Hey, by the way, I had to move the dovetail bar way back to get it balanced with a camera on the back. Otherwise it was very poorly balance fore and aft (very back heavy). I had to remove the thumb screw under the focuser or the bar wouldn't sit flat on the ring. Even at the end of the bar with it under the focuser, the balance is nip and tuck with a Sony A7 III on it. It's sill a bit back heavy and that's without the focal reducer.

Good to see you back mate Hope your Christmas (and earlier Birthday) went well

Hey Steven, was that camera fully astro modded or just Ha? Also, would you mind please sharing your processing workflow for that shot? The only other question is what Bortle number your site is. Really great work. I already have the GTi but have only used it with a camera and lens with mixed results. This is the rig I’m look at but using an Olympus E-P5 body because it’s so tiny and only weighs 420 grams. The Olympus camera with that scope, that mount and an ASIAir Mini should do me very well, I think. Any advice would be appreciated.

Is there threads for a LP filter? or do I need a filter drawer?

Merry Christmas Steven and a joyous new year to you my friend. Best regards Luis from NY

Merry Christmas Steven and a joyous new year to you my friend. Best regards Luis from NY

So glad you’re back Steve

That’s gotta be the best looking rasa in my humble opinion. I think this has been a good 6months too since I’ve been able to go imaging. The weather has just not been conducive to it so took the time to strip and clean my mount. Can’t wait now to try it out in earnest. I do like some Talisker too, that’s a good drop 😊

Merry Christmas Steven! Look forward to more of your educational videos in 2025!

Merry Christmas mate hope you have a great new year too, look forward to watching pimp my RASA's in the new year soon. Clear skies!!

Ahhh single channel audio!! Good to see you making videos!

Steve, Merry Christmas from a cold Berlin , Germany 🇩🇪. I'm spending the holidays and my birthday with my family I bought the Skywatcher adventurer with me and the Canon 600D camera, and a Sanyang 14mm lens , I hope to some imageing while I'm here. Let me wish you happy , and holidays and the best in 2025.😊

Great to see you again buddy. Clear skies 👍

Yeah mate, Merry Christmas and clear skies for 2025. All the best 🙂

Merry Christmas Steve from the south of Spain

Merry Christmas Steve have a good one. 🎄🎅🎄

Hey Steven, i dont know if i am the only one but everytime i watch your Videos, the sound is only on my left side of the headphones. At 2:44 it is normal again and at 2:54 the same problem again Keep Going the nice Work

Happy Christmas Steve 😀👍

Hi, I need some information about the tracking mount you are using (or what's out there). I have a Z8 and planning to buy either 14-30 or 17-28. Will do some astro with that too. However, I have zero knowledge about the tracking mounts. I visited some websites but don't know where to start. Please advise. Thanks

Good job! will you ever make a model with curved vanes in order to get rid off the spikes? thanks

Nice video. Do you have any autoguiding video with this mount & asiair? Thanks in advance 👍

synthetic aperture?

Isn’t the extension make the assembly less stable?

Glad to hear you’re ok! Were you able to get your fences built?

Thanks, just trying to work up the courage to fit mine, worried about tightening the ring down.

Thanks very much. It didn't occur to me not to run the sa gti through the skywatcher app. That's one fewer screen to worry about!

great video. ive picked up a CQ350. would you mind sharing your guiding setpoints? guiding speed, max RA and DEC times and calibration numbers?

Hi Steve! I have a Nikon z7ii as well, and am thinking of hooking it up to NINA on my rig. What do you use to connect it to NINA? Seems like the only way is to use the WT-7 or similar?

Hi Steven! Just wondering if you could confirm something for me .. I’ve got a 8se and having a hell of a time aligning it using the recommended auto 2 star alignment …. There’s nothing mentioned in the manual or any video I’ve come across and that’s if if you’re in the southern hemisphere do you need to power on the mount with the scope pointing south? The CPWI software on the laptop mentions pointing to north after entering location etc (Auckland) in my case … any suggestions? Gah!! :)

Have you any thoughts on the Evolux 62ed compressor to the WO Zenithstar 61ii?

This is great information as a starter. When i connect the USB to the mount and a pit the switch to on nothing happens. How did you get this to work? (I have a small 12V powersupply and when that is connected it turns on, however it will only work in the sysnscan app, but not in NINA. )

Very helpful video. Wondering if you have experienced this problem: Using NINA to plate solve and find objects, I find that it seems to "fight" with the CPWI software. When I command a slew to an object from NINA it will go to the object, or near it, and continually reposition. It seems that the CPWI is also telling the mount to move but not agreeing with the final position. I use the Celestron Starsense autoguider but don't engage guiding at this point. I have been connecting NINA to the mount (CGX-L) using the CPWI option rather than the Device Hub Telescope (and, yes, have experienced disconnects as you mention). Any suggestions other than to try the Device Hub Telescope route? Thanks.

Did you have to do a star alignment or just pola alignment.

Hi, I just got my Sky-watcher adventure gti I'm little confused can you tell me how you do a polar aliment with the ZWO asiair please

Amazing how KZbin serves up videos in "the nick of time." My Star Adventurer GTI and ASI Air will arrive this week. And I'm a new subscriber. I probably have a lot to learn as I head into this new hobby. Cheers!

You said there is a usb cable on the gti mount but there isn’t?

wow... impressive. I have the z6II with Nikon 50mm f1.8s piggy back on SCT... I may try handhold,,, Just to try it...

Steve, it’s been some time (3 months) since we’ve heard from you. Hope everything is going ok.

The magpies in the background sold me!

Mindlowing shot. Location name please.

Tracking is great unguided! But unfortunatly no dithering possible in the SynScan app, which is a HUGE bummer

Thanks for this. I noticed that your guiding rate is 0.5x. Will this not cause issues with guiding? It should be 1x no?

What size is the losmandy plate on your Rasa?

Nice video Steven 😊. I was just wondering if you have completed your SMC project yet? All the very best, Dougie from Scotland.

Great Design. Can't wait to purchase and print.

Great design!!!

What is this nonsense

Great video! I know this is an old video but I just found your great channel and will be getting into astrophotography with my Nikon z50. I've been reading about the internal intervalometer and I've seen that in order to get a 30 second exposure you have to set your interval time longer than 30 seconds so I'm just wondering if you could tell me what you set your interval time to in the z50 to achieve 30 second exposures. Thanks!

i had many issues with the phone app, the goto function never worked well, now im using Green Swamp server to connect to the mount and Nina, my main question is, everytime i want to change target, do i have to go back to park position before changing? otherwise it seems like the mount goes over the meridian and the gears just gets stuck in the limits, did you encounter this problem too?

Steven, thank you for a very helpful, hands-on video. Just got my SA GTI and AsiAir+ and am trying to connect everything. Question, if I may: you connected the AA+ to the GTI's USB port. I've seen people using instead the GTI's Hand Cntrl port w/ a cable w/ an RJ45 connector at the end. Is that immaterial for operating the mount w/ the AA+? Thank you!