Dreadful tracking

LewisM · #1 14-03-2018, 10:13 PM

Darn it, gonna have to junk this Vixen SXP mount - you can see it just can't track worth a damn

Man I love this mount...makes imaging for a simpleton like me easy

(stock standard factory config)

This is during a single 30 min H-a exposure...it stays like this all night (every night).

blink138 (Pat) · #2 14-03-2018, 10:58 PM

impressive.............
what do you think of the starbook 10 lewis?
pat

LewisM · #3 14-03-2018, 11:02 PM

Pat, wonderful. EASY to use, very impressive. THOROUGHLY recommended.

leon · #4 15-03-2018, 07:30 AM

Well that is very impressive indeed Lewis, you had better keep it then.

Leon

RickS (Rick) · #5 15-03-2018, 08:46 AM

Guiding on a hot pixel?

LewisM · #6 15-03-2018, 09:05 AM

Yep...got me 2hrs worth of 7nm H-a last night...now those are hot red pixels

RickS (Rick) · #7 15-03-2018, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by LewisM

Yep...got me 2hrs worth of 7nm H-a last night...now those are hot red pixels

speach (Simon) · #8 15-03-2018, 09:47 AM

Yep that's crap, I'd throw it away if I were you, just tell me where you'll be throwing it!

Camelopardalis (Dunk) · #9 15-03-2018, 10:56 AM

Nice, but it’s just compensating for something else

LewisM · #10 15-03-2018, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Camelopardalis

Nice, but it’s just compensating for something else

My lack of aperture...

beren · #11 15-03-2018, 12:05 PM

Defintely need a upgrade to the new AXJ the SXP just not up to par

Slawomir (Suavi) · #12 15-03-2018, 05:09 PM

Impressive indeed. Now, if we only had the vertical scale in arcseconds...

Lognic04 (Logan) · #13 15-03-2018, 05:18 PM

Hot pixel?

LewisM · #14 15-03-2018, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Slawomir

Impressive indeed. Now, if we only had the vertical scale in arcseconds...

I’ll do that just for you next time.

Slawomir (Suavi) · #15 18-03-2018, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by LewisM

I’ll do that just for you next time.

Don’t have to. We already know how a guiding graph will look like

LewisM · #16 18-03-2018, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Slawomir

Don’t have to. We already know how a guiding graph will look like

Did you see Roland upped the load capacity stats on the Mach 1 after direct sales loses to the MyT? Interesting tactic (bit should be true nonetheless) A raise from 45lb to 65lb is a significant jump...

Odd I thought both my laptop's PHD's were set up for arcsec graphs - one is, the one I used for the image above is pixels. I've changed that.

Slawomir (Suavi) · #17 18-03-2018, 04:51 PM

We all are very happy your mount guides exceptionally well Lewis, and I’m just stirring...but it would be interesting, if it is not a big trouble, to see your guiding graph in arcseconds, if only to satisfy my vain curiosity.

As for Mach1, I guess many users were succesfull in guiding heavier telescopes on it, thus the recent change is the specs

I do not expect to upgrade my 4” in the next decade anyway, as I need to first grow a new kidney (yes, as a Chernobyl surviver I can do that), so I did not pay much attention to Roland’s announcement.

AndrewJ · #18 18-03-2018, 05:00 PM

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Guiding on a hot pixel?

Probably guiding on Sigma Octanis :-)

Andrew

Lognic04 (Logan) · #19 18-03-2018, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by AndrewJ

Probably guiding on Sigma Octanis :-)

Andrew

hehe

LewisM · #20 19-03-2018, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by AndrewJ

Probably guiding on Sigma Octanis :-)

Andrew

Oh thanks, let the cat out of the bag