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Oct 21, 2023 11:43:44 #
stepping beyond wrote:
I don't know where you heard that "you level the mount and balance the ota ". A level mount is a happy mount , Less strain on the drive train. Smooth motion in RA & DEC. I've been 4 nights getting things back in harmony after shooting on the Omega from the drive. Everytime, I move "THE RIG" it has to be fine tuned for that awesome guiding.
Something from my career in industrial electrical work. Everything was plumb and level. Motor shafts and pump shafts were lined up to the .0001ths of an inch. (1/10,000 of an inch)
Anyway, when i got into this insanity, i figured if the mount was as plumb to the earth as possible, it would stick straight out towards space.
I got banned from that English site for arguing my point with one of the admins buddies.
Say La Vey.
Anyway, plumb and level! It's the American Way!
(OK. It's my way anyway.)
For all the same reasons you said, Ronnie.
Oct 21, 2023 22:26:01 #
I was lucky imaging tonight, winds 6-9 mph shooting at 180s and my astro cart helped a lot. I'll dump a 1/5 of them , I wasn't even planning to shoot tonight {bonus} got to get it while you can Sonny.
Oct 21, 2023 23:23:22 #
stepping beyond wrote:
I was lucky imaging tonight, winds 6-9 mph shooting at 180s and my astro cart helped a lot. I'll dump a 1/5 of them , I wasn't even planning to shoot tonight {bonus} got to get it while you can Sonny.
The way I'm going, I probably have years of processing ahead of me now.
But I'm still gathering. It's addictive.
Glad you got to get out and gather.
Oct 22, 2023 18:52:33 #
Pixinsight isn't frustrating. Always good to have another tool in the arsenal . I collected some good data by saying a prayer that it wouldn't be a total fubar last night from the other side of the meridian and hopefully I can get the rest that I wanted tonight and tomorrow night.
Oct 23, 2023 14:05:00 #
stepping beyond wrote:
Pixinsight isn't frustrating. Always good to have another tool in the arsenal . I collected some good data by saying a prayer that it wouldn't be a total fubar last night from the other side of the meridian and hopefully I can get the rest that I wanted tonight and tomorrow night.
My last night was cloudy.
But tonight shoud be good.
My Samsung T7 Shield is fubar. So working on who to send it to.
Samsung wants my life history. So I sent a message to the vendor.
Wow, got right back to me, sending a replacement with a pre-paid shipping lable. They say they have never had a T7 have a problem.
Thank goodness I have a perfectly working San Disc drive as a back-up. (Snark, snark.)
I guess our Indian Summer is giving way to winter skies now. Poop.
I went out to collect flats the other day and saw my old buddy Orion is back.
Was/is about mid way between the Southern meridian and the Western meridian. Hanging up there at 05:00 taunting me.
Yeah, slowly worming my way into PixInsight. But it is like trying to learn a forgien languish.
I never liked symbolisom. I always liked word icons. But I'm getting there in my slow way.
It would be nice if a user could customize the menu icons.
Whah!
Oct 26, 2023 14:04:19 #
Got the T7 and sent back the defuncted one yesterday.
Had to contact Samsung support, but got the same tech as before.
Yashiro helped me get it working really quick. No fooling in the Bios this time.
I even transferred my folders and files from the SanDisk drive, so back to normal.
Last night was clouded again, so no soup for me.
But watch out tonight. I'll be sucking down the photons.
OK, back to class on PixInsight.
Had to contact Samsung support, but got the same tech as before.
Yashiro helped me get it working really quick. No fooling in the Bios this time.
I even transferred my folders and files from the SanDisk drive, so back to normal.
Last night was clouded again, so no soup for me.
But watch out tonight. I'll be sucking down the photons.
OK, back to class on PixInsight.
Nov 2, 2023 11:46:19 #
I've been collecting on ic396 , the wind has been pretty bad for the last 3 nights out . I started taking 6 min. Narrowband then dropped down to 3 min. the last 2 nights out. Now it's below freezing and my cave stereo blew a fuse and wires were sizzling in the 3 outlets . $250 later replaced the outlets and put in a oem outlet w/reset. Now I just dropped off my tx/822 ONKYO synthesized Stereo receiver {Brain} to find out why my Headphones work out of the cd deck and not the receiver. Hopefully, I can sleep at night when I get it back , this whole ordeal has me flustered Sonny.
Nov 2, 2023 13:13:24 #
Well, I'm having better luck than you are.
I had some clouds the other night, so I decided to make some Flats and Dark Master Files. Normally I've made the darks as a part of the series for that night. I have a black filter in Position 8 of my filter wheel, (I'm always trying to reinvent the wheel.) for DARKS and BIAS files. But trying to try using Master Files of late.
So I didn't waste the evening like I usually do.
Wish I lived closer, your outlets would have only cost parts only.
No clue about your stereo. Hope they don't screw you over.
I was wonderin if you were still using the Bat Cave. You got heat down there?
I had some clouds the other night, so I decided to make some Flats and Dark Master Files. Normally I've made the darks as a part of the series for that night. I have a black filter in Position 8 of my filter wheel, (I'm always trying to reinvent the wheel.) for DARKS and BIAS files. But trying to try using Master Files of late.
So I didn't waste the evening like I usually do.
Wish I lived closer, your outlets would have only cost parts only.
No clue about your stereo. Hope they don't screw you over.
I was wonderin if you were still using the Bat Cave. You got heat down there?
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