Yer standard Omega C and Jewelbox Lums

[kinetic]

Lucky I have a lot of patience.....
I captured the second result from last night as
the seeing improved about midnight.

Just as I started to save the set live from the camera
I stepped on the hand control which was in the darkness
on the floor of the dome. I expected a disaster as it has
parallel port lines inside it mixed with a few different voltages
for clutch and webcam floodlight etc.

Nothing was affected, the scope tracked beautifully for about
half an hour as I got this second set.
When I went to reframe the next object because the seeing was
on the improve...no high speed slew on the handpad!
It would have to wait till morning when I could see what was broken.
Better to retire than risk killing the scope-drive lappy PPort.

Steve

[alan meehan]

Hi STEVE the shots look good ,gotto ask did you kill anything.

[kinetic]

Nope Alan, I opened it up tonight and all that
was broken was the cheap slider switch pushed back in
on itself until the 4 metal tabs spread apart.
Exactly like the type shown below
Rather than replace it with another I just squeezed the switch
back together and bent the tabs back with long nose pliers.

Working fine tonight as I type....

Steve

[richardo]

Hi Steve,
have read your updates on the mount project and lovely to see it performing for you. A lot of skill and hard work involved.. well done!

What sort of sub exposures are you out to now with the latest pec..?
I think you were at 30 secs previous.

Again, well done.

Rich

[kinetic]

Thanks for the comments Rich,

yes the subs should be possible out to 30 sec, maybe more, but at
this focal length it has to be an exceptional night of seeing for me
to even go out to 15-30s.
I could go 15 sec on the absolute best nights, even with the old
spur gearbox but those nights are far too rare in suburban Adelaide.
I wish I was on a mountaintop...don't we all.

I haven't quite worked out what is wrong with the DSI II / 12"
matchup this time around, I've missed an important setting
and the sensitivity and noise floor has been noticeably different.
The problem with changing from the recent QHY-8 for a week or
two then back to the DSI II has me prone to forgetting a setting
somewhere. Last night for example was one of the best nights
of seeing for weeks but the results fell short:shrug:

I'll work it out, then slap myself :)

cheers,

Steve