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  • 11-10-2013 11:46pm
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    ThatDrGuy
    Registered Users Posts: 325 ✭✭


    Talk about a faint fuzzy!
    2liioee.jpg

    60x120s exposures
    10x120s darks
    10 flats

    It's so faint I mis-framed it and thought I hadn't captured it at all. I had to limit the exposure to 2 minutes due to my autoguider dying. Focal reducer was not needed - but now I have an accurate measurement of the width of my field so can calculate better in the future. Incidentally if anyone has a guider set up gathering dust or knows anything about fixing them please let me know.

    Just realised this barely projects onto some screens: it's there. I swears :)

    Brightened up the image so people will believe it's there:

    2dtn42s.jpg


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    ZeRoY
    Registered Users Posts: 959 ✭✭✭ZeRoY


    ThatDrGuy wrote: »
    Talk about a faint fuzzy!
    Incidentally if anyone has a guider set up gathering dust or knows anything about fixing them please let me know.

    What's the problem with the guider? Connections?


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    ThatDrGuy
    Registered Users Posts: 325 ✭✭ThatDrGuy


    Its an Orion SSIAG. A legendarily pernickety piece of tech. It was working fine but my laptop died and had to be reloaded. Now when I run PHD I get huge black lines running up and down the picture like an old cathode ray tv. It's unusable :( I don't know if its the drivers or the hardware. I tried another computer and same black lines so I suspect hardware.No idea how to even approach fixing it. No reason for failure either - it was carefully stored for the summer.


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    ZeRoY
    Registered Users Posts: 959 ✭✭✭ZeRoY


    ThatDrGuy wrote: »
    Its an Orion SSIAG. A legendarily pernickety piece of tech. It was working fine but my laptop died and had to be reloaded. Now when I run PHD I get huge black lines running up and down the picture like an old cathode ray tv. It's unusable :( I don't know if its the drivers or the hardware. I tried another computer and same black lines so I suspect hardware.No idea how to even approach fixing it. No reason for failure either - it was carefully stored for the summer.

    Have you tried phd guiding 2? http://www.daddog.com/phd2

    Worth a try - It looks hardware to be honest, checked connection loose, broken?


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    ThatDrGuy
    Registered Users Posts: 325 ✭✭ThatDrGuy


    Bizarre. It turns out the hardware id on it had changed so the drivers no longer recognised it. I edited the hardware id in the drivers and bang - back working. Cue huge cloud front from the Atlantic!


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    ZeRoY
    Registered Users Posts: 959 ✭✭✭ZeRoY


    ThatDrGuy wrote: »
    Bizarre. It turns out the hardware id on it had changed so the drivers no longer recognised it. I edited the hardware id in the drivers and bang - back working. Cue huge cloud front from the Atlantic!

    Nice one! Clear skies now hopefully soon!


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