Re: How is the belleville washer solution working?
A bit late to the thread but, having had my share of exposure to Belleville washers (thanks Michael!), and involuntary worm gear practice, let me chime in.? On a recent episode of Gold Rush, Tony had
By
HenkSB
·
#66410
·
|
Re: Cold Start unresponsive
Thanks for your reply. I was wondering if you could clarify what you mean when you say "calibrate" the hand control screen. Ince I'm automatically taken to? the "cold start, warm start, etc.", screen
By
Erik Brogger
·
#66409
·
|
Re: Maybe, I should not blame my mount for it ?
Seb, This looks like it could be a flattener spacing and sensor tilt problem. Looking at the corners you have a spacing problem but the bottom is not as bad, almost perfect. This tells me you have a
By
Chip Louie
·
#66408
·
|
Re: G1GT
Luis, This situation is why the G11T and the TRA-Axis exist, just to boost your G11 up to a 75 pounds imaging payload. -- Chip Louie - Chief Daydreamer Imagination Hardware
By
Chip Louie
·
#66407
·
|
Re: RA axis stability test
Henk, Is this repeatable? Does it happen in both directions??It looks like you kicked the tripod or the camera or focuser flopped. I suggest a careful retest making sure you don't have a loose screw
By
Chip Louie
·
#66406
·
|
G1GT
I have a G11G mount in my ROR observatory. Usually the weight of my instruments is about 17 kg (38 lbs). I¡¯m thinking to buy a Celestron14 Edge that weights 21 kg (47 lbs). Then the total weight of
By
Luis Barneo
·
#66405
·
|
Re: Maybe, I should not blame my mount for it ?
Its a refractor , so it should not lose collimation. I will check collimation anyway on a bright star next time. My guiding wasn't too bad. If it was guiding, stars would be more elongated on frames
By
Sebastian Kotulski
·
#66404
·
|
Re: Maybe, I should not blame my mount for it ?
Maybe your collimation is out? Mine was out a few days ago and it looked alot like that. I have an SCT, so it needs adjustment on occasion. How was your guiding?
By
Jamie Amendolagine
·
#66403
·
|
Maybe, I should not blame my mount for it ?
Please look at those light frames and compare. Same egg shaped stars on all of them. 5 sec or 300 sec exposure time?doesnt make any difference. 5 sec
By
Sebastian Kotulski
·
#66402
·
Edited
|
Re: What's wrong with this mount? Help please .
Brian, that's a good idea, will do. I haven't been motivated to do that yet since my current guiding is good enough for now. But the upcoming full moon days would be a good opportunity.
By
Arun Hegde <arun.k.hegde@...>
·
#66401
·
Edited
|
Re: Cold Start unresponsive
1st thing to do: Calibrate your HC screen. 2nd: Grit or a smal particle (or even too much pressure from the LCD ¡°frame¡± rubber pad itself) gets caught in the edge or this LCD pad which causes the
By
Brendan
·
#66400
·
Edited
|
Re: RA axis stability test
Just to be clear, I did not mean to say that there is anything wrong with this.? There always will be some play in the axes in order to not bind up.? This happened to my AVX one time, and I had to
|
RA axis stability test
As part of my polar alignment procedure I put the G11S mount in the home position with the scope pointed at the NCP with a camera at 6400 ISO at prime focus.? I then rotate around the RA axis, mark
By
HenkSB
·
#66398
·
|
Re: 2 questions for you: Guiding as the next Losmandy Zoom Meetup topic
Hi Jeffrey I don't see a message Soo if you could resend that would be great. We are on location until Monday so I may not be able to respond until then Brian wrote:
By
Brian Valente
·
#66397
·
|
Re: 2 questions for you: Guiding as the next Losmandy Zoom Meetup topic
Hi Brian, I don't know if you got my last private message.? I sent a log file of a recent guide experiance.? The last time, a year ago, you mentioned I had a huge periodic error on a chart you
By
Jeffrey Messikian
·
#66396
·
|
Cold Start unresponsive
I just completed the initial setup of the Gemini on my new G811. I shut it off and then later turned the system back on. I tried touching Cold Start and nothing happened. After a few more tries the
By
Erik Brogger
·
#66395
·
|
Re: What's wrong with this mount? Help please .
Arun you don't have to wait for that - you can use the baseline guiding outline I posted to this thread, complete that and then upload to the PHD Forums Brian -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio
By
Brian Valente
·
#66394
·
|
Re: What's wrong with this mount? Help please .
That looks a lot like my graph. I want more as well. Hopefully the guiding workshop will discuss whether and how this is possible.
By
Arun Hegde <arun.k.hegde@...>
·
#66393
·
|
Re: remote power on - what do you use
Not sure what all you are trying to power on Brian but recently I started using the Kasa wifi power strip over home wifi:
By
John Kmetz
·
#66392
·
|
Re: TCP connection
Hi Tim, I should've been clearer: Gemini.NET ASCOM driver uses HTTP protocol over port 80, or UDP protocol over port 11110 (by default) Regards, -Paul
By
Paul Kanevsky
·
#66391
·
|