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Old 07-03-2018, 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by astro_nutt View Post
... it'll have first light this Sat at the ASV Messier Night. Fingers Crossed!
Dang! Wish I could make it. I'll likely be up earlier in the week but I can't make the party itself.

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I'm not tech savvy but would it be possible to gradually slow the drive speed over time to compensate?
Yes, that's the intention, but I'd be hoping to measure the error after it's theoretically perfect and incorporate that error curve into correcting whatever mistakes I may have made in construction. here won't be anything I can do about slop, but repeatable errors can surely be compensated out of existance. But as another smart cookie said on here; how long do I want the subs to be?
Well, as long as possible - I don't want to be restricted by the mount. It would be nice to shoot at 400mm if I wanted (assuming a cracking good Polar alignment).

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Markus
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