REVIEW: SVBony 60mm Guide Scope and PHD2 settings for Harmonic Drive Mount

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Whyf16uy

Күн бұрын

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@mosesrodriguez1494 Күн бұрын

Well, your final image is spectacular. Thanks for the tip about blackening the edges of the lenses.

@rohansalodkar1319 6 ай бұрын

Impressive guiding numbers! Congratulations on finishing the DIY mount. Pleasure watching it being built from scratch! Thanks 🎊

@Tony-Elliott 6 ай бұрын

Brilliant progress good results from your guiding, new guide scope looks great for the money

@whyf16uy 6 ай бұрын

Thanks. So far so good.

@realvidatv 3 ай бұрын

Really like your videos, thinking about DIYing a mount myself as I am on a tight budget and currently have no mount big enough for my new OTA. I've been hesitant because I don't want to invest the money only to get sub par results, but i think you have convinced me to try. Thanks!

@whyf16uy 3 ай бұрын

The results I'm getting far exceed anything I could buy for that money.

@dumpydalekobservatory 6 ай бұрын

Great job my friend looks like that mount & guidescope are performing well, I've got the smaller guidescope which you showed in your video which works ok but the stars look like comets for some reason & not points of light. I checked it out no pinched optics or anything so very weird. Clear skies!!

@whyf16uy 6 ай бұрын

The 30mm? Yeah that's always been a fiddly one for me to focus. It probably wouldn't be too hard to get it misaligned. I haven't liked the way you have to tighten the lock nut after you focus. Throws it off every time.

@Astro_Shed 6 ай бұрын

Great video, when you did your PA you got it to well under 1 arc min, so what did it show 10.8 arc mins on the PHD2 guide assistant..? That’s a huge difference…

@whyf16uy 6 ай бұрын

So I've noticed that before, even mentioned it in a previous video. I've tried the align in PHD2 also but haven't noticed much difference in the guiding. Guess I'll try it again now with the new mount. Thanks for the input. I still need to figure lots more out about this astrophotography crap.

@whatmattersmost6725 5 ай бұрын

Just subed, fyi I read by having the guide scope a bit out of focus improves guiding? Maybe the thinking is a bit larger star better?

@whyf16uy 4 ай бұрын

I've heard that too but the manual for phd2 says to focus sharp. So I guess it's up to you.

@hanimehrez9423 6 ай бұрын

Nothing beats using off access guiding with focal lengths over 500.

@whyf16uy 6 ай бұрын

Maybe some day

@christopherleveck6835 6 ай бұрын

I clicked on this because I have the same guide scope. Wanted to see if yours was good too or if maybe mine was a happy accident. I think it's better than it should be based on price.... I was surprised to find that we are using the same telescope.... Is that a 10in? If it's what I think it is, I haven't seen many of them. Information seems kind of scarce. I subbed. Going to look through your videos now to see if you have any info on the Meade.

@MatthewHolevinski 6 ай бұрын

At home I just use that guide scope and Svbony's 305M Pro camera, no muss no fuss.

@whyf16uy 6 ай бұрын

Mine is the 8. The 10 must b a monster, mine is already heavy enough. Yes, I have several videos on the care and feeding of the Meade Schmidt-Newtonian.

@whyf16uy 6 ай бұрын

@@MatthewHolevinskiThe 305M probably is a better guide cam than my color one.

@MatthewHolevinski 6 ай бұрын

@@whyf16uyoh probably a negligible difference, my favorite thing though is when you point it at something really bright like sirius you get this kaleidoscope rectangular starburst pattern it's really trippy and kinda pretty.

@whyf16uy 6 ай бұрын

@MatthewHolevinski cool, never seen that on mine

@cratervanawesome 5 ай бұрын

Any reason to use such short exposures? I was always told below 2seconds and you're usually just chasing seeing conditions and can be making the guiding worse.

@whyf16uy 5 ай бұрын

All the best practices you can find on harmonic drive mounts say .5 to 1 second are what they like.