I’ve used both ( borrowed pole master ) and Rapas ( kindly note I live at 13 degree latitude )I found Rapas better because with pole master the star would dance around for the final adjustment

Does anyone know an easy way to either attach wheels or a dolly that will work to move the older and heavier AP 10 inch in its casearound? I think I used to be able to pick the case up with the

Hi Terri, Thank you. I havealso tried What you suggest, larger gain , and can see several stars. No luck. I also have the AP 900 adapter, the polemaster is firmly attached. The last thing I will

Hi Andrea, I could see large alignment errors with pole master if I didn’t have the gain / exposure adjusted to see the required dim stars in the monitor step. I use the second step for both Gain

Hi Robert, I think that is right. As a rule of thumb, I too find that one arc minute or less is adequate for producing decent subs using PHD2 all other things equal.

If I go in public I wear mask and gloves “Corrected” by my iPhone

Yes, we will see how well it works. ;-) I want to carry over as many of the settings from the old machine to the new machine as possible. Then I can go in and reconfigure machine specific settings

And here I thought Rowland was going to talk about putting a mask on his 10 inch Mak to make it a 4 “ in order to be fair to all the other telescope makers -- TJF MOBILE

As a physician, I have not missed a day at work since this virus stuff began. I have been there with almost nothing to do for days on end but I still have gone in. Things are getting back to normal in

I wear a mask when out in public or when dealing with patients in the Dermatopathology office down the hall. As a dermatopathologist I read skin margins for excision of cancers while the patient is in

I enjoyed the discussion. I actually took the second version I did for this and combined it 25% with the first one and like it better. https://pbase.com/rchozick/image/170907173 I like the control

What degree of polar alignment do most find workable? I find that Polemaster gets me from 30 arc seconds to one arc minute polar alignment. Shouldn’t 1 arc minute be sufficient for guiding in most

Robert, you are right, we did talk about this before - I forgot - apologies! I appreciate the detailed description of your workflow. I tend to start in PI and move to PS only at the end. I've not had

Thanks Stuart. I think we have had this discussion before. I do use Photometric Color Calibration in PI. I pre process in Nebulosity (I am a Mac user) then I go to PI and use SCNR to remove green,

Funny but good video.....So, wear your Masks, for astronauts and non astronuts! Be Safe everyone at Astro-Physics, and everyone else out there. I was a unit based pharmacist and infusion pharmacist

-- TJF MOBILE

Robert, both of these shots are really nice! I have been going back and forth on them and wonder about the constraints that OSC cameras put on you for colour. How do you calibrate them for colour? I

I’ve had a recent exposure to a COVID-19 positive member I supervise and thankfully none of us in my Unit have come down with this virus. Our Sheriffs Office has had over 200 members infected in the

I figure there are three scenarios of interest re: masks Preventing you from inhaling viruses Limiting the range of your phlegm Keeping you from touching your nose and mouth etc I figure 1 is

I'm guilty as charged. Before groups.io If a saw an big error or link was not clickable. I would to delete and resend a corrected message. I normally compose message in notepad++, copy, paste and