Re: AP 1600 minimum move/MAXIM?
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Mike Shade
One additional question...I am using Maxim 5.18 to guide the 1600GTO through the CDK 17. As I understand it, Maxim has built in declination compensation (I am also using an Optec Gemini rotating focuser). I also use ACP to run everything. ACP also has guiding declination. Curious if the declination compensation in ACP is not needed and might be causing some conflict with Maxim with RA guiding. Reason is that I get ever so slightly out of round stars in the E/W direction, just a few pixels but enough to notice (.63"/pixel). Always in the E/W direction. I suspect a guiding issue as this system will do a 5 minute unguided image near the zenith with round stars so I am not suspecting polar alignment, PEC curve issues, gear mesh.
I did bump the minimum move in Maxim from .01" to .02", might need to go a light bit more perhaps.
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Shade
OK, thanks...will try that and see how it goes.
Mike J. Shade Mike J. Shade Photography:
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With my 17" astrograph and 1600 mount I have used .02sec mostly. Max move is .5 sec.
Rolando
-----Original Message----- Have a first generation 1600GTO/Planewave CDK 17/SBIG STL6303E camera, permanent observatory setup. Guiding with the internal guider on the camera, ST237 chip. Main imaging scale .63"/pixel unbinned, guider binned 3X3, guiding at 1X sidereal.
Curious as to what folks have found to be a useful minimum move setting in Maxim for guiding (I'm still using V5.18) with a 1600?
Using ASCOM to guide, not the guider relays. ACP runs the whole show.
Looking for what folks have found to be a starting point. Seeing here tends to run about 2", sometimes a bit better, sometimes a bit worse.
Thanks...
Mike J. Shade Mike J. Shade Photography: mshadephotography.com
In War: Resolution In Defeat: Defiance In Victory: Magnanimity In Peace: Goodwill Sir Winston Churchill Already, in the gathering dusk, a few of the stars are turning on their lights. Vega, the brightest one, is now dropping towards the west. Can it be half a year since I watched her April rising in the east? Low in the southwest Antares blinks a sad farwell to fall... Leslie Peltier, Starlight Nights
International Dark Sky Association: www.darksky.org
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