Customer Steve Siedentop has submitted a review of the ES/Losmandy G11 PMC-Eight Mount System based on his year-long experience using the mount. Steve has been a part of our ongoing improvement proces

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Very nice Jerry. Unguided! The stars look perfectly round to my eye. How hard did you drive the amplifier gain? When you looked at your histogram, what percentage of full scale was the maximum bin? -J

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Hi Joe, The QHY 163C TEC CMOS camera used was set to a QHY Gain value of 20 and an offset of 20. These settings correspond to a Gain of 0.29 e-/ADU, readout noise of 2.2 e- and a dark current of 0.006

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Good news:) thank you. Are there any plans to incorporate variable motor speed settings? For iexos 100? Kind Regards, Sean. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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Jerry, Just looked over your release notes and see that we can have firmware installed, either with or without the communications watchdog. I can see why you'd want that feature disabled for a wireles

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Hi Bill, Thanks for your kind words about my image. We don't auto-guide at the MSRO, we use the Telescope Drive Master (TDM) drive correction system which is a high-resolution (0.125 arc-seconds/count

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Just Wow! -- look at all that smokey detail! Was this with or without guiding? Bill

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Hi Taro, This is a stack of 68 x 1 min images stacked and processed with MaxIm DL and Photoshop. Jerry Hubbell Vice President of Engineering Explore Scientific, LLC. jrh at explorescientific.com www.e

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Jerry Very exciting shot this. I have a question (1)You take this M42 only one sub 68min or stacked some shots? Now Thailand has little bit clear sky. So I try to take some pics with IExos-100. If I c

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Beautiful image! Id be very happy with results like that. Once you get that spacing nailed ( im sure Jerry can help with that) i think youll be very satisfied with the results! Myron Wasiuta Director-

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Hi Jennifer, We use the 3-inch 0.7x FRFF on the 6.5-inch ES 165 FPL53 ED APO CF scope (with a Moonlite focuser - I think they are the best) in the MSRO and it works pretty well. The scope is F/7 and w

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Edited to include photon collection details. Hello Fellow PMC-8ers: I don't normally share my images with the group and this image in particular has some flaws related to the Hex Focuser sagging and s

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Here is an image I took this past Tuesday but didn't have time to process until today. I typically try and image the Orion Nebula once or twice a year. I was up late and decided to take about an hours

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Many thanks Jerry, I am still not sure on a couple of points if I may.... I have the IEXOS 100, is the mount it comes with a G11? Also when you say unguided you presumably mean the mount did not have

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I guess it is a choice. I choose the first one because I am AI illiterate. :) 9T_13_EXOS2.eeprom OR 9T_13a_EXOS2.eeprom

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Awesome picture. Great, crisp detail in there. I second the 55 mm back focus to the focal plane. I believe that is a camera industry standard. Bill

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Jennifer When I grow up I hope I can take such a picture. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing Wes

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Hi Bob, I really don't expect much difference as far as the motor current increase from 600 mA to 700 mA as far as any smoothing action is concerned. It is about a 15% increase in torque which is alwa

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Do you mean ES Version 1.3.19218.454 DB Ver.2.3[85643] ?

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Yea, typo …. DOH!

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