B

Description: The Mount Arrived at home the 13 of November, I went to Mesu Optics to pick it up and met Lucas. He had the mount completely set up to show me. So we just detached the head, disassembled the pillar and loaded it in the car. The Original picture shows the size comparison with Yuri the Cat. I waited for good weather for setting it up, it took 3 months of waiting. I started setting it up at the end of February.

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C

Description: I attached the Pegasus Astro Pocket Powerbox and an USB hub on the other side with velcro strips to protect gear and pillar and then large plastic band to secure everything firmly.

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D

Description: All the cables can go inside the mount, very easy.. .there's a lot of space. In this case I passed through the mount: the main camera cables (USB and Power), the finderscope camera cable, the polemaster cable and the cables for the heating bands. In the end I removed the plastic band and decided not to hold them together because there's simply no need.

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E

Description: My arm as well can go inside the mount :)

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F

Description: The DEC hole for the cables. In the end the band was removed, I believe it was causing some drag.

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G

Description: The only "flaw" I've found in the mount. The bottom knob of the counterweight bar is either too big or too at the bottom and it doesn't allow to push the CW all the way up (important with a small refractor). I wrote to Lucas about it, he will fix this on the future models.

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H

Description: Overall the setup was very easy and smooth. This is Guglielmo, my first refractor, which arrived last May. The night after I alligned the mount with the Polemaster (I love the 3x2 bolt system). It was very easy and precise.

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I

Description: And started guiding. Note: for the first two nights I miscalibrated the mount convinced that its guiding speed was 99% sidereal, like my old mount, instead it was 1/3. This graph is from the 3rd night of test, after I figured out the correct calibration and discovered the multistar guiding in PHD2

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J

Description: No place to put the handpad? No problem, me and Neil have found a solution :)

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K

Description: The Mesu Mk II in tracking/guiding. A couple of hours past the meridian. By the way it's not like "Goodbye meridian flip", it's more like "I flip when I want" which is awesome.

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L

Description: Pew! Pew!

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M

Description: A nice view from the back while at rest cooling down.

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N

Description: Noctua Mod for the ASI1600MM cool. The fan is the Noctua NF-A4x10 FLX and the vibration mounts are the Noctua NA-SAV3

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O

Title: Finally a flat field generator after 5 years of t-shirt

Description: I'm very happy :)

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