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Hi All,
Have been swept away with work and new gear teething issues for many months, so haven't posted much lately.

This is the first light image for the new mount and new imaging train.
I'm not that happy with this image, but have posted it up anyway for now until I have time to re-process it.
The ParamountME2 with on axis encoders was the first, I 'm told by SB to be installed south of the equator and initially it was doing weird things with the Hemisphere, TPoint data and ProTrack settings not sticking properly in TheSkyX - we sorted it out - there was a bug in TSX. Then I had to spend a fair bit of time sorting out camera timeout glitches. That was after sorting out the hysteresis in the DEC axis of the mount: - worm block spring holders etc needed tightening up. All of this sort of thing is common with new setups, I think.

I am still tweaking the AO-X guiding parameters to try and optimise the guiding - it is still a work in progress. The guiding for this image was mostly around 8Hz. The smaller stars have a slightly cut off edge - this isn't happening with the data collection now - I think it was from suboptimal mount bumping parameters...?




Thanks for your thoughts.
Cheers,
Tim