... the ... with ... focuser ... end." ... Thanks John and Perry for your advice. I checked out the Mogg FR - very nice! I will order one as soon as funds...
We created 4-DVD set of 4 sessions from the Midwest Astro-Imaging Conference this past June. The DVDs were made available to attendees and we have some left...
Hi, I am having trouble setting up my mount for auto guiding. I have a Losmandy GM-100 mount and the original electronic drive system. I have not upgraded to...
The link worked fine for me. From: stardaddyed Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 2:34 PM To: autoguiding@yahoogroups.com Subject: [autoguiding] Re: Autoguiding...
i did a better polar alighnment and the drift is much smaller now so maybe the unit was not correcting in the wrong direction it tries to calibrate and after...
Same for me. I ordered my set of DVD's using PayPal. - Leonard ... From: John Marks To: autoguiding@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 5:53 PM ...
A CloudyNights forum lists a GM-100 for sale with this description: "This is an 'early' Losmandy of about 1990 vintage. From the "blue" period......... In...
Hello, I´m autoguiding with a homemade advice, I disassembled a binocular and its 50 mm lens was introduced into a plastic tube. Then, disassembled an old...
Yes, if you are using a webcam for guiding, you will want to go shorter in focal length for sure. One thing that might help is a focal reducer like Baader's...
Dear Rod, thank you very much. Last week I was talking about you in a spanish group like this. I told them that you're always helping people. You'll understand...
I've used an Orion SolarSystem Imager (v1) with both of my Stellarvue refractors and my C8 as a guider. It works well with any of them and I can guide on stars...
Hi Mario: There is no doubt folks have successfully guided with an unmodded webcam. See what you can accomplish, and if star location becomes too hard, think...
... Hi Mario- I would make sure the guidescope is tightly focused to reach faint magnitude. I would use 10 fps with the web-cam and adjust gain and gamma to...
Dears Rod and Frank, thank you very much for your help. Frank, I guide an 80 mm ED scope and shoot with a Canon 400D (Rebel in USA?). The mount is a CG5-GT. I...
... Hi Mario- I just mean to use 5 or 10 fps, and manually make the stars look as good as possible by adjusting exposure, gain, and gamma. Make live ...
Greg, Thanks for the info and the links. It is very helpful. I was able to visit a friend and confirm that when I connect my computer to his G-11 with the...
... It seems to me that it might be possible to trace the wires on your hand controller to figure out the pin-out, the hand controller being basically a box of...
Hello Friends. I am posting this question in multiple discussion groups. If you are like me and belong to many related groups, I apologize for the repetition....
... Hi Gordon- My guess is that the guide errors are smoother as an artifact of saturation. The key is whether the stars in your image are tight or not - so...
Thanks Frank. When you say to use a 2 second guide period, do you mean the delay after correction setting? Gordon ... are ... My ... autoguider ... equipment ...
Gordon, I use an NJP and TOA130 with reducer. My guider is an sbig remote guide head through an astro tech at66 semi apo. My current settings for auto guider...
... Hi- I just meant that you could go with a slower rate of corrections since it is a pretty good mount. I see that someone else has posted his own use of 4s...
... Hi Frank. I do not see star elongation but I would like to capture tighter stars. I never thought much about guiding on a saturated star but what you say ...
Hi Jim. Thank you for your numbers. Other than the duration of your exposure, our setting are close. I don't quite understand what guiding rate is so I have...
... Hi Gordon- I recall looking at images of yours that were done with a relatively short refractor, and the stars were pretty much single pixel. You can't...
You may be right Frank. Although I may be able to tweek the guider setting and improve overall guiding, I may not see any improvement in the final image ...
Hi Gordon, With my Taks (em200 and njp temmas) I got into the habit of using .9x only because that was the default setting and it seemed to work. I have...
