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Old 08-01-2014, 01:47 PM
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M42 Proper

Bedding in of the new 12" setup continues with Polar alignment and Guiding now activated. Having a lot of trouble with EQMod talking to other programs. Gives me control of the EQ8 but other programs like Maxim, Stellarium will not slew the scope and they don't know where it's pointing. I have to flash the firmware as well because the dreaded guiding spike is showing up at odd intervals.

Meanwhile, Here is my first proper pic with the system.
GSO F4 12" Newtonian, ASA Wynne Corrector, F3.6. QHY10, Lodestar guiding via OAG. Maxim, CCDStack, PS6.
10 X 300 secs, 2 X 120 secs, 3 X 20 secs

Still very short on time, QHY is always noisy without enough exposure.

Thanks for looking.

All the best

Paul
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