5:59 stunning picture. Well done.

I am pretty happy with my Moonlite focuser. It has a clutch, and a knob to lock the imaging train at any angle. A bit on the heavy side, though.

This vid is all about what YOU find useless lol , The star maps in Astronomy mags are not pointless , they attract and help NEW people to Astronomy , get in to it. Your First telescope ...Just throw away the manual/instructions as this guy says they are pointless LMAO.

Dylan, I know this comment is pretty old...but...have you ever wondered...Why don't these observatory manufacturers make the walls and entry points a little taller? Do they think every astronomer is 4' tall? "NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH IT..." Just something that I stay up at night wondering...

More that 50 years after I first suggested it, I maintain that it is either a former or a latent quasar.

It looks like you mounted a generic finder shoe to the edge hd instead of the fancy celestron one? What screws did you use and how did you find out the size?

Yaaa, it will clean our bank accounts also every year 😅😂

Glad to see you are having fun with it again. You are an inspiration.

Show off. Images are sooooo good Dylan.

Your spam about HPS is working well, I think I'll put my first PO to them.... amazing online store

This is one hackjob of a hack!!!! Lemme know when you toss the old scope on the trash so I can "recycle" it. Lol

Haha, my Hα scope's 10mm bigger than yours!! (just don't pull out that 14" lady slayer you've got, it makes me feel self-conscious and inadequate...)

Yoh what a nice picture bro!

Firstly, if you have a question it is more appropriate to post it in a forum not YT so people do not have to watch ads to get the answer. I answer your question nonetheless, for your respected audience. For a small telescope (say diameter smaller than 20cm) the coherence length of atmospheric turbulences is on the same order and they won't result in much of image distortion but mainly tilt. That's why you won't need adaptive optics for small telescopes and you couldn't do adaptive anyway (technological challenge). In such cases a fast tilt correct (active optics) would do the job of adaptive optics. If this is done fast enough (faster characteristic time of turbulences, typically 10ms) then this system partially corrects for turbulences, wind, vibrations etc. However in practice it is hard to achieve. One issue is capturing fast guiding images. Like you mentioned, these days there are other ways for mitigating object movements and mounts are much better than they were before. In case of very large telescopes you would need true adaptive optics of course due to the aperture covering multiple atmospheric cells. Thanks

Never drink and polar align

They didn't make you pay? Also, it's ok, the Mormon's will have baptized you without your consent, or even present.

I guess this is why my parents raised me as a Lutheran. There's nothing wrong with having a higher faith in the good of humanity, in fact I personally think the world would be a lot better off if there was more of it. The world is missing a general common sense grounded base. Religion didn't screw up religion, people did. I mean, if everything is truly meaningless, then why does it even matter? That in and of itself kind of makes this a contradiction, because, it did matter enough for you to take the action you did and make this video. Maybe the more important thing is, the realization, that what makes life meaningful - are in fact the things that make it interesting!

Bang for buck? nah, I think newtonians are the best bang for your buck

Glass half full or Half empty? We always thought smaller stars are newer growing stars and bigger stars are older stars. but smaller stars are older stars , bigger stars are newer stars. By measuring how stars oscillate you can find that. Now what device measure stars wobble? how do we differentiate with signal noise. Can we even measure it based on ground based telescope? You probably need several telescope from different location to remove noise first and then wobble can be measured. Only Rich NASA can do most of this. NASA is cult organization.They wont do anything to find truth but propagate existing lies

My fkn bank keeping me from cleaning my scopes.

I’ve never seen this much difference between two images of the same target.

You made my night with your child-like excitement. You are clearly going to do amazing things with that beast (That's what she said)

according to, i think, Rafael the master artist, "artists do their best work when they don't know what they're doing" 🤔 i think you proved that 🤷‍♂️ 😎👍

I guess God isn't that mad at you. Look at your life and family.

Very good image at f11, Dylan. I think most misconceptions about imaging at those f-ratios come from the fact that in a lens you need to vary aperture to change f-number. Instead, in a telescope you vary focal length to change f-number. Thus, having the same aperture in a telescope, the signal gathered is the same, regardless of focal length. Did you bin your image? If that’s the case, did you bin after stacking? Regards, from Bogota, Colombia. Alfredo

Great start with the new scope, Dylan! The focuser seems like the perfect addition. Glad the conditions worked out for some testing-I’m blown away by your results too! Enjoy the new gear and the incredible views!

That was awesome 👏🏻 👏🏻 How fantastic getting detail like that on a test run! Love those moments when you see a sub and go f**cking hell 😮 Cheers Simon

One trick you can do if you are doing this manually with NINA is turn the bullseye overlay on, then using your mount fine movements, center the bright donut star directly in the center and you can adjust the focus and magnification so that the star is the same size as the bullseye overlay. It's then super easy to tell when your dark center is dead-on.

Ahh man trilling Love the energy, :-) Love the image.

Now you understand 'aperture'.... lol. I appreciated you sharing your 11" version, it really sets a perspective what 14" of pure focal length insanity can do.

Incredible!

Beautiful work! Love all the detail that is brought out.

That's cool ! You don't need no sticken OAG, just slap a 50mm guide scope on that bad boy and let the good times roll baby ! Yee Haa.... ;-) That's what I'm talkin about !! LOL

Wow, mind blowing 🤯 that’s amazing Dylan. Thanks for sharing ✨🔭🖤

Great, Dylan! Simoly try something you know is madness and sometimes wonders happen! Had a similar experience when I tried a 3.000 mm unguided shot, camera adapted via zenith prism because I was too lazy to look for extension rings. Voila - my best Sombrero! 😂

Holy shit Bro. That’s insane 🎉❤

What Skywatcher? ;-)

Pauses video to check for elongated stars.

Sweet!

C14 is F11 mate, also, you did what before marriage ? Blasphemy ! 😬

Great details Dylan, but get away from that Magenta color.

WOW! Still need a non-ASI Air computer...and the StellarmatePro sucks.

No need to apologize, you're just using your brain, that's it ! We'll soon have the same issue in France, what a shame ... Congratulations for all the work and passion you share 🙏🏼

this really makes me want to dump a ton of money into an insane focal length rig. ugh

Hey, cheer up a little with that C14. 😂

Love you content, keep doing it!

3:23 Just had my 4 year son Rigel, and my 6 year daughter Saturn last night for this view to look at their namesakes in Bangkok. We have about 15 nights total without clouds but very heavy light pollution.

Dammit Dylan...to ease my aperture-envy a little I went out and bought a C9.25. Now my wife is very dark at me and she is going to go out and do some punitive spending. It is all your fault.!

I love the laughter you and your wife had, about arcane religious beliefs.

Wow! so exciting! Gives me great incentive to do more.