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Well score a few points today.
1. Finished the manual
2. Got a serial extender cable working to control the Skysensor - no tripping over wires now
3. Wired a permanent power supply adapter to the mount
4. Created a special auto-guider cable - quite hard actually given the Atlux doesn't use the S-BIG Stv-4 convention and requires a design with no 5 volt line but with two grounds - and you have to crimp these to a 6PC6 type plug - very fiddly. The piccys were lousy so attempt one was backwards, had to cut the head of reverse it then it all worked!
5. Did a 3 star align in non aligned equatorial mode - was about a degree off SCP - picked a star, shifted to aligned equatorial mode, executed goto the same star again - manually rotated the head to adjust for drift, now gotos seem quite good.
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Still learning PHD's quirks with this mount, and CDC doesn't seem quite as accurate unless you really zoom in, but goto's seem on chip very well.
Really just wished I had those remote nudging commands operating now given its 7 degrees outside!
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One other strange behaviour - sometimes PHD works a treat, sometimes there are double stars - not so much trails but an oscillation - got to fiddle some more to get this going up to its capability - but its fun - the achievements and the setbacks.
Last edited by g__day; 07-08-2007 at 08:44 AM.
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