I bought my new DSI and had great skies that night unfortunetly the DSI was defective and would not work. I took it back and while I am waiting for my next new...
Hi Ken. Looks like you're off to a great start. That LPI does a good job. I wish I had an electric focuser on my SCT, it'd sure make life easier, especially...
I purchased a Meade Deep Sky Imager Pro II with AutoStar Suite Monochrome CCD Camera during the recent half off the sale price. It came with DSI I software. I...
Hi Charles, My first night out was a little frustrating as well, figuring the ins/outs of the PRO II and envisage, requires quite a bit of patience. Here are a...
Regarding "parfocal", if you use a 6.3 or a 3.3 focal reducer and have your star centered using a 32 mm eyepiece, there's no need to use a parfocal ring. When...
Hi Bob, nice capture. Lots of detail starting to show up in the arms. M106 sure is a looker. What mount are you using for tracking? ... with .33 FR & ... 1.24...
Hi Brandon, Hop over to myastrospace dot com and post in the forums. Radar, the creator of that site uses a G11. I'm sure he'll be able to enlighten you. Just...
Thanks for the compliment! Would have liked to have gotten more Blue frames, but high clouds had other ideas. My mount is made by Meade, and is the one that...
Hi folks. I'm after an adaptor/cradle similar to the Astroengineering 'DSIwide' for mounting a Canon FD lens (not the EOS) lens onto a Meade Deep Sky Imager...
Last night I took 38 additional blue frames of M106 and added them to my recent photo, which only had 10 frames blue due to bad seeing and high clouds. I...
Hi Bob, I can see where one of the rotation frames is, and the right- hand edge of the stacking process is showing in the pic as well. Not sure if you can...
Yeah, I saw that, and could have cropped it out without losing much of the photo. I'm not quite sure how to use the gradient tool. I increased the brightness...
Hello everyone - My name is Patrick and I am new to the group. I want to get a DSI II but before I actually purchased it, I wanted to get some advice about...
Welcome to the group Patrick. It doesn't look like anyone has input on this one. I Have an Obsession DOB that I have used but it has dual axis tracking. It...
Hi Patrick, Welcome to the group - You have a "Poncet" type platform, so this will track equatorially. I dont have any experience of this for imaging though,...
Hi all, I had a short session w/M57 Wed. night 5/21. Turned out something like this. (if the link works.) http://tinyurl.com/4rrwhd This is with the DSI Pro...
thanks Tim - I had thought about getting a focal reducer - what does that do to the amount of in-focus or back focus needed with the camera - does it increase...
... When you put on a focal reducer you need to move the focuser in, closer to the objective. The amount of in-movement you need depends on the focal length...
Hello All, I have been using my DSI PRO on an ED80 with EQ mount and having sucess with derotation in Envisage,getting good images. Tonight was my first try...
ok, well it looks like this isn't going to work out as my scope does not lend itself to deep sky images , it seems. . I do have another DOB - it is an 8" f/6...
Envisage is tracking for stacking purposes, it's not guiding. So, as you drift, the mount is not correcting for that. There is a way to make Envisage guide...
Hi Geoff, 1.)When using a German equitorial mount, images do not have to be de- rotated. 2.)You need to precisely polar align your mount. I believe Declination...
Hi Patrick. Sorry I dont know how much a reducer effects back focus, but Bud does - please see his reply. All the best Tim ... the ... equatorially. I ... see ...
Since my long focal length DOB (1778mm) isn't really going to work for deep sky imaging, I was thinking about getting a WO Zenithstar 80mm (544mm FL) and...
Hi Patrick, I think you will have more success with shorter focal lengths, and your 8" F/6, or WO Zenithstar (80mm F/6) would be better for Deep Sky. Ive read...
I imaged M63 last night, only to have an otherwise good photo ruined by pesky tracking marks. Even after taking and subtracting 10 dark frames for each color...
Sorry, I didn't give a web site for M63 with tracking marks. Here it is: http://tinyurl.com/3fpano Thanks for any additional help anyone can give. Bob McDuell...
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