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Re: Almost a new owner.... Getting it through my thick head.
The one thing I was worried about the mirror being slivered was, silver will tarnish, It looks like Badder has figured and solved this issue. Sent from my Galaxy Tab A
By Deric Caselli · #64660 ·
Re: Almost a new owner.... Getting it through my thick head.
Sonny, I'm going to jump on Brian's posts and go with plate solving. When I first started out with my mount I used the hand controller and synced with a couple of stars on each side of the pier. It
By Les Green · #64659 ·
Re: Almost a new owner.... Getting it through my thick head.
Chip, I read William A Paolini's, review of Baaders BBHS coated Sitall diagonal on C.N. pretty impressive. I guess one of these will be on my list. " your costing me alot"... LOL. It's all good. HAPPY
By Deric Caselli · #64658 ·
Re: Counterweights
haha true. true wrote:
By Brian Valente · #64657 ·
Re: Counterweights
They are a bit expensive but what the heck, You only live once and I like the look and no rusting. And we all know that stainless counterweights make your mount 10% better LOL... HAPPY SKIES. Sent
By Deric Caselli · #64656 ·
Re: Counterweights
they look super nice! but too expensive for me. wrote: -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com <http://brianvalentephotography.com>
By Brian Valente · #64655 ·
Re: G11 performance unguided
Sonny give them a call tomorrow. I stopped by the shop for something unrelated and I know they are working out from under the backlog since returning from the UK show wrote: -- Brian Brian
By Brian Valente · #64654 ·
Re: Counterweights
I'm not sure who gave me the hot tip about "BnD Astro Accessories" on the stainless steel counterweights.. I thank you. The hot tip was spot on I ordered a 22Lb from them Mike, shipped same day
By Deric Caselli · #64653 ·
Re: G11 performance unguided
Sonny, I dont know what the hold up at Losmandy is, I ordered my G11 from Highpoint Scientific and it was drop shipped with all the upgrades from Losmandy in two weeks and Highpoint paid the shipping,
By Deric Caselli · #64652 ·
Re: G11 performance unguided
Quite impressive! Really shows the mounts precision! I used to break down my G3 camera into chunks of time, like 300s, 600s, 900s, 1200s... up to 1800s (30 minutes) for one shot images. Nobody could
Re: G11 performance unguided
Yes. I hadn¡¯t done the math but you¡¯re right. Over 3 nights wrote: Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com <http://brianvalentephotography.com>
By Brian Valente · #64650 ·
Re: G11 performance unguided
Very nice Brian. Just curious, but 80X300sec, is that 80 each, 300sec images. Or 6.66 hours? That's phenominominomal! -- SonnyE
By Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...> · #64649 ·
Re: Almost a new owner.... Getting it through my thick head.
Chip, the Baader BBHS diagonal's price is not too scary expensive at around $500.00. I am using a William Optic now and it is Okay. WTH I do need another diagonal any way I will give it a try. Thank
By Deric Caselli · #64648 ·
Re: Almost a new owner.... Getting it through my thick head.
nice! clean plate solve too, from the looks of it Show quoted text ( /g/Losmandy_users/topic/almost_a_new_owner/70926778?p=Created,,,20,1,20,0&jump=1#quoted-158925182
By Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...> · #64647 ·
Re: G11 performance unguided
Very nice Brian. Sent from my Boost Mobile Phone.
By Deric Caselli · #64646 ·
Re: Almost a new owner.... Getting it through my thick head.
Thank you Chip, I think you and Edggie from Cloudy Nights, have cost me the most money. LOL... But you have not disappointed me yet.all recommendations have been spot on. I do appreciate it, your
By Deric Caselli · #64645 ·
Re: G11 performance unguided
one more update on this i've still been working on unguided imaging @844mm focal length (about 1 arcsec/pix resolution) this is 80x300sec Ha filter of M81, totally unguided on my G11 processing is
By Brian Valente · #64644 ·
Re: Almost a new owner.... Getting it through my thick head.
Japan people observe straight through sans diagonal of any sort. i was unaware of the advanced japanese observing techniques!
By Brian Valente · #64643 ·
Re: Almost a new owner.... Getting it through my thick head.
Deric Caselli Feb 3 Derek and Brian, I dont know really why this has worked for me. I set my tripod pointed North by compass, then used the polar scope ( I can't see the other polar alignment stars
Re: Computer for remote operation
Stellarmate works well. I had lots of problems on the pie 3 version mainly with the cameras disconnecting on USB 2. With the pie 4 these issues seem to have cleared up. I believe it is because the pie
By Les Green · #64641 ·