Wow! This one is incredible. Congrats Ignacio!

It was not likely the mount. Lets assume for a second it is not the mount, what would be next on the list? Drawtube moving would move the star on the frame as well. Have you looked at that? If so how?

Not a guiding issue as I'm not guiding. Since the absolute encoders didn't log they detected any slew or directed movement, then Ray's theory of slippage of the clutch makes sense. I'm not sure how

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211014.html With his 168mm refractor that I made from some one-off glass I had on hand. Maybe I should make some more of them? Anyway, congratulations Ignacio. You are

Bruce Donzanti wrote: I set up in NINA for the first time yesterday. I was asked to have NINA sync with the mount or vice vera. I synced NINA to the mount/telescope (AP1100 in park 4). It slewed

I set up in NINA for the first time yesterday. I was asked to have NINA sync with the mount or vice vera. I synced NINA to the mount/telescope (AP1100 in park 4). It slewed fine during the day. Now

Hi Brian, I am working on documentation for the new release. There is an older video on my website that should help. First clear night, I will also make a quick start video. The most common trouble

I always check my executables before uploading with VirusTotal. There were no detections against all 67 anti-virus vendors.

No hurry and thanks for excellent explanation. Peter

Yes, it's quite smooth. I don't have any pix at my disposal at the moment, but will dig some up when I get back. Rolando

FYI If you have Norton/Symantec as your virus checker on downloaded files, it will quarantine SkyTrack and flag it as WS.Reputation1. This is NOT an actual virus. This is Norton's designation for a

OK. Without encoders and using spur gears, I assume PE would look somewhat sinusoidal. Peter

Yes. With encoders it looks the same as the Mach2 with encoders. Without encoders you have PE but without belt ripple. Without encoders but with PEM activated, you have low PE and no belt

Do you have a similar graph using spur gears instead of belts like from A-P1100GTO mount? Peter

Actually the graph below shows belt ripple + stepper motor ripple + periodic error. The stepper motor ripple is very small but shows up as tiny wiggles on the belt ripple. The periodic error is the

I didn't realized you were comparing encoded mounts to non-encoded mounts whether gear reduction uses spur gears or pulley belts. Yes, absolute encoder mounts beat everything else especially when

I'll answer both your questions. 1) .02 seconds at 1x sidereal is .02 x 15 arc sec per second = 0.3 arc seconds 2) if you didn't know at this point, I would like to make clear that the Mach2 is a

On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 02:14 PM, Roland Christen wrote: RolandYou inferred that 150mm focal length 50mm diameter guide scope as being inadequate for the Job. can you give a rule of thumb as to the

My bottom line is I pay more attention to FWHM of stars in images than graphs from auto guider software. Sometimes I get fairly high RMS and still get low FWHM of stars in images. The graphs or

Unfortunately rms is not a good representative of tracking because it basically smooths out peak excursions that can leave stars eggy or having small appendages. I would rather have consistent 1 arc