2023-03-31, 08:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 2023-03-31, 08:50 PM by Dennis.
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Hi Phil
Thanks for your comments, I appreciate them.
I used the built-in download procedure of the mount’s control SW, so I will have to inspect my Laptop PC and various HW/SW settings to see if I have inadvertently introduced an operator error along the way.
I was also distracted by guests who dropped by for the evening, so my full attention wasn’t on the rig chugging away in the back garden.
A JPL Horizons download and the ST4 prediction (using Astorb.dat) would both have put me in the right spot.
For long focal length (2170mm) unguided imaging I have to use the mount SW for its built-in modelling, but I am going to experiment with pointing at an ST4 acquired target, but then see if I can invoke the custom tracking rate within the mount SW even, though ST4 provides the Target selection and acquisition functions.
Always something to learn with this hobby, I wonder what Clyde Tombaugh would think today, given the amazing HW and SW capabilities in the hands of us amateurs.
Cheers
Dennis
Thanks for your comments, I appreciate them.
I used the built-in download procedure of the mount’s control SW, so I will have to inspect my Laptop PC and various HW/SW settings to see if I have inadvertently introduced an operator error along the way.
I was also distracted by guests who dropped by for the evening, so my full attention wasn’t on the rig chugging away in the back garden.
A JPL Horizons download and the ST4 prediction (using Astorb.dat) would both have put me in the right spot.
For long focal length (2170mm) unguided imaging I have to use the mount SW for its built-in modelling, but I am going to experiment with pointing at an ST4 acquired target, but then see if I can invoke the custom tracking rate within the mount SW even, though ST4 provides the Target selection and acquisition functions.
Always something to learn with this hobby, I wonder what Clyde Tombaugh would think today, given the amazing HW and SW capabilities in the hands of us amateurs.
Cheers
Dennis