Dreadful tracking

[LewisM]

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

Man I love this mount...makes imaging for a simpleton like me easy :P :P (stock standard factory config)

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

[blink138]

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

[LewisM]

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

[leon]

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

Leon :thumbsup:

[RickS]

Guiding on a hot pixel? :lol:

[LewisM]

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

[RickS]

:thumbsup:

[speach]

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

[Camelopardalis]

Nice, but it’s just compensating for something else :P

[LewisM]

My lack of aperture...:lol:

[beren]

Defintely need a upgrade to the new AXJ (https://blog.goo.ne.jp/tkfactory-japan2014/e/66568107a290cee9902449ff70522add) the SXP just not up to par :P

[Slawomir]

Impressive indeed. Now, if we only had the vertical scale in arcseconds...:scared3:

[Lognic04]

Hot pixel? :face:

[LewisM]

I’ll do that just for you next time. :thumbsup:

[Slawomir]

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

[LewisM]

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]

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 :question: 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]

Probably guiding on Sigma Octanis :-)

Andrew

[Lognic04]

hehe

[LewisM]

Oh thanks, let the cat out of the bag