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G11 guide speed
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By esmdavis1@... · #65907 ·
Re: Bright Star disappeared from list despite being well above horizon
I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that what you thought was Sirius was in reality Venus.? ?That Sirius had already gone below the horizon.
By GN · #65906 ·
Re: Bright Star disappeared from list despite being well above horizon
Hi John, and welcome to the group! I also am a new owner of a GM811G (HD tripod). (February 4, 2020) Mine does have the G811 as a choice in the hand controller. But the default is for a G11. For me,
By Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...> · #65905 ·
Re: Bright Star disappeared from list despite being well above horizon
Hi John welcome to the losmandy side of things :) Usually when this happens it's because there's a mis-configuration in date/time and/or location. Being low on the horizon, it wouldn't take
By Brian Valente · #65904 ·
Bright Star disappeared from list despite being well above horizon
Hello All, I'm new to this group, having just recently purchased a GM811G mount to replace a Celestron CGX, which had served me well, but I wanted to upgrade.? I really appreciate the quality of the
By astroitalian@... · #65903 ·
Re: Side-of-pier issue
Hi! Let me take SW to NW as an example instead: I slew from RR Tau to GM Cam. This is from: 05 39 30.51??? +26 22 27.0 To: 03 59 10.08??? +58 01 07.7 At around 10pm (at my location, but
By Magnus Larsson · #65902 ·
Re: Side-of-pier issue
I generally understand your somewhat unusual case What i don't understand is this: when I want to go from NE to SE, that is a slew in DEC for me. you're saying slew in RA, and I don't see how i
By Brian Valente · #65901 ·
Re: Side-of-pier issue
Hi! No, it is a slew in RA - I'm doing it with the same declination, just slewing in RA, to test. And right, no crossing the meridian. But physically, crossing the 90 degree azimuth line, the
By Magnus Larsson · #65900 ·
Re: Side-of-pier issue
Hi Magnus No, it doesn't really make sense to me.? if i go from NE to SE, this is just a DEC move, i'm not crossing the meridian. So why would it report side of pier change? confused abou tthis i
By Brian Valente · #65899 ·
Re: Guiding and clutch tightness
ah okay - then yeah it would make sense for 2x 7lb. turns out that's exactly what i have for my Sky90 right now -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com
By Brian Valente · #65898 ·
Re: Guiding and clutch tightness
Hi Brian, I actually tried pushing the 11lb weight all the way up and adding a 7lb weight, but the combination is too heavy to balance. I have a Stellarvue SVX080T, filter wheel and ZWO ASI1600MM PRO
By Arun Hegde <arun.k.hegde@...> · #65897 ·
Re: Side-of-pier issue
Hi Magnus! I'm afraid this is not only above my pay grade as you put it, but probably above my present intellect. However, I wanted you to know I am following this in the hope I can see it to a
By Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...> · #65896 ·
Re: Side-of-pier issue
Hi! It might be that there is no issue, and I have messed things up. But it might also be that my use case is somewhat rare, which is a reason this has not been surfaced before. THe thinking around
By Magnus Larsson · #65895 ·
Re: Side-of-pier issue
Magnus can you clarify what exactly is the test you want to verify? I've been following your PHD thread and looked at the indi thread. I'm not convinced it's a gemini firmware issue, since i've
By Brian Valente · #65894 ·
Re: Side-of-pier issue
Hi Sonny!! Well, I could easily "fix" it by re-calibrating in PHD2. But that is not a good solution, as this problem happens several times in the midst of my 20-25 jobs schedule, as the mount works
By Magnus Larsson · #65893 ·
Re: Guiding and clutch tightness
Arun, That gives me food for thought. My PHD2 graph has some rhythmic jags to it. Particularly in Dec (red trace). I tend to not worry about my PHD2 graph as long as my images are good, and I'm
By Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...> · #65892 ·
Re: Guiding and clutch tightness
Hi Arun good to hear your progress regarding your weights, do you have a picture of your setup? maybe you can just add a 7lb and push the 11lb all the way up? regarding PPEC - that algorithm is
By Brian Valente · #65891 ·
Re: Side-of-pier issue
Hi Magnus! What you are describing is, to me, an anomaly in PHD2 itself, for my lack of a better way to describe it. What I learned to do (this was with my old mount) was to close PHD2. And I mean
By Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...> · #65890 ·
Guiding and clutch tightness
So I followed one of the tips in one of the threads and loosened the RA clutch. Had it very tight, but have now learned that that is not advisable. So I tightened it just enough so the (balanced)
By Arun Hegde <arun.k.hegde@...> · #65889 ·
Side-of-pier issue
Hi all! I am going to try to describe an issue here that is not very easy to describe.... In my recent attempts to automatize variable star observations, I have run into an issue about side-of-pier
By Magnus Larsson · #65888 ·