Thank you Taro

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Hi Mark, Thanks for the detailed replies. For my case, I do have excessive backlash or rather, loose gear coupling, since I purposely left the RA mesh extra loose with an East heavy weight bias to see

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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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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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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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Also, I just switched from APT to NINA. Meridian flip setup seemed simpler in NINA and it works perfectly so far.

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The carbon rigs are used to hold the FOTGA DP3000 focuser knob. The focus is more acurate with it than by hand.

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Hi Jerry, As mentioned by Taro, the problem seems to be gone with the updated firmware. Thanks again for the quick turnaround! Pascal

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Bob, No filters. Astro modified Canon 60D. I just ordered a 48mm screw-in Astronomix CLS-CCD filter. We will see how this works out.

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Agreed Wolfgang, I am still attempting to zero in on the NCP and hopefully, my skies will clear so I can see Polaris. I am having a ton of fun learning. I was only interested in planet imaging, but no

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Wes, The exposure time wasn’t really the problem. I usually just set it up and go to bed… The problem was processing 2000+ images. I spent more time waiting for stuff to process that I actually did im

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Thank you for the kind words, everyone! I appreciate that this is a community where we’re supportive of each other’s efforts. I’ve been a bit checked out dealing with some family issues over the past

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