Dear Group, I exploited the two-hour window I had available last night to image the stunning open cluster NGC 869 in Perseus and which forms one-half of the well-known "Double in Perseus". The sky

Dans un e-mail daté du 10/01/2007 15:38:03 Paris, Madrid, ayiomami@... a écrit : I exploited the two-hour window I had available last night to image the stunning open cluster NGC 869 in

Rolando, Thanks for the additional tips. A few of the checks you describe below (clutches, star motion in the focus windows and motor movement/stalls) were something I also had looked into. I am

Rolando et al, A very big thank you for the feedback and various suggestions surrounding my sudden guiding problems the past few days. The reinstall of CCDSoft did the trick, for everything worked

ayiomami@... writes: Glad it worked out for you, thanks to Gilles ;>)) Rolando

Hi Gilles, nearly <snip> I just reinstalled CCDSoft as well ... the equipment is all set-up and waiting for another hour for astro-twilight and fingers crossed. use 10 I sincerely hope it will be

It reduces the effects of any backlash in the system. dan kowall _______ uncarollo2 <chris1011@...> wrote: ......The longer the cal run, the more accurate

electronics have changed I agree totally ... call me paranoid/overzealous? :-) Anthony.

Some other things to do before your imaging session: During guiding, check the track log to see what commands are being sent to the camera/guider port. Check also to make sure that the clutches in

You get an A+ ;>)) Rolando dan_kowall@... writes:

r.olson@... writes: I have done some testing on this and it seems that guiding is not affected by balance. At least this is true if the worm is properly in mesh with the worm wheel. I don't

Dans un e-mail daté du 09/01/2007 16:48:33 Paris, Madrid, ayiomami@... a écrit : Thanks for the feedback! Anthony. Anthony, I will keep fingers crossed for you this evening

Hi Anthony, I have been using my 900 mount with my 155EDF and ST8 or ST10 for nearly three years. Suddenly, last August, autoguiding with Maxim became totally crazy: starting at my usual 0.2

Hi Rolando, Does the AP900 guide as well no matter which RA side has a slight imbalance. I always try to balance as well as I can but I continually hear that a mount should be slightly imbalanced to

That's a possibility too. Rolando just & Y Behalf Of immediately system run, your pushes camera close buttons the 8 calibration effectively release

Rolando, Actually I take things to an extreme ... with each new object, I will do a fresh calibration run so as to be as precise in my calibration results as possible. I realize that we can specify

The only thing available to me are the corrections themselves and this is something I can see anyway on the AUTOGUIDE tab within CCDSoft ... and when I see successive corrections such as -0.2, -3, -6,

Hey Roland, It's been a coon's age since I used CCDSoft but I do remember and just confirmed that you can uncheck the box to make corrections in the X & Y axis. Maybe this has happened by

Yes, you want to capture the worm's periodic error so you can store it in memory. If you guide during this time, you will capture zero periodic error, not what you really want in

One other thing to check is to make sure that you have not marked the box that says something like "Flip mount sides". In Maxim, you can flip the mount around the meridian and continue guiding without