[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Last night was probably the best night of seeing around here for ages - BUT I found a problem with my titan setup, there's a vibration coming from somewhere (I suspect the RA drive motor) that's blurring all my image data. I didn't see it earlier cause it's at a frequency of about 100Hz or higher, so it was only showing up in my video data as blurring of the data when capturing at 40fps (ie all my previous mars data this season).

I saw it last night when I set the framerate much higher to do some lunar imaging - and saw that the image was oscillating with an amplitude of around 5 arc seconds. This means that all my data so far from the titan has been degraded by this effect!!

I didn't see this until 4.30am this morning, too late to do anything about the 50Gb of mars data captured earlier in the evening... here's a sample image anyway (attached).

I'm still tracking it down, I've removed the titan motors and replaced them with my old G11 motors and when it gets dark I'll see if that helps.

regards, Bird