Stargazer33

Ahh, nice and secure now! ??

Just found this on Jewsons website: Tough, consistent and great value, Sterling OSB3 is a precision-engineered structural board for use in load bearing humid conditions. Stronger than most softwood plywood Can perform even when wet FSC certified Made from timber grown in the UK BBA approved and conforms to Eurocodes Simple to saw, drill, nail, plane, file or sand So I wouldn't worry!

Have they overdone the powder coating, or are the holes in the wrong place?

What about scaffold poles cut slightly longer than the original legs bolted on instead?

You need to post your image in a new thread. Not in this announcement, otherwise it won't count.

Received a ZWO Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector today. So I am ready for Jupiter, when it gets to a reasonable time of the night to image.

One Shot Colour. Basically a colour camera rather than a mono one. HTH (hope that helps)

Yesterday I set my system up for a practice run for Fridays eclipse. When I powered up my mount the hand controller was displaying 'Transmit Data...'. No matter what I tried I couldn't get the hand controller back to the start-up alignment procedure. After messing about for a bit the Sun dropped below our garage so I packed up and bought the mount inside and ran HCupdate. I selected the latest firmware version and programmed the hand controller. I then cycled the power on the mount and verified the copy. This came back as a match. I then ran MCupdate and again selected the latest version and programmed the motor control board. Again I cycled the mount power after this completed and ran the verification option. This immediately stopped saying that there was a mismatch in address 0 it was something like 5643 instead of 5551. I ran MCupdate again an got the same result. I then went back to the earliest file on the GEM list and loaded that. I did the verification and that came back clean. I then installed the next newest firmware and ran the verification and that came back with a mismatch in address 70. As a final resort I retried the latest firmware and again got the error in address 0, 5643 instead of 5551! Going to the version information in the utilities menu I get HC: 4.21 and MC: 6.50 6.50. I don't really want to do a factory reset and start all over again but I feel that this is my only option now. Has anyone else had this problem with a firmware upgrade and how did you overcome it? Any help would be most welcome as I don't want to miss the opportunity of filming this eclipse (I have all the necessary filters btw). Edit: I haven't tried the mount out since getting this mismatch at address 0 message so I'm not sure if there is an actual problem with the motor control.

Hmm, not bad. With images like that it is going to be harder and harder for agencies to justify the billions it costs to launch space telescopes like Hubble! I never knew there was so much nebulosity around Orion. I take my hat off to your dedication and skill. Well done Tom & Olly.

Well done FLO, one step ahead yet again! Thanks.