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Originally Posted by naskies
Thanks David! I followed your advice on tidier cabling, more repeatable set ups, more automation and plate solving from the computer, etc - seems to be working well.
The AO is nothing short of voodoo magic for my EQ6! With normal guiding, my EQ6 will randomly make sudden huge jumps (> 5 arc secs) between 1 sec guide exposures which results in noticeably eggy stars. With AO, the stars become pretty good at ~ 4 Hz, and great at 8+ Hz. The Lodestar does a great job with 0.05 sec exposures in 4x4 binning in the Milky Way area, but galaxy season may be trickier.
Hope you catch you at Leyburn
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Glad to hear your cables are under control.
Didn't know a lodestar would go that quick! Will have to have a good look at your sx ao - that one suits the QSI.
I plan to be at Leyburn on 3/4th May. I know the new moon is the following weekend but that one is a write off (10th wedding anniversary, Mother's Day, wife doing fun run, daughter has a birthday party to attend - actually that will be quite cool as it's at a miniature train place, wonder how many Dad's will do the drop off for that one!) The moon will rise at midnight, but that just means it's time to gather some narrowband data!
DT