Re: Parking and Flipping and Piers
How far is really entirely depending on what is on the clamp.
I'm using an Orion ED80T CF, but I have a large manual filter wheel mounted in my imaging stream (8 filter positions, 1.25"). So the
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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#68322
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Re: Astronomy software & capture software
I use Astro Photo Tool. I like it. Works well. Cheap.
I tried SGP and hated it.
Also been playing with NINA. It¡¯s free, great interface and works well.
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Rick Paul
Tucson, AZ
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Richard Paul
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#68321
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Gemini 2 and original Asiair
For the life of me I can't get the asiair to connect to the Gemini 2 under any usb baud rate. I have tried as outlined here to connect via usb. Funny that skysafari sees the mount and controlls it
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Randy Flynn
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#68320
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Re: Parking and Flipping and Piers
Hi Sonny,
I am also curious what you have your limits set to ?
I have the RAEXT and 12" Ext, ( but I removed my original 4" riser ? from the FHD tripod...)
(With my imaging train on a ED102 with a
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Astronut
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#68319
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Re: Parking and Flipping and Piers
Sonny, how long past meridian can you go with the 12 inch? All night?
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Rick Paul
Tucson, AZ
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Richard Paul
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#68318
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Re: Parking and Flipping and Piers
Hi Rick!
The other guys will help you with 1 and 2.
Question 3:
I can attest to using an EX12 extension, and the RAEXT on my GM811GHD.
When dreaming about my 811 (born February 2020) I decided I
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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#68317
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Re: Losmandy group on Astrobin
It's OK Carl. No harm, no foul.
I just have a particular ilk towards these subscription things.
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SonnyE
Sonny's Youtube Channel ( https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sonny+edmonds )
(I
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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#68316
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Re: Losmandy group on Astrobin
OK, I jumped in Andy.
Thanks!
Just the freebie version for me. Those subscription programs are, to me, just a nickel and dime you to death scheme.
Give me ownership, or gimme free.
My one
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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#68315
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SGP and Gemini I
Hi everybody,
We have a G11 in a remote observatory and we are working with SGP, we are having some issies that I would like to share with the forum if anyone can help us.
First, we don¡¯t know how
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Bittor Zabalegi
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#68314
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Re: Losmandy group on Astrobin
An alternative is Flickr where you can either pay or use for free with
limited images. There are a LOT of people using the free version.
I created a Losmandy group for anyone who is
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Astrophoto_Andy
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#68313
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Parking and Flipping and Piers
Two issues I've run into:
1.? In Astro Photo Tool, I have the session craft tool do the Automatic Meridian Flip. APT starts the process, but when it comes to the step of moving the scope it gets an
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Richard Paul
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#68312
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Re: Losmandy group on Astrobin
Aw man, sorry about that, I didn't realize.?I got a free membership because data loss occurred.
I too hate paying memberships.
I am still in the process of deciding if I am going to pay when my free
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Carl Bj?rk
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#68311
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Re: G11G Weight Bar
1.25 inch is the standard Losmandy counterweight bar diameter for G11 and
GM8.
Best,
Michael
[email protected]> wrote:
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Michael Herman
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#68310
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G11G Weight Bar
Can someone please tell me the thickness of the G11G bar that holds the weights?? My buddy has some weights that 'look' like could be used as additional weights but I need to verify the bar actually
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Russ
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#68309
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Re: G11GT GoTo Dim Star
You can use Gemini ASCOM ( /g/Gemini_ASCOM_Driver ) (read their instructions) to amend or create Gemini catalogues and upload/download them to your Gemini.? Make your own call it
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Brendan
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#68308
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Re: Losmandy group on Astrobin
O...K...
So I tried to join the group.... I got this:
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Sorry :-(
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This feature is only offered at higher membership levels.
Would you be interested in upgrading? AstroBin is a very small
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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#68307
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Re: G11GT GoTo Dim Star
The optional "Stars listed by constellation" does what you want ... though I'm not sure how many stars per constellation are included.
Another alternative... if you have a phone with Sky Safari 6
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Timothy Campbell
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#68306
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Re: G11GT GoTo Dim Star
Hi Wes - i think probably the easiest is to use a planetarium program like
sky safari or stellarium. you can connect those to gemini and just GOTO
directly from the planetarium software
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Brian Valente
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#68305
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Re: G11GT GoTo Dim Star
Tim
Thanks for the response. I wasn't clear in my original post. I do have
the SAO catalog on my GoTo lists in the hand controller. I am asking about
a way to go to Epsilon Lyrae or Nu Scorpii
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wes Bolin <k5apl41@...>
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#68304
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Re: G11GT GoTo Dim Star
The SAO catalog contains general stars. There¡¯s a WDS catalog of double stars.
But you can add catalogs.
See: https://gemini-2.com/copycatalogs.html <https://gemini-2.com/copycatalogs.html>
And:
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Timothy Campbell
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#68303
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