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Originally Posted by [1ponders]
Good onya Rob  Looks great 
Is that the compass sitting on the scope rings in the third photo? Hope all the metal in the mount doesn't affect it too much. Part of the purpose of the dowel is to get the compass as far from the mount as possible to avoid metallic influences. Maybe you could create a little basket to attach to the end of the dowel and sit the compass in it if its current position creates problems. |
Success, it worked an absolute treat!!! What looks like a compass in that pick is a brass counterweight.. I kept the compass well away from the mount
I can't remember the last time I actually had tracking keep a star in the FOV for more that a minute or so. This chugged away great guns.
Even better PhD Guiding worked a treat - I got hold of a just created Meade driver suitable for the LXD75 and ASCOM 5 and it works... this is brilliant beyond belief
Just setup PHD and Images Plus and you can sit back and enjoy the sky, go make a cup of tea and so on. This is just so far removed from my last experiences of astro photography some 20 years ago, bent over a cross-hair eyepiece for hours on end.
I am just stoked to the MAX
... I almost forgot to take any pics. In the end I got 6 exposures of 100s each in the area of CRUX and Eta Carina using my Sigma zoom at 70mm. I can see Stars
Just have to work out now how to process and stack, but how hard can that be
