This is from my stack of 15 x 180s unguided (phenomenally lucky for 3000 mm FL with only polar scope alignment!) subs from the Bortle-3 Maine Stargazing and Photography Retreat. Not happy with the

So I tested the flip again this evening. This time I set long exposures on my camera to make sure the flip time would be within the exposure time range. NINA did what I expected. Since the next 20

Excellent! Thanks for the quick response. I absolutely love this mount!

The mount won't care until the temp hits 140, and maybe even then it might not care. I have my mounts in Hawaii inside an observatory which gets baked in the sun all day, mounts, keypads and CP

That screw holds an interconnect board to the inside of the back plate. Just remove 3 screw that hold the back plate on the axis, unscrew the screw, put a washer under it and screw it back on (or use

I live in Santa Monica CA where we’ve had a heat advisory for the past couple days and ambient temp is around 90F. I’ve been imaging in the backyard at night, and in order to save time during

Hello All, I am having an issue with attaching a RAPAS to my 1600 mount. In the photo below you can see the Alignment holes for the RAPAS at 12 and 6 o'clock. However, there is also the end of a

>>>I think NINA wouldn't get into that situation as I think it wouldn't have started the exposure and thus execute the flip earlier, but never later. I don't know about NINA, but it's possible in SGP.

Well, I tried to recreate the issue with the meridian flip this evening. I used 33 Cyg instead of IC 1396 so that I could start the sequence earlier (it has a similar DEC and so should mimic the same

This does sound a lot like my issue. It’s cloudy with high cirrus clouds tonite but stars should shine through enough for me to test out some ideas.

A couple more pieces of information from the APCC and NINA logs. NINA was reporting all night the meridian flip was to occur are 22:37. The APCC logs show the meridian limits were reached at

Hello fellow Astronuts, While testing equipment in our AP observatory I did some imaging last couple of days with my 2 setups. One is the Mach1 with a 130GTX and the 110GTX riding on top, using the

I had a very similar problem and was caused by creating a Dec-arc tracking model that did not provide enough data points to be used as a pointing model. Didn't realize it would be an issue and had

Yes.

Michael did you a tracking or pointing model active at the time of the flip?

Hello everyone, I've been unable to get my Mach1 to perform a smart meridian flip through NINA. Each time the program indicates the time of flip and has the linked .mlm file but before the flip

Can you provide the NINA log file from an example session so we can see what's going on from NINA's point of view?

Linwood --- The object was IC 1396 and the RA is correct (21:39:09). According to my meridian limits, the eastern limit is 01:12:18 (based upon interpolation of the data in the tracking limit

Ray, Yes it does, slews the mount, NINA slews the mount to target, but I don't think I have manual control except park. When I tried to guide with PHD2, the mount stops tracking. This is with 5.50.3.

That is indeed a faint object, nicely done. Unfortunately I tried a 5 minute shot of luminance and got nothing but sky fog due to my severe local light pollution. I pretty much need to stick to