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First T-Point with MEII
Finally a clear night and finally working equipment.
Some of you are curious about my MEII especially compared to my poor old MX (which was plagued by a crook polar axis bearing that took me 2+ years to sort out).
All I can say is OMG, wow, and to give thanks that I seem to have received a "keeper!"
Using my TEC180 and Moravian G2-8300 camera my T-point runs (just 60 points initially) have given me pointing of 4.3 arc-sec. (after a recalibration into the model not shown in the attached photos. The photos show the results of the first run after an initial drift align of the mount)
After two additional recalibrations ME =10.5 arc-sec and MA = 46.1. I may or may not raise the mount .5 tics.
Next up I will be looking at PE. A preliminary run last week showed uncorrected of ca 1 arcsec peak to peak. If that is true it's almost not worth bothering with. (but I will!)
Peter
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