Re: PREVIEW: New Tutorial on calculating your Image Scale
Good tutorial and information but I am confused.? Shouldn't you enter your auto-guider information and not your imaging scope if you intend to use PEMPro?
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Jim Waters <jimwaters@...>
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Re: Maintenance
Hi Jamie,
Sounds like you care for the mount as I do, I keep it covered when in the field and not in use. When it is not in use it is stored in the house also covered. If you do this and you have
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Chip Louie
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Re: Maintenance
Sounds well cared for Jamie.
I'd be inclined to not worry for 5 years.
The minimal motion use of our mounts is really very light duty to the lube.
And I believe it is a synthetic, so it should retain
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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#67032
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Re: [Gemini-II_io] PREVIEW: New Tutorial on calculating your Image Scale
Thanks for the input Paul!
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Brian Valente
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Re: [Gemini-II_io] PREVIEW: New Tutorial on calculating your Image Scale
Very good tutorial, Brian!
Wanted to mention that variations of a few 1/100s of an arcsecond in pixel scale between predicted and measured are really insignificant. In most cases this is way smaller
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Paul Kanevsky
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Re: Maintenance
Thanks, I'm using a newer GM811G, maybe a year old or so. I store it indoors, and? take it in before I go to sleep, so it's got minimal exposure to the elements. Seems like I've got some
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Jamie Amendolagine
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#67029
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Re: Maintenance
Like all things it depends on your use, care and conditions. Also depends on your mount, older straight drives are more exposed to the elements than later tucked servo OPW mounts. But once a year
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Chip Louie
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Re: [Gemini-II_io] PREVIEW: New Tutorial on calculating your Image Scale
I should also mention this tutorial is a basic one that just covers how to
calculate your image scale
If you already know this and are comfortable with your process, please feel
free to skip
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Brian Valente <brian@...>
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PREVIEW: New Tutorial on calculating your Image Scale
This isn't yet published, but I wanted to pass this along to this special
group of folks and see if there's any feedback
It's Part 1 of Practical PEC for your Gemini
It was supposed to be a
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Brian Valente <brian@...>
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Maintenance
Someone was telling me that years ago they had a g11, and found that they needed to clean and re-lube once a year. Is this recommended?
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Jamie Amendolagine
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Re: Going Auto with N.I.N.A
Roman,
I forgot to drop this link for you to verify your Losmandy Gemini 1 RS232 cabling. *Losmandy serial cabling page with pin outs.* ( https://gemini-2.com/cable_wiring.php )
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Chip Louie
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Re: Going Auto with N.I.N.A
Hi Roman,
Get a good *ATEN USB to serial converter cable* ( https://www.aten.com/us/en/products/usb-&-thunderbolt/usb-converters/uc232a/ ) directly from ATEN. Many of us have been using these for
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Chip Louie
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Re: Best Way To Determine Periodic Error?
Hi Sonny
UI really think what you are seeing is field rotation due to polar
misalignment - it's not about the quality of the guiding, although i
suspect your guiding is reasonably good
as your
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Brian Valente
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Re: Best Way To Determine Periodic Error?
Hi Michael, Thank You for the reply.
I certainly hear you about the Orion (lack off) Quality issue. My Orion G3 was a POS out of the box, then things got worse. It's so dead now it can't be used at
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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Re: Sawtooth pattern in DEC
Thanks, Brian, I set the period to the G11 worm period once I realized what was happening. I think at one point, it went all the way up to 900s! Next time, I'll try starting with a lower DEC backlash
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Arun Hegde <arun.k.hegde@...>
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Re: Sawtooth pattern in DEC
yeah seems high
you might put it at 3500 just to see what happens, but also reset the
starting point to around 800ms
sometimes when it gets that high it takes a while for it to correct back,
if it
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Brian Valente
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Re: Sawtooth pattern in DEC
I started with 1500, it went to 1500.
So I took it to 2000, it went to 2000.
I ended the night at 2500, and it went to 2500.
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Arun Hegde <arun.k.hegde@...>
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Re: Sawtooth pattern in DEC
Hi Arun
what was the max you were operating at?
saw that I had checked auto calculate period.
That's the nature of the algorithm, it attempts to identify periodicity in
your results, without
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Brian Valente
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Re: Sawtooth pattern in DEC
So an update on this... almost all good.
Tightened the clutches a bit, make sure the polar alignment was good - Polemaster is not as reliable as you think - used PPEC and enabled backlash comp in
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Arun Hegde <arun.k.hegde@...>
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Re: Going Auto with N.I.N.A
Hi Chip ,
I found that pages for settings in Gemini.Net
https://gemini-2.com/Installing_ASCOM.php
We all remember this pages and never forget :(
My USB/Serial adapter is very very old and do not let
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Roman Kulesza
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