stepping beyond Loc: usa eastcoast

I had my mojo going on and by 830pm , I was ready to image Orion again . I was using Sharpcap to position the nebula but, I let SGPro do the solve and the 3rd time was the charm successful solve. It might have been a blind solve , it was still a solve, Woohoo ! I was ready to image , NOT ! I got a message to fix it. I forgot to give it a path to find it , that took 2 hours to figure out after taking breaks from frustration .

1st time luck

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Nice...

stepping beyond Loc: usa eastcoast

The Po'man mount and tripod are used and old but, the optics are state of the art . It's still being put together and the mount will be replaced with a heavy duty one day.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Ronnie, there are no failures. They are steps on the learning curve.
As long as no boulders come rolling down at you.....

Interesting we were both imaging Orion last night.
I chose my old friend, The Hunter, because it was at crossing with the Southern Meridian for me at the time I got my poop grouped.
And I know that soon Orion will be gone until next winter rolls around.
But it seems to be prime right now.

My skies became increasingly impossible as high altitude foggy mist blew over, and Mr. Moon made it glow into impenetrable glare.
Well, no impenetrable, but ugly. So I baled out at ~10:30.
It was a chilling 39 degrees by then, too.

Keep working at it as the weather allows.

stepping beyond Loc: usa eastcoast

The test that night was short after kicking the dirt several times. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't plate solve after Ed told me what to do and I wrote it down but, I can't read half of it , it was a success because sgp blind solved after the 3rd time. New anything is always difficult for me , I have to get an understanding what it's doing before I can stop kicking the dirt . Everything is a PITA at first but, it'll get better once I get things ironed out with my rig. Alanna bought me a dual adapter so , I don't have to remove/replace my finder and guider which throws off my alignment. Working with my left hand to do everything after aligning is frustrating but, I don't dare touch the rig with my right hand after I align .It took me a month to figure that out when I 1st started imaging.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Why do you do a plate solve as opposed to a star alignment and GoTo? Just curious?

bwa

stepping beyond Loc: usa eastcoast

I tried to plate solve bwa but, I forgot to set the path . I wrote lil' notes , obviously it would help if I read them. Ed and I talked today and he's determined "he'll get this figured out" I'm at wits end. I've had these issues with my old affordable meade lxd55 goto mount and this is the 2nd , I fell on the other one and broke the dec housing when my leg gave out. I didn't have the issues until I put my 8in. astrograph on it , still trying to nail it down and auto guide successfully . I'm new to SGPro and never plate solved before. I've got a lot on my plate along with my rig still being built a lil' bit at a time per year.

Paladin48 Loc: Orlando

Your images would be steadier if you didn't put your telescope on one of those rubber mats ... Just Sayin'

stepping beyond Loc: usa eastcoast

They pads are for standing on made of neoprene and the mount is sitting on the driveway that has been marked , I use my anti-vibration pads but, I didn't have them on in the pic. Thanks for the heads up though.