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    motorised rotators are they worth it

    in Getting Started General Help and Advice

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    41 minutes ago, tomato said:

    Assuming you have an equatorial mount for AP, rotators are used to automate the rotation of your camera assembly to facilitate framing, especially for mosaics. They are expensive as they are engineered to rotate a significant mass precisely.

    A lot of folks rotate their cameras by hand or keep them in a fixed position once initially aligned, but they are useful especially on remote set ups. They do add to the all up weight that your mount has to deal with.

    My own view is I would rather spend that kind of money on a camera, filters or telescope.

    Including precious back focus.

    Steve

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    NINA auto meridian flip does not work?

    in Discussions - Software

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    10 hours ago, Viktiste said:

    But as I found out last week:

    NINA will only perform a meridian flip for targets crossing the meridian south of the Polaris. 

    In other word if you are tracking a target crossing the meridian on the north side of Polaris, no meridian flip will be performed!

    I had this issue while imaging the Bode Galaxy. I asked on the Discord forum and they confirmed this is the case.

    So be aware!

    Good idea to have your mount limits set correctly

    Steve

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