Thank you Mike! tony

Hi, if you have trouble loosing the counter weight shaft, use a mounted counter weight and turn that till the shaft get loosened! Grüsse Konstantin Konstantin v. Poschinger Hammerichstr. 5 22605

Result #2: Tracking with 2 refractors piggyback The sky unfortunately was not pristine during my imaging session. High level clouds continued to drift thru the image, so the tracking was at times a

Result #1: CMOS vs CCD The 683 has an 8300 chip that's not very efficient but it's monochrome. There are better CCD chips with much higher quantum efficiency such as the Starlight Xpress Pro36, which

Yes indeed. In fact I have run it both with a model and with guiding. The model tracks a bit smoother since it's not chasing a twinkling star. But the outcome is the same. Rolando

thanks Roland , I will keep this in mind. Chuck

Thx!

That was exactly how I read it the first time…

Kenneth One advantage to using PHD2 proper versus the PHD version built into the ASIAIR is that you can post your Guide and Debug logs on the PHD2

Hi, would that setup still be OK if you built and loaded a tracking model from APPM in place of guiding?

WoW, you have a generous neighbor to give you a mount for free. Rolando

1100GTO. I got it free with the help of my neighbor, but just wanted to post that I used some lube on the insert to hopefully keep it from happening again. Yes, I do have the insert.

What!!!, you don't have an infinite number of telescopes, what kind of world is this where you can't have an infinite number of telescopes ??? :D Great setup, we will be watching for the results.

Interestingly the belt seems to be the astronomical mount equivalent as the drive belt on…Harley Davidsons. Probably no relation. The drive belts on the motorcycles have a service life of 60-100K

I am going off topic a little bit here, but many of us who started driving in the 1970's will remember the introduction of these toothed rubber timing belts in automobile engines. Prior to this the

Thanks for showing us this imaging setup Roland, and yes, please share your results including your guiding graphs. Mike

Hi Andrew I will try to throw my two cents worth into this discussion, and hopefully will not confuse you even more. First, If the filters are said to add 1mm of backfocus, I would interpret this to

What mount, and do you have the steel insert? Putting some ice on the cwt shaft will cause it to shrink slightly and it might come free that way. Rolando

It's overkill for sure. It is designed for significant power transmission, so should never stretch or wear out. Rolando

Hello AstroNuts, We get this question many times, "will the Mach2 support my scope, camera etc." I can't really answer specific setups since I don't have infinite variety of scopes at my disposal.