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Thank you Mickey! Actually i did just that for the altitude bearings, but for the azimuth i could not access the surface with a cloth so i "cheated" but i know not to take corners again, not worth the

Beautiful image Gabriel , an important note about applying spray to the bearings, never spray directly to the bearings, because of the mirror and the over spray, always take a cloth or paper towel and

Here is 1 hour and 15 minutes on The Pinwheel Galaxy from yesterday. Last time i imaged this galaxy the seeing was very bad, i had better luck this time. 226 x 20s using ServoCAT Autoguide in PHD2.

Hi Sam, Your scope is fitted with incremental encoders and they have no inherent zero reference point. The zero reference point for the altitude encoder when the unit is first powered on is determined

Hey Sam... long long time no hear. I'm trying to remember - was it not you that (Jean and) I met way back in like 2001 or so - you had an observing site near I think it was Huachuca City? Anyway... so

Maybe its old age, but I cant resolve this issue. When I set up (Obsession f5/20) I basically have the scope pointing North and at 90'. Power on the Cat and Argo and it goes through initialing and

Thank you Mickey, very much appreciated! /Gabriel

Excellent images Gabriel, you keep improving with every run. Mickey

*Update:* I have come to the conclusion that 7 arc seconds per second in ServoCAT sky is not fast enough to calibrate or guide well between 160 Az? and 200 az (so +/- 20 degrees of south), same to

Thank you Raphael!

Congratulations Gabriel ! Really great

As the weatherman promised our skies cleared up Wednesday and yesterday Thursday so i was finally able to test Autoguiding on actual capture. It works well and i can confirm that dither also works

Your welcome Raphael, thank you. Happy to help! I don't see any advantage of imaging with autoguiding in combination with easytrack except if your DSC is not working, so a good backup solution! PHD2

Thanks Gabriel Even if don’t understand everything detail you explain, all this will be of great use for community including me when I have a higher level in astrophotography One question : With the

I made some new discoveries this morning when creating a new profile to improve my understanding of PHD2. *1.* It is not possible, when creating a new profile to enter a mount speed less then 0.20 x

Thanks Gary "Try this as well: hold the CW and CCW buttons for I think it is 3 seconds - the yellow LED next to the CCW should come on. You can do this same test using the UP/DWN buttons (where the

Hello Gary, That is correct. However, when guiding at the bottom to the right you can set MAX pulse duration in AZ and ALT, default is 2500 ms which i have not found a reason to change. Even if you

try to be sure to hold the HC perpendicular to the camera - and in focus. That stated I suspect you are right. It however doesn't make sense that it powers up correctly (showing the lights as a check

oups forgot to put the video here it is

Thanks Gary for quick answer ! Enclosed another video made the same day. I'm not aware of any color shift affected my eye. I clearly see the yellow LS light on when turning on the servocat handpad