Quote:
Originally Posted by silv
ah, thank you for the 2nd photo. so you assume or know that this shape is due to the mount being maxed out.
bugger.
have done my first prime focal the other night and they show the same pattern. I hoped that if I get a proper focuser and the t-adaptor those mechanical bumps would be smoothed out. (have only used rubber band to attach camera to R&P focuser) but you are probably using the proper mounting - and yoour images show the same features. okay. *sigh*
thank you again!
|
hi.
ive got the camera with a t2 mount screwed on the scope where normally the diagonal goes in(thanks to skywatcher having a male thread on this part), focus is with a JMI focuser, i plug the camera into my laptop and use the cannon software to focus on a magnified image then unplug the cp and focuser. ive got one of the remote timer/ shutter release things of ebay. works great but sometimes the neighbours tv remotes set it of. in hindsight i would have got the tower cubepro that can take a lot more weight than 12 pounds. i wont make that mistake again, next time im going for something that i can put my 12"dob on. ive got a couple of the tradgic digital eyepieces of ebay im in the process of modifying one of them to fit on a spare finder scope and ive downloaded guidedog of the net. i havent installed the ascom compliant firmaware upgrade on the mount yet. ill look into that next but the weight limit is what i think is the real problem, when i was using the 127 birdjones scope on this mount i didnt have the tracking problems as it was only 2/3rds the weight. shocking coma from a bird jones scope though.