Damien Cannane

I have been getting answers from this forum for years, always by arriving here from a Google search. Your suggestion here has finally compelled me to post. I was at my wit's end trying to get an M42-M48 adapter unthreaded from a 7mm extension tube. I have a new camera lens that I bought to finally go after large targets and your tennis shoe fix worked like an absolute charm! You saved my weekend: 3 clear, moonless nights forecasted and I now have the correct back focus that is so critical at f/2 for the Samyang 135mm! Kudos! Damien

Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial! Everything worked like a charm, both for Solve+ and Blind, using a .FITS image already saved on my PC.... everything except for one issue. It returns exactly the right RA and Dec, but it exactly doubles my resolution. I'm at 1.24"/pixel and it's saying I'm at 2.48"/pixel. I've triple checked my focal length, and it does say 400mm under Tools. This is correct as I'm using a RASA 8. Does this matter? Will it still Sync properly and re-center my targets when connected to my Atlas mount with EQMOD? To be clear, I just mean the image scale is wrong as displayed in APT. If I run it directly in All Sky Plate Solver, it comes out correctly. Thanks, Damien