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Old 21-12-2009, 04:38 PM
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bmitchell82 (Brendan)
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I tested my setup this weekend, the wind was boardering on extreme with wind gusts i predict somewhere in the 30/40kmh and it held the stars tightly at 10 min

http://s700.photobucket.com/albums/w...laHQmk2net.png

I turned a adaptor out of brass that screws in as a replacement to the normal finder ep. i then removed the locking ring for the front lens assymbly and used that as a helectical focuser, quite interesting that it was a very similar FOV to my ED 80.

Settings that i used in phd where 15000 ms calibration steps (close to the SCP) min dec was 100ms, min movement was .15

The only pain was that the calibration took so long but that was far outweighed the fact out of 17 shots i only lost 3 and that was due to PHD having a error and dropping its guiding in DEC.

Ill try and post some images up of it soon.
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