Re: RA spikes towards west
O.M.G.
PEC spikes!!!
I'd never ever guess that one!
So many Sci Fi movies have the same theme: glitches in the machine code.
From Westworld to.... you name it.
I was also thinking of the great movie
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Michael Herman
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Re: RA spikes towards west
Hi!
Michael :)
Thanks. I was only thinking mechanics. But there are other things. And what might cause problems when you're not thinking of it?
PEC
Turns out, I had PEC turned on. But it should be
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Magnus Larsson
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#67346
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Re: Forgot to introduce myself
Hi James,
Welcome to the group!
There are a lot of guys here from around the world that are well versed in Losmandy Mounts going way back.
So you came to the right place.
--
SonnyE
Sonny's Youtube
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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#67345
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Re: RA spikes towards west
Hi!
This clearly affects my imaging. The spikes produce doubled stars, so to speak. Subs not usable. So it needs to be fixed.
I totally agree on the slightly wiggly-jiggly graphs :) But this one
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Magnus Larsson
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Re: RA spikes towards west
How is your imaging?
Just because you are getting some jags does not mean you have a problem.
If it shows in your imaging and is insurmountable in processing, that's a problem.
But in my experiences,
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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#67343
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Re: Poor Tracking GM8
Hi Chip,
Definitely a very brassy color. One thing I noticed is I have to turn the clutch knobs with excessive force to get the scope to have a stiff resistance to moving. Daniel said there might be
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John Hawk
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Re: G11 with Gemini2 issues with Go To
I can't speak to the older, or first generation Gemini II units, mine is very newish, February this year.
But... have you tried a Factory Reset? Then enter your own Lon-Lat, time, and date, and
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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#67341
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Re: G11 with Gemini2 issues with Go To
Hi James,
I'm one one the rarities in this group: I only have Gemini1 units so far.
Many of them....
So I cannot say explicitly that your Gemini-2 is exactly the same as what I
wrote. You will have
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Michael Herman
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#67340
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Re: G11 with Gemini2 issues with Go To
Thank you Brendan,
When I had the mount connected to the web interface, the voltage was good. last night I was not able to connect through the ethernet (blaming on the new windows update), so my only
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James B
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#67339
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Re: G11 with Gemini2 issues with Go To
Hi James - Brendan made some good suggestions for you
99% of the time this kind of issue is from incorrect Gemini settings for date/time/location/timezone.
So first is to make sure the info you are
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Brian Valente
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#67338
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Re: G11 with Gemini2 issues with Go To
Thank you Michael,
You mentioned the issues with Gemini 1. I have the Gemini 2 but with the first version of the control board. Will the above advice work for my version as well, and the attached
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James B
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Re: Apology to the polar alignment scope
I¡¯m glad to see they¡¯re still available. That¡¯s got to be a tough business, making a product that, once it¡¯s successfully installed, has a life of a quarter century, with a limited pool of
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Les Niles
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#67336
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Re: Apology to the polar alignment scope
I bet this would be a NASA APOD if you would submit it.
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HenkSB
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Re: RA spikes towards west
Hi Magnus,
Given all that you have done, I doubt it is the mount drive.... but other
ideas follow....
The camera optics are very sensitive to any mechanical looseness.
When I've gotten glitches in
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Michael Herman
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Re: G11 with Gemini2 issues with Go To
Hi James,
Things to try... consider them beginners notes....
1. Any time you change the date or time or latitude, longitude, etc: *after
you enter the new values you must power off the Gemini,
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Michael Herman
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Re: G11 with Gemini2 issues with Go To
James
what does the Web interface state the battery voltage is ( https://gemini-2.com/web/web-battery-ports.php ) ?
Are you sure your battery top "finger clip" is contacting the battery top with
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Brendan
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RA spikes towards west
Hi!
I seem to have run into a problem where I think I'd need some smart input. I've cleaned and relubed my G11, put everything together and adjusted the RA worm as usual. Now I am also running a
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Magnus Larsson
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Forgot to introduce myself
Hi everyone, my name is James and I have been into AP for a few years now. I started with an Ioptron IEQ 45 and I was able to get that thing to work pretty good for a non American made mount. I
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James B
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#67330
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G11 with Gemini2 issues with Go To
Hi, I purchased a used G11 with the older Gemini 2 Go To. The mount worked great for the first few weeks, then it started going nutty. Pointing in strange places I did not tell it to go. I looked up
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James B
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#67329
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Re: Orion 8" f/4 Newt and GM811G Mount?
This is what I'm saying...
Tom
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wa1vta01452 <loeblt@...>
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#67328
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