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Month: February 2023

New camera

New camera

After months of research I decided to go for the ZWO 533 MCP as my final camera for EAA. It took me a while to get everything running and I struggled for two nights with:

  • Figuring out the correct backspacing for focus
  • Balancing the whole setup correctly
  • Cable management
  • Doing all that stuff in the cold instead of setting up things earlier like any normal astronomer would do.

I will not share a picture of the final setup because some of it is a bit embarrasing, such as the duct tape I used to stick the ASIAIR to the tripod;

The results for EAA area really good, considering my balancing, polar alignment, leveling and camera settings were all -to say the least- a bit experimental.

I don’t have a coma corrector but I still might try to take some longer exposures in the future.