rogerg
14-04-2008, 11:27 AM
I'm very happy, just quickly glanced at my results from last night's imaging before coming to work and after several nights (spaced over about a week) it seems I'm getting back to a reasonable success rate.
I've been struggling with what I thought was PE. I downloaded PEMPro and had little success improving the PE - the graph improved showing that in theory there was an improvement, but the PE had become jerky, resulting in more trailing than before correction! Turns out, after spending a night actually in the observatory, I heard the RA motor "rattling". Oh-oh! So on the weekend I swapped the RA motor for another spare I have, and bingo, problem solved! I've got no trailing in most 30 and 60 second shots and I haven't trained PEC yet, so looks like things are back to normal.
Very happy! :D
Now I'll be able to get back to acquiring NGC's ... just passed the 400 mark, so about 1/10th the way to completion. Got some real neat ones in the 400 so far, just haven't worked out a way to efficiently upload them to my website to show people.
Also have some images of comet Boattini from last night that I'll have to process sometime. :)
It's nice when things start to work again :) Felt like I was pushing bricks up a hill last week. :(
:thumbsup:
Roger.
I've been struggling with what I thought was PE. I downloaded PEMPro and had little success improving the PE - the graph improved showing that in theory there was an improvement, but the PE had become jerky, resulting in more trailing than before correction! Turns out, after spending a night actually in the observatory, I heard the RA motor "rattling". Oh-oh! So on the weekend I swapped the RA motor for another spare I have, and bingo, problem solved! I've got no trailing in most 30 and 60 second shots and I haven't trained PEC yet, so looks like things are back to normal.
Very happy! :D
Now I'll be able to get back to acquiring NGC's ... just passed the 400 mark, so about 1/10th the way to completion. Got some real neat ones in the 400 so far, just haven't worked out a way to efficiently upload them to my website to show people.
Also have some images of comet Boattini from last night that I'll have to process sometime. :)
It's nice when things start to work again :) Felt like I was pushing bricks up a hill last week. :(
:thumbsup:
Roger.