hello world ...
This is my new setup, focus was on no wire tangle, single 12v source and portable for holidays / night trips with a car.
Where i live in sunny (not) Sussex in England, we tend to have weather windows of 3 to 4 hrs.
So the telescope needs to be fast (f3.7) and setup / tear down needs to be quick as well.
(Take me about 30min to unpack setup and polar align and about 30min to capture flats and tear down.)
I run my entire setup off 12v and a NUC. I have a dedicated rugged thinkpad for client.
The NUC is powerful enough to run kstars and indi, for totally remote work, if needed.
iOptron GEM45 | Altair Pier
Mount and pier weigh in at 12kg, without the counterweights.
PEC and worm cycle of 400sec, very accurate guiding of 1.5
Can carry a imaging payload of up to 18kg, without counter weights
ASI 120MM | 30 x 150 Guide
Custom guide scope built into the mount head instead of iguider.
This custom setup can accurately guide up to about 1500 focal length.
TSPhoton 154 | TSComa .95 | F3.7
This fast light Newtonian, is great for short weather windows.
It weighs in at 5kg and is twice as fast as my 80ED.
ASI 294MM Pro | ASI EFW (LRGBHa) | ASI EAF
ASI all the way here, great combo that is really light.
This can capture 8k images at 2.35um or 4k images at 4.7um
What this means is i can effectively do wide field at home.
And deep field at remote locations. (Still to be tested.)
Mini PC | Quad 4GB 64GB 5G | Juice USB Harness
This little weather proof PC is actually my second one.
I started with a atom NUC, which was faster and used less juice.
However i trashed it by accident as they are not the most weather proof / power resistant.
My current one is actually built as a router, so it has exceptional wifi and power regulation.
It auto shutdown on power fluctuations.