This just makes too much sense.....
Apr 14, 2019 11:00:05 #
I just read this post from Rod Mollise on a Celestron yahoo group and he suggested, "to balance your OTA when it is pointed to the area of the sky you plan to image."
I can't believe that never occured to me. Oh I know - it just makes too much sense. Especially when you are using a NEWT which is impossible to balance as the imaging train is on one side. ...well you can do it but it involves rotating the tube each time and balancing vertical in RA and DEC as well as Horizontal.....which means you do one and then the other then repeat and repeat until it gets close.
This was a biggie for me....for those of you who may be as illogical as I am.....this post if also for you.
I can't believe that never occured to me. Oh I know - it just makes too much sense. Especially when you are using a NEWT which is impossible to balance as the imaging train is on one side. ...well you can do it but it involves rotating the tube each time and balancing vertical in RA and DEC as well as Horizontal.....which means you do one and then the other then repeat and repeat until it gets close.
This was a biggie for me....for those of you who may be as illogical as I am.....this post if also for you.
Apr 14, 2019 11:02:17 #
Apr 14, 2019 16:33:32 #
fotobyferg wrote:
Sadly, I have no idea what you are talking about.😩
This is a good video that explains "balancing newt" in vertical and horizontal....if you can understand the Brits accent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGduG2jB9ec
Apr 14, 2019 17:19:58 #
nikonshooter wrote:
This is a good video that explains "balancing newt" in vertical and horizontal....if you can understand the Brits accent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGduG2jB9ec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGduG2jB9ec
Yep, that's how I have been doing it.
Apr 14, 2019 18:32:01 #
nikonshooter wrote:
This is a good video that explains "balancing newt" in vertical and horizontal....if you can understand the Brits accent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGduG2jB9ec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGduG2jB9ec
OK, now at least I know what the subject actually is, and we are on the same planet.🤪
Apr 14, 2019 22:33:00 #
JimH123 wrote:
Yep, that's how I have been doing it.
Rod made sense!
Apr 14, 2019 23:37:02 #
Do you speak English for us to whom this is a balancing newt?
Apr 15, 2019 10:13:49 #
I’ve always figured it would have a slight difference, but not to the extend he showed. Seeing what such an affect of a minor change will have on the balance convinces me to check balance more often. Thanks Ed.
Apr 15, 2019 19:42:59 #
Europa wrote:
I’ve always figured it would have a slight difference, but not to the extend he showed. Seeing what such an affect of a minor change will have on the balance convinces me to check balance more often. Thanks Ed.
It actually has a huge effect. The amount of weight on the drive motors tends to change as the scope turns and this in turn can produce error.
But you don't want perfect balance. You want just enough weight that the gears remain in a constant drive level and not subject to wobbling due to no force at all.
Apr 15, 2019 19:43:32 #
robertjerl wrote:
Do you speak English for us to whom this is a balancing newt?
I like your balancing newt!!!
Apr 15, 2019 19:52:14 #
JimH123 wrote:
I like your balancing newt!!!
I googled "balancing newt" then clicked on images and this was on the first page. If I hadn't been tired I would have photoshopped in a tight rope or something.
Apr 15, 2019 19:53:19 #
robertjerl wrote:
I googled "balancing newt" then clicked on images and this was on the first page. If I hadn't been tired I would have photoshopped in a tight rope or something.
You dun gooood as they say in the south!
Apr 15, 2019 19:56:06 #
nikonshooter wrote:
You dun gooood as they say in the south!
Well "Bless Your Heart"!
I am from Western Kentucky.
Apr 15, 2019 19:58:18 #
robertjerl wrote:
Well "Bless Your Heart"!
I am from Western Kentucky.
I am from Western Kentucky.
Beautiful country - I am in Spartanburg SC - a few hollars down "yonder-way"!
Apr 15, 2019 20:55:08 #
nikonshooter wrote:
Beautiful country - I am in Spartanburg SC - a few hollars down "yonder-way"!
Our oldest spent a few years at Ft Bragg with the base combat engineers and is now in a reserve Civil Affairs Unit (CA is part of Special Forces, they are the nice ones, they try to make friends before they shoot people) and goes back for training every so often. One of his hobbies is cooking and he basically ate his way up and down the east coast and Appalachians trying all the regional cooking styles and gathering recipes.
Our baby, his little sister, is at University of Virginia Medical School right now. This last winter has been a case of climate shock to a Southern California girl.
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