Blue Skies! Anyone out obbing?
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Re: Blue Skies! Anyone out obbing?
setting up now...
Re: Blue Skies! Anyone out obbing?
spoke too early...kaomoo wrote:setting up now...
no vis after 2 hours
on the bright side, I got my autoguider up and running. Though I will need to find a M42 spacer to sync my guilder's eyepiece with the guilder camera....
Re: Blue Skies! Anyone out obbing?
Other than southern skies, the sky is clear now! At least naked eye visual mag +3.85.
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Re: Blue Skies! Anyone out obbing?
A week and a half ago I was at 400m in the Swiss Alps. And the sky was... incredible. 
Sigh. Back to earth now.
Sigh. Back to earth now.
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Re: Blue Skies! Anyone out obbing?
Yeah, I went out with full equipment only to find a complete overcast. Grrr.....kaomoo wrote:spoke too early...kaomoo wrote:setting up now...
no vis after 2 hours
on the bright side, I got my autoguider up and running. Though I will need to find a M42 spacer to sync my guilder's eyepiece with the guilder camera....
Doesn't your Nexguide already come with a spacer to parfocalize the eyepiece?
DON'T PANIC
Re: Blue Skies! Anyone out obbing?
you meant 4000m right?orly_andico wrote:A week and a half ago I was at 400m in the Swiss Alps. And the sky was... incredible.
Sigh. Back to earth now.
Re: Blue Skies! Anyone out obbing?
I am using it with a Orion Flip Mirror, which made the guider FURTHER then the EP.cloud_cover wrote:Yeah, I went out with full equipment only to find a complete overcast. Grrr.....kaomoo wrote:spoke too early...kaomoo wrote:setting up now...
no vis after 2 hours
on the bright side, I got my autoguider up and running. Though I will need to find a M42 spacer to sync my guilder's eyepiece with the guilder camera....
Doesn't your Nexguide already come with a spacer to parfocalize the eyepiece?
Also, the ST80 worked very well with the Baader Hyperion ClickZoom....
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Re: Blue Skies! Anyone out obbing?
Erm, reverse the guider and EP position?
Other alternative is simply don't use the flip mirror. Once you have centered your guide star you can just plonk the guider in. Given your guidescope is fairly widefield, it should be able to see a decent guidestar for almost any target anyway
Other alternative is simply don't use the flip mirror. Once you have centered your guide star you can just plonk the guider in. Given your guidescope is fairly widefield, it should be able to see a decent guidestar for almost any target anyway
DON'T PANIC
Re: Blue Skies! Anyone out obbing?
u can't reversed, well.. you can i guess, since the auoguider can be configure with flip RA or DEC axis. easier to just pop a spacer in :pcloud_cover wrote:Erm, reverse the guider and EP position?
Other alternative is simply don't use the flip mirror. Once you have centered your guide star you can just plonk the guider in. Given your guidescope is fairly widefield, it should be able to see a decent guidestar for almost any target anyway
i am under the impression that the high the mag the more accurate the guiding?