Okay - here is the VERY roughly processed image so you can see the comet: http://www.astrofoto.ca/stuartheggie/ccd_photos/NGC5033_LLRGB_test.jpg It is actually comet C/2005 L3 (McNaught) -

so Stuart, show us what you got!

Incidentally, if you shoot NGC5033 tonight the comet will be VERY close to the galaxy and if you shoot it tomorrow night it should be right on top of the galactic core. Stuart To:

Ooops! 1) I should have said Minor Planet Checker (MPC), not SIMBAD, and 2) I should have read all the other posts first. :P "May You Go Among The Imperishable Stars" Joe Mize

Joe, thanks! I used the MPC and got the coords from TheSky for the object. Put in the time and voila - a previously discovered comet. McNaught 2003. Well, for a minute I was pretty darned excited!

There you go: Joe knows where it is.... rdc

MPC = http://scully.harvard.edu/~cgi/CheckMP SIMBAD = http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/ VizieR = http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR Aladin = http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/aladin.gml NED =

Richard, thanks! A local friend of mine called me and walked me through the process. Alas it is Comet McNaught 2003. For a moment I had "high hopes!". Ah well. Stuart

I have something fuzzy moving through the FOV of an RGB dataset from last night - how do I go about finding out what could be moving slowing through those coords for any given timestamp? Stuart

Hi Kent, I understand that I could always have some flex, but in my case I can see my errors on the guider graph in real time, and then in the downloaded image too. If my graph showed smooth and the

Hi Roland, That makes it easier to understand. I have done the backlash test before and it looked fine then, but that was over a year ago when I got the mount. I assume this test will show me if it

Hello I was running T point for polar alignment and after about 1 hour I started to wonder why can't I plate solve on 2 different stars with Pinpoint and calculate my polar alignment error with my

I could use some suggestions, here is my set up. AP1200, CP3, permanently mounted, good to excellent polar alignment, guiding with eFinder and Sbig remote guide head. Imaging around 1100-1350mm

dean@... writes: Leave Dec at zero in Maxim in the guider window. ************** Huge Savings on Popular Laptops only at Dell.com. Shop Now!

chris1011@... writes: One other thing about the calibration numbers. Theoretically the RA and Dec numbers should be equal - they will not be because Dec always has a small reversal delay. If

dean@... writes: The calibration numbers will not be different. It is not the gearing that produces the calibration numbers, rather it is the motion of the star which is always the same at 1x

Dean: Where and how is the Remote Guide Head and efinder mounted? IF 'it' is not attached DIRECTLY to your imaging OTA.....your problem is most likely flexure. (even then....if it is directly

don@... writes: CCD Soft is probably sending instruction to use the low speed focus. ************** Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the grill.

mogulskier_groups@... writes: The ring and pickup have to be precisely mounted on the axis. The runout in both planes must be less than .0005". It cannot be a slapdash affair. The accuracy

If found that the cable/pin doesn't fit snugly into the AP focuser plug and it made it unreliable for me. It's a crappy focuser anyway and it is useless for imaging. I switched to a robofocus unit