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.
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Deric Caselli
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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
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Les Green
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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
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Deric Caselli
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Re: Counterweights
haha true. true
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Brian Valente
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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.
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Deric Caselli
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Re: Counterweights
they look super nice! but too expensive for me.
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Brian Valente
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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
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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
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Deric Caselli
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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,
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Deric Caselli
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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
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Yes. I hadn¡¯t done the math but you¡¯re right. Over 3 nights
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Brian Valente
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Re: G11 performance unguided
Very nice Brian.
Just curious, but 80X300sec, is that 80 each, 300sec images.
Or 6.66 hours?
That's phenominominomal!
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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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
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Deric Caselli
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Re: Almost a new owner.... Getting it through my thick head.
nice! clean plate solve too, from the looks of it
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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Re: G11 performance unguided
Very nice Brian.
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Deric Caselli
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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
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Deric Caselli
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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
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Brian Valente
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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!
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Re: Almost a new owner.... Getting it through my thick head.
Deric Caselli
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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
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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
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