Secret Still Observatory

'Star, star teach me how to shine, shine'

Mark

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9th July 2022 I recalibrated PHD2 on the EQ6R-Pro last night which worked fine. I then successfully guided to an acceptable standard. Unfortunately high cloud affected to whole evening’s imaging so only a few poor subs were captured across both the scopes. At the moment I am putting recent guiding woes down to poor transparency. To be monitored however and I will run PPEC at some point to see if guiding is improved further.

Mark

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6th July 2022 I rebalanced the mount last night and realigned using the NINA Three Point Polar Alignment. The balance was slightly off and the polar alignment was four arc-minutes out on the declination axis. This might have contributed to the recent poor guiding. it is now set to within 13 arc-seconds. Unfortunately the capture sequence failed when the sky became overcast. I did however manage to get some nice footage of the waxing moon before nautical dusk fell.

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