My journey has began

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kaomoo
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Re: My journey has began

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I am using dual saddle to run the guiding...

while it makes reaching the guidecope easier, it creates rather interesting balancing act... not to mention alot of weight...

btw, those ADM knobs hurts your hand....
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My CGEM finally has a home.

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Re: My CGEM finally has a home.

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kaomoo wrote:Image
nice.... looks sleek....
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Re: My CGEM finally has a home.

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jimmyleong wrote:
kaomoo wrote:Image
nice.... looks sleek....
easier to handle. CGEM mount is very hefty. and the shape is rather awkward. I find storing away in shift precarious to say the least.

Stuff it into this wheel case and drag it around is far easier.
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Re: My journey has began

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I rigged a finder-guider (50mm finder) by bolting the finder bracket to the underside of my (Vixen) dovetail on the C9.25.

So I don't need a side-by-side.

Problem seems to be that the 50mm finder is too short (focal length) that PHD has big trouble detecting star movement, plus, I cannot guide properly! even with 2000ms guiding pulses on PHD, it takes forever to calibrate.

The good news is.. my CGEM only has +/- 10 arc-seconds of periodic error (measured with PHD with guiding output turned off).
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