Congrats Hunter ! You will absolutely love your new toy. This is one of those investments that you will never regret and always appreciate. I love my AP mount more each and every time I use it.

Dans un e-mail daté du 29/03/2008 17:40:55 Paris, Madrid, JunkMailGoesHere@... a écrit : Absolutely true. There is no substitute for a good if not excellent polar alignment. Yes, I totally

Set up the new mount yesterday afternoon and it wasn't supposed to be clear - but it was. After a slight learning curve, I got these shots of the Leo Trio - first 5 images in this gallery (really

I am very late to this discussion but from what I’ve read, I think you maybe making an assumption that is not true. That is Autoguiding can help to overcome polar alignment issues and mount problems.

Gedas, Right now, as I write, I am guiding with my new Mach1 (Thank you Roland - you are my hero) using PHD. I have guide rate on the mount set to 0.5 and PHD RA agress set to 60. I have never seen

I use the Orion SSAG with an AT 66ED and AP900 using the on-camera setting and a refresh rate of .5 sec. Seems to work well - but will try it at one and five seconds this weekend. With very low

Correct, it's the orion AG'er. Gedas http://gedas.cc http://www.w8bya.com

So you are using your "on camera" guider and not something like a DSI or independant webcam to guide with. Thanks, Hunter ASCOM you should have The last that's a when I with would this have rather

That's a good question Hunter. As far as I know I have not loaded ASCOM onto this newly populated pc yet so I did not even access the panel you mention. I just selected on-camera for mount type in

Gedas, What guiding rate did you set the AP ASCOM driver to (on the ASCOM panel - NOT the PHD settings) when you used PHD - I believe it has 1x, 0.5x, and 0.25x as choices. I was wondering which to

Hi All, Guiding corrections are made for different reasong at different speeds. #1 Changes in refraction, air pressure, humidity, temperature on the order of minutes to hrs. #2 Mount drive train

Murray, I use a 900GTO and the Orion guider along with PHD. Last week I tried the guider for the first time and found that for my rough polar alignment and available stars, 2 second exposures

Rolando et-al, Thanks for all your responses. The software packaged with the Orion guider allows for .05 sec exposures - so I assume that guidance data is sent out from each exposure - that is to

the problem. every eastern down until on: "Characterizing the Dec this PDF instructions should problem in this OK, will do. Thanks. Steve

the problem. eastern you are sky. Next turn to let me your tracking Roland, OK, but I've done that before, on your recommendation, and the drift was spot-on -- no more than one pixel drift in 5

I believe that the Orion guider is packaged with PHD guiding, which I have used for over a year with my Atlas EQ-G and plan to _try_ to use with an AP mount. It allows setting of RA aggressiveness

capitoladude@... writes: The whole idea in this excercise it to determine whether this works or not. Once we determine this, we go on to the next step. I cannot help out if sequences are not

In a message dated 03/27/08 15:19:06 Central Daylight Time, mphammick@... writes: I have just bought the Orion Starshoot autoguider camera and have got some very sharp images with a TAK scope

I have just bought the Orion Starshoot autoguider camera and have got some very sharp images with a TAK scope on an AP900 mount. Has anyone else tried this system and if yes, what frequency

Thanks, Roland. That tells me what I need to know...that that adapter and RJ-11 cable have the proper pinouts for the mount. Regards, Bill