SkyWatcher Evolux 82ED Hands On Demonstration!

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[@bridgeforth]

Glad I was not the only one to make that association with "ED." LOL

[@langers503]

Glad to hear yourself/family and the Byron Bay Observatory were left unscathed after those terrible floods.

[@aw7425]

So happy you’re all ok and you’re back….clear skies

[@redabdab]

Dylan, I can’t tell you how much I love your videos. Easily the most engaging, entertaining and informative of all of them! Thank you for everything you do. It’s hugely appreciated

[@DylanODonnell]

Ahh thx Stuart .. I appreciate that!

[@MrTyroneweaver]

Glad ya have such a positive outlook on stuff. I live in Burley, idaho.... but i have lived in Perth, Albany, Mildura and Adelaide

[@michaell1473]

I piggy back a RedCat on the back of my big 127mm refractor or the Edge 8, works great! Allows you to completely change up your targets in moments.

[@kevlarnegative]

I wish you'd saved that video on twitch, I'd love to see it. Lovely stuff. This scope is definitely on my buy list now.

[@keithhanssen7413]

Everyone should start out with a small refractor. So easy and so stinkin’ cute! 🥰

[@DylanODonnell]

I am doing things backwards aren’t I?

[@keithhanssen7413]

@@DylanODonnell there are no rules!

[@spodzone]

@@DylanODonnell Apparently I’m also going backwards. Initially set out with an 8” newt and mono in mind, had a phase of using lenses+OSC, just spent all winter with an 80ED - presumably the immediate forerunner to this 82ED - and more OSC. So it goes. :) Not bad M42 shot at all.

[@miklostothhorgosi8293]

Hey Dylan, great video. Just one thing, I would love to mention, next time you should remove the protector cap, from them 1/10 focuser side. (its like the feather touch focuser side). Cause I saw when you focused the scope the attach the camera, and I imagined the feather touch focuser just drilling it self in the protective case :D

[@ianwilson7718]

Glad to see you back, we are not getting a lot of info on the situation up north now, it's no longer a front page story so the news broadcasters have moved on. All the best & I hope thi ngs can get back to some sort of normal again soon. ✨🔭

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks Ian

[@astromatz]

Did anyone hear the little sigh in the background music, the camera is connected to the flattener? Knowing Dylan, that may not have been a coincidence... 😂 Everything is... wuff wuff! 👍

[@derekderek2570]

the new end of your intro is fiiiirreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@DylanODonnell]

Hey thanks for noticing !! Every year I cut a new version with slight improvements. In 2030 it’s going to be pretty rad.

[@antipodesastro667]

Yay! Missed Star Stuff 🤩 Great to see you’re doing ok! … the sound effects 😆

[@michs1708]

great vid, and it's like your definitely compensating for your ED by using the 11" for a guide scope 😂👍

[@DylanODonnell]

Yes I have to bring myself down to the common man’s focal length so I’m more relatable.

[@bluesterline]

I see at least one other has done the same as me. I used my old C925 with an OAG to guide a DSLR with a 24mm lens piggybacked underneath it on the dovetail. Then I bought the Evolux's precursor (Evostar 72) For a cheap toe in the water of short FL imaging (The Evolux looks better corrected than the Evostar going by your image) before spending some real money on a nice 80mm triplet, and a 10"F4 Newt to go with it. You can never have too many scopes. The Evostar spent some time doing guidescope duties too, before I sold it.

[@LearnToStargaze]

I just realized we both made videos on this scope around the same time. You seemed to have received far less snow during production.

[@Astrolavista]

Love your videos dude!

[@DylanODonnell]

Hey thanks so much!

[@ghostofrecon1]

I have a skywatcher 72ed and I absolutely love it. They make really nice refractors

[@JethroXP]

My EdgeHD is mounted side-by-side with my RASA and I use the EdgeHD with its OAG as the guide scope for the RASA. Works very well.

[@DylanODonnell]

Dream rig :)

[@antalperge1007]

Who cares 😂

[@JethroXP]

@@antalperge1007 Apparently you cared enough to comment, so.....

[@RoySalisbury]

I have used my AT10 RC for a guidescope with my side-by-side AT106 ... Works out great because I can also use the AT106 as the guidescope for my AT10. Takes a bit of configuring software to swap them, but its nice to be able to swap form a wide to narrow FOV in a few minutes.

[@johnalexandermcbryde9788]

C11 "you ain't gonna compete with me", 82ED "hold my beer"

[@grkuntzmd]

I started doing EAA about 1 year ago when I bought my Celestron 1100 Edge HD, Hyperstar V4, and ASI533MC Pro. On occasion, going back to full-on astrophotography is fun, but being able to see and photograph 15 or 20 targets in an evening is really nice. It's also a big hit at star parties, where I hook my ASIAir Pro and iPad to a 27" television monitor on the tailgate of my pickup truck. I get large crowds of people.

[@DylanODonnell]

Yeh that's boss :)

[@stew_redman]

I've got the 72ED. Absolutely love it. You're totally right about the flattener. Mine does work on a star adventurer with a DSLR, but it's at the limit I'd say. Easier to carry around than a RASA.

[@DylanODonnell]

Nice!

[@davidjames4915]

Have the same. The flattener is so annoying - it rocks just a bit in the drawtube with all the weight of the camera off the back, so I end up really tightening those thumbscrews down. I keep meaning to find someone with a lathe to create me a double-threaded ring that would thread onto the back of the 72ED drawtube and onto which the flattener would be threaded.

[@stew_redman]

@@davidjames4915 I use an Orion 0.8x flattener/reducer. No movement at all, even with a big full-frame DSLR hanging off it.

[@seansmith908]

I use my rasa 11 to guide my RedCat, works great!

[@andrewwellum6472]

Half expected a video of you loading animals 2 by 2 onto a boat, good to see your still with us. You guys have had it pretty rough down there, hopefully the worst is out the way. Stay safe.

[@DylanODonnell]

Ngl .. it was bad. It’s still pretty bad.

[@andrewwellum6472]

It has been literally a biblical flood, just so long as you didn't have visions of Morgan Freeman at the bottom of your driveway with a pile of wood you're good.

[@sirmeowcelot]

Way to go Dylan. Love your setup and enthusiasm. recently upgrade my set up too with a Skymax 180 and a redcat 71 on top. keep those good videos coming.

[@DylanODonnell]

Cheers sir !

[@marinaamgad5781]

New intro! Nice one man :)

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks for noticing Marina!

[@salvadormeza375]

Lmfao! Slick, putting the sound effect when you connected the camera. That had me rolling 😂😂

[@jonathanclark6337]

Dylan, I loved the video - as always! I've just got a Redcat 51 to (primarily!) use as a guide scope for my new RASA 8 (that I haven't tried yet). So far I've got my Edge HD 9.25 on the mount with the Redcat, and (soon) I'm going to try using the Edge as a guide scope for the Redcat - just for fun - though I think it should work well! BTW, did you know people are supposed to become like their dogs... ;^)

[@piotrjakuc6357]

Next video: I bought another C11 to be my C11's guidescope.

[@dennycote6339]

Hahahhaha

[@DylanODonnell]

Excellent idea 😆

[@TheBignick243]

@@DylanODonnell Don't you have an 11 RASA? hmmmmm...

[@sinsolosin]

Don't listen to anyone. Go for C14 as a guide scope for widefield!

[@DylanODonnell]

@@sinsolosin yes Ilya, yes.

[@ExoPhotography1]

I started off with a Celestron C9,25 and then quite quickly realized that 2350mm focal length is quite demanding for a beginner. I then bought a Meade 102mm series 5000 and was quite happy for five or six years. I know use the 9,25 only for visual and my main imaging scope is a Teleskop Service N-AG 10 carbon astrograph. 1000mm is perfect! :) /Daniel, Exo Photography

[@mycarolinaskies]

Welcome to 20th century AP as we were piggybacking ST80s in the 1990s dual imaging wide-narrow field simultaneously on our LX200s. But seriously, with modern broadcast EAA it really makes sense to have a wide-field version regardless of target. I'm working on something a little different for planetary with my 16" LX200 using a binoviewer to have one side show the best view of Jupiter while the other can show the moons too. This would also be ideal for lunar viewing at multiple perspectives. Something to think about!

[@davidszelbanszkhy9697]

That's one sick intro!

[@DylanODonnell]

WooP! thanks for noticing David :)

[@vertisce2845]

Ah! I've really missed your videos as of late. KZbin was hiding you from my feed!

[@DylanODonnell]

The only solution is to binge watch all my videos to trick KZbin into thinking I’m watchable.

[@vertisce2845]

@@DylanODonnell Again? Ok then...

[@douweodh4146]

Good to see you posting a video Dylan, you’re my favorite Astro-KZbinr on the Southern Hemisphere! Okay, you’re the only one I know of, but still 😉. By the way how is your guitar playing lately ? Are you a Fender guy or Gibson? Cheers!

[@DylanODonnell]

Gibson for Life! I know the G string headstock is poorly designed though. A Gibson with an evertune bridge to compensate would be my dream guitar :)

[@douweodh4146]

@@DylanODonnell haha. Being an Aussie you should be owning an SG then I guess

[@michael.a.covington]

I used to piggyback DSLRs with long lenses on an 8-inch Meade LX200, using the 8-inch as the guidescope. It worked...

[@Neanderthal75]

I froze hell over before you did. I was guiding with my 80mm refractor (560mm fr) and imaging with my guider (SW evoguide 50ED-(250mm fr) last summer. I'm gonna do it again. I switch the cameras around, make a new profile in PHD2, and there...we... go! Truth to be told, I would rather make a mosaic with the main scope, but the lack of clear skies lately, I'm lucky if I get 3-4hrs imaging time per month.

[@michaelw6173]

Been shitty weather, I have to drive through and around Lismore everyday and it is slowly returning to normality. But more bad weather this weekend, I can do without that. Think it is time to move back to the desert, but even it had problems. Keep up the good work

[@DylanODonnell]

Yeh look .. Lismore would be better off moving to the desert! Poor bastards.

[@astrofckups4305]

@@DylanODonnell Hope you're safe and dry in Byron Bay, saw that you got hit by flash flooding. Take care

[@Westlake]

Still the best intro! 👍🏻👍🏻🇨🇦

[@jasonpressler7111]

I use the WO Zenithstar 81 as my main, it was nice to be able to buy it bundled with the flattener.

[@majorskepticism7836]

I’ve been using a 30 year-old Vixen/Celestron C80f on top of a C9.25 for about 15 years. That 80mm f8 fluorite is as close to perfect as I’ve ever looked through. It’s also the best 600 (640)mm camera lens I’ve tried. I could probably think of something rude for the “f” to stand for. If I could only have one telescope…

[@Max6785]

Live stacking is definitely the way of the future. We did something like this w/ one of the scopes at our observatory for public nights last summer: Hook a color camera up to a large screen and zoom around the sky taking/stacking color exposures. We were doing it due to covid b/c no one could go into the obs itself and use eyepieces, but it worked so well it'll likely become the norm even if life ever goes back to normal.

[@dmccallie]

Live-stacking has taken over for public nights at our observatory as well. It’s proven very popular.

[@DylanODonnell]

Yeh have always been meaning to get around to it but prefer a mono cam on the main scope. This little setup solves that :)

[@StargazerFS128]

This scope looks great, I think I want one for no reason other than it would look great on my shelf cause I sure don’t have time to take pictures with it.

[@nathanrussell9503]

Well done and funny 😄

[@frednurk4772]

A nice eye piece and you will be set.. I have been using the ed50 with a zwo 224 and it has a near perfect match fov with my big scope, it makes a significant difference to my guiding. Fun is the word that comes to mind. Also flexibility.

[@newforestobservatory9322]

For just over a year I ran my C11 as a guide scope for a Sky90 - it really felt perverse.

[@leoncorns1450]

Liking the new intro image montage.

[@DylanODonnell]

Cheers man ! Me too!

[@sciencepetr5179]

Great video man!

[@foobee2]

I also like the green adonized steel. I think all green anodized aluminum would be better were it green adonized steel. :P

[@AF29007]

After battling with collimation and mirror alignment woes for the last month with my 8" f/4 newt, I've certainly started having... erroneous thoughts... Of maybe purchasing a refractor. Wider FOV, no collimation woes, no diffraction spike alignment issues... Perfect for widefield nebulae and clusters. They certainly have merit, especially for the newer astrophotographers. Cheaper, and much lighter and easier to guide too.

[@DylanODonnell]

Yep.. wide and forgiving!

[@AF29007]

@@DylanODonnell There's a yo momma joke in there somewhere

[@PilotPhteven]

I’d be interested to see how this stacks up against the Esprit series. Mainly the Esprit 80ED. Obviously doublet vs triplet. But wonder how much difference there really is to justify the price difference.

[@yosmith1]

Just so I understand this. In the Southern Hemisphere, you use the giant SCT for guiding and the spotting scope for primary imaging...got it :)

[@DylanODonnell]

Exactly !

[@andreww9252]

We do everything upside down here 🙃

[@jmannUSMC]

Wow, add cool astronomy to the great things on Twitch ANZ!

[@cyberblitz]

Yey, I managed to get on your vid in text form at the end. I'm famous ;) Nice vid too BTW. I think I may get this scope, could do with a new scope for deep sky stuff

[@DylanODonnell]

Hehe you made it 😅

[@Thunder_Dome45]

Australia is either on fire or under water I guess. Tough luck on that. M42 looks good there.

[@Durkan34]

A “Hell freezes over” video? Thought that would be reserved for the one where Dylan does visual astronomy and waxes lyrical about eyepieces. 😂

[@catherinegrimes2308]

Or gets religion.

[@fazergazer]

Little ED scope :”it’s not the size it’s how you use it”. C11: “ I got this” LOLS

[@alfreottero2015]

What was that at 4:06?🤣

[@DylanODonnell]

Standard insertion ;)

[@textandtelescope8199]

Working on a similar setup with my RASA 8 and SW Evoguide 50.

[@rkinnett]

Wait are you an astrophotographer or a visual astronomer? Hard to tell with all that hair. 🔥

[@jamesdougan8789]

g`day dylan so your dancing with the devil in hopefully no moon light lol .......cant wait to see what you can do with the evolux 72.. tonight looks good in sydney... hope your house came out of the floods in good shape and the family is all ok ...all part of living in paradise the rest of the time i guess ... great video mate cheers james D

[@DylanODonnell]

thanks man! power had to be safety checked and repaired but otherwise ok!

[@backyardspacedude4238]

“I don’t normally like to talk about the weather”

[@DylanODonnell]

I don’t!

[@noreaction1]

Since you have so many telescopes and cameras, have you tried your hand at an image that incorporates them all using adaptive optics? I’m sure you would be able to get a much sharper image than any of your equipment could on their own

[@fazergazer]

Did’ja use the focal reducer? Yep, ya did!

[@astroagashi2541]

4:05 was I the only one who heard mo*n! Screwing in QHY was pleasuring tho! 😂😂

[@DylanODonnell]

oddly satisfying

[@AstroDenny]

There are a ton of APO doublets out there. I like that this one comes with the flattener and I do like SkyWatcher scopes. Welcome back, Dylan! Just out of curiosity, what is your adult malt beverage of choice?

[@DylanODonnell]

It doesn't come with the flattener/reducer .. but it's essential so shouldn't be bought without it really :) My favee beer is Stone and Wood! Used to be the trendy hipster Pacific Ale, but really enjoying the blander / cheaper / classic / proletarian Green Coast Lager recently.

[@AstroDenny]

@@DylanODonnell If it's sold separately then it seems pretty pricy for a doublet, even with the higher gear prices these days. Finished image looked great though and I like the way the rig looks with the scope on top! On a beer note, we just had a German-style brewery open in my town and I'm enjoying the hell out of that! I hope normal comes back quickly for you! Clear skies!

[@rudgewickbrown]

I’ve used a similar setup with a samyang 135, guided by my edge 8 in hyperstar mode.🙃

[@danksolo6183]

Awesome

[@carltanner9065]

The Dave Grohl of Oz astronomy :) :P

[@banyantree8618]

Looking at the pricing - the Esprit looks to be a better instrument at similar price once you add the $700 reducer to the Evolux ?

[@TheRattleSnake3145]

Adonised!

[@RaysAstrophotography]

My Ghosh! Why I am such an avid watcher of your channel Dylan! You got everything! Question ❓ what are trying to show with this scope? Wide field?

[@DylanODonnell]

Thx Ray! Yeh just a wide colour preview.. not my main imaging scope ultimately :)

[@RaysAstrophotography]

@@DylanODonnell Awesome 👍 I don't get on twitch often. Do you mind sending simulcast on KZbin? Looks like I am missing some live events!! I still owe you what I promised!!

[@wolfyjaz]

6:27 Nice burn to the visual astronomers 😂

[@DylanODonnell]

Who, me??

[@midge9740]

dylan.. wtF was at 4:06. you have some explaining to do.

[@davidjames4915]

4:00 lol the infamous QHY rings make an appearance. Hopefully no bolt cutting (shortening) was involved. I'm confused though why you dropped down to M42 from M48 - why not use M48 rings/extenders and go straight into the 247 at that diameter?

[@DylanODonnell]

Just didn’t have the right adapters .. and getting them to Australia is sometimes .. long winded.

[@Invisible_one]

Hey Dylan, what do you use for data storage? I've gotten to a point where I think I'm going to build a TrueNas out of an old PC because I'm tired of buying external hard drives! Great episode as always! I lean towards refractors on the Mach2 but I always keep the RASA11 on the 1100GTO. Can't beat it combined with the 6200MM.

[@DylanODonnell]

Just lotts of HDs ... but I delete a lot of calibration data to save space. Just keep stacks and FITs. Usually a drive a year.

[@Mobius3c273]

Hi Dylan, can you tell me how to construct a Dark Libary. The problem isn't constructing them with various exposure lengths, my problem is exposures vs gain settings. If I recreate a dark from for every filter with every exposure and then every single gain setting, I won't have enough time im my life to enjoy the hobby. There has to be a better way. How do you construct your dark libary?

[@884ndy]

Thanks for the video... I've been recently getting back into my astronomy again (a small child plays havoc with nighttimes!). We attended StarStuff I - which was absolutely fantastic, do you think you'll ever do another StarStuff again (once everything is "normal" again)

[@DylanODonnell]

Ahh I'd love to do it again!

[@brandonrunyon]

A flexible setup! To me, it would be perfectly rational to guide at extreme focal lengths for a primary wider field refractor. Should be very precise! I do something similar, My esprit 100 is reduced to f3.6 and is just shy of my evoguide 50 ED fl which i also shoot through sometimes.

[@DylanODonnell]

It worked great! Haha

[@TheBignick243]

Those Losmandy adapters are the shizz. I use them to mount my guide scope and my asi air on my 8 inch edge.

[@psuaero100]

Enjoyed that (as usual)... how was your guiding with that monster scope? I caught the little sound add at 4:07. LOL

[@DylanODonnell]

Guiding would've been better without clouds .. but otherwise typically rock solid as evidenced by the perfect little round stars :)

[@volkertc]

Been waiting 4 months for my filed flattener/reducer...

[@DylanODonnell]

It's a bit like that these days isn't it?

[@djphild]

4:06. Dylan's handiwork or part of the track? Hmm? LOL

[@JarredDonkersley]

I was wondering if anyone caught that!

[@DylanODonnell]

I have advertisers so I have to make the sex jokes easter eggs they won't notice.

[@martinpalenik]

Hah I heard that too, LOL that was a large ... connection wasn't it?

[@fazergazer]

Best hair ever. You should start a band :)

[@ingzimmerman899]

Not Me.

[@andysmith4050]

You ever use the OAG set up as the primary camera and the “main” camera as the guide camera?🤔😉

[@runematthijssens2304]

Are the purple stars there because of the telescope(glass) or just because it was without a cut off filter?

[@DylanODonnell]

Yeh no filter at all.

[@flexable9256]

You definitely need a C11 for a stable base for that refractor.

[@DylanODonnell]

Does the trick :) $12k mount for $1.5k OTA 😂

[@davidaylsworth8964]

Hold on one moment mate. At 8:58 you say you have never receive a telescope in a Pelican case. Bad news, you still haven’t. I mean, it appears to be a nice case all the same with a molded interior. Thanks for the review.

[@DylanODonnell]

Oh the pedantry :)

[@davidaylsworth8964]

@@DylanODonnell OCD is me.

[@n-da-bunka2650]

First time I have EVER even considered Twitch... Damn you, you have me now considering signing up for yet ANOTHER platform just to see your live stream stuff ...LOL

[@DylanODonnell]

Hehe it’s a weird beast .. but I like it :)

[@Dudleydogg]

What frame rate is the camera on your new guide scope ?

[@werdsmyth]

I know this might sound like a dumb question...but...did you put a 2" filter in your setup? I have a 72ED with field flattener and have had to jerry-rig the setup in order to include a 2" filter. Feel like I must be doing it wrong because it seems incredibly complicated otherwise.

[@DylanODonnell]

For the big rig yeh.. for this little fella it's no filter.. straight colour cam.

[@snip3d]

The one time i wished there was a terrible time difference when streaming...

[@BritishBeachcomber]

Long hair Dylan? I've been growing mine since before COVID. It's almost down to my waist now ;)

[@DylanODonnell]

Yes I've given up on social norms throughout the pandemic too.

[@whisky911]

Now that's a wild setup. Did it guide well setup in that manner? I initially would of thought not with the extra weight. Super convenient if it works.

[@DylanODonnell]

Yeh ate it up :)

[@whisky911]

@@DylanODonnell Good lord now I need to give that a try with my Edge 9 1/4 and es102. I think my cgx can handle it.

[@iandobbin8068]

Was it difficult to get the balance with the extra weight? (Telescope, not hair) Great video 👍

[@DylanODonnell]

A little fiddly but not unusually so. Everything’s pretty symmetrical :)

[@neriamar4609]

Where did you get this lab coat?

[@necrotaur]

Great video. Question for you: I have an Edge 11 in a nexdome and am planning to piggyback a 500mm scope as well. Did you have any problems with both working at the same time through the opening? I was going to experiment with it, but seeing as you at least test drove was curious how it went setting the dome parameters. Thanks!!

[@DylanODonnell]

Yes it's a pain in the ass to be honest. Adjusting the Dome Offset helps a little and you can force the dome to the right place.. but it gradually rotates out of sync because the top OTA is riding so high. SGPs dome geometry sucks (I assume) but it's the better one so far. If push comes to shove I'll turn slaving off and manually nudge it to keep things ticking along. Hope to solve properly eventually.

[@necrotaur]

Yeah. I feel like straight up and down it lines up, but once it rotates, it's going to have a tight tolerance. I was hoping to image both at the same time, like a nice widefield shot with a close-up of some interesting feature. I suppose time will tell. NINA devs say their dome parameters are superior to ASCOM device hub. Guess it'll be time to try it out soon

[@Astrospacegeek]

you need to link your twitch in the description 😃

[@DylanODonnell]

Probably a good idea .. thx 🤣

[@thecalculator1000]

Nice one.