am I recently got the same unit for use with a WO Z61. Works great so far. One key is how you set the zero point. Then you can make notes about the focus points for common distant objects. For me, that was 8600. For testing with close objects around the house, it was in the 13,000 range.

In my case I found that flipping the focus bracket and knobs on the top worked better than on the lower part.
Ed,
From what I read and watching videos, the zero position is set within a couple of mm with the focuser all the way to the “in” position. I set my zero with the mm indication on the scope focuser at 2mm. Doing that, with the focuser fully extended to 95mm, the position from the eaf software indicates 23878.
Previously when imaging DSO the setting on the manual focuser on the telescope was close to 83mm which correlates to 21091 on the eaf software.
The backlash on this eaf equated to 35 steps.
Kerry

Scopes; William Optics GT 81mm Triplet, TS Optics APO 102mm f/7refractor, Cestron Nexstar 8SE, Gskyer 80mm x 400mm refractor
Mount; Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro
Cameras; ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro, QHY5iii462C, ZWO ASI224MC, Canon 600D DSLR T3i.
Guide scope; ZWO 60280 f/4.6
Guide camera; ASI290mm mini
Filters; Optolong L-eXtreme 2”, Optolong L-Pro 2”, QHYCCD IR/CUT, QHYCCD IR850
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nice gifts .
I LOVE REFRACTORS , :Astronomer1: :sprefac:

REFRACTOR , TS-Optics Doublet SD-APO 125 mm f/7.8 . Lunt 80mm MT Ha Doublet Refractor .

EYEPIECES, Delos , Delite and 26mm Nagler t5 , 2 zoom Svbony 7-21 , Orion Premium Linear BinoViewer .

FILTER , Nebustar 2 tele vue . Apm solar wedge . contrast booster 2 inches .

Mounts , berno mack 3 with telepod , cg-4 motorized , eq6 pro belt drive .

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
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Jean-Yves :flags-canada:
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