Having a go at the Flame Nebula tonight. Hows this for alignment?
I have an issue with the synscan. So i had it aligned like this with 10" and 15" I selected Alnitak and its Slewed. But then it stops? I press it again, it slews a bit more. 3rd time it gets to the location (you'd think it would do it all in one hit). Fine. But then it was out, not by much. I pick up the hand controller and it REBOOTED.......
So I had to set the whole damn thing up again. Which resulted in 10" and 12"
It's definitely the patch lead between hand control and main box. Job for tomorrow.
I still can't take exposures longer than 1 minute 30 without getting star trailing. I did remember to set the rate to 3 after adjusting it. But even at 1 min 30, every so often i have an image with star trails. So currently imaging at 1 min 10.
Each night is an improvement though.
http://www.onsiteaudiovisual.com/ext...alignment1.jpg