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Hello from Nice, France. Considering buying an OM1 MkII , I just came back to your excellent videos I made a playlist from a while ago, and I’m very sad about what’s happening to you and your family. May I ask you how you’re doing ?

merci cousin pour tes vidéos

what was your gain or iso?

Nice Ben, good new way to think about guide scope 👍

Do you run a UV/IR cut filter in your guide scope setup?

Hi Ben, got 1 of these for my SV122, thanks to you! And now have more ways to use it! Glad you better!!

I've been using this scope exactly as you mentioned in the video. I needed to PA when trying to use my 8" SCT. ASIAIR does not plate solve at 2000mm focal length. Now o used it for both the SCT and my Askar V. 👍

Very cool

Great video, as usual, I am just about to drop a review on the Askar 40mm FMA180 pro, for a guide and wide field imaging scope, but before I bought I looked at this little scope….so it’s nice to see this review..👍🏻

Can I ask something outside of this topic? Have you tried the seestar s50? Is it worth the small price, for the end results? 🤔 Thinking about getting it, next time I get a bit too much money 😅

I have the same guide scope on my mount and it works well.

Fun fact, Richard used to be at celestron, and the planewave cdk20 started its life as the celestron c20 astrograph. The losmandy G11 also started its life as the celestron G11, by losmandy, before being available with losmandy only branding

I really like reviews on smaller pieces of equipment like this. Normally guidescopes are purchased based on vibes and brand recognition.

Fantastic little guide 'scope. Coincidentally, after my last astro session I decided a new guide 'scope was needed for my new 8" RC 'scope with 1624mm FL, so this guide 'scope looks a great solution, I'll just have to check if it's capable of guiding such a long FL 'scope first. Thanks as always for the great content my friend! Wes, England.

Just bought an askar 103 and am looking for a guide scope next, perfect timing. Thanks for all the great info. It's good to see new videos from you, sir.

Good practical advice, thanks!!

Praying for you Ike your channel

It’s confusing that SVBony calls their 40mm f4 guide scope AND their 30mm f4 guide scope by the SV165.

Nice guide scope.

I used 91% isopropyl alcohol but even that leaves small streaks visible when shining a light to it 😢 i can't figure out what to do to remove them, hopefully they don't show up in flats :/

what is that extra plate on the back of the scope for?

I just got an E-M1X to shoot side by side with my Canons on wedding shoots. This camera is an underrated beast. It’s simply awesome to use, lightning fast AF, great colors, ergonomics. Paired with a PanaLeica 25mm f/1.4 lens and I get crazy sharp results and higher hit rate at wide apertures than with my Canon 50mm L lens.

Back then, well about 4 or 5 years after you, I was thinking of getting an orion 8"5 optical tube, but sold as a tube they didnt even come with rings and a dovetail, not to mention finder scope and eyepieces, so it really added up (i wouldn't have needed the eyepieces since it would have been scope #3 at the time, but back then when i got a new scope, I would sell the plossls that came with the scope) Since I wanted to also do film astrophotography (back in 2004) and was planning to piggyback my 80mmf11 refractor as a guide scope, i decided to go with the GSO made hardin Star-hoc4 which came with rings, finder and eyepieces. I did have to buy and shim orion rings afterall since the gso rings didnt have any way to piggyback. But yeah, i sold the GSO rings on astromart, as well as the 26 and 9 astrola plossls. I knew I was pushing my skyview pro to the limit, and the faster ratio, shorter focal length, and overal length, were benefits. But visually it got costly, as i needed to start getting some older used nagler and UWA eyepieces, since f4 really needed premium eyepieces. The 8" cost $300, and i had previously bought the SVP127 package because my nexstar 80gtl mount could be modified to take a dovetail, and handle up to a 127mak, which required a tripod upgrade, which i was easy able to rig a surplus tasco starguide 4 tripod (same as nexstar 5 tripod). I had planned it that way so i could have a little 5" visual goto rig, good for outreach as well as a 2nd scope in general when the 8" was being used, or when i was imaging and taking a break, but not wanting to lose my camera focus, I could look through the 5". Imaging was a full time commitment with film and manual guiding, not like later on when i would set up with digital camera and autoguider, once it was up and running I would play with 10" dob.

Baffled out a turned edge, nice. One thing about cutting your tube is it changes where the light cone intersects the secondary , which may or may not affect field illumination for better or worse

zwo 120 camera used $75.00 ... 120 celestron scope used $100.00..filter $20.00.. Celestron AVX mount used $600.00.. so I spent around $700.00 for my setup. compared to almost $6.000...

Excellent! Just what I needed to know. Wish I saw this in 2013 when I started and bought a huge scope. Great advice here. I have been doing OSC cameras and just want to jump into monochrome now with an ASI178 which I picked up cheap since it is discontinued. I have used the 533 and 183 color and just understanding mono now. Can I use an Optolong L'enhance with the mono and get a similar effect with the mono camera that you achieved with the Ha filter? I use the L'enhance with the OSC cameras. I want to slowly use the Monochrome scene. I was thinking of using the 178 as a guide camera besides based on your other video. I need better guiding. Thanks for your insights.

Hope for a breakthrough…

Wonderful interview. I had the pleasure of viewing through a nearly identical New Moon telescope at last year's Idaho Star Party. The fellow in the next campsite was happy to share this great telescope. PS...not much dew here in the high deserts and very low Bortle numbers.

Thanks for another great video. My first "astro" camera was a Nikon D40. It couldn't be outfitted with an intervalometer so I just timed exposures on my cell phone. That was the camera I already had and worked great as a learning tool since there were so many other aspects to learn.

Good review! Good to see someone who appreciates the telrad😁.

De butted ?

I am new to astrophotography (like a month) and have been receiving treatment for over 5 years. My condition is called "Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia" which is an untreatable bone marrow cancer. At the time of diagnosis, the oncologist said the condition existed years before I began treatment and did not seek treatment until the condition worsened. But with prayer and a loving wife I have been able to survive though many others die within five years. So be encouraged, I understand. We are not alone. My prayers are with you and your family. Keep up the good work!

I think you're talking a lot of crap !!! You're comparing a len that 20 years old with a lens of today .... like comparing tvs of 20 years ago with tvs of today !!! Apples and oranges e1 was a great camera of the day ... i have e1 e3 e5 e500 e510 e420 e300 and most of the 4/3 equipment... other that the iso / noisy image in low light they produced great photos !!!

Seestar and AAP are both built on open source libraries that obligate ZWO to open source both platforms. Maybe next time ask them why they refuse to? Lot of innovation being attempted with the Seestar, being stifled by ZWO.

I just tried it. Very easy to use and decent image, but SAVE as a JPG! No, I don't want a jpg.

Hi, whats the weight of the tube and cameras etc ? I ask as you are using.an am5 and this is something im considering with my 10inch dob tube.

i buy UV lens is to protect the camera, once I shoot I remove it.

em1iii, em1x, em5iii - charge by usb-c (pd). The specs are all good. Weather sealing and stab are always desirable. I would love to have any of these 3, but as a hobbyist, the price tag is the only drawback.Great vid!

Awesome Ben and George!

You're setting a good example.

See any Askar APO 140s out there?

Thanks for this! I just tried using my Skywatcher Skymax 127 on the AM3/ASi Air Plus for the first time 2 nights ago and kept getting a "narrow FOV" error...it never occurred to me to attach my small Gude scope and PA with that!

Bless you good sir. You and your heart towards people never cease to amaze me. I respect the heck out of you posting a link to his channel. Keep on keeping on man. You have taught me a while lot. Can't thank you enough.

Im a Network Engineer...that cable management makes me hard TBH

Which one has a better optical perfromance, the Svbony 122 triplet or the Askar 120 triplet ?

It’s cool just to hear other people talk about their rigs. I’ve learned a lot just from that.

Thank you for having me on the channel, Ben! I look forward to seeing you again at the next star party!

Mine just says no images in the lights tab to stack

The HAE69ec is pretty close to an AM9 😁

Beautiful scope 😍