Collimation: CCDInspector vs MetaGuide MetaGuide I tried using MetaGuide to perform a collimation. The collimation started where CCDInspector left off a couple of nights earlier,…
I have suddenly become interested in planetary photography. I have an ASI290MC to use, so I have been setting up to do this. As part…
This problem has been going on for some time, with no real clues as to the problem. Intermittently, the system crashes. It may be able…
I have finally added Scheduler to the observatory. I have been fixing niggling hardware issues, writing scripts, and so on to get Scheduler going. Dome…
After the summer, I started firing up the observatory and encountered a few problems:( The Dec belt drive on the PMX failed. Had to install…
The Davis VantagePro 2 weather system has been running well now for perhaps 5 years. We got actual rainfall the other day, a real soaker…
I have been running about a year now with the two air conditioners. In the beginning this worked very well, but now the air conditioners…
My observatory is in the Arizona desert. As such we get a tremendous amount of dust in the air. I’m sure there is a large…
The saga comes to a close… Celestron Help After talking to the Celestron Rep (Will) it sounds like I missed something when inserting the secondary.…
For a little while I have been getting strange diffraction spikes from the Edge 11/STF8300M system, as seen in the sub below. The brighter stars…