Congrats on the new mount! I can't wait to see it running in the field.

The days of heavy mounts is rapidly coming to an end, gonna grab one of these myself. Good luck with it.

@derekbaker3279

Жыл бұрын

Yes & no. The Periodic Error on harmonic mounts is relatively high, and in some cases the periodic error occurs quickly. That means that, for moderate focal length systems, guiding corrections every second or so are necessary. This shouldn't be a problem with a short focal length guide-scope, or an off-axis guider on a short/moderate focal length system, however finding guide starts that a bright enough for 1 second exposures with long focal length systems may prove to be more of a challenge. So, IMHO, harmonic mounts may take over the market for applications such as short/moderate focal length astrophotography & travel rigs, but may not do so with longer focal length systems....at least not in the immediate future (perhaps when harmonic mounts with quality encoders become more affordable).

Really looks like a super mount, and so portable too - wow! :-D Can't wait to hear your thoughts on it soon!

Sweet setup! Can’t wait for the full review. How long did you have to wait on that mount once you ordered it?

Here's hoping it does a great job for you. I am likely going to order one as soon as I read reviews about its capabilities. Going mobile is my target area, public star party, visiting family, those types of things.

Interesting mount and as a time saver no need to balance either axis (couldn’t if you wanted - no clutch) will really speed up setup.

Enjoy and clear skies, just turned mine on and need to do better cable management.

congrats. got one myself last week. getting

@GalacticHunter

Жыл бұрын

Wow excellent guiding, awesome!

Many hours of fun ahead of you. Use it well.

Thank you ! You saved me a lot of money. I was thinking of getting this mount but it’s too short and doesn’t not rotate on its own ? Wow !

Very interested in your opinion after you use it a few times - clear skies 😁

Can’t wait for the full review. Definite curbside appeal though!

What where those two screws for that you took off the bottom of the mount?

nice one

Hope you enjoy your mount. I got mine last week and have managed to do one session with it, and I am glad to say it worked a dream. Guiding was great and I had nice round stars (I was only doing 120s exposures on my DSLR). Everything seemed to work. Super happy.

@GalacticHunter

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, glad to hear!

@derekbaker3279

Жыл бұрын

Hi Jonathan. How short were the exposures taken by your guide camera? From everything I have read/seen, the mount has a lot of PE, so very frequent guiding corrections are a necessity.

@jonathanpearceff

Жыл бұрын

@@derekbaker3279 I was playing around with 0.5 seconds and 1 second, with mid gain as was imaging in Bortle 8 sky. With these exposure settings I couldn’t really see a difference. I was also playing with the aggression settings and had both on 60%, but to be honest I don’t really know what they do as this was my first time guiding on a proper mount - had a star tracker up to now. Looking at a image I took of my ASIAIR app, I was getting RA at 0.39”, DEC 0.26”, Total 0.47” (is this good, I don’t know to be honest). My PA could have been better, I think I was in the 2’ circle but I was as in too much of a hurry to start as it was getting late.

@hammock753

Жыл бұрын

@jonathanpearceff how long was it from order to delivery?

@jonathanpearceff

Жыл бұрын

@@hammock753 I must of hit an order sweet spot. Ordered on 7th August, arrived 24th august.

Nice mount... the pouch could also take a small weight to steady the set up

Oh wow good things I've heard about these

ZMO? Interesting...lol Awesome video as always. Id love one of this lil guys.

@GalacticHunter

Жыл бұрын

I must have typed it while upside down 😆 Fixed, thanks!

Can you fit a C11 on that AM5?

How long did you have to wait to get it? I ordered in august, and am still waiting.

super cool! When the preorder came out, I was either going to order it or the RASA 8. 2nd guess myself sometimes, but Im super happy with the RASA 8 so far! cant wait to see how it works for you

@GalacticHunter

Жыл бұрын

Nice, I've had a RASA 8 for a while but it came with insane tilt issues so I still haven't made a single video about it...

@Tim_the_Astronurd

Жыл бұрын

@@GalacticHunter oh thats too bad! Mine was from the batch with the mirror defect! Tilt and collimation are great though. I printed a step down ring to correct the mirror and with the 533mc it works great. Its still imaging at F/2.2 even with the ring, and Im ok with that

Hi guys, you think i should trade in/sell my CEM40, wanted to go up scope size like a RASA or 8 inch Edge?

Always find an excuse to buy a new mount/telescope 🙂!!!

How do you balance the mount if you cannot unlock the RA & Dec?

@damiengalanaud3817

Жыл бұрын

You don’t need to balance the mount, that’s another huge advantage of the harmonic drives. In my experience, you should still do a rough balancing in the DEC axis for the sake of stability, but even this is not strictly necessary.

How to take flats with a white t-shirt light on the top method? should we change to alt-azimuth mode?

@GalacticHunter

Жыл бұрын

You can just use the ASIAir or the laptop slew controls to slew the mount to the Zenith

@deepd4393

Жыл бұрын

​@@GalacticHunter Thank you. I've another question as well. I don't have north view at all, hence I kept my AM5 towards true north and want to try ASIAir All Sky Polar alignment. So, to make the scope pointing south, Should I use hand controller and slew scope towards south or use ASIAir sky atlas to select some object from south(Before PA will it be fine?). I'm little confused, any reply can very helpful,

Salut Antoine. Pourquoi ne suis-je pas surpris que tu l’ais achetée ;-) ? J’ai pré commandé la mienne fin décembre et l’ai reçue début juillet. C’est vraiment un « game changer » pour ceux qui comme toi et moi doivent faire des dizaines de km pour trouver un ciel clair. Outre la fin de la galère d’avoir à charger/décharger des dizaines de kg, je gagne facilement 20 minutes de mise en station comparativement à mon HEQ5, et avec un C8 EDGE ! Deux remarques concernant le hand controller: - il est très bien fichu et super pratique pour faire des réglages fins de positions, par exemple pour le centrage sur une étoile ou pour fignoler le cadrage - il porte le signal WiFi., et la connection est super stable. Si tu utilises un PC et non l’ASI AIR, ça fait un cable en moins à gérer et c’est toujours ça de pris.

@GalacticHunter

Жыл бұрын

Super d'entendre ça et oui, c'est clair que ca fait gagner du temps ! Ah je savais pas pour le HC et le wifi, super cam je vais donc la brancher quand j'imagerais avec le PC, merci !

Hope you make a video showing it in action

@GalacticHunter

Жыл бұрын

Definitely!