After a long period of skies full of clouds was able to manage to get some data. Here i got NGC 7000 65 x 180 sec on ISO 1600 dithert. Flats and Biases. I dont shoot Darks when i dither.

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Hi Nihar, The PMC-Eight controller on power up sets the motor counts to zero internally in the firmware. This is reasonable because there is no assumption that the mount's physical clutches have not b

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Hi Mike, Welcome to the PMC-Eight forum!! I appreciate you starting out with Explore Scientific equipment. Since you are a beginner you are no doubt wanting to learn as much as you can about the hobby

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Slowly narrowing things down - so far, pretty much ruled out any issues with ASCOM and PMC 8 driver. POTH ASCOM manually flips and slews/parks correctly. I loose that manual flip control though when e

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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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Kevin: To further what bob reported: I ran my 940 mm FL with a 2x teleview a few days ago. My guiding with a guide scope etc was about 1 arc sec rms. By stars were fine. Effective FL of 1880, exposure

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Ok..my first one of Orion. I still need to get a better focus. Stacked 25 shots of 70 seconds on Deep Sky Stacker Processed a little bit in Photoshop. An ok first step.. kevin rea

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Hi Steve, Jennifer was referring to how flat the image was in terms of field curvature, not a flat calibration frame. Jerry Hubbell Vice President of Engineering Explore Scientific, LLC. jrh at explor

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Hi Brian, no worries. I would suggest to everybody to post anything they like within the general guidelines. if you have a question about whether the post is on the edge you can send me a message and

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So, I decided to see what the Mount could do with just my 300mm Nikon lens, no scope and finally got decent results. I did a rough polar alignment and then a 2 star alignment. Then pointed towards And

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy1c9qpMF-Q

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Max Yes. A friend of mine on the forum sent me this link that discussed exactly what you mention: http://www.astrofriend.eu/astronomy/tutorials/tutorial-comet-autoguiding/tutorial-comet-autoguiding.ht

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I had to send my scope back to ES for repair and collimation. This image is first light taken on 12/19/2019 of the Rosette Nebula. This image has the same spacing as the Horsehead image posted previou

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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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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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