The following is a presentation of TFNN. Trade what you see with Larry Pezzavento. Call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now, Larry Pezzavento. OK, folks, I'm going to continue on here with the Dow Jones. This was the action for today on Monday. You can see we were a little bit lower, about 60, 70 points lower overnight.  I don't remember which one of the Dow stocks it was, but wouldn't make much difference. They all do pretty much the same thing, but it made the ABCD. And then you see the market came down several hundred points and then made that beautiful pattern that we like to see which is the ABCD right at the 382. You'll see there's your A leg right here, B leg, C leg. 382 comes in, get that thing up there where it belongs. Hello, operator. There's your 382 right there on the money. And now it's starting to back off. Now, the way you would handle this, if you're in this trade, you would put your stop right here because if it. Retracts more than 80 percent of this, chances are it's going to go higher.  Your stop would be right about in here. So roughly at the break even at the very worst, which is still up another 40 or 50 points higher from where we are right now. All right, now let's take a quick look here. We have Mike Moore is going to be our guest on Wednesday for the crude oil and the eating oil gasoline. And then tomorrow we're going to have Jeff Hughes is going to be talking to us about some of the really incredible stock picks that he's made in the market here recently. He had a, you know, his Elliot wave thing went a little berserk just like everyone else's. But his stock picks were actually doing pretty good. And oh, boy, I hear a hailstorm coming. Folks hang in there, bear with me here. OK, here's here's crude oil for tonight. This is this is one that was really on my watch list today. But you'll see, we got this big pattern up here. But you see, once you make a lower low than this, you have to change this because that means that this ABCD that we're looking at now has been changed. Remember, this is an hourly, so we're looking at 10 days action here. So there was your last major low. OK, then you had one here on the 22nd. OK, so all I'm going to do now is just draw that down. And you're going to see that's going to bring us in right at that magic number around 79. Twenty seven. There it is. Seventy nine twenty seven. You want to be watching that for tomorrow. Looking at this on a four hour chart, you'll be able to see it lines up pretty nice. And there's the one three five pattern right here. But the key here today, folks, man, I really made a really made a silly one here. Look at this. Look at this. Look at this low here today, folks. Look at that. I sent this out in the newsletter and everything, and I didn't see it. My my beeper went off and it it was there for such a short period of time. I didn't see it till much long after it and then it happened. But when exactly down to that three, eight, two pattern right there off of that major low, look at this. This is telling this thing wants to go higher.  If you just look at this, if this is just what we have here, this is more than a two day correction right out of three, eight, two. My goodness, you could easily be and with news out there the way that is, you could be looking at eighty three, what? Yeah, eighty three fifty one without any trouble at all. If the war gets any worse over there, wherever they're fighting in Ukraine and not part of the art, but it's over there somewhere near the Gulf of Acapua. Anyway, that's what we're it's near the Red Sea. Anyway, there's the three one three five pattern to the downside. There's a possibility of where we're going to be heading here if we clear this and with this big powerful move here. Remember, we had one of these two, but it didn't go anywhere. We had a lot of resistance and we still do. We still have a lot of resistance right here. But if we clear that, then we're going to key today was the fact they went right down to the three, eight, two at seventy five. The number was seventy five ninety two. The low was seventy five eighty shot the front door and raise the rent. Boy, if that's not close, I don't know what is. All right, now we've got a couple questions to answer for some of our fearless leaders here. Here is a question that brought to us by Tom. He's drawing all these lines in, but he says, we're in a heck. Do I find out what's looking with the pattern? Well, as you look at this pattern, you can see the beautiful ABCDs. I have no idea what this stock is. He sent it to me and asked me to analyze it, but forgot to put the name on it. You have an A, B, C, D right here. You have another A. There's a beautiful one three five pattern right here. Notice they're equal retracements. Then you make the final ABCD right at the top, sixty six, eight. Then you come down and, you know, see, he's drawing the right. He's drawing the right numbers in. You see, he's looking for this right here. You're in a downtrend. So all I did for Tom is I drew the lines in as I would see them. So here's what I'm watching. Here's the line he was looking at. I think because we have lower tops in here, the trend is still down. You can see the action today is still quite. We're heading down to about fifty eight. You have double. You have an A, B, C, D pattern right there. And then you're going to have another one, two, three drive to a bottom pattern down there at around fifty seven. And that's going to be sixty one percent of the whole range down. So that's what I'd be looking at right there. But he didn't do anything wrong on this run here. If I was watching this, look at the number of days up in the parish run. We had one, two, three, four, five, six, seven days up. How many this time? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven days up in this run. Nothing mysterious about that. How many days should we come down? Eight days. Where would that take us? Right around the second of March, which would be that be next week. No, second of March is going to be over on Friday. So we know that's not March. That's February. That would be March. First is Friday. So I would say March the fourth is what I'd be looking at for a potential bottom in this stock that Tom was looking at. OK, now we had another question from one of our fearless leaders, and I really like this pattern right here. This comes from Mr. A.S. Alan Swain over there in the UK. Look at the ABCD pattern here on the German Dax folks. It is absolutely perfect. And look what it does. Makes Drive One, Drive Two, Drive Three today. Perfect ABCD. Both of these were one point two sevens. I mean, boy, that's really a beauty and look at rollover. I don't know what's happened since that time, but I think it's above D. It would certainly be wrong when that's what the patterns are for because when you've got them lined up like that and they don't work, get out of dodge. There's no reason to stand in front of it because there's just no way that you can you can stand in front of it when it's doing that. So pay attention to that particular pattern that was brought to us by Mr. Alan over there in the UK. The biggest question I have is where's the market going, folks? I wish I knew the answer to that. I wanted to show you and here's where my problem lies. OK, and this is where we were in 05, excuse me, in 09 March 5th, OK, at all those planets lined up. We had the same thing happen this year, but nothing happened from that whole time their market kept going higher. Now, there was a big aberration there with the earnings of an invidia that was exploded. That may have been but it's still five or six days off. 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OK, folks, I've got a potential trade set up here for you. If you're interested, this is an ABCD in April cattle. You'll note that the number measured to 188.50, that was the place that the ABC cell would have come in. So now remember that this is just a 30-minute chart. And remember, when you're doing these small ones like this, you have to realize that you've got to have some parameters for risk. So if you get above here, there's certainly something wrong. So if you sell it at 88.50, it's 88.25 right now. Your risk here is not very much. It's only about $300. But look at this on the same way. They were just looking at the S&P. Count the number of days up. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven days up. Then we come down for five days. This should have been seven days up. One, two, three, four, five, six days up instead of seven. And of course, remember, this is still in the day, so we could still make a new high. But this is what we're looking at. Now, what would be the property? Our risk here is this amount. OK, that's only 60 pips. But your profit objective, if you move this over, your profit objective is all the way down here at 180 points. So you're risking 40 points to make 180. That's four to one. That's the ideal situation that you want to be looking at when you're watching something like this. OK, so that's what we're watching here in live cattle that we're watching here today. Also, regarding the corn, corn hit a new all-time low. Today, below $4, a bushel. Rich Anderson informed me over the weekend this is the largest short interest that they've ever seen in the corn market. And that's probably because it keeps going down and down and down. One of these days, it's going to turn. But right now, that's not just the way it's going to happen. So we just have to wait and see what happens to that next time. Remember, once we went below the $4 level in corn, we said we have to be a little bit more careful. Now, if we take a look at the wheat market, even the wheat market has sold off quite a bit. Here's where we are in the wheat. This was the last four days, of course. Now, the last three months is what I meant. There's your four-hour chart. There was a buy point right down in here. We bought it here on the pullback at $71, and we sold it on the retracement up here, which was, you see this distance here? We went from $85.40. Now, watch. Just go over and see how the market repeats over and over again, so you just move this down. And you'd say that, OK, if it's going to repeat that, what's it going to do? Went exactly to the same spot. This is what Andrew Lowe taught in his book, The Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street. Markets repeat with regularity, and they are predictable within limits. And the two key words in that sentence are within limits, because sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Like today in the wheat, you notice that the retracement that we had just a little while ago was a little bit shy of the 786. It looked like it went quite a bit below it, and it did. Oh, not quite a bit. $0.04, and now we're starting to move back up again. We're on the watch for corn, wheat, beans, oil, all of them, to see when we get it turned. But right now, we nibbled at it, took an 8-cent loss last week, and we're waiting to see what happens on the next go-around with that. We'll take a quick look here at the corn, because it has my interest up along with a few other folks here. And let's just put up Christmas corn right here.  Imagine it's making new lows today. And it, oh, it's reversed. Major reversal. No, not major, but oh, my goodness, looks like it made the 6-1-8 almost. $4.43, and the low was $4.44. Wow, within one penny. And wow, it's up quite a bit. It's already jumped from $4.46. We've jumped 8 cents today. Wow, we're almost taking an outside day to the upside. Let's just take a look at that. Yeah, we already have. There's yesterday. No, here's the outside day. You have to get above here for it to do that. But it stopped, wow, within one penny of that long-term, boy, I should have been watching that a little better. Yeah, that's close. Let's just, well, we're going to have plenty of chances. But the open interest is so heavily. And it, well, for everybody, long has to be short. And the commercials are the ones that are short. So the farmers haven't even begun to plant this stuff yet. So a lot of ways to go. You can see we had a little bit of a rally and then rolled over. This is the only thing that's positive about this is you made a new low and you reversed. That's about the only thing that is possible. You can see here we made a new low and reversed. I can't even, this is not even a good three drive to a bottom because the last one doesn't line up very good. There's drive one, there's drive two. Drive three should have been down in here somewhere. And it didn't even get there. So that's the only other thing that I'd be paying attention to here, but we're going to have plenty of time. The fact that it's done this today is positive because it did reverse. Let's just look at the nearby corn, which is this one right here and see if it's giving you the same type. I know that March corn doesn't have any friends. Here's March corn up to date. Let's just get this up on a 13 minute. And you'll see here, see how it's moved a little bit. It's only moved, well it's moved nine cents. That's quite a bit for corn. So it has had some type of a movement, which is good. The only thing I'd be watching now, you can see this thing has been coming down for so long. Now let's just try this one more time. That's not going to work because it's too, delete all. Let's just see from the last high we made, which was, let's pick this one. Any of these would be fine. You want to see what the three eight, since this was a pretty good action, the three eight two doesn't come in here until four 10, which is another six bucks higher. But this is something to keep an eye on.  Let's just double check. Last time we had a good rally in the corn, we went to, we rallied 15 cents, okay? Now this one here has already gone more than that in the first day. See how this took a day, pretty much a day to do this. We did this in just a matter of an hour or two. So that's telling us that we're starting to make a bottom in the corn market. So we're getting close, so just be patient. We'll be there when the lady starts to sing, as they say over to Tombstone, Arizona. Now if you want to, this is March corn. You don't want to have anything to do with March. You want to stay in the December. So here's the action in December. If you did the same thing that you did in the wheat, in other words, buy the first 382 retracement off of this. Now that would be down, right now it would be right here at 452 and then you put your stop right below that. So that's how you would handle that. So watch for this. If you want to get along the corn, watch for a 382. Maybe it comes from up here. I don't know, but buy that first 382 retracement. That was exactly the same thing that we did right here in the wheat. You see, had the big run. Just get this out of the way so we can revisit it. There was the run we had. We bought it on the pullback right there. And then we sold it on the ABCD, right up against this level right here, because we were right at the 618 of that other high, which was right there. And that's where it was time to say good night. And that's where we took the profit and then we've been out of it ever since. And I've seen this earlier this morning. I probably would have been looking at it very, very closely, but I was looking at a lot of things, as you can imagine. Okay, let's take a little break. 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Get that hamster running the generator, you know? I'm on it all the time. Anyway, I only got notice that I was coming on your show just a little while ago, so I did not have time to update my charts. I apologize to the folks, we're gonna have to do a Friday show today, which charts as of Thursday night. And speaking of my charts, I'm having some technical issues with my chart program, so I'm not able to use my chart program to go get the charts off the internet, so they're less than ideal, but that's where we're at. I apologize for that. We can still, we are still operational though, so there we go. So moving ahead here now, I was last on your show on the ninth, I think, the ninth of February, and we had a new moon coming up that night that weekend. That was a Friday. And so we're gonna be looking at the new moon, by the way, that was a new moon in the sign of Aquarius at Perigee, as you know, Larry, that only occurs every 14 months. You might get two in a 13, 14 month window there, but then the Perigee cycle is one of the moon's closest to the earth as it goes around the earth. That's a little different cycle than new moon full moon, and so they only get in sync about every 13 to 14 months, and then the phase is out again, you know? So as we have that, that's important because we also had that coming up in March too. All right, so we have the new moon in Aquarius at Perigee, anytime we have a new moon full moon, we look at financial screens, precious metals, oil, and in this case, because it's in the sign of Aquarius, running a special on copper, Aquarius is copper. And then the night of the 12th, we had geocentric, that's from the point of view of the earth, Mars entering Aquarius, again we have copper, and then the night of the 13th, we had Venus, zero south latitude, a Venus cycle, and our Venus markets are cattle, copper, cotton, sugar, and wheat. Now let's go to our first market, here's your lunar point here on the corn, you did get a little pop up there from over the weekend into Monday, Monday was a Tuesday, so you did get a little bit of a low there and a rally for the corn, so that's a winner, that's a green arrow, and soybeans made a low, they were also gonna have a little pop up, so you had a chance to make some small money, so that's a green arrow, wheat went absolutely sideways, so we had two windows for wheat, and they are both sideways. The way this works is these astral points change into our windows are like inflection points, they're mirror points, if we're going up, up, up, then it's about 75% of the time the market will reverse and go down, down, down, within one day of our target date, and if it's going down, down, down, then we look for it to reverse to go up, up, up, however, if you think of a mirror now, it's a mirror point, so if it's going sideways, and it's gonna be a mirror image after that point, then you're probably just gonna get more sideways, in this case, you went sideways for a couple of days before the big drop there, although that last astral point was kind of a relative high, I guess, but you would never have known because you're going sideways, so you didn't know whether it was a higher or low. All right, anyway, we went sideways, we did nothing there, candle had a nice decline right near our Venus window there, and then a big up, the cotton just kept going up, so that's a miss, that's what this looks like with the red arrow there, we didn't, so we were about a day, one to two days early on the cotton, sugar, that also was a miss, that just went a little bit lower afterwards, so no chance of making any money there, however, copper was nearly perfect, our first point there was the moon in Aquarius, and you can see that we were near that low within a day, and then we went up for a day, and a nice rally for a one, two day rally, and then we made a top there and pulled back into our Venus point, and then you had a big rally there and copper from that point, so those were all winners there. Silver had a little bit of a rally into the moon, and then it declined, I think last year I was like 90 or 90% winners on silver, and most of it was just the moon, and back to your, what was that Lee's name again, Larry? Larry Rivers, Larry? Larry Rivers, yeah. Hey, wow, I never even knew her, I remember her name. Yeah. All right, gold, gold, miss behaved on the few times, it did not turn here, and so that was not a winner, that's a miss, and crude oil also a miss, okay? So, but the S&P, we did really well on the S&P, we rallied right into the moon, made a top there, and then we had about 120, 130 handles that climbed there into the next day, well the way through you gap down, and then you're down there into about the 13th for a low, and then we also had this Venus point here, and then we had a nice rally, so those were all winners. Here's the T-bonds, they were a miss there, they went back, we were there.  All right, so we add up the green arrows and the red arrows, we got 14 winners, five misses out of 19, it was 73.68%. Let's go look, now what's coming, as of Friday, what was coming up over the weekend was, that was the 23rd, and we had a full moon in Virgo, and so anytime we have full moon, new moon, we look at financials, grains, precious metals, and soy beans, we're running a special now in soy beans, I don't know, let's see, we'll have to look at the, let's go back and look at the bean chart here, we're back to the top, see if you have the advantage now of looking and seeing, well, so I didn't even have beans, although they are, yeah, beans were declining, I would, we need to make a low for that to work, we need to make a low by today, in soy beans for that to be effective, I think Larry a little while ago was showing the corn chart, look like it might be making a low, is that right? Yeah, it's rally, both beans and corn are rallying about eight or nine cents off the bottom. 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First of all there, we were talking about expecting a low in the grains of day. They have to turn no later than tomorrow morning or it's no good in Validio and Sumis. All right, now also coming up at the end of this week over the March 1 weekend, we have Jupiter making a 45-degree angle to Neptune and because Jupiter is interstable, you were talking about cattle, we got a possible turning point here for cattle over the next weekend. And to, I think you said, did you say something about Monday the 4th or is that cattle or another market? Some are cattle. That wasn't cattle, no, I just did a simple time count.  All right, oh by the way, I didn't mention that stocks potentially respond to all these events, okay. It's a big basket of everything, so it's a little bit of everything is in the stock market. So we got cattle, got cotton, and Neptune is oil, okay. So that's what we got coming up here in the next, right now and at the end of the week. Now last time I was on your show on the 9th, I talked about every February, I do these annual forecasting models. Some are just for fun and some are actually have some merit to them. One of the ones the longer term has had a good track record. I talked about the January barometer, you know as January goes, so it goes a year and then there's something called the Superbowl indicator which says almost the same thing. The NFL, that's the National Football League, is subdivided into two conferences, NFC, AFC. If the NFC, the champion of each conference meets in the Superbowl. NFC team is the bulls, AFC team are the bears. Whoever wins indicates how the market would end for the year. This is missed a couple of years now, but longer term it's probably about 75% accurate over the plus 50 years, you know. So this year, I'm gonna jump now when I was on your show on Saturday, on Friday. The night, obviously we didn't know how the game was gonna come out. The January barometer, which we know in advance of the Superbowl, said that we should have it up here, that would indicate that the NFC team, the San Francisco 49ers should win the Superbowl. We were looking good the first half of the game and then the second half of the game, the AFC Kansas City Chiefs came back to tie in regular time and then in overtime they won. So here's the chart of the game. If we think of this as an analog for the year, and by the way, this is the only second time in Superbowl history that we had an overtime game. So I don't know how, frankly don't know how to handle that, but just for fun, we'll take this literally and say that the strongest part of this year will be the first half of the year into the May, this is the second quarter of the game, second quarter of the year, so we should peek out somewhere around May or so, and then we're gonna kind of erode in the second half of the year, and then by the end of the year, we might be even, although the January Browner says we're gonna have up here, maybe we'll be up slightly, and then maybe in the first quarter of 2025, that's your overtime, then we might have a bit of a decline. If it's going up, that's NFC 49ers, and going down, that's the Kansas City Chiefs, and there's your zero point there. So anyway, that's my little forecasted model, I don't know anybody else who's doing this in the past years, or a few years where it was totally amazing, and forecasted quarter by quarter, what the stock market did, I know it's crazy, but that's kind of a fun thing, I have a thing about forecasted models, what's that? We have a question from one of our listeners out of Wichita, Kansas, and he is asking, have you ever seen a situation like what we had when the NVIDIA increased their earnings and whatever the earnings report was last Thursday, and every single market in the world was up that day? Have you ever seen anything where one stock moved everything? That's the question he's asking. Yeah, occasionally you see, you're talking about NVIDIA, was it NVIDIA, I don't follow individual stocks, but over my 50 years of experience, I'm not sure we've seen that kind of stuff happen before. Okay, that's the answer, I hope. But the most important thing is that we had a new moon, oh, I had a full moon, I'm sorry, a full moon, over this past weekend, that's what's important. And then we went sideways on Friday, which did not give you a very good sunup. I talked about the mirror effect, and we liked it, what we like to see, the market continue higher into the weekend, then it would have been a very high percentage opportunity to go short for the market to go down. That's not what happened though, so sometimes you just have to take a pass when in doubt, stay out, you know? So anyway, I've been doing this a long time, almost as long as Larry, I made enough money trading on the astrology based on, I bought this, stumbled on a book called Donald Bradley stock market prediction, and what I saw there, I went and researched, let's see if it was right, and I ended up making enough money while I was in college, ended up buying a membership on the Chicago Board Options Exchange in 1975, and right out of college, I moved within one week of finishing school, I went to school there, like Larry alluded to, in Indiana State, and to our heart, and I moved to Chicago, and one week later, I was on the floor as a member and market maker on the CBOE, and did that for 12 years. Also, we were in the Board of Trade building, the Chicago Board of Trade created CBOE, so I also traded on there for a little while too. So anyway, I think I have a little bit of experience, and I'll be happy to share that with the folks. They'd like to contact me, I've studied all these things, gain, alienate, astrophysics, astrology, I have a background in music, cycles, fibonacci, take you to advanced fibonacci land, all kinds of things, so there we go. And I like to reduce things as simple, I'm big on. Simple, I try to reduce complicated stuff to no more than a fifth grade level. I, that's where I'm at, I have a grade school mind, you know? So there we go, and let's see, you can reach me at, you can call me here in beautiful Naples, Florida, at<PHONE_NUMBER>, or you can call me on Skype at, in Winske, that's N-W-I-N-S-K-I-E-I-HOO.com, or you can email me at the same address, and looking forward to helping some of your folks there. Larry? Norman, we're gonna have you on again soon, so please keep us informed when you wanna come on next, because you've been pretty good, we, you may have missed the football game, but that was because the refs probably fixed it, you know how that goes, right? Ha ha ha, who knows. Okay. Anyway, thanks for joining us, Norman, we'll have you on again shortly for sure. Okay, thanks a lot, Larry. You bet. Norman Winske, folks, Astrotrans out of Naples, Florida, and we always have an open invitation to Norman if he sees something really super special, they will have him on instantaneously because sometimes these things go very quickly into the night and we try not to miss them if we can. We also wanna thank Grace Morris for being on the show last week. She just really had an incredible track record of these NASDAQ stocks that have been going up forever and they're continuing to go up forever, so we need to keep that in mind as we look, we got a break coming up here, I believe, in right now and then when we get back, we'll finish up the show. So stay with us, folks.<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market, then Rocket Equities and Options Report is a newsletter you should try. 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Go to TFNN.com and hit Watch Tiger TV. That's TFNN.com and hit Watch Tiger TV. Okay, folks, I posted a chart of Christmas corn, December corn, had a little pullback here early this morning. It's only four minute chart, but we've had a 13 cents rally. That's one of the largest rallies we've had in a long time in corn. Yeah, it is. So let's pay attention to that. What I'll be doing is I'm gonna be probably talking about maybe taking a nibble if you make a 382 off of any high right now, that would come in down in this area right here. All right, take a look at the next one here, which is the Cash S&P, excuse me, it's the S&P Futures. Here was a 382 pattern right here. You can see it measured right down to the 1.618 expansion. That's the ABCD. Now, the first thing you'd wanna be watching is to watch for the 382 off of the whole range of the day. And that would bring it down in here one more time right there, which would be up about another 60 Dow points from where we are right now. Remember, this is micro trading, but that's how these 382s work. So any move going below here now, below that 390.60 is gonna tell us that there's trouble in River City and we're probably gonna get a pretty good correction in the stock market, especially in, well, the Dow Jones, the Russell and the NASDAQ. So that's what we're looking at. Since we have a minute or two to go here, let's take a quick look here at the NASDAQ. Someone just asked that question. If we can get it up here, there it is. We'll just do the hourly on this and you'll see that it's had a pretty big rally after the high. This was the one, move this over just a little bit. This was the overnight low. You can see the range here. Looks like we made about a 61% retracement right on the money. There's your high from Friday. There's your, well, look at this, 61% right on the money held it. So this market has shown no indication of breaking down. If it gets below 17.60, down, which is way down in here somewhere, then it's a little buried. But right now, not so much. Live every day in an attitude of gratitude and may God bless.


Course MetaLink Automatic Enrollment Course MetaLink is an enrolment method which allows you to automatically enrol users from one course into one or more other courses. They can then be added to an existing group or a newly created group. Here our admin enables Course MetaLink from Site Administration, Plugins, Enrollments, Manage Enroll Plugins. She checks that the default settings meet her requirements. For example, are there any roles that she does not want to be synchronised? How would she like the courses to be listed? Teacher Mr Wilson is responsible for onboarding new colleagues. He has three courses, Company Welcome, Policies and Procedures, and the third, IT Skills. He plans to allow the new colleagues to self-enrol into the Company Welcome course. Once they have done this, they will automatically be enrolled into both the Policies and Procedures and the IT Skills course. The Company Welcome course will be the source of enrolments for the two other courses. It's known as the Child Course in Moodle. The Policies and Procedures course and the IT Skills course are known as Parent courses. And he has to go into each one of these and link them to the Company Welcome, the Child Course. Let's see how he can use Course MetaLink to do this. Both capabilities – Configure Meta Enroll Instances and Select Course as MetaLink – must be set to allow for the editing teacher. Here he is in the Policies and Procedures Parent course. From Course Navigation – Participants, he selects Enrollment Methods and adds Course MetaLink now that the admin has enabled it. He's then prompted to search through the courses in which he has the editing teacher role. Admins can see all courses. He selects the course from which the users will be enrolled. There's also the option either to enrol these users into an existing group or to create a new group if required. He doesn't have to do this, but he chooses to enrol them into a new group. Our teacher then needs to repeat this for the second course – IT Skills. Now let's follow new employee, Danny, who is just about to self-enrol in the Company Welcome course. Once enrolled, when Danny goes to the My Courses page, we can see that Danny has automatically been enrolled into the other two courses. And if we look at the teacher's view of the Participants page, we see that Danny, along with other new employees, has been added to a newly created group. To summarise, with the Course MetaLink Enrollment Method, users in one course may be automatically enrolled into one or more other courses. Users may be added to existing groups or to a newly created group.


Yo, what up welcome back to another episode in an effort to appeal to a wider more general audience I'm gonna be toning down the swearing and Kind of just trying to make it a little more of a wholesome family channel starting with this video Well, it's summer so it's that wonderful time of year where a bunch of friends and I get together to go somewhere and drink a lot of water And study literature Like postmodernism This year we're reading the love song of J. Alfred proof rock. Just kidding.  You might have even seen the video or pictures This year we rented a mansion out in Palm Springs for a long weekend of memory loss I wanted to change up the format and kind of just try something newish So I brought with me the Nashika in 8,000 Which is famous for producing four half-frame photos that you can combine to make a 3d kind of like flipbook image It's also famous for being a plastic pain in my ass Yeah, so it's not real 3d Sorry James Cameron if you're watching in other news the Easter Bunny's also not real Anyway, with that being said I packed up my speedo and headed to Palm Springs The house we stayed I had like eight rooms and a guest house all of which were bigger than my apartment in Los Angeles So after I had a good cry about that Monica and I took the guest house more on that later The house had a lot of amenities like a game room bar and a mini golf course All that was missing was the petting zoo and the gift shop and of course a film lab The house also had a pool which was essential because it was literally hotter than sub-Saharan Africa out there The Nashika is kind of an unruly and uncontrollable 35 millimeter camera I wanted to stick to my usual overexposure style of shooting But the exposure settings on that camera are pretty much non-existent as you can see we have three settings We have Sun Sun cloud and cloud indoor There's no way to know what they mean. They might as well be hieroglyphics and the shutter is locked at 1 60th of a second So good luck there Anyway, we did not hesitate to get the party started and essentially dehydrate ourselves in a hundred and fifteen degree weather by drinking beer I loaded up the Nashika with color plus 200 and got myself loaded with a whiskey and coke On day one we engaged in gladiator style hand-to-hand combat of which I was fortunate enough to be the foundation I now know what it's like to be repeatedly slapped with sausage on the back of my head So this camera uses four separate lenses to produce four half frame photos on 35 millimeter So you'll get about 18 shots on a 36-shot roll You may be wondering how you focus with a camera like this And I'm here to tell you that that it ain't happening because there is no focusing with this camera Additionally, you'll have to do some work on the back end to make sure all the photos are lined up and matching in an animation editor If you do decide to shoot this camera, just know it's like four times the amount of work that it would be just to shoot a regular 35 millimeter camera that is assuming your shots even turn out in the first place But you can't deny how cool it looks when time is frozen like that It reminds me of my favorite movie clock stoppers and that movie was playing a dangerous game with its title You move one letter and it's a whole different film You can get a flash for this camera as well again It's nothing special and you don't have any control over it But it certainly helps if it isn't already obvious. I would not recommend shooting slide film on this camera I feel like a lot of my shots were saved purely by the dynamic range of color negative film Day two is pretty similar. We drank. We partied you get the idea Lots of pictures were taken mostly on cell phones because these a-holes haven't seen the light yet the light of film photography So what happened here looks kind of like a double exposure, which wouldn't really surprise me because the plastic Piece of shit at film winder on the Nashika was giving me trouble all weekend. Have I mentioned yet that this camera is made of low-grade plastic? Anyway, I threw a roll of expired Kodak PX 125 into the Nashika to see what would happen And these actually turned out to be some of my favorites Day three was our last day and to celebrate. I was dressed to the nines At this point I was shooting portrait 400 as well I was also trying to match my buddy drink for drinks. So not a lot of the shots turned out Because of multitasking And no other reason. But when it was time to go home, we all had a collective group cry and then parted ways There was a lot of crying on this trip for one reason or another me personally It was because I was using a camera that exists purely to fuck me over and waste film that being said My favorite shot from this trip is this one That's my buddy Lucas there and my brother Matt and I honestly wish I got to shoot them more often because they're Pretty hilarious when they're around each other also the refraction on the water in the foreground just looks straight up delicious I'm really glad this shot turned out So what made this trip really interesting for us is apparently where we were staying in the guest house There was a small scorpion infestation and yeah, not the chill kind of scorpions the Translucent small ones that are the deadliest in northern America. Anyway, one of these pointy boys hitched a free uber ride in one Of our bags and I got to roam around our apartment for a little bit before Inevitably stinging Monica in the foot. It was pretty crazy We had a little evening chat with poison control as Monica's leg went completely numb in under a minute later to be replaced with a Strong burning sensation that nine out of ten doctors do not recommend. Luckily. She's fine now It took about a week, but she's back in fighting condition Still waiting to see if any superpowers arise though We got this really cool photo of it under a UV light Which makes it look like one of those little shits from the alien movies I guess the moral of the story is if you go to the desert Make sure to get a cool-ass photo of a scorpion. So yeah, it was a fun and relaxing weekend from what I remember in the end I don't really know what to say about the Nashika It's kind of a finicky camera and generally the results don't warrant the amount of work put in I mean it took me about a little over a day to edit together 16 flip books or whatever you want to call them and I had almost no control over the exposure So that really wasn't a game. I was trying to play I got this camera about a year ago for $25 before it spiked in price personally unless you enjoy pain I wouldn't pay anything above that for this camera nowadays what I shoot with the Nashika again Yeah, eventually. It's kind of a photography trick camera.  You'll be rewarded with settling the West But you may die of dysentery getting there


Okay, this is my little speedboat doesn't actually go that fast, but whatever and I'm having a minor issue with it Nice and light boat you move Let's see. I've got pedal power in here Which works great? Except Okay This piece right here has a crack right there and the main job of this piece is It runs against this wheel and holds the hole it holds the whole gear Against the other Okay, so this wheel holds the whole gear against this other gear and the wheel pushes against this piece of metal here Whenever it gets to that little crack it lets the gear tooth slip just like one tooth while I'm pedaling So I think I need to take This piece off Replace it maybe with something a tiny bit thicker even there's a bit of extra space in there Not thick but a little thicker than this So to get this off you have to drill out these rivets, which is pretty easy Maybe I'll replace it with bolts later Okay, drill out the rivets and then I have to get this off somehow. I think I actually have to Take the whole thing off because it's gonna have to come off through the other side Whatever though, it's fine Well, I've been making tons of progress lately. I think I need to stop at some point and do some cleaning up Not right now though. We're just gonna keep going. All right. There's where my crack is Yeah, I guess I'll just drill that off take it off and these are the best bearings I ever made to plastic This is a piece of PVC pipe on the outside and I used a lathe to make a groove on the inside and made those little rollers I don't even remember what the inside roller is They're so nice and they've They've gotten a lot of work and they're still totally smooth and solid. Yeah. All right Let's get this thing off I'm drilling out the rivets so I can get this off. I just need to make a replacement piece of this with something slightly thicker I think Although even exactly the same would be fine All right, hopefully I have something This is just a giant beanbag thing Should have something in my scrap pile here. It's big enough this right here.  Yes Fix the wires fix the zombie chopper


Well, hello, my name is Tommy Waranma. I'm the CEO and co-founder of egress codex, which is a blockchain applications and data analytics company. So we analyzed basically the economics of different industries and we noticed that they have a common problem. Basically, they have limited transparency, traceability and trust. We started from food industries and then went to other industries as well, like smart cities. So what we think must be done is to connect these data silos to information to flow freely and the data has to be correct as well to make sense. So the technology underlying this, our solution is blockchain technology, which you might have heard of. It's a different distributed database from a centralized database. We have one product out or it's nearly out. It's going to be an Apple store. It's actually a bike sharing application. The idea is that you can share your bike, for instance, and all that data goes through blockchain, which is immutable and accessible. So it's more open than in common applications. It's an example as a demo, basically for other industries as well. We can include smart contracts into that with micro payments for free. In the start it's actually for free, but later on it's going to be micro payments there. We are actually working with other ecosystems as well. So we are working, for instance, with VTT here in Finland, which is a research institute and other universities as well, to create powerful new ecosystems. So we mostly work with business-to-business solutions, but the mobile application is a consumer application as well. We are also partnering with the other blockchain startup, which actually creates the blockchain infrastructure. We can custom make solutions. We do these to access the market quicker and wider. So what our business is actually, we are doing the user interfaces and top of that we do data analytics. My background is in financial econometrics. I have a PhD in that, and I have working with the high-frequency data and high-frequency training, and we're going to apply some of those methods to the data analytics there. Then we're going to do smart contracts and tokenize the whole ecosystem as well, which you might understand and heard of before. And our core team is here. There's two co-founders, me and Emilia, and then the coder and the special guides for different industries. And of course, the advisory board. Thank you. And thank you. Time for the questions, please. Who do you see as your ideal customer and what industry verticals do you think they'll be working in? So, yeah, currently we are working in the food industry or with food industries. Like, for instance, I have a very promising partners in Brazil for coffee and cocoa and for the supply chain, similar to West Africa. So, basically, we are bringing more transparency for the supply chains. Also, we are working with biopharma companies to actually create ecosystems at EU-wide level. Thanks. I understand that there are different projects here that you're working on, just to kind of pilot and maybe learn from the market and maybe make some revenues here and there. But I fail to understand what is a big vision, like, I don't know, five years from now, what does the world look like when you've conquered it? Yeah, so what we think that there's going to be tokens for different ecosystems. So, they're going to work together. So, you can basically use our applications in different fields. And these ecosystems will have their own tokens, which you can easily exchange for euros or US dollars or whatever. So, basically, the ecosystems are the natural centerpieces for the blockchain and the technology. Well, I mean, is your job to become the global clearinghouse for a new tokenized economy or ecosystems or... We are going to do the user interfaces and data analytics, a little bit maybe like an IBM. All right. I didn't see any numbers in the slides. Could you talk about the economics? Oh, yeah. I mean, the bike sharing application. There's like 50,000 city bike users in Finland alone. So, we expect that when we launch this product, we're going to have a large crowd of people using our services in that sense. The ethical side is about 40 billion market in the UK alone. That's like a double to the tobacco market right now. And this is related to the ethical goods and services, basically the traceability and all the greener stuff. What are you going to charge? Oh, it depends on the application, of course. So, for the bike application, it's going to be micropayments. So, it's not going to be primarily per month, it's going to be by use. It might just be me, but I find it incredibly hard to kind of follow the business. But I mean, it feels to me like you're building a consultancy, which is going to help people to kind of like unlock value for UI, UX of blockchain businesses. But what's kind of productisable? What's scalable in what you're doing? Well, the user interface is discerning and we are partnering with different companies. So, basically we are sharing some of the profits from there. For instance, the tokenization, that's going to be an important thing. The tokens themselves are going to increase in value, which you already see in Bitcoin. That's only one example. So, there's a number of ways to profit from this. Once you start doing, once you bring the data together, you can make really powerful predictions based on that data. So, we are data analytics and user interface company in that sense. On the management team, who are the business people there? Okay, so, there's marketing people. Certainly, we have them as a freelancer as of now. I have a background actually in startups, like for a couple of years. So, I'm managing things myself. And then we are partnering with these companies, right? So, for instance, one blockchain company, they have their own management as well. So, we're going to do this together. It's in the flavor of a blockchain. And thank you, Tommy. Thank you so much. That was IACRIS Quotex.


We have members in MIC guys that don't trade for the first hour.  As they complain, the key though, guys, the key is this, man. It's like, if you wanna learn how to do anything, there are a million books out there on every topic. So what you do is you have to pick one area and start with that one area. You cannot be an expert in all areas. Pick an area and focus on that one thing and do it very well. I always say it's better to be the master of one than the jack of all trades.  And one more.


This video is sponsored by Squarespace. Since my last review of harmonic mounts almost a year ago now, we've seen many more models of these kinds of mounts enter the scene. Harmonic mounts use a kind of technology called strain wave gearing that allows for the mount itself to be very compact and lightweight but hold a lot of weight as payload even without counterweights. Now in some cases you'll still want to use a counterweight on a counterweight shaft so that your whole rig doesn't topple over. That would be a disaster but we'll get into all of that. In this video I'm going to be reviewing two of these new harmonic mounts that I was personally most interested in. The ZWO AM3 right here and the Pegasus Nix 101 and then I'll be comparing them to a mount I've already reviewed the ZWO AM5. And you might be wondering why compare three different mounts with different payload limits. Well I think it's interesting to see how much we can push different mounts and I think people might be looking at this AM3 as a downgrade option from the AM5 and looking at the Nix 101 as an upgrade option from the AM5. So I think this is an interesting trio to compare in that respect. I also included the AM5 in my last comparison review so it's a nice through line between the two reviews if you want to watch both and sort of make a mega comparison. And since I own the AM5 I'll keep including it in any future harmonic mount shootouts so you can see it as a reference model to compare everything else to. Since this is a review a couple quick disclosures up front here at my request ZWO sent me the AM3 Pegasus Astro sent me this Nix 101. No money exchanged hands and they don't have any say in what I share in this video. I do want to thank ZWO and Pegasus Astro though for sending out these review units as these kinds of equipment loans are the only way I can do these comparisons on my channel because I can't afford to buy all these different expensive things personally. So let's jump into the comparison now starting with design and features. All three of these can be used in either equatorial or alt as mode. I have them right now in equatorial mode and for deep sky astrophotography like I do you would really only use equatorial mode and with equatorial mode you have to polar align them but the benefit is that you can take long exposures without field rotation because you're you're rotating around the pole just like the stars do. The benefit of the alt as mode is it puts the telescope in a better position if you're a visual observer and you're looking through an eyepiece. So if you're looking for mounts that can do both modes alt as and equatorial all three of these fit the bill. They're also similar in that they don't include polar alignment scopes so they rely on the user to know how to polar align with a more modern means probably like a software solution in combination with a guide scope you can in a guide camera you can do good polar alignment routines using various software Sharp Cat Pro Nina ASIR. In my case I use a QHY pole master which is a the smallest polar alignment camera that comes with dedicated software and as you can see here it can be adapted to an attached underslung adapter made by ADM that puts it right on the dovetail plate and that works very well. When you will polar align using a camera instead of your eye the camera has to know the axis of rotation for the mount so with all these kinds of software routines it's going to ask you to move the mount and write a sentient. I did like the way that the Pegasus Unity software there was a module down here for moving the mount in exact degrees in RA maybe it was designed just for this purpose so that made it very easy to do what the pole master software was asking me to do move it in RA by 30 degrees the ZWO driver works fine for this purpose too it's just the more old school clicking and holding on the virtual keypad here to get it to move. As I think I said in the last review these mounts are definitely techy if you're someone who would want to have a mount that doesn't need any kind of computer or mobile app to run then these mounts aren't for you because they have no way to do traditional polar alignment right now they don't have traditional hand controllers might be coming soon with the Pegasus and they assume that you're going to be using sort of software to control them they're really great for imagers. In terms of the ease of polar alignment with the included equatorial wedge on each mount I found the Nix 101's altitude adjustment knob the best design of these three it was very smooth and easy no matter how much weight I put on the mount the best azimuth adjustment probably goes to the am5 but the Nix 101 was decent too I just found that the knobs were a little bit harder to grasp it's not even really the size but how closely these little nibs are together that made it harder. Of course on bigger mount like the EQ6R has these bigger knobs and bolts and that makes them much easier to grip and turn I know I'm not comparing the EQ6R but just as an example I do like that the am3 had the most difficult adjustment control of the three tested here it didn't look much different from the am5 but I found any small movement here resulted in a very coarse adjustment meaning that you had to spend a lot more time going going back and forth because when adjusting it it was very easy to overshoot and then you'd have to come back and overshoot again and it just takes a lot longer. In terms of connections on the am3 and am5 they're mostly on the front here the only real difference is that on the am3 it comes with a bluetooth wireless connection in addition to the wi-fi that both the am5 and am3 have but it lacks a 12 volt power out that the am5 has here on the side they both use a normal 12 volt 2.1 millimeter center pin connector for power input and usb b to connect to a computer for a wired connection and they have st4 guiding if you wanted to use that for some reason I'm not sure why modern mounts are all still putting st4 on as pulse guiding is much better but I'm sure there's some cases where st4 is demanded the nyx 101 has an st4 2 in the manual that indicate that this could also be used for an optional hand controller that's still in development the nyx 101 also uses usb b for a wired data connection and other than that it uses different kinds of ports than the zwo mounts as you can see on the back here all the ports are on the back for 12 volt power in and out pegasus has chosen the threaded gx 12 connector the same one that sky watcher uses for power in on the eq 6r personally I really like this connector it's very robust and there's no chance that it's going to fall out since it's threaded unlike a typical 12 volt barrel connector the nyx 101 comes with an ac adapter that already has the gx 12 connector on it but let me go and do a little bit of an aside here about the ac adapter the provided one with the mount is a max 5 amp unit so that's only meant to power the mount I somehow missed that part of the manual even though it was very clearly spelled out and what I was trying to do was I was trying to use this 5 amp power supply unit to power everything the mount my camera cooler my do heater band etc and then I was having connection issues with the mount where it would just not connect to my laptop very frustrating and the reason being is my camera cooler and my do band and all these other things were hogging the power and the mount wasn't getting enough power to form the data connection so completely my fault I emailed the pegasus folks and they figured out what was going on very quickly and what I should have been using for the configuration that I was doing where like every all the power was routed through the mount was it optional 10 amp power supply that pegasus makes for this so again the 5 amp one that comes with the mount is for powering the mount only if you're going to route power through the mount to everything else then you'll need the 10 amp power supply unit okay in terms of other connections the nyx 101 also has wi-fi on board it can either create its own wi-fi network you can connect to to control it or it can be configured to use your home network which is really nice because then your computer would still be able to connect to the internet while you're controlling the nyx 101 next let's look at the saddles all three mounts have dual saddles meaning that they can take either vixen the skinnier or los mandy the wider style dovetail plates these are the two standards for telescopes worldwide the nyx 101 usually comes with a normal saddle but it's also available now in a package with the saddle power box which is how i have it configured here and with the saddle power box you can route the power up from the power out on the mount and then you'll have all your other connections you know power due heaters usb up on here with the telescope and i love this this makes cable management a lot easier as i talked about in my last video for me this is this saddle power box edition is something that makes the nyx 101 really stand out of course the saddle power box can be bought separately and adapted to the am 5 or the eq 6 r but it's only going to match the mount like this in the black and blue color scheme with the nyx 101 if that kind of thing is important to you i know some people are interested in how much sound these mounts make uh both win slewing and just win tracking so let's do some tests here you might want to turn up your volume but i'll warn you when to turn it back down okay the next thing is weight and payload and this is where harmonic drive mounts are so very interesting the zwo am3 mount head is definitely the smallest lightest of the bunch it's 8.6 pounds and it has a payload limit of 17.6 pounds without counterweights or 28.6 pounds with a counterweight the ratio of max payload to mount headweight is 3.3 to 1 the zwo am5 mount head weighs 12.1 pounds the max payload without counterweights is 28.6 pounds and the max payload with a counterweight is 44 pounds so the ratio of max payload to mount weight for the am5 is 3.6 to 1 and the pegasus nyx 101 mount head weighs 14.3 pounds the max payload without counterweights is 44 pounds and with a counterweight it's 66 pounds the ratio of max payload to mount weight is a very good 4.6 to 1 uh so next let's look at base price for each and what's included at that base price the base price in us dollars at time of recording for just the mount heads was 1500 for the am3 2000 for the am5 and 29 60 for the nyx 101 and in terms of optional accessories you're going to add about four to five hundred dollars and either any of the cases to get them into the configurations like this where it's a carbon fiber tripod with a pier extension if you're just adding the carbon fiber tripod that's going to be just three to 350 at the base price you get the mount head a usb cable a nice carrying case for each mount and uh although the cases for the am5 and the nyx 101 they have more of a premium feel with this cloth exterior and a metal zipper while the am3 case is a little bit cheaper looking it's just foam with some latches at the top and the nyx 101 comes with that five amp power supply which i talked about earlier the zwo mounts do not come with any power supplies or cables so it's something you're going to have to pick up yourself to get these working any of the mounts can be adapted to sky watcher tripods with the right optional pieces which is very nice if you were going to put a big payload on this i tested them exclusively on the carbon fiber tripods because i was interested in how they would do in that kind of configuration but i don't actually recommend that if you're putting a really big telescope on them i first tried the three mounts with this setup this is my no counterweight setup it's just under the limit for the am3 without a counterweight it weighs 15.5 pounds or seven kilograms the focal length on this scope the ascar 103 apo is with a 1x fladdener is 700 millimeters and the camera is the asi 2600 mc duo and that makes the image scale 1.1 irk seconds per pixel i wanted to use the same pull alignment with all three mounts so i use the qh y pole master attached to the end of the dovetail like this with the adm saddle and there was no need for a guide scope since the duo took care of that with its integrated guide camera we're going to look at both graphs of my guiding performance and images okay now we're going to look at the guide graphs this is andy galasso's phd2 log viewer it's cross-platform just like phd2 and you basically just find your guide log and load it up here and it does a really cool job of analyzing your guiding performance now before i jump into my analysis and the numbers um let me say a few things up front here one is that i did use multi star guiding i did calibrate for each new setup of course i did not use pepec a lot of people know about that it's it's a way that it can sort of analyze your guiding performance and improve as it goes it's like an algorithm you can turn on within phd2 part of the reason i didn't use it is because with my previous mount test i didn't know about that and so i was using the normal algorithms and so i wanted to make this sort of fair with the previous comparisons but then i also think that the defaults are probably what most people are going to be using so it's it's basically just the defaults but i do turn on multi star guiding and of course calibrate with an appropriate area of the sky all right enough caveats here so this is my first uh imaging session of the night this is the zwo am5 uh it was early in the night uh probably just right after it got to astronomical darkness and again this is with the ascar 103 apo 700 millimeter focal length okay so this is about 40 minutes of data and you can see the scale here is four four arc seconds plus minus so eight arc seconds uh from the bottom to the top here and you can see that most of the time it was staying within a one arc second um deviation there was really just this one sub where it was having um some spikes that uh almost reach you know two arc seconds uh but it recovered quickly from them i don't know what was going on here there was a bunch of spikes in a row in declination in any case the total rms here was 0.47 arc seconds so uh very good in terms of those you know total numbers i do think that people think a little bit too strongly of this uh you know total rms number i understand that it's like a single number that we can sort of judge things by uh but it doesn't tell the whole story as we'll see as we go here uh and get into the images as well and all of that so um but anyways for people that are interested it was 0.47 total rms and that's what the guide graph looked like pretty good here is the nyx 101 with that same telescope the uh ascar 103 apo and again uh keeping mostly within you know one arc second deviation there's a couple subs in here where there's sort of no spikes or three in a row here where there's no spikes above one arc second in either direction but then there's a few excursions here the total rms for the nyx 101 was 0.57 arc seconds and this is again with no counterweights here's the zwo am3 and you can see compared to the first two it's a little spike here like uh there's more just sort of spikes in general across the whole thing it actually started out pretty smoothly and then and then for the last like i don't know eight subs here it got spike here um but it recovered quickly from all of those spikes and for the most part i mean i think for a $1500 amount i think that's pretty pretty incredible that it's mostly staying within that uh that one arc second range back and forth and overall it looks pretty smooth it does the spikes you know if it can recover quickly from them it shouldn't cause any kind of irregularity in the stars total rms here 0.64 arc seconds total rms all right so now let's uh head over to pics insight and take a look at the images so i will just open these up uh just to show you when you're zoomed out like this and you just look at them they of course look identical which is sort of what you would expect right like uh uh with guiding performance that close and uh something that's not super demanding for these mounts you know 700 millimeter focal length uh we're getting very similar uh results here i will show these uh full screen as well for people that uh like to see that i've had requests for that so here's the nyx 101 here's the am5 and here's the am3 okay now let's look at some close ups and see if we can see any differences and when if with my eagle eye i think that i can actually see that the am5 is uh the sharpest by just a hair over the nyx 101 and that the am3 is noticeably uh a little bit fuzzier than both this sort of surprises me that you know when you're just talking about uh very small differences in in guiding performance that you can actually see uh the sharpness differences in these little stars but i guess you know the am3 did have quite a bit more spikes in that guide graph so i can sort of see how that would result in these slightly blurrier stars but you really have to be sort of pixel peeping i think to see something like this but if if critical you know sharpness is is super important to you then uh the nyx 101 and am5 did did slightly better than the am3 here now i if i had all the time in the world i would have loved to have done like a an even shorter focal length instrument to see if we could see any differences there but you can sort of extrapolate and and think okay if the differences are this small at 700 millimeters at 300 millimeters we might see no difference whatsoever on my second test with all these mounts i used a bigger telescope and a counterweight this payload weighs 29 pounds or 13.1 kilograms so right over the edge of what the am3 is purported to handle with with a counterweight even though the nyx 101 can technically handle up to 44 pounds without a counterweight i don't think it's a good idea on the carbon fiber tripod so i did use one here and this is the ascar 130 phq with 1000 millimeter focal length and again the asi 2600 mc duo this puts the image scale at a demanding 0.78 arc seconds per pixel i again polar lined with pole master attached to the dovetail i did this all on the same night so i started at 6 p.m and went to almost 2 a.m there were some downsides to that of course here is the am3 with the now the ascar 130 phq and a counterweight and i want to make clear here i don't necessarily recommend pushing the am3 to this limit like this this is i was actually half a pound over its maximum payload capacity with with the 130 phq and a camera and no no guide scope nothing else so it was really sort of pushing the limit of the am3 and the iris nebula which i was shooting was just to the left of polaris right like it was it was it was almost you know in home position basically so the the bulk of the weight was sort of balanced right over the mount if if i'd been shooting something else like that where the telescope when is it was in a more like wonky position off to the side i would have been a little bit worried with just that little tripod and little mount you know because that's a heavy scope 30 pounds so be careful if you do something like this it's not something i would necessarily recommend but for testing i just wanted to show what the am3 could do and in terms of number here it's it recorded 0.81 arc second rms there are a few little spikes here over four arc seconds and then also a few over three but but actually you know it looks pretty good now when we look at the images it's going to be sort of a different story and i don't i don't quite know how to explain how good this guide graph is compared to the image but that's giving a little bit of a spoiler okay so here's the am5 and looks pretty similar in some respects to the am3 i think you know just the the spikes are in different places but it's sort of the same story and then the total number is also the same 0.8 rms 0.8 arc seconds rms sorry so that looks pretty good too i have tested the 130 phq on the am5 before and been happy with the results so this is sort of in line with what i expected out of the am5 and then here's the nix 101 and i will say that by 1 30 a.m or 120 a.m when i was doing this unfortunately the iris was quite a bit lower in the sky than it had been you know an hour earlier uh so you can see sort of towards the end of the am5 here it's getting a little bit worse and i think that part of the reason the the total number here on the nix 101 is a little bit higher at 0.98 arc second total rms is because the object was lower in the sky so you're shooting through more atmosphere and the atmosphere is more turbulent you know lower towards the horizon than it would be when the object is higher in the sky but in any case just like the other two most of it seems to be within around one and a half arc second up and down and then there are some spikes in the three to four arc second range but now let's look at the images because they sort of tell a different story which i think is interesting so again according to this the am3 and the am5 have the you know the best performance here and the nix 101 was a little bit worse here are now the images and again when you just sort of look at them like this zoomed out you're not going to see much i will make them full screen here for people that like to see that so here's the nix 101 here's the am5 and here's the am3 now here is what i thought was one of the most interesting uh results just like before i feel like the am3 has the worst image of the three but it's it's different than that that first case so if we remember the first case it was just because the stars are a little bit blurrier with the am3 than they are with the other two now it's the stars aren't as round right like they they have this little divot off to the right that's sort of giving them a little bit of a triangular shape and i've had this before with this scope and i wasn't sure if it was mount problems or a scope problem so it's just interesting to me that on the same night three different mounts same telescope same camera i'm getting much rounder stars with these two and this one is giving me these sort of triangular stars again so i don't know exactly what the answer is here but it's just sort of interesting that the am3 has this little divot off to off to the right here that you can see most clearly on the bigger stars but if i zoom in here you can see it's sort of on all of them but it's really clear on this on this big star right here and when i looked at the individual subs they were all sort of messed up like this so it wasn't just some is the combination of the stack it was like they were all sort of weird like this well over here the data looked pretty good and then the other thing i find interesting is that even though it said that the am5 was 0.8 arc seconds this one was 0.98 to my eye the stars are just a little bit rounder in the nyx 101 versus the am5 but these two are so close that i don't know it's hard to really pick a winner there and again when you just zoom out a little bit this isn't even zoomed out all the way a lot of these differences aren't as apparent some of you are probably going to take away that oh well i can get the 130 phq and put it on the am3 that again that's not really what i'm recommending here i just wanted to test it to its limit but if if you're going to use a big telescope regularly you're probably going to be looking at something like the nyx 101 because it's going to be more reliable and stable over the long term and then the other thing you know i use the carbon fiber tripod on all of these because that's what was supplied and it's a lot a lot of people will probably go for that but with a big telescope you'd probably also want to upgrade your tripod use some kind of steel or aluminum tripod something with thicker legs and more weight to it is going to help too in the end i think the the images and looking at the actual stars really tells the story of these mounts i really just i don't like to put my finger on the scale i just like to sort of show you the data and my testing results as honestly as i as i can and and as fully as i can and then hopefully it'll help you make a decision about which mount is correct for you and i know this was a video about testing mounts but i did collect a lot of images in testing these mounts so if you'll indulge me here just for a minute i put together all my testing data to make a couple images from that one night so this is the wider shot this is using about a little under three hours of data at 700 millimeters and i was just trying to bring out the brown dust around the iris and also that i like the colorful star field of course it's a little bit noisy so excuse the background being not silky black but i think it's still pretty interesting and then this one actually i found even more fun to process i kept it intentionally dark and sort of the stars minimal because i really wanted to draw the eye to the core of the iris because there's some really cool structure in there that i feel like a lot of people because they are bringing out the dust around the iris the core of the iris gets sort of blown out and you don't really see all this fine detail but look at how interesting these little wisps and structures are i'm typically a wide field guy i mean you know under a thousand millimeters but this is actually making me have a little bit of aperture fever and wanting to to go up over over a thousand which is sort of my limit right now because there's some cool detail in here that i didn't see quite like this in wider shots this video is sponsored by squarespace if you're like me the mounts i just reviewed are really fun to play with but at the end of the day i use them as tools to make astrophotos that i can be proud of and want to show off and i use squarespace for my personal portfolio at nicocarver.com because squarespace makes it super easy with their website builder and professional templates it's really nice because you can customize your site however you wish quite easily with their drag and drop engine and of course squarespace sites also look great on mobile devices through responsive design i've 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