Thanks Roland. Now I just need to go a few grand more into my pockets and get a field flattener better suited to the scope and start looking at dedicated CCD's. For a start :-> Hunter to

hewholooks@... writes: Doesn't look it to me. Looks like a great scope. Roland ************** Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home.

Roy, I started the thread and I was not specifically talking about the issues you raise. I might have missed some posts - but the main theme was whether to use low aggressiveness levels and plenty of

mphammick@... writes: Not sure what this means. I don't think your friend does either. A mount system (mount servo) does nothing by itself - it does not do any correcting by itself. It

Pierre.Henrotay@... writes: If you make the full adjustment, you will be moving the mount twice as far as needed. Remember, any adjustment will move all the stars in the sky, the first star

hewholooks@... writes: You're off to a great start. Nice collection of images. Rolando ************** Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home.

Hello, It seems that the clouds are going away tonight, which will allow me - hopefully - to try the quick star drift method again. This will be my second or third try only: the weather has

Absolutely true. There is no substitute for a good if not excellent polar alignment. With the increased size of imaging detectors, it becomes more and more crucial to have a proper polar alignment

Looks like your on a roll there Hunter....I saw the same clearing but my wife threatened to kill me if I went out as I'm fighting some kind of upper respiratory thing and feeling like

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