Hi all, So I went to the observatory yesterday. The shaking was discrete but the mount was still not behaving well. It was blocked again while pointing low toward West. The shaking was present in

Yes, that is in the back of my mind, but first I have to be successful on the script part. Then I will look at see if I can automatize the camera. Thanks for the reminder.

Don, Thanks for the information. Hopefully I will manage to get it right. Now I have to wait for the full moon to take advantage of it (I am imaging in between). Alvaro

Hi, You could find ASCOM driver for Sony here : https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/678666-ascom-driver-for-sony-cameras-available-for-testing/ or here :

Hi Alvaro, When you set up SiTech to do a PXP rmodel, SiTech creates a script to do the PXP model. That script is listed in the script window where you set up the PXP model (where you tell it how

Hi Maxime, My suggestion about the worm/gear fit and grease is based on your description of having to release the fit a bit to be able to move the mount away from viewing Venus at low altitude. You

Hi, Thanks for your answers. Don, the shaking was difficult to identify as it was not present all the time and not every night (it just shake for 4 or 5 sec then it's ok for 30s). It's just that some

Dan, We kind of talk a while ago about using the script that collects the PointXP by using plate solving. I mentioned that I use a Sony A7s, and that there is not ASCOM access to the camera, so I

Hi Ralf, Sensitivity is basically an indicator to see how much data the terms have to work with. Set the limit to 20,000, the turn on all terms. This will allow PXP to turn on terms it normally

That setup works out to 0.1 arcseconds per tick. RGH20H is 50nm per tick. The RESR20 31488 ring is 200mm in diameter. 50nm / 100mm = 0.5 microradians = 0.1 arcseconds. Jan

Hello experts, pointxp works great, gives a lot of details, but I have no idea what all the analysis tells me. E.g. what does "Sensitivity mean" (I have 280) Pointing error RMS 12,8" (for a completely

Go to the controller stuff, and take a look at the position error. You have to move your mouse to the textbox. If you have a lot of position error, you could try lowering the integral, and raising

Hi Maxime, OK, I see that you posted questions last December and didn't seem to have the shaking, so the shaking is recent. I am going to guess that the shaking in RA is too tight a fit of the worm

Hi Don, Thank you very much for your post. Before I answer your questions I would like to mention two points: - I took over the activity of the observatory while the telescope plus mount was already

Hi Maxime, There are several things that might affect the shaking, but first please answer some questions. 1. What is the resolution of your Renishaw mount encoders? 2. Did this shaking occur just

Hello all, I noticed that the mount we have at the observatory (a Mathis MI-1000/1250 fork mount) sometimes shake. It can be noticed especially when doing planetary imaging. If I recall correctly the

Glad you got it working! Dan

sorry, just seen this. As Don said Jaspal, when the mount flips, you need to guide DEC in the reverse direction. To get my head around this I watched my mount do a flip in daytime and that allowed me

The mount will be initialised sufficiently well by step 1 that it should goto roughly the right area of sky. When I do step 1 - (and I do it each night because I nearly always move the scope when the

Thanks for working on this Dan. It eventually turned out to be a "hidden" setting in Prism which simply said "force use of encoder counts" and it's turned on by default. I say "hidden" when it was