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Originally Posted by spiezzy
hi Colin I like your image considering all the elements you had to battle I think its a pretty good result thanks for sharing
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Originally Posted by alan meehan
gotta agree with that Colin not a bad image at all
AL
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Just another night in Melbourne
I am happy with what has come of it, would have turned out cleaner if I had have 2x2 binned but the seeing has made the data not worth using (even down sampled) in the long run. Always nice to have something to process though!
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Originally Posted by Placidus
There it is! Totally convincing and successful despite the seeing. You're up and running and hopefully addicted, should the air improve.
We used to manage 1 hour subs with a C11 on an EQ6. Our technique included having it intentionally very east-heavy to handle RA backlash, and having a great big spring (about a foot long) pulling the dec axis round, also to take up backlash. We put a 3 or 4 foot long aluminium strut between the nose of the scope and the counterweight. Permanent pier, and the polar axis intentionally out a tiny bit so that guiding was always to the south, working against the spring. Looked silly but it really worked. Mind you, we were looking over hot-tiled suburbia, and the seeing ghastly, so perhaps it didn't work as well as we thought it did.
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I had managed 1 hour subs with my EQ6 but it was flakey at best and was not consistent. I didn't have any fangled contraptions though! Would have been an interesting sight to see.
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Originally Posted by atalas
The conditions were a good test for the mount Colin...past with flying colours!
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I am still playing around with the mount at the moment, learning its ins and outs. It is very different in operation to the EQ6, all about perfect balance and modelling.