Mach1 guide results with 10" Meade

Hi all,

I spent one night doing some imaging with the 10" LX200R mounted on the Mach1. The results of the guiding are quite interesting. The mount was guiding at less than 1 arc sec rms all night long while imaging M33. The image shows a screen shot of the tracking chart over a 15 monute period in MaximDL. each exposure was 5 minutes long, with a period of about 20 seconds while the image was downloading where the mount was running unguided.

Rolando

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And here is M33:

20 exposures each of 5 minutes duration, exposed at 2x2 binning using STL11k camera and 0.75x compressor. Image is 1/2 size.

Rolando

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Roland,

Impressive results for such a heavy combination of OTA and camera. Care to comment on suitability of Mach1 for a C14 (40lbs) for visual / planetary imaging? The combined weight of the Meade OTA and imaging train should be close to the Celestron OTA.

Regards,

Angel