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Sounds like you hit a good Polar Alignment. I used to have good nights and bad nights. Eventually I had more good nights than bad nights. But, when I stopped moving my mount, I had almost all good

Thank You, Les! I'm on the fence about them, but that is because I'm nearly to getting my new mount from Losmandy. You think you are slow? I've been out a mount since November. But expecting to fix

Derek, Stellarvue's wood tripods while pretty are traditionally heavy and quite expensive for the payload they carry. The Denali is the smallest, lightest model with a max. height of 41" and weighs

So I just ordered, received, and installed Michael Herman's clutch disks. Fit and finish were spot on, installed in about 10 minutes, mainly because I am slow, and wow what a difference. Made

My guess is you are doing visual and it sounds like not a tremendously long focal length? so for your purposes that sounds like it should work fine For astrophotography, having to center an

Derek and Brian, I dont know really why this has worked for me. I set my tripod pointed North by compass, then used the polar scope ( I can't see the other polar alignment stars most of the time) so I

Can I do anything without a mount? I mean, besides searching Youtube and such. Thanks Brian! Edit In: I have Sharpcap 3.2.6194 64 bit, and AstroTortilla now on both computers. I suppose I can choke

via the Technical Support @ Losmandy, but no reply as of yet. Maybe I'll call tomorrow. I have to correct this no mount situation. I'm sick of sitting in the house. they are just coming back from a

Aubrey, Sounds good?and logical to me. Celestron's method never made sense. It just flopped around like a fish on a deck. But it worked. Or I learned to work it. Derek, Yes, I know Polaris isn't

Sonny if you have a computer and are connected to your camera, I"d suggest just plate solving. you don't need to build multi-star models with alignments, etc. problem solved if you are visual

Two things.. You image so you should know this, but Polaris is not all that close to the NCP.. I only point that out for any lurking Newbie's.. Also, leaving the tripod setup and removing the scope

I have consistently used two stars on each side. The first should be as far to the South East as possible. Likewise on the West, it should be as far South West as possible. Then the 2nd should be in

Hi all, So I've been playing and replaying the Gemini Videos, and came up with a question about how you do alignments, VS: how I figured out to do mine from before. Please bare with me. I use to leave

Sorry, a bit more spam, but SDSS was a project all of us were very proud of. Here's a paper for an IEEE Realtime Conference talk I wrote about the data acquisition system which also details the

Coincidentally, just last night I discovered the 80 character FITS record format, kind of accidentally. First thing I did was write a little script to spit out the header with newline-terminated

Regarding FITS files: From 1995 to about 2002 I worked as a programmer on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (I was one of a team of 4 programmers that wrote the data acquisition code - in the VxWorks

Yes sonny, and just to be clear it's at 844mm focal length, not widefield regarding fits files, that's the standard for astronomical cameras, and there are many options to work with them. personally

So if I understand this correctly, you took a 5 minute exposure, unguided (Meaning this is just the Gemini (II?) holding the aim mechanically? It appears amazingly sharp for 5 minutes unguided. Quite

I have been experimenting with optimizing unguided performance with my G11 and wanted to share an example of what's possible right now. Most importantly, this is unguided and at a pretty good focal

Note that Stellarvue has designed and sells a wood tripod now.. No idea what it costs, looks like, or how well it works (or doesn't), but it's another option.. Stellarvue's Customer Service is second