Re: Excellent seeing in Sydney
Thanks guys. Yes it does some sense of depth when you seen the moon motion and shadows projected.
Here's a picture of the rig on one of the nights imaging Saturn:
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#67778
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Re: G11 Mount Not Tracking Correctly
Sonny,
I already posted to do a factory reset a few weeks ago.
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Chip Louie
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#67777
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Re: RA stiction question
Hi Mike,
When you cleaned the worm did you actually disassemble the aluminum clutch discs with the translucent plastic clutch disc sandwiched in between? The plastic clutch discs and both aluminum
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Chip Louie
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Re: RA stiction question
I¡¯m just freely spinning the saddle with my hand. If the ring gear spins with the saddle, I.e the worm gear is removed, everything spins freely. If I replace the worm gear, and have the clutch
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Mike Wagner
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Re: G11 Mount Not Tracking Correctly
Going back to bone simple...
Have you tried a Factory Reset?
(I'm assuming your G11 has a Gemini II. Because I am ignorant if this is available with a Gemini I.)
Just thought I would through that in
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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Re: RA stiction question
Possibly a bit of a tight spot in one of the needle bearings. You can rince them with WD40, then turp, dry thoroughly and regrease lightly. Sliding the RA axis in the other way (knob side) can help
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#67773
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Re: RA stiction question
Hi Mike
I"m not sure at what point of re-assembly you found the RA is a bit sticky. did you put your telescope back on?
this sounds to me like it could be a worm gear meshing too tight. i'm not sure
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Brian Valente
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Re: RA stiction question
I did just this in the afternoon. I cleaned everything pretty well. But I found when I removed the worm the entire assembly of ring gear and everything spun freely. When I put the worm back in the RA
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Mike Wagner
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Re: G11 Mount Not Tracking Correctly
Hi Doug
one more thing regarding the polar scope, and your comment "The app I have on my phone to match the reticle never seems to be in the same position when looking through the reticle of the
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Brian Valente
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Re: G11 Mount Not Tracking Correctly
Hi Doug
"?I verified the coordinates and UTC time."
just confirming, the time you should be entering into Gemini should be local time, and the timezone should offset that to UTC. you should not
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Brian Valente
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Re: G11 Mount Not Tracking Correctly
I'm hoping to get back out one night this week and try in my backyard. ?I'll post back with my results.
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dougwheeler90@...
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Re: G11 Mount Not Tracking Correctly
I don't know if the GPS has the firmware fix for GPS rollover. ?But I did verify everything. ?Using the buttons I could manually slew to where I wanted, but the tracking was off. ?The polar
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dougwheeler90@...
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Re: G11 Mount Not Tracking Correctly
Yep, all the wires were connected properly. ?I always check and double check before powering on.
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Re: G11 Mount Not Tracking Correctly
Thanks, Michael!
The gears definitely were not slipping, I did check all of that. ?I always cold start, so I don't think that was the issue. ?I thought the Cold Start always deleted previous
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dougwheeler90@...
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Re: G11 Mount Not Tracking Correctly
I was using the GPS, so it pulled data from there automatically. ?I did verify it was correct.
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Re: RA stiction question
Mike- I recently purchased a second hand G11 and found the RA axis very difficult to move with the gears removed. I removed the RA head, removed, cleaned and regreased the bearings and it solved it
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Ben Diss <ben@...>
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Re: Excellent seeing in Sydney
i'm always astonished by planetary movies with moons passing by. so cool
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Brian Valente
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Re: Excellent seeing in Sydney
Marc,
Absolutely wonderful detail. Messiers A and B really stand out to
me...well done!
Matt
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matt harmston
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Re: Excellent seeing in Sydney
Thanks guys. Jupiter and Saturn pass at the zenith every evening now. Here's a quick animation of Jupiter and two of its moons in the field over a period of
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#67760
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Re: RA stiction question
Hi Mike
is your worm gear engaged? If you are comfortable with disassembly you might try disengaging your worm gear and rotating the RA shaft to isolate if it's the shaft itself or something related
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Brian Valente
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