[APML]: Re: st-4 report-lx 200

["Bobby Middleton" <bobbym@webwide.net>]

  Many thanks to all with suggestions for my questions about the st-4 and
my
  lx200
  over the last month. My last round of photos were mostly well-guided. Let
  me take 
  a minute to report what I did which got me straightened out. I guide
  off-axis with a GEG.
 
  1) started using a screw-in focal reducer which took my guiding FL from
  2800mm to 1100mm.
  2) incresaed my Ca1 time from 3 or 4 to 7; and my Ca2 time from 4 & 5 to
  9.
  3) made very careful tweaks with my focusing to insure I had the highest
  br readings.
     
  Now one more question:
  I am getting over-corrections in RA during guiding; that is, my RA
  correction readouts
  run along the order of something like this:   4, -6, 5, 0, -E, 3, -3,
  5,-2,
  3, -6....pretty much back and forth.
  Do I need to turn down the Ca1 setting a notch or two, or is it something
  else? My PEC is in good shape.     
  
  Thanks again,
  Bobby Midleton
  
  
  astropics at:  http://www.webwide.net/~bobbym/astro1.htm