Re: [APML] Calibrating STV axes independently

["Jim Janusz" <jjanusz@dc.rr.com>]

Stand by for four copies of this...........

I will be out with my ST-V on Tuesday and Wednesday night.  I'll write up
everything I do and report back.

That should confirm that it works for me as I have not done it for some
time.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "steve banbury" <banburys@sonic.net>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] Calibrating STV axes independently


> Hi Jim--I would have liked to still be away, but high winds blew me off
the
> mountaintop!
> In the manual calibration mode, there are 3 options:
> A) Relays 1234
> B) Relays 12
> C) Relays 34
> I suspect my problem is in how I do these steps.
> It seems that what you're saying is to do step B, and then do Step C.
> Perhaps it was my sleep deprived mind, but it seemed that when I would do
> that, and then select to Track mode,
> I would get an error message saying "Calibration not performed".
>
> I would expect  I am supposed to press "Next" at the end of steps B and C,
> and at completion of step C pressing "Next" would bring up the window to
> review the motions achieved in each axis. That didn't seem to happen. I
> ended up using "Auto", and ignoring the "Speeds" message.  Guidescope is
> 135 mm f2.8 telephoto, and what I wanted to do was 30 seconds in RA, and
10
> seconds in DEC. resulting motions in "Auto" mode were 5 pixels in RA, and
> 25 pixels in Dec.
>
> I'd be happy to take this off line if its of no interest to anyone except
> me and Steve W.
>
> Steve
> (ps: If you check your other e-mails, I identified the flasher you imaged,
> and sent you the relevant data)
>
>
> At 11:43 AM 6/10/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hi Guys,
> >
> >I've been away for a few days and just saw this thread.  My only comment
is
> >that it works for me.  I just select the first set of axis and calibrate,
> >then do the second set.
> >
> >If it isn't working my best guess is that something else in wrong with
your
> >mount setup for calibration.
> >
> >Do both axis fail?  What is the failure?  What is your guide scope fl and
> >are you doing a long enough move?
> >
> >Jim
> >
>
>
>
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