Last night, it looked like we might have a coupleof hours of relatively clear sky. I wanted to a) Try getting the slew failure error…
Several posts back and forth to Ascom, Bisque, and ACP are now to this point: The failure occurs when ACP is in a Refresh loop…
Good news/Bad news: Good news: I am now getting plate solves in ACP from FindBrightStar. Cool – FL is 2818 mm, bin 2 gives .76…
Making progress with the calibration routines. After adding the straps, I no longer see the drift in RA. Odd, I now see some wandering in…
I added two pipe straps on the C11. One is in front, just goes around the OTA and the dovetail. The second goes around the…
After all the hee-haw about getting SkyX to use Maxim for images, apparently I can’t actually use that to do the PEC training. Not sure…
Image from Bob’s settings when he was solving Canon images.
Sent in some pointing images which I cannot get solved. It turns out that the issue is not the images; somehow the estimated RA/Dec is…
OK, one problem solved with a couple of posts to Bisque. Apparently SkyX needs an outside driver X2MaximCamera to access Maxim. Makes sense, unfortunate that…
I ran another alignment run of 45 points. The Polar Alignment indicates that the Az is excellent, the Alt is “good enough”. Weird thing in…