The problem occurs at 600 and I have 12.5 volts because the box I have is a custom built box (by a professional EE that works at Keck now) and reports exactly the output sent to what is attached.

One problem with the polar alignment scope is Polaris is not always visible due to trees or in my case the observatory wall. It is visible in the observatory with the scope. I am going to try

I thought I would just ry it, it seems drift method works just as well and about the same time. Plus there are now other options did use it. In people

Dean: Just to "cover all the bases", why not try powering the mount from a 110 to 12v power supply. If the problem isn't evident, then its your batteres. If the problem is still there, it indicates

I am just about an expert on drift alignment and usually can get the job done in about 15 minutes. But I tried using the polar alignment in the keypad. This is what I did: I moved to a star that

When I use the keypad, sometimes the mount will continue to slew so I have to press stop. I thought it was the key pad but PulseGuide did the same thing without the keypad. Someone told me it was

Remote imaging is getting popular but it can also be done from your own backyard. This is what I plan to do most of the time with WiFi. My goal is to get a dark remote site but mainly because I would

cluster@... writes: It may be difficult or impossible to duplicate an intermittent problem. If this happens all the time, then we might be able to find it in the servo, but intermittents

And anyone's house could be robbed or burn down from fire (much more likely in the city). I fail to see how this has anything constructive to do with this topic. -Ray

cluster@... writes: It probably is not the control box. It could be caused by too much load on the worm which can cause the motors to slow down. Please check your worm mesh to make sure

particularly when you send a command and nothing happens because all your gear was sold the day before at a flea market just outside of Las Cruces for $200 and a case of beer. Ray

Yes you can do that but it's a different ball of wax when the setup is truly remote. -Ray

The seeing in the Illinois area is not great due to the jet stream typically being overhead :-( Typical FWHM would range from 3.0" to 3.5". A good night would be 2.5". Tom

Hi Roland, I absolutely understand why someone would want to (or have to) do this type of imaging but I still prefer "true" (err... closer to true? :-) color images. Images produced by this emission

it isn't that you will not get good results with a shallow well camera with low dynamic range and poor qe, but you will get better results faster with one that doesn't have those disadvantages;

cluster@... writes: For some star combinations this alignment will not work, so don't use it. In fact, I am thinking of eliminating this procedure since it gives people trouble to use

cluster@... writes: Your voltage supply is too low for the slew speed that you have chosen. That means that the motors are not getting enough voltage to achieve the chosen slew speed.

My Mach1GTO cleared customs and will be in my hands this Friday. Yes!!!! Anthony.

Rolando, under my 99.9% of the I have a sneaky suspicion that you also have very good seeing. Have you sat down to estimate some kind of FWHM for your location on a typical evening? Anthony.

Dean: You say 'the mount will continue to slew'. Are you saying the mount is running away at high speed? If this is the case, I'm betting you have a power supply problem. I've seen this happen when