Re: Qns. about the GM-8
--- steve ott <steveo@...> wrote:
There are no manual slow-motion controls. The Losmandy "digital drive" has
slewing speeds up to 32x sidereal. See their website at www.losmandy.com.
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Paul Sterngold <psterngold@...>
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Qns. about the GM-8
Hi folks. I am seriously considering buying the GM-8, and have two
questions.
1. It seems it has no slow-motion controls. Do the slewing
capabilities effectively act as slow-motion controls?
2. I
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steve ott <steveo@...>
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#281
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Worm drives
Hi all,
Very interesting postings on this group some of which make
interesting reading and have already solved some problems with my G11
mount.
Anyway I have recently stripped down and relubed my
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Bill Snowzell
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Re: Gemini and older Celestron G11 mounts
<mrrockets@h...> wrote:
Probably 1994...........
Hello Jeff,
The new Gemini system will be compatible with all G-11's even the
ones with Celestron labels (which were fully manufactured by
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pjwardau
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#279
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Re: M31 after G11 RA mod
Rogelio,
Please don't be overly impressed with the modified G11 mount at this point
(it may be tracking quite well, but I need to take higher mag images to be
sure.) The image res in the picture is
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Neal Barry
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Re: M31 after G11 RA mod
Very nice!...
Herm
"Neal Barry" <nbarry@...> wrote:
Astropics http://home.att.net/~hermperez
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hermperez@...
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#277
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Re: M31 after G11 RA mod
That's outstanding, Neal, really beautiful. The registration looks good,
but you can probably do better in a program such as Maxim that lets you do
"sub-pixel" registration.
Paul Sterngold
--- Neal
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Paul Sterngold <psterngold@...>
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#276
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M31 after G11 RA mod
Hi all,
This is my first shot after modifying the RA axis on my G11. The mod appears
to have accomplished the objective. The stars are much rounder and better
defined than before the mod.
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Neal Barry
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Re: GM-8 Knob Question
wrote:
out
Thanks,
Those bolts are an optional drive fastener. The handles are
indexable (pull out and turn). I hang my controller from them.
My GM8 came with them, my G11 did not. Scott sells
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dmfoptics
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#274
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Gemini and older Celestron G11 mounts
I have emailed Scott this however since their are a few people familiar with
the Gemini Goto retrofit here, I thought I'd ask as well.
Are there any incompatibilities with the older G11 mounts label
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Jeffrey D. Gortatowsky <mrrockets@...>
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#273
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Re: GM-8 Knob Question
Tony,
I can not find an L-bolts on my GM-8. Mine is about a year old.
Take care,
Gregory david Stempel
FIREFRAME
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Gregory David Stempel <fyrframe@...>
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DSC suitability
On occasion a question is asked about the suitability of a
particular DSC for a specific application. Answers come back
like "The DSC should be adequate or the DSC places the object square
in
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havriliakjr
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#271
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(No subject)
suscribir
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Adair Fagundez <adair@...>
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#270
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GM-8 Knob Question
When assembling my new GM-8, I wound up with two extra bolts (about
1/4" thread)with "L" shaped little handles on them. Can't figure out
where they go unless they were suppose to be used to mount
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Tony Bonanno <tbonanno@...>
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Re: another question
Thanks, Jim. I'll take a look.
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Ray Porter
lrporter@...
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Home Page: http://www.unc.edu/~dragon/
"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons
for
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Ray Porter <ray_porter@...>
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Re: another question
Ray Porter wrote:
Ray,
Don't know if you've found it yet, but you might want to check out Rene
Goerlich's G-11 tuning page at http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~goerlich/cg11tune.html
He ran into the same
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Jim Girard <argo@...>
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another question
I forgot while writing my last post, I still haven't been able to find the
lock-screw that is used to lock the mechanical declination circle in place
once it's calibrated. Were there some modes of
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Ray Porter <ray_porter@...>
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new G-11 users with questions (continued)
Thanks again to everyone who has responded to my questions so far. The
weather forecast for tomorrow calls for clearing so maybe I'll actually be
able to get this thing out under the stars tomorrow
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Ray Porter <ray_porter@...>
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#265
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Re: new G-11 user with questions
hermperez@... wrote:
Beautiful shot Herm.
Rockett Crawford
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Rockett Crawford <Rockett@...>
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Re: new G-11 user with questions
hermperez@... wrote:
That's a good point Herm. Someone could take shorter exposures,
de-rotate, and register them if they needed to during image processing
as long as no one image
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Rockett Crawford <Rockett@...>
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#262
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