That’s a busy field, Dean. Very cool. Karen AP

Thanks for taking a look gentlemen. I have a weak spot for open clusters for some reason. I am always looking for good fields that contain several clusters. Luca, I am using an older version of

That's a really beautiful field of clusters, Dean, and perfectly executed. Can I ask what data acquisition software you use? Thanks for sharing! Luca

Beautiful field and image, Dean. Thanks for posting. —howard

it's a beautiful thing Dean. really nice to see this-- Brian Brian Valente astro portfolio https://www.brianvalentephotography.com/astrophotography/ portfolio brianvalentephotography.com astrobin

Nine open clusters are easily identifiable in this Cassiopeia wide field image - NGC 663, NGC 743, NGC 659, Messier 103, IC 166, NGC 654, Trumpler 1, Berkeley 6 and Berkeley

As mentioned, logs will help a lot. The last few nights have been all over the place for me guiding. Seeing has been pretty bad, especially down lower to the horizon (I usually start at 25-30d), and

Michael, Near freezing weather conditions should most definitely make it stiffer. If you’ve never cleaned and re-greased your clutch bearings, I’d recommend you do so – and use a grease

Hi Emilio Ross mentioned this earlier, and I agree, if you can upload a guidelog any feedback would be far more meaningful based on your data rather than conjecture It would be even better if you

Woody, Thanks for the insight there, I guess it was about 40F so maybe that led to 'stiffer than normal'. I know the clutches only lock the assembly to the axis so should indeed have no bearing (no

Michael, Unfortunately this is the nature of the beast with the old Mach1 and many of the other older AP mounts without a gear disconnect system. The clutch bearings are just plain old sleeve

If I had to carry the assembled mount, should I loosen the clutches to accommodate any small movement in RA/DEC while carrying. I usually hold it up with an arm under the RA axis and another under the

Joel, Thank you for the commentary. That is really helpful. A while back ago pursuant to recommendations from Roland, I canned trying to use the backlash setting. Thanks again for the support.

Emilio, First, everything you describe in your paragraph about how the calibration happens is exactly what I see with my AP1100 and PHD2 and I would consider that to be normal. In particular, the RA

Thanks Ross, I really appreciate any responses. The cadence is the correct term. Do you know if PHD2 calibrates in RA first? I am almost sure it does. If so, the first cadence of movements is

If you post a log then we might notice something that's amiss. When calibrating with PHD on all my mounts I just the same cadence that I use when guiding but I don't think that it matters much as

Hello everyone, I passed this situation by George, but he does not use PHD2 guiding and really had no answers. Recently I received my second or actually third AP mount. I sold my 900 and

Great work here, Dan. Todd

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 10:42 AM, Brian Valente wrote: https://www.astrobin.com/fdmskv/0/Brian, Thank you for reaching out, I always welcome input as I try to navigate better imaging technique,

Thanks Roberto, Luca and Karen! Indeed this galaxy pair is rather remarkable, For those that did not see it yet, the HST version is one of my all-times