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HaleBopp2007

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    Astronomy, in specific, comets and eclipses.
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  1. I'll try to shoot the comet tomorrow. The situation is challenging thanks to the twilight, so I'll just hope for the best and maybe I'll get a nice shot
  2. Well, I can now confirm that my scope worked flawlesly now! It did the meridian flip (which made a couple of exposures a bit wonky), but the rest came in wonderfully! Even being west heavy helped the issue, too! Thank you all for your help, I'll make sure to send the image as soon as I finish the project. I wish you clear skies!
  3. Okay, confirming half-victory over that pesky backlash! I am however getting slightly elongated stars (just a few pixels) while the field is completely still... I've checked that the alignment corresponds to the RA axis, implying it's a declination error (probably polar alignment mistake) so maybe I have to apply more aggressive guiding, since I don't think making the mount even more east-heavy is something that improves dec errors. The issue is however mostly solved, I just need to polish the procedure lv_0_20230809131449.mp4
  4. Update! I'm photographing NGC 7000 and so far it looks like your tips did the job! I still have to try with other positions, but so far it looks very promising. Thank you all so much for helping! I really needed that!
  5. Apologies for taking some time. Last night was oddly hazy, humid and foggy so I didn't try anything for the sake of my optics. Tonight looks much more promising, however. I'll take a shot and see if the mount issues are still there after I use east-heavy weighting and guiding.
  6. Faur enough. I think that the dec issues are because I made a slightly imprecise polar alignment, so that is fixable. If that only leaves me with RA wobble, I think east-heavy weighting and guiding could solve the issue. I'll see if I can finally stop this mess tonight, and increase my already existing excitement (discovered new asiair tools). Final updates in the next 12h
  7. Just made this video with my data of M8 from a bortle 4 sky, it shows the same zig zag pattern. I'll try to check if the east-heavy weighting solves this tonight DB06B793-77BF-49A1-9786-F121CFF2ACAD.mp4
  8. I did try that a couple of times but the jump was (and still is) so massive (sometimes around an arcmin) and sudden that it was impossible to fix with guiding, even when the guidescope's focal length was of more than half of my main scope's focal
  9. Hm I don't fully get every concept. I do understand the 0-0 example, since it has happened to me several times, like two brighter replicas of the same star with a bridge between them. But you're saying that if I leave the eastern part slightly heavier, that bridge of light will dissappear? Sorry if I'm getting too confusing, but I'm trying to grasp as much info as I can to get this 100% straight
  10. Sorry if it's a silly question but, you mean that the telescope is more stable when the eastermost part is slightly heavier? Like- gaining sturdiness? That could be a solution! I will try as soon as I get my equiment back in action, and I'll also send the footage with the axis identified by tomorrow, but hopefully the east imbalance will do the job
  11. I wasn't guiding in that image. Only the RA motors were working
  12. Nonetheless the exposures of the comet are only stretched and cropped after editing (I have the original video with no cropping and it shows the same effect as well). Nonetheless, if it IS an error in declination that definitely discards that it's an error of the motor, since it's not active while tracking. It can't be a balance error either since I've made sure the scope could be easily leveled by adding a longer dovetail. So... I can only come up with mount stress, which isn't really solvable unless I get a newer, sturdier mount
  13. Well, I can do that tomorrow since I don't have my ASIAIR currently... I'll look and see if I have any more exposures, but I think I'll have to wait until tomorrow, with my most recent project which was forunately saved by transparent dark skies. I'll see if I can create a time-lapse asap
  14. Actually I looked for it manually and activated sideral tracking speed, so the comet is not really an important factor this time, since I let it skid through the field, and the timelapse itself is rather short too, with a span of around 40 minutes, explaining that the comet doesn't move much
  15. Oh I do have a time lapse of comet ZTF! And, yeah it does show that "zig zag" movement lv_0_20230126205124_1.mp4
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