The little screws that secure my EAF to the focuser sometimes need tightened. I'd definitely check that! And in my experience you need to at least have it see stars to to focus, if it's so far out there aren't any stars then it can't do any good. Hope you get to the bottom ...
The biggest negative in my opinion is that except for the mount, it locks you in to ZWO's products. I've just started using a mini pc and NINA, which at least to me for astrophotography is more versatile but more complex, and not really useful for EAA as far as I can tell. Edited...
Now, I am basing this off of my experience working with PLA, ASA, PTEG, etc. on a consumer printer. I have made a focuser (bracket, gears, enclosure, etc. - not a stepper motor!), various enclosures for Arduino, Raspberry Pi's, etc., wall mounts for tablets, and some various dood...
You do realise that there is a simple way to deal with mirror shift/flop with how you tweak the focuser knob for both focusing & collimation, right? Not ideal but workable. The alternative being to lock the primary in place & use an external focuser. Do you mean to finish focus by tur...
You are using the ASCOM driver, right? I suppose that you have already set the USB speed to lowest value? BTW the code that use ASCOM drivers is same not matter the camera brand - in its basic is same since APT 2.0 many years ago and was working quite fine till the appearance of ...
That's what I use and it works great. The only thing I don't like is I don't know anywhere that you can buy anything less than a 4' x 8' sheet. cmdr_disco, on 19 Nov 2022 - 06:29 AM, said: ... LOL! I guess its kinda bad...but we dont have tools hehe. ......
It's important to note that I'm new to scopes, mounts and astrophotography so I may need some extra simple lingo. I wanted to use AstroTortilla for off axis guiding so I installed AstroTortilla, ASCOM Platform 6.4, and the ASCOM Celestron Telescope and Focuser Driver. Everything seemed to...
The small sticks dont have too much memory right now based on your system you may want one of the newer vcore models with 4GB of memory. There are also Intel NUC devices but I think they need 19V. Once you get that mini computer going you can use your mac to remote into it. ...
With the add on computer not only can you use it with the ability to scan around but you can even use it without the telescope plugged in at all. There were quite a few different add-on systems made in the late 80's- 90's, not all were Y2k compliant. some have Planetary data oth...