January 10, 2020: first light for the Vixen GP-DX

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Had the first outing of the Vixen GP-DX mount, much to my surprise. I used this mainly as a test under bad conditions (bright moon, clouds chasing by from time to time), no effort at imaging. Got the mount working neatly with the new power supply, and got goto working well enough. After two star alignment the next object was near the centre of the field of view. Three star alignment didn't work, possibly due to inaccurate polar alignment. Well pleased, so far. 

As more clouds started coming in, I packed up the lot. 

[Stu]

Looking good Michael.

It's worth checking which setting the 2000PC is on for future. You can set it up as polar aligned or not polar aligned. In the second instance it will use both motors to track which is handy for quick visual setups but I think can cause some jitteriness for imaging.