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Title: Tidied Up for Bench Testing
Description: I started ordering things for this scope in December of 2022. The OTA came in May 2023, the mount arrived in September 2023, the camera in November 2023, and the last piece, the Pegasus box, finally arrived in March 2024. I finally managed to get it set up for bench testing in mid March.
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Title: Enclosure
Description: I know it might seem very anal, but my years of playing bars where you might have 10 minutes to set up and 10 minutes to tear down taught me to be organized about how to manage electronics and make them easy to pack, unpack, and move
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Title: Spare Parts
Description: I used the bottom drawer of the enclosure for spare cables, tools, and other accessories that will stay with the rig. There's a spare USB or power cable for every connection. And every cable, including those on the scope, has a label at each end to make it easy if a tech needs to do something.
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Title: Power
Description: The first shelf contains all the power-related items: The Digital Loggers Web Pro and power bricks for the various devices.
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Title: Electronics
Description: The second shelf contains almost all the electronic items: Intel NUC (i7, 12 cores, 64GB RAM, 4TB SSD), network switch, and 10Micron hand controller (I think it's so dumb that I have to have this).
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Title: Field Testing
Description: Finally out to the side yard to try to do something useful. I only got one night to field test it. I had to leave four nights later, and weather was only good for this one night. Otherwise, my schedule wouldn't line up with the observatory techs for another several months.
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Title: The Culprit
Description: If you look, it seems pretty obvious that there's not enough slack in the harness from the Pegasus to the camera, et al, to ensure error-free rotation. But I was so harried at the time, I just missed it. I have to go back to Santa Fe as soon as possible to take care of this. Meanwhile, I'll just choose targets that frame nicely at 0 degrees.
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Title: Loaded for Bear
Description: The stuff barely fit in the truck. I'm glad I have an 8' bed.
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Title: At DSW
Description: After a 12-hour drive and a good night's rest, it was up the winding mesa road to Deep Sky West. It's pretty rustic out there. BYOTP.
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Title: Ready to Go!
Description: At long last, after 15 months of planning, procurement, testing, packing, moving, unloading, and setup, maybe I can finally take some pictures!
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Status | Advanced success |
Started | ... |
PixInsight job | H3KE913MMA60I8NKUBHHI4ATB2GLS5UP |
PixInsight queue size | n/a |
PixInsight stage | TASK_LOG |
RA (center) | 14h03m11s.934 |
RA (top/left) | 14h00m11s.169 |
RA (top/right) | 14h06m11s.312 |
RA (bottom/right) | 14h06m15s.638 |
RA (bottom/left) | 14h00m09s.674 |
Dec (center) | +54°22′42″.20 |
Dec (top/left) | +54°02′40″.46 |
Dec (top/right) | +54°02′24″.27 |
Dec (bottom/right) | +54°42′21″.61 |
Dec (bottom/left) | +54°42′41″.12 |
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