John,
Thanks for the reply. ?I am onto the first three suggestions, and have been digging in. Bracken's book, though, assume a lot of AP knowledge that I don't yet have. On the rest of your list, they will go into my work later this year, I suspect. ?Right now I's still working on learning the mount.?
PA has been especially challenging; I am a Mac guy, and stubborn about it, and not eager to host a windows via parallels or boot camp. ?So I suspect ASCOM and NINA are off my list, as are the most popular devices for PA. And my camera is a Fuji XT3, and I'm not ready to give up on it. So I step into the batter's box with two strikes, I've been told. ?But I am going to give it a run.
So with PA, I am working to learn the polar scope (but I am still in a window of returns and want to know if I can do without it), the Gemini PA routine, and Asiair Pro w. a guide scope. I am not sure I can get any further on this till I get some clear nights. Anything I can do indoors on PA?
When I get that solved, I plan to learn guiding... and then I hope to go after the Orion Nebula with my Fuji, both wide field and through my scope. I suspect that all that will give me a good idea of how much I don't know and where to go next... ?Anything I can do to learn guiding indoors??
Bryn, thanks to you also for the notes on the AAP setup and your workflow list. ?Very helpful; most of that is something I have not yet worked through, and some of the setup items you list can clearly be done indoors. And I suspect I can practice a number of the items on your workflow list inside. And then on my next clear nights... ?Good to have a list to work from! ?
I think I have noticed a half dozen or dozen AAP/Gemini users (as I surf the Gemini2 and Losmandy user groups, and on CN and Asiair Pro forums). There seem to be enough to benefit from what others are doing. Brian's Woodland Hills video on the Mango mini-router gave me what I needed to make the key connections, and there were an armful of detailed posts linking that to the AAP. ?They are out there, I think.?
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