Cheers Bill. Some crit I've collected and summarized (other than what I've already stated): -Background noise is high and this may be a a problem...
A bit better. Captured ~10 frames of R, G and B and processed with PI. I have lot of L images, but stars were super bloaty and I couldn't seem...
[ATTACH] Setup: AP 6 inch F9 ST 402-ME SG-4 Autoguider CCD Stack Modest contrast/saturation boost in GIMP 28 5min L exposures, 14 for each for...
Ah so I can just leave it in guiding mode, watch the light for status, and not worry about the SG4 locking on a star mid slew and moving the scope...
Woohoo! Using the US232R-10-BLK for the SG-4 and following Colin's advice on serial settings seems to fix the fragility of the connection to the...
Thanks again Colin!
I was having intermittent and incredibly annoying problems where, just as I was starting to get my SG-4 autoguider working programs start...
Ok, got a pretty clear night yesterday and redid the the focus and calibration on the SG4. Log files made much more sense, with only sparse...
Aggh. Still so much pain. After obtaining what appeared to be semi-respectable unguided tracking (I believe primarily as a result of PEC with a...
Thanks Colin and Doug. Will upload fit files from autoguider next chance I get. Just to be clear, I *could not* get the autoguider working last...
Just a quick update. I think we were able to address some of the Colin's suggestions: site info etc., certainly weren't any cables tugging...
Great advice thanks! Will follow through on these and get some more exposures (will be a few weeks as I am away). Only reason that I haven't...
Sigh, it never ends... On my never ending quest to get my friend up and running, after getting the autofocuser working we tried 2min exposures on...
I wasn't able to see exactly how things were fixed (since I am helping remotely) but I believe the focus was way off. Once coarse focus was...
Ah wasn't obvious to me that it is using the target that way, I was assuming it was just watching the gradient. I don't have the setting in...
Will do so and send an update next chance I get in a few days. It seems to always trace out the curve past the minimum and fail...it "feels" like...
Trying to post representative snippets where the failure occurs (they all seem to start healthy enough): 03:38:04*4 Started 4.000s 100x100...
Hello friends, I have an old 2 inch FLI DF-2 focuser hooked up to maximDL (with an SBIG 402ME) and it seems to work correctly manually for the...
We went through the steps carefully and, as best as I can tell, the phases were being set correctly you could see the new values being read after...
Will have to wait until Sunday to try this but will follow up then.
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