Guiding last night

[Rocket Pooch]

Mark & Mac,

Just to let you know the mount was guiding at .46 arc seconds adv...

[Mac]

 

[MarkS]

Wow - excellent!

Most of the time my guiding was in the range plus or minus 1 arcsec but with brief fluctuations out to 3 arcsec.

Mark

[Mac]

Well i just competly stripped and rebuilt my meade,
replacing all the plastic gears for some Stainless steel gears

http://www.petersonengineering.com/sky/buck's_std_gears.htm

as well as upgrading the focuser bearings and the clutch from a wet to dry one.

So im looking forward to trying the scope out with these new gears to see if
this changes those weird image slips i was having.

I'll let you know what the guiding was like.

Might give astro art a bash.

[Rocket Pooch]

Mac,

If you use astro art when you calibrate if the guide image jumps around you need to increase the telescope speed, not lower it, seems odd when you use it but it works, also set the tolerance to 0 or it will assume x no of pixel drift, other than that it works fine.

Chris

[Mac]

i'll give it a go.
Cheers.