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HAZY nights - recent pelican looked great. Inspired me to share... The WALL, the Lagoon and the Elephant in NB (MACH1)
Really beautiful on my retina macbook :) Brian
Really beautiful on my retina macbook :) Brian
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[ap-ug] Pillars of M16
pretty amazing is this with your 5nm Ha filter? maybe go for broke and do 2 hr exposures on the 3nm ;)
pretty amazing is this with your 5nm Ha filter? maybe go for broke and do 2 hr exposures on the 3nm ;)
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Mach-2 can not reach target
interesting that just 10mm would do that
interesting that just 10mm would do that
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Brian Valente
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A couple of doubts about modeling and about not using guiding.
#APCC
#Mach2GTO
Dean I wouldn't get too caught up about pressure, it doesn't seem to impact the model that much and it doesn't really change that much either this is a 2+ year graph of pressure at Obstech which essen
Dean I wouldn't get too caught up about pressure, it doesn't seem to impact the model that much and it doesn't really change that much either this is a 2+ year graph of pressure at Obstech which essen
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Brian Valente
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A couple of doubts about modeling and about not using guiding.
#APCC
#Mach2GTO
Dean i realize we may have talked about this a few posts ago :) I do think your skybox can generate a boltwood file, you just need to figure out how to store that to an accessible folder for your comp
Dean i realize we may have talked about this a few posts ago :) I do think your skybox can generate a boltwood file, you just need to figure out how to store that to an accessible folder for your comp
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A couple of doubts about modeling and about not using guiding.
#APCC
#Mach2GTO
FYI if you are at a shared remote obs they often have a boltwood file available from their environmental sensors that is available for use, and that also work for APPM this is what we use at Obstech (
FYI if you are at a shared remote obs they often have a boltwood file available from their environmental sensors that is available for use, and that also work for APPM this is what we use at Obstech (
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Brian Valente
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A couple of doubts about modeling and about not using guiding.
#APCC
#Mach2GTO
Dean Ray is probably best to answer, but i've had long talks with him on this and yes, MGBox (or something similar) provides updated temperatures, and the APPM modeling takes the temperature into acco
Dean Ray is probably best to answer, but i've had long talks with him on this and yes, MGBox (or something similar) provides updated temperatures, and the APPM modeling takes the temperature into acco
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Brian Valente
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A couple of doubts about modeling and about not using guiding.
#APCC
#Mach2GTO
That will work for model building, but you need the current temperature as you are imaging, so you really need a way where the temperature is updated on a consistent basis. the modeling adjusts based
That will work for model building, but you need the current temperature as you are imaging, so you really need a way where the temperature is updated on a consistent basis. the modeling adjusts based
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A couple of doubts about modeling and about not using guiding.
#APCC
#Mach2GTO
HI Marcelo Temperature does have some impact on the modeling (talking with Ray on this) so you might consider having an environmental sensor in there like an MGBox V2
HI Marcelo Temperature does have some impact on the modeling (talking with Ray on this) so you might consider having an environmental sensor in there like an MGBox V2
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Brian Valente
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Mach-2 can not reach target
Bill remind me what is that OTA of yours?
Bill remind me what is that OTA of yours?
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Brian Valente
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Multiple limits set?
Thanks roland, yes I picked that up from your previous post :)
Thanks roland, yes I picked that up from your previous post :)
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Multiple limits set?
Thanks Konstantin I have not used Home position, but i have defined it, so maybe i'll turn that off and see if that makes a difference Brian
Thanks Konstantin I have not used Home position, but i have defined it, so maybe i'll turn that off and see if that makes a difference Brian
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Multiple limits set?
Thanks Bryan yeah that's what i thought - i definitely have those disabled and yet it is still hitting limits Sounds like AP is already aware of this
Thanks Bryan yeah that's what i thought - i definitely have those disabled and yet it is still hitting limits Sounds like AP is already aware of this
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Multiple limits set?
Just a quick follow up: i have no meridian limits set in APCC either. I could not find any limits to set in the ASCOM driver
Just a quick follow up: i have no meridian limits set in APCC either. I could not find any limits to set in the ASCOM driver
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Multiple limits set?
Hi folks Where are all the places you can set limits? We have AP1600 with encoders we turned off AE limits in APCC as a test, and we're still getting errors that we've hit the RA limit and it's bounci
Hi folks Where are all the places you can set limits? We have AP1600 with encoders we turned off AE limits in APCC as a test, and we're still getting errors that we've hit the RA limit and it's bounci
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CCDWare site Trojan?
I think the false positive on CCDWare's downloads caused Malwarebytes to flag the whole site afaik Malwarebytes is its own thing, keeping its own database of sites it considers safe or 'infected' base
I think the false positive on CCDWare's downloads caused Malwarebytes to flag the whole site afaik Malwarebytes is its own thing, keeping its own database of sites it considers safe or 'infected' base
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Brian Valente
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Star Eccentricity Help
Hi Mike I think you may be thinking of star flatness? i snagged this description out of PI's subframe selector - btw in this doc they spec 0.42 as being perfectly round Eccentricity is a measure of st
Hi Mike I think you may be thinking of star flatness? i snagged this description out of PI's subframe selector - btw in this doc they spec 0.42 as being perfectly round Eccentricity is a measure of st
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Brian Valente
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Star Eccentricity Help
>>> Is the solution a Planewave?? J either that, or I hear AP has a 17" reflector they are working on :) >>What should I expect for good eccentricity - .35ish?? generally eccentricity of 0.5 or lower
>>> Is the solution a Planewave?? J either that, or I hear AP has a 17" reflector they are working on :) >>What should I expect for good eccentricity - .35ish?? generally eccentricity of 0.5 or lower
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Star Eccentricity Help
Okay thanks I'm poking around in your logs some, and I'm waiting to hear back from someone else I asked a Q about, but I can see your RA corrections are primarily one-sided at higher altitudes (and a
Okay thanks I'm poking around in your logs some, and I'm waiting to hear back from someone else I asked a Q about, but I can see your RA corrections are primarily one-sided at higher altitudes (and a
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CCDWare site Trojan?
Hi George I think that's a false positive. Also I believe that happens only when downloading the first link, which is not PEMPro. Make sure you scroll down a bit and download PEMPro and not the first
Hi George I think that's a false positive. Also I believe that happens only when downloading the first link, which is not PEMPro. Make sure you scroll down a bit and download PEMPro and not the first
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