I was up early on the morning of March 1st and decided to open up MSRO StationOne for some quick imaging since the sky was clear. The seeing not so good. I decided to image M51 and here is the result.

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TDM sounds cool. I've thought about designing a mount using shaft encoders. Seems like you should be able to essentially eliminate periodic error, backlash, plus other benefits over counting motor pul

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Jerry, Two questions about TDM. 1) How does it deal with backlash in a less precise mount such as the EXOS2. Being as it is an encoder, if the RA needs to reverse directions, does it reverse to a know

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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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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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