Thanks for staying up to make the video. I found it very useful. I have a Losmandy G11, and I'm fed up with all the motor/gearbox issues that I keep encountering...

I've had good luck with nichrome wire from amazon

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIWpZWR8o8eFpKc முன்னோர்கள் முட்டாளா இல்ல நாம முட்டாளா.... சிதம்பர ரகசியம் கட்டுக்கதையா!!! தமிழ்ப் புத்தாண்டு தையா? சித்திரையா? சிதம்பரம் நடராஜர் கோயில் மனித குலத்தின் பொக்கிஷம்... பண்டைய மனிதர்களின் ஒருங்கிணைந்த அறிவு பொக்கிஷம் சிதம்பரம் கோவிலில் உள்ளது.

So... in a nutshell... To avoid paying a 2000$ mount: You build an entire building + basement for your scope and get a motorized wifi mount... sure why not!

You cover a lot of ground on this topic! I like your philosophy on cheap but efficient design, lot of thinking before making a move... I think you deserve one more subscribers from Montréal!

Your intro make me laugh! Thank you!

Hi there Mr cheapastro! I just found your channel. This video is brilliant, really informative, well edited, well spoken words, all in one of the finest YT vids I've seen to date! Thanks! For context I'm Wes, up in Liverpool, and have been doing amateur visual astro for roughly 8 years and astro-imaging for 2.5 years. Many Thanks for the great video and clear skies!

For your USB thing, it might be 3 things. Your old CPU and uts buffer size it can pack in it are to small, buffer memmory on your USB is slow or to small or you can try to put it in the back of the moterboard in a USB 3.0 slot. Fromt USB usualy runns thro chipset chip, back USB are usualy linked directly to the CPU. Your laptop might have USBs linked to the CPU or the CPU has bigger buffer for data. So upgrade to maby Ryzen 5 3600x setup. Your 4th gen OC does not help you mate 😉

Cool the 10.to 1 has roller bearings I cut my tube 😂 didn't see the bearings just inside the scope tube 750pds now I need a new tube cut 30mm of should have done 20mm

Another good one! Were the belts provided in the kit that George sent you or did you have to source those yourself? Also, I am a little unclear as to how you actually adjust the tension with those brackets...

Another nice video there (you're going to see more comments from me as I work my way through them!) That... looks like a huge pain in the butt. Not the soldering bit, but the picking all of the right parts to buy part. I might have to send George an email and see if he can give me a hand on that front. I'm sure that this model works perfectly fine and that is no reason to go with the version 4 of it, but I must say that this video series has so far been a great way to let me know what I am getting myself into here.

I am about to start on my own OnStep journey. Not to add tracking to a non-goto mount but to fix an upgrade my old Celestron CG5 Advanced GT. The electronics in this thing are seriously sub part and have caused me nothing but trouble. Mechanically it is a great mount in my opinion, so I think with modern (and well matched) electronics and a belt driven upgrade it will be a HUGE upgrade. In the meantime I guess I'll have to see if I can carefully run my 130p-ds on my ES iexos 100-2 mount or do some wide field projects on it with my DSLR and lenses. I appreciate your honesty and I didn't even know about the OnStep kits, even the board you can buy from the links on the Wiki which is going to make this a lot easier for me. I don't mind paying a little more and doing some more work as long as I get a good product out of it.

Interesting. But how about the temperature inside, isn’t it a few degrees higher than outside? It has to be a few degrees warmer inside than outside, Isn’t that a problem? Did you maybe checked the inside / outside temperature to see the difference?

I've been waiting for someone to explain this, thanks. I wish someone would provide a set of tutorials getting into the nuances of STELARIUM. There is a lot that isn't obvious to me.

love it ❤😊

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Don't forget to regrease it! The cheap chinese glunck inside it could be considered glue.

When did gimp become free 1:06:45

Perfect, thx for this idea. Greetings from Germany.

Fuzzy Select tool in Gimp, which works better than Select By Color (also available in Gimp), has an adjustable threshold.

Fantastic Vid - keep meaning to give this a bash with my Stellarium so thanks for the guide ✨

Nicely done Nugsy I keep meaning to do this but I've never got round to it though

Most phones have a panoramic photo feature built in nowadays. In Android, whilst in the camera, scroll to "more" then "panoramic" is a option.

Thank you for this excellent video. If you want to brighten up the landscape so you can see it better when at night, you can click on minimal brightness under landscape. In your video, I couldn't see the landscape at all as it had blackened out.

Perfect buddy thank you.

Well, I'm stil here. Thanks for this.

Absolutely brilliant. I think you did a great job if it. Totally unique. One of these days I'll get around to building one myself. I've toyed around with so many ideas over the years. I've been on donedeal looking at sheds myself, and those metal yokes. Love the videos.

Wow, way to hit what I'm looking for exactly!! Cheers!

Love the counterweights!!! I seem to have had exactly the same path into astrophotography, from DSLR, to Nico Carver, to scanning extremely expensive gear I'm never going to buy to taking fabulous pictures of galaxies! (well fabulous to me, they are pictures of galaxies!!!). Keep 'em coming!

I use your guide scope heater on my imaging scope. Never seems to get very warm even on high :(

Hi, Where did you buy the brackets and motors?

I've enjoyed watching your caravan conversion videos today...But it would be best if you considered buying a multimeter. It will help a lot with your DIY due straps.