From: "milton_aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: December 19, 2009 7:06:46 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: star images...

I sent this previously, but Yahoo ate it.

That sounds like a cable issue or possibly something with the camera.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@...> wrote:

P.S. I did notice with the camera inside, attached to Astro IIDC &  

pointed at a room light that depending upon settings sometimes I`d get  

light registering in the CC window sometimes not. A couple of times I  

had to turn Astro IIDC off & on again to get the camera to work  

properly & this may have been what was confusing me out at the scope..?

Mark.

On 18/12/2009, at 10:07 AM, Mark Gaffney wrote:

Last time out (2 nights ago) I was having trouble obtaining any traces

of star images with my Scorpion. I`m not entirely sure (Betelgeuse

which I was using) was on the chip as I was getting cloud obscure

first Betelgeuse then Rigel (& back again all night). On my 3 star

alignment Betelgeuse & Procyon were much brighter than the star I`d

selected as Rigel (I don`t know if this was due to clouds)?This may

have put my Go-To out, though Betelgeuse was centred in the eyepiece.

I`ve re-looked at the Manual & the sharpness (& FWHM- HFD section). Is

there a rule of thumb for exposure readings-(I know it`d vary from

camera to camera). I couldn`t focus upon this star anywhere in the

range. I did manage to get the extended PGR exposure times working

with a plastic bag tie taped into the GPIO pin out. I tried both with

this switched on & off... Into the bargain my finder had been bumped

removing the scope cover & wasn`t very accurate. Last night was

perfect but I didn`t get out, feeling too frazzled. Probably too much

information but yesterday began with a car accident on our dirt-

gravel road-A woman had rolled her car near us & we had to help

getting her out of the wreck...!

Mark.