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Originally Posted by Placidus
Incredible work, especially given aperture and time. I can see the HH jets in that famous bit. Well done.
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Thanks mate! Had to look up what HH jets were :p Found an article that might be of interest to some while doing so.
HST/ACS Hα Imaging of the Carina Nebula: Outflow Activity Traced by Irradiated Herbig-Haro Jets
Needs a "TL;DR" for me to read it!
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Originally Posted by rustigsmed
Nice work Lee, looking good!
Russ
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Thanks Russ!
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Originally Posted by Slawomir
I did not adequately balance my mount so tracking was not so good and stars are not that great - my mount works much better and tracks consistently with a sensible but noticeable East-heavy load arrangement.
Yeah, 3nm Astrodons are definitely keepers  |
Ah ok. I certainly couldn't tell, looks great to me.
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Originally Posted by Atmos
I found that cable management is very important, so important in fact that I have been getting infinitely better results by just leaving the QHY power cable lose due to its weight and thickness. With the EQ6 the cables always seem to be hanging over or across something. The USB cables don't matter but the heavy QHY 9-pin power cable caused a lot of grief for me for a while. I was having trouble with 300s exposures and actually figured that I was having a lot of differential flexure. Left the power cord lose one night as a test and it fixed my issue. RMS didn't change (very slow movement/drag) but now I am back to getting better 1200" than I was on 300". A regrease did help too.
Point being, sometimes good cable management is just having no cable management  |
Awesome. The main thing for me is that I just switched a bunch of stuff over to andersons from cigarette plugs, and the power leads aren't quite long enough, so some stuff is taking a little weight. Need to rig something up on the top of the scope rings so I can have fewer cables going everywhere and make sure nothing is taking any weight.