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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 😍

For reference, that tilt plate completely de-couples the primary mirror from the focuser. What it boils down to, it is the only true way to collimate your RC scope, and hold the collimation. Those small "tilt ring" adapters that get screwed on? Throw them in the trash - they are worthless. This also completely eliminates focuser tilt (if you have a good focuser) by using M6 bolts to hold the image train, vs the factory M4 collimation screws holding both the primary, AND your image train. Now the M4 factory bolts hold just the primary. Alex has the very first or second prototype made. The design has been streamlined into a kit that can be sent home, and you just need a few tools to install it. It can be done on the tailgate of a truck. Mine held collimation over 4000 miles in the back of my truck during the eclipse. Source: I make them.

Thanks!

I bought my RC used, and out of collimation (of course). I though I collimated it quite well - donuts seemed to be perfectly round, but then I realised I cannot get it into good focus under high magnification - it looks like it has some serious spherical aberrations, so now I need to plate solve an image to find how much off it is from its native focal length, move secondary mirror, do it probably few more times, and then collimate the secondary again. When other scopes just work, RC one is a challenge itself, but I like it.

I recognized that scope right away with the custom isolation plate on the rear cell. I just purchased an AT8RC and deciding if I should use the factory tilt plate

Would this filter work good with a f4.8 telescope without any shifting?

For some reason that AM5 looks huge from that angle. I thought it was AM7 or something

Informative and exciting talk - with content. Thank you.

So which is it? Are you having supper? Or fasting? 🤦🏼‍♂️

Great Interview!

Nice Interview!

The Tak epsilon are excellent astrograph!

Great Interview!

Great Interview!

Great interview!

Sure is good to see you out and about doing what you do so well ....

Thanks i stacked my first photo M51. I pray for your total remission.

So glad to see you Ben!!

At the start of this video you mention the 178 but at the end it is now the 174. I am a bit confused and since I really need to go with something other than the 220 that I just bought it is the 178 or the 174?

I am new to this guide scope business and just bought the ASI220MM-Mini. Nothing but trouble. It does not work with APT, SharpCap, or PHD2 without an extraordinary amount of back and forth playing. The only way I was able to get an image on SharpCap was after I had connected the ASI220 to APT and turned on LiveView. With APT LiveView on an image immediately appeared on the SharpCap screen. Starting APT first was the only way to get an image with PHD2. Too many headaches with this guide camera.

Would love to have that takahashi! Might have to settle for a sharpstar haha

Hope you have a great week, Ben!