Re: Help with DEC backlash/jumpy guiding
Michael,
Brian has a G11GT mount, which has a Titan-based RA and a G11-based DEC assembly. RA has a 270 tooth wheel, which translates into just under 320 seconds worm cycle.
Regards,
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Paul Kanevsky
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Re: Help with DEC backlash/jumpy guiding
Ray,
This is a quote directly from the Losmandy G11 mount manual, which says the
G11 period is 4 minutes = 4¡Á60sec =240 sec, right?
Here is the text, from the Losmandy
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Michael Herman
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Re: Help with DEC backlash/jumpy guiding
Sorry Michael Herman, but I'm afraid you are using the wrong worm period. The worm period is about 319.1 seconds, over which a 42.55-second frequency repeats 7.5 times. This is not correctable using
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Ray Gralak
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Re: How to train PEC
Hi!
Great, thanks!! Will play with this next clear night.... next year or so, I guess... :)
Best,
Magnus
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Re: Help with DEC backlash/jumpy guiding
I am certain you are right... if you can identify which gear is the
culprit, that should be also sent to the EQMOD group who made up PECprep to
add to their G11 list.
How does that 42 sec peak
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Michael Herman
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Re: Help with DEC backlash/jumpy guiding
Michael
I would be happy to show you the 42 sec interval. i have a G11GT, and I think the tucked in motors introduce new gearing ratios (probably true for G11G as well).
This has also been
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Brian Valente
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Re: Help with DEC backlash/jumpy guiding
Unknown on the new G11G system... but you have to understand the
contributors to noise in the PE and PE error itself.
It was thought that only the worm mattered, and that of course rotates in
~239.4
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Michael Herman
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Re: Help with DEC backlash/jumpy guiding
I have the same issues with both axes of my new-design G-11G. I am still going through the trouble shooting process but expect I eventually will have to do the bearing/washer mod. How much does this
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Glenn Diekmann
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Re: How to train PEC
Comments...
1. You don't need any PC connection, per se, to run the Gemini PEC
recorder. You could use an autoguider camera and the ST4 port to do it I
suppose.
2. If you are looking at PHD2 on
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Michael Herman
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Re: How to train PEC
I know this is a frequent subject for debates, but proper PEC programming does help prevent tracking errors before they happen. This results in better guided or unguided performance. An autoguider
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Paul Kanevsky
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Re: How to train PEC
PE correction helps for both guided and unguided imaging. Some errors cannot be easily guided out, and PEC helps smooth things out so the guiding is better
My G11GT has a nasty 42 second recurring
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Brian Valente
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Re: How to train PEC
Do you have to use an Ethernet connection to do all the pec runs, or can
you use just USB connection? I only use USB and can't get Gemini.net,
right. I have a new G811G with gemini-2. No pempro
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Mearl Balmer
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Re: How to train PEC
Magnus,
You are correct : you can use your autoguider with the Gemini's built in
PEC recorder /corrector. You skip using the old hand controller method.
The correction signals from the autoguider
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Michael Herman
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Re: How to train PEC
I think the big question is what is PEC for? It is my view that it is there to get you better unguided exposures.
I believe that if you taking guided exposures, then you don¡¯t need PEC (at
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David C. Partridge
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How to train PEC
Hi!
I'm trying to get my head around how I can train PEC in a good way. I understand that I can do it manually, that is with an eyepiece and manually issuing guide commands.
But: If I can do that
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Re: Help with DEC backlash/jumpy guiding
Hi!
Thanks a lot! Yes, I'd be very happy to buy a bunch (3 might be enough :)) belville washers from you, and see what difference that makes!! Can you email me off the list? magnus @ vista .
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Re: G11 Guding PHD2 rms number High G1
Used not sure how old......
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Greg Kaiser
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Re: G11 Guding PHD2 rms number High G1
"Recently Purchased a used G11 with G1 controller"
i'm guessing it's not under warranty
B
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Brian Valente
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Re: G11 Guding PHD2 rms number High G1
aha!
I'd like to look at your PE for clues.
Please send me the unguided PHD2 logfile, with info on your Scope FL
aperture, and Autoguide camera pixel size X and Y, and any Barlow info
(same data
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Michael Herman
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Re: G11 Guding PHD2 rms number High G1
Forgot to mention I ran 3 worm cycles unguided thru Pecprep and bearings seem
ok according to the tool
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Greg Kaiser
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