QHY8L is waiting at home.

[Stu Wilson]

After the best part of a month in Hong Kong being repaired my QHY8L is waiting at home for me.

If the skies stay as they are tonight as they are now I won't be doing much but I will do the gains offsets and run the thing and test the cooler. After that if skies are poor I'll make my darks and bias library.

Thanks to all who helped in previous posts.

I'll keep you all posted as to test results later.

Happy days.

Clear skies.

Stu.

[emadmoussa]

You must be pretty excited... 

[sloz1664]

Glad you've got it back Stu. My QHY8Pro took ages to return as it was scrutinised in customs, a nervy experience. All working fine now as I'm sure yours will.

Steve

[Stu Wilson]

Yeah was getting very nervous as my Chinglish aint very good (IE The Emails I was swapping with them.)

Anyway straight out of the postage bag and cable clip added before I started.

Gain and offset done came out at Gain=7 Offset=104

Don't know if this is an average readout or not but its what I got so far.

Done a load of Bias frames, Doing some Darks as I type (I know your not meant to need them with these cameras but hey every little helps)

Trying some Flats now and then some Dark Flats. See what happens.

Anyway the main thing upon setup that made me smile is that I can now achieve the 65525 in setup instead of the 3000 or so that was the maximum before.

Clear skies Clear skies Clear skies....lol.... Fingers crossed. ?