Hi Michael,
THANK YOU FOR THE EXCELLENT DETAILED GUIDE !!!!!
?I really really want you to know how appreciative I am that you detailed the equipment setup as well as the imaging and processing details.
Especially on the ADC, I have read what little has been published on it, but it only kinda made sense.
Your instructions are easy to follow, detailed and precise, THANKS!
I'm printing this and taking it with me as an operating guide tonight.
I also have the ASI 224 and ADC, IR Cut filter,? 2" 2x & 2.5x barlows, and a 12" LX200 GPS (F/10) OTA and am excited to try this out tonight !
We need to figure out how to make posts like yours 'sticky' to others can benefit as well...
I would have not realized the benefit to do final collimation at same target elevation, my mirror lock works ok, but just ok.
I actually switched to a small refractor for just the reason you mentioned, I was tired of fighting the seeing turbulance, and always felt I could get a little sharper image than I usually got.
Also the imaging scale change from .5"/px to 1.4"/px didn't hurt my guiding... :)
I do have another question for you, I believe you are using an extended CW shaft, I have been experimenting on the difference between using 2 21# cw's down low on the cw shaft, compared to 3 21# cw's way up on the shaft, and I kinda felt like the mount worked better with less total CW #, even though it was way farther down on the cw shaft. Do you feel the same, based on your experience ?
(I also experienced the need to make sure the legs are really tight to eliminate creep, In fact although I have the machined hand tighten optional knobs for attaching the RA to the MA?, I find I get better results when I actually use the allen wrench to make sure those are more than hand tight, especially with the 12" OTA, as well as I noticed that the tightness of the 2 RA (hold down wing bolts?) made a huge difference on my PA stability, so much that I replaced the 'handles' with the same indexable 3" long handles used on the leg adjustment of the FHD tripod. It made PA much easier with heavier loads without making my fingers sore.)
Thanks again for this excellent guide!
Astronut Tim
