Beautiful!! -- Stuart Heggie http://www.stuartheggie.com/

With the keypad use the "Flip Mount" command. Rolando

Hi Astronuts, The eclipse occured here at 1 am with the Moon just past the zenith. It was one of the darkest eclipses I have ever seen. Using my Stowaway with my Sony digital camera it took a 2 second

Bharath IF you have APCC, then use the Meridian tab and set the Meridian Delay to whatever is needed for the object to be on the WEST side of the yellow line, in your example, at least plus one

Nick >>>I can't do dec arc tracking because of trees. Why not? you can limit the arc to a specific portion of the sky using max and min hour angle Does that help?

On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 05:37 AM, Nick Iversen wrote: I wonder if it is the Mach2 vs my Mach1 that makes the difference or is it the modelingA model is definitely going to help with either mount. If

Chris, thanks. I didn't think through that it was a OSC camera and forgot about the microlens flares. I'm so used to mono + filterwheel. Stuart Heggie http://www.stuartheggie.com/

You can usually avoid this selecting a different algorithm for integration, but it is a trade off with resolution. Very nice field, even if the b&w version already had is charm.

Thanks Mike. I'll try the cable swap. I'm running APCC 1.9.4.3 2/27/2022.

This issue continued through the night. But I found if I cleared the errors, they immediately showed up again with new errors. If I didn't clear the errors, it would go hours without reporting new

Hey Patrick Thanks for the info! I do have a website MacObservatory.com hopefully that's the one. :) Last night was not a complete success with the meridian flip. APCC seemed to think the meridian

Hi Andrew, The messages mean exactly what they say. In most cases, they are caused by loss of connectivity between the sensor and the control box. Please check all connections. Swap the RA and DEC

I can't speak to what you imagine "pre-coffee" but the kaf8300 chip does produce a little diffraction spike,, cause by microlens diffraction.

Hi Normally, when a slew command is issued the German equatorial mount, tries to keep the counterweight down. How do I issue a slew command to frame an object about an hour east of the meridian in a

Lovely! Is it my tired eyes (up way too early for the Lunar Eclipse) but the bright stars have diffraction spikes? Did you put string over the objective? Or add them in post? Or am I imagining

Pretty good. I wonder if it is the Mach2 vs my Mach1 that makes the difference or is it the modeling. I can't do dec arc tracking because of trees.

https://www.astrobin.com/vwzkp4/B/ Rolando -- Roland Christen Astro-Physics

I gave it a try tonight with JPL data (no fine tune). This is using a 330 point All-Sky model with Dec Arc Tracking enabled with a Mach2 mount. One hour between images using SharpCap (on the first

You don't need to go to extremes with counter weight up to take advantage of this feature for efficiency and safety. I have my Meridian settings in APCC set to a straight 45 minutes past the

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