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Hi, you seem to be at a fantastic location, I used to live at the edge of the Cevennes and still return regularly to the mid-southern part of france for ultralight flying and astro activity .
Can I ask please, what is your location and is there an airstrip nearby?
Thanks & cheers,
Gus Vrancken
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Hi, you seem to be at a fantastic location, I used to live at the edge of the Cevennes and still return regularly to the mid-southern part of france for ultralight flying and astro activity .
Can I ask please, what is your location and is there an airstrip nearby?
Thanks & cheers,
Gus Vrancken
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Hi, you seem to be at a fantastic location, I used to live at the edge of the Cevennes and still return regularly to the mid-southern part of france for ultralight flying and astro activity .
Can I ask please, what is your location and is there an airstrip nearby?
Thanks & cheers,
Gus Vrancken
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Hi Gus, most of my local friends are free flyers. From the back of the house we can see the Chabre ridge which hosted the world hang gliding championships. The campsite in nearby Laragne Monteglin hosts the Chabre Open for paragliders each year and is our local shopping town. The campsite has a landing site for paragliders, hang gliders and microlites. Sailplanes fly out of Serres just to our north. I think Klaus Ohlen flies there. I believe he flew to Malta on wave a while ago and holds or has held some world records. There's another sailplane aerodrome just to our south at Sisteron-Vaumeilh.
We are at Etoile St Cyrice, a small village near Orpierre which is just west of the main road connecting Laragne Monteglin to Serres. (South of Laragne Monteglin it goes through Sisteron.) We have downsized our astronomy gite recently but still have a small flat available. It has a double bedroom with armchairs and en-suite shower-WC and a small dining kitchen. There is a covered summer cooking-eating area outside that goes with the flat.
In any case, feel free to drop in and see us if you're in the area.
Best wishes,
Olly
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You won the day 242 times ... and i never did 😭
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Olly , I've had a terrible start to 2020 with the weather and bad equipment , I received a new Meade lx85 and retuned it for bad performance with the audiostar handpad , wouldn't even perform with 3rd party software and then went crzy running away from the time I turned it on. I used my #497 autostar from my lxd55 mount and it did the same thing and sent the mount back . I connected it to the lxd55 again wanting to shoot some lunars and it just keeps slewing and won't stop when I get my alignment star centered . I've no clue how to get I atched with starpatch or what driver to use on the Weasner site . Can you help me ?
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Hi, I'm sorry but I've no relevant experience with this kit and am pretty hopeless with any kind of electronics or IT problem anyway. The only thing that comes to mind is that Meade software hit a belated 'millenium bug' in, I think, 2018. It was to do with the time signal on GPS satellites or something like that. Our 14 inch LX200 went crazy when trying to align and got nowhere. All I did was switch off the GPS to do a manual star align and it then worked better than ever so I haven't bothered with the Meade update. I don't know if this might have any connection with your problem but Googling Meade millenium bug or GPS bug should pull up lots of information.
I hope you crack this one.
Olly
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Hi Olly,
I image with a QSI683 (8300) and was considering an FSQ. Looking at the numbers, it seems that the FSX106EDX is better matched to the 8300 in terms of arcsec/pixel. Still, numbers only carry you so far. You said that you would love to have another FSQ85 if you were using an 8300 chip again. I know you own a couple of FSQ106EDX's. What is it that makes you feel the 85 is so superbly matched to the 8300? I really value your insight since you have used both.
Renae
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Hi,
In fact I use two FSQ106Ns, one mine and one Tom O'Donoghue's. These cannot take the focal reducer, and we use full format CCD chips which are, really, too big for the reducer anyway, even if it worked with our older fluorite scopes, which it doesn't. I think you can make a perfectly good case for either the 85 or 106EDX, with or without reducer, for the 8300 chip since in all cases the image circle is big enough. You are just trading resolution for field of view but resolution never drops below a level which will give a decent result. If you want better resolution go for a longer FL and do a mosaic.
I don't think the choce is a big deal, it just depends mainly on your FOV requirements. Tom and I are very 'widefield' but Tom doesn't hesitate to set out on 30 panel mosaics. I'm a bit less ambitious!!
Olly
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