Hawkeye

Sir Patrick, Your body may have given up but your very essence will live on forever in the hearts and minds of all the people you have inspired over the years.

Goodbye, Farewell and Rest In Peace

great minds..... I have just been looking at a 10m active USB extension so I can get myself and the laptop into the garage so at least I will be warm (ish).

Mark, I am having trouple getting APT to control my scope (for simple movement as I know it won't be a goto).. All I get is an error message saying unable to move mount... I have tried using the POTH USB and the Shoestring USB settings..... Any ideas? (GPUSBCheck works fine)

Cheers

Paul

soon be in the depth of the winter season coping with freezing cold and ice on the telescope ah the memory's

I can't wait !

Looking forward to seeing your results good luck

Well the mod all went ok, spent a while getting all the software working right, and managed to get some 5 minutes shots without any noticeable star trailing so all in all really pleased.

Just need to moon to disappear again now

Cheers

Paul

Well, I now have all the bits I need to do this conversion... so there should be another EQ5 guiding by Saturday night

Does anyone know if having done this conversion if software like APT will be able to control (move) the telescope..

I realise it will never be a full goto system, but what about the normal RA/DEC control?

Cheers

Paul

OK, well here is my first attempt at M42...

Taken using a Skywatcher 127 MAK, with a Nikon D5000.

60 10seconds pics stacked with Registax 6.