Cool, then I'll touch bases with you when I get my ducks in a row. I'm assuming you are referring to the Big Island?

I know just the place you can rent a month at a time. Rolando

This is true. I was stationed at Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station on Oahu when I was in the service. I spent a lot of time on the other islands on the weekends and when I had leave. I guess the perfec

You can easily catch this in Hawaii too. Cheaper than going to Chile. Just set up at 9000ft on Mauna Kea and enjoy similar seeing, transparency and lack of light pollution. Meanwhile during the day yo

On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 04:05 PM, Roland Christen wrote: https://www.astrobin.com/wfuoxn/0/ That's a nice looking patch of sky. I sure would like to spend a couple of summers down in the southern hemis

Still working on the dual filter wheel automation. For now we leave the zwo wheel in open position (the other filters there are science related) and control the FLI wheel for the imaging filters.

What software are you using to control the dual filter wheel setup that you showed earlier.. Mike

... taken remotely with our new camera and imaging software down in Chile. https://www.astrobin.com/wfuoxn/0/ Rolando

Hi Michele >>>1 - What is your favorite software that does the planetarium side for finding objects and camera software? For the planetarium I prefer Stellarium. Most planetarium software does not hav

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Any advice on the best camera software for my ZWO ASI2600 with my AP 1100 goto and Celestron 9.25 Edge? I ask because I"m totally new, finally got Sharpcap pro set up with APCC Pro and STellarium and

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Since it’s a 2012, I assume it doesn’t have the spring loaded gear box, unless upgrading later was an option. It’s not entirely clear from the pictures, but it doesn’t look like the gearboxes have the

No it doesn’t. The fan for QHY600 is inside the camera body and is not user serviceable. It doesn’t mean this camera is immune to vibrations issues due to imperfect fan. I had the issue on mine (visib

Does this apply to qhy 600 cameras? best Peety G

Thanks, it works now. On May 28, 2023, at 19:24, Ray Gralak <iogroups@...> wrote:

+1 for Fusion 360. You can't beat free, and the couple of functions that are paywalled but extremely useful I am happy to help with as a paid user if you need to use them. Probably one of the best is

Pretty looking wheel. Just handed my 1100 off Tuesday to UPS to set up in New Mexico on the 10th. It'll be there for many years, and hopefully it'll continue to age well like this one. I'm sure it wil

The graph is showing "relative magnitude" of individual frequencies. You need to be looking at the the total top-to-bottom PE in arc-s. You should be able to look at the actual PE curve that was captu

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Hi Benoit Can you upload the PEMPro file? These screens are showing the relative results, not the actual periodic error. To see that you can use PEMPro log viewer or go through steps to create a PE cu

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Hello Guys I purchased a Mach1 a couple of months ago, and I decided yesterday to do a pec Curve, as I changed the chip in the Cp3, and removed all gears for a thorough degrease / regrease. I obtained

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If it has a spring loaded gearbox where you can back the worm off the worm wheel, I would advise using that to balance the axes carefully. You will get the best tracking performance that way. When bac