Thank you for the reply Doug. The STL is a well thought out design and beautiful piece of machining. One can dial in the back focus a couple of...
Is there an adapter to attach a Nikon (manual) lens to an STC-7 or the SC-2 ? Decades ago, a Nikon adapter was obtained from SBIG?? (see...
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An H-alpha two panel mosaic of the .eastern portion of the Veil Nebula. Exposures were 480' each stacks of 7. Maxim DL used for capture and...
Running the automation again last night but this time I was present to watch over it. While the mount was in motion the "camera disconnected"...
Understood. I shall endeavor to be sure to reset that bit before each session. Expect nice pics on the morning. Thanks Doug.... Tim
Here is the requested image. Note, it's "SBIG Camera" that flips the pwr mgmt bit when connecting the camera. TU // Tim
For the STC-7, the driver sets the allow OS to shutdown USB power ON when Maxim connects to the camera. At least that is what is observed at...
To force a crash dump (aka core dump) https://forum.diffractionlimited.com/threads/how-to-enable-crash-dumps-for-maxim.7464/
Two minute subs! Holy cow, that is smokin' !
Excellent set of images Greg! Cruising around the M102 one can see NGC 5826? and some other Galaxy (bottom right corner) and an interesting...
This later image has a lot more stars than the original post. ~Double the exposure and ~2x faster scope will do that. Tried a red filter to see if...
"When smoke gets in your eyes" Attached is another take of the Crescent Nebula although a struggle due to Smokey skies. This is a stack of...
Congratulations on a job well done, the stars are very well focused! Thanks for the update... _..-- Tim
Some notes for configuring an SC-2 to the STC-7: The SC-2 has 20.7mm of focus travel. In the CW direction the imager is closes to the take off...
Thanks Colin.... The STC-7 is working well even with the hot Wx in the SW UT-USA. The lows at night are 35c !
Eagle Nebula taken with an STC-7 via a TMB 152 triplet. A newly acquired Star Chaser SC-2 performed autoguiding duties. This worked out well as...
New to SC-2 and setting up the focus. The SC-2 is attached to an STC-7 and includes the suggested "ACC13 StarChaser Spacer" per the user manual....
Initial set up of the SC-2 requires one to offset the pick-off mirror into the light path but not so much as to vignette the main imager. Looking...
Nicely done Doug.... The object at 540,910 looks like a double star to me. The bright star at the right bottom corner has a bunch of 'pup'...
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