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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Good choice of gear. I think you chose well.
The RCs are also more finicky to image with and probably need
some modification to bring them up to being operational.
8 inch F5 imaging will be very rewarding.
You will need a Baader MPCC coma corrector and whatever adapter is needed
to connect it to your DSLR.
Also its good to have a laser collimator. I bought a cheap Antares unit
from Scope Stuff that did the job. I found it very very hard to collimate
my Vixen R200SS F5 200mm Newt without it. But with it it was very
easy and only took about 5 minutes to collimate.
Greg.
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Thanks Greg,
I picked up a Baader MPCC at the same time as the mount and I think I already have all the T ring adaptors I need to connect it to the scope as I tried this with the 12" dob previously.
I have a Laser collimator also from the dob days.
Now that I have the hand controller reflashed (after some DARK time when I killed it with my USB to serial converter) I found Geoff's post about using a REAL serial port and she is now working again. SCHWEEET.
Now I can get back to working out the Stellarium to HEQ5 tutorial which wasnt working because the USB to serial had the wrong driver, fingers crossed, I should have that worked out soon.
MAN, I havent even had time to collimate it yet.
Might post a pic soon, this thing is A BEAST, almost 6 foot tall with the tripod legs DOWN! Glad I didnt go for the 10" - that would have been massive.
Cheers
Chris