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…
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…
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…
Finally, some clear sky! Bad news – suddenly the SBig won’t connect. Updated drivers, played with it awhile – doesn’t seem to be picking up…
Moved the TED into the BigDome warm room. Hopefully it will function better there. Updated Firefox to 9, Teamviewer to 7.
Last Monday, Leo delivered the cut-down pier. This allows the MX to successfully park so the roof can open/close. I immediately ran down and installed…
The MX showed up today, and I am off to the observatory to install it. OK, here we go with issues: 1) The plate I…