More light captured with my DIY - Direct Drive telescope mount!
After first light, a few more night came up and offered some opportunities to test things.
The new motor is just amazing. It’s a so strong compared to the other one. With the RA motor holding up better, the DEC motor seems to perform a bit better as well!
Things are starting to look nice, but there is still some tweaking to do.
On the other hand, one motor can easily drag the other one down. Motions transfer easily through the structure. The chain and the weakest link, and so on…
The Lucid Mount Mk2 has only been operational for a few days and there is already talk of changes? What that is about we’ll get to know later, in this episode we’ll test the mount on everyone’s favourite galaxy, M31 – The Andromeda Galaxy.
It’s a process that stretches over a few days. Most of it is carrying the stuff outside, and with great excitement looking at guide graphs. I’m not sure I’ll be able to communicate my enthusiasm, but even though pretty pictures are the end goal, the journey and struggle to get them is the real game.
Get out and explore the darkness!
0:00 – 0:17 intro
0:18 – 0:46 Day 2! Rig up!
0:46 – 1:51 Some changes to the setup.
1:52 – 3:03 Calibration and guiding assistant.
3:04 – 4:43 Imaging setup
4:44 – 6:19 Day 3! Rig up in the sunset.
6:20 – 7:13 More guiding! You must be well into guiding poRn to be in this long!
7:14 – 8:05 Day 4 Some changes! And some big changes coming??
8:06 – 10:00 Rig up! More talk about changes! Is it getting heavier?
10:01 – 10:13 Next morning!
10:14 – 13:34 Guide data from phd2logview. Periodic error and spikes to deal with.
13:35 – 14:50 Flat, Derig and finish up!