Hi everyone and welcome back to the channel. So in today's video I'm going to go through a few changes that I've made to my rig with the 130pds and then we're going to talk about a collaboration I'm doing with Joan Navara and James from DSO Imager. We're working on a really lovely target and I can't wait to share it with you. My name's Glen and you're watching AstroBloak. So hi everyone I hope you all keep in well and welcome back to my latest video. So in recent videos I've been doing lots of modifications to the 130pds the scope here. It's sitting on my EQ6. Tonight we're going to be working on a collaboration. I'm going to be adding some more data to the flying back and squid nebula. So James from DSO Imager invited myself and Joan Navara to join him and work on this very faint target as the oxygen side of it is quite difficult to capture. So I've been working on it for a few nights and tonight is going to be my final bit of capture and then hopefully we're going to get all the data together and see what we've got. So I'll quickly want to just go over some updates I've done with the mount. I haven't actually changed anything physically as much as such. It's just been a little bit of a re-jig of everything. So originally I had the guide scope mounted here and the camera and focusing tube was up the top and I had the dovetail plate this lost Mandy plate here anyway and I did put this on with the intention of mounting the guide scope. So that's allowed me to get that weight a little bit down and it means that I could push the tube a little bit further up the rings and allow space for the camera and everything to be underneath. Now one of the other changes I had to make was the EAF I originally had to spun the focus around so the EAF was down because it just looked a lot neater but I've now changed that back to how it originally is so the controls the manual controls are down and the EAF sits up the top. It helps me with the balance and obviously I can get the camera underneath and it doesn't foul against the plates there. One of the nice thing is before when I had everything mounted on top the only way I could balance it was this lost Mandy plate section I've got here the front end of it was actually down here into the saddle and I didn't I mean it wasn't a problem it was all working fine but I didn't really like it and I much prefer this now it just looks a much better setup and just looks better for me and I'm happier with it so everything's in place the only big change I'm going to make next is I'm going to be shortening all of the wires that are in here I want to get rid of all this bunching so I'm going to get wires that are correct length and then that will be what I'll do next. Now one of the wires I have changed is the power lead to the EQ6R Pro. I had a long lead of silicon but it actually developed a fault. This then where it was flexing one of the wires had obviously broken inside so I stripped it down stripped all the wires back cut it short and I've now got it being powered out of the Pegasus power box so I just bought myself a one of these 5.1 millimeter to 2.1 millimeter adapters. Soldered it all on and used some shrink wrap to make it nice and neat and that works really well and gets rid of another cable from the ground to the rig so now there's just the one cable which is the power lead to the Pegasus power box of once so I'm really happy with the rig I think it's a much neater solution it looks nice and it feels a bit more compact actually without all the stuff sticking up high up the top so what we're going to do next is we're going to go and get this set up in the garden and we're going to take some more images of the flying bat and squid nebula so thank you ever so much James for the invite to the collaboration and of course Joe always a pleasure working with you my good friend and I can't wait to see what results all three of us come up with so good luck with your imaging and I'm now going to go get this set up and take just a little data okay so we're all plugged in and set up and the scope balance so what we're going to do now switch everything on we're going to polar align using the iPolar and get everything set up ready for the imaging sessions so the roof just opened on the observatory as well so that's calling the camera down and that's going to be moving on to another mosaic that I'm working on which is the heart nebula but more about that later and what I'm going to need to do is not this light off so that I don't make up images for the observatory right let's turn this power on so everything on and then we just need to turn this computer on right so all we've got to do now mini PCs on jump on the one I'm going to start on the iPad actually to do the polar alarm it's that's easier outside and then I'm going to be inside on the laptop I'll be voting with that and then we'll get the Nina set up and we'll start imaging right can I move that camera you