Monday, January 15, 2007

Maxim DL+EQMod = Flame


I got my EQDirect mod from Shoestring recently and I now have the capability to control the telescope completely from my Laptop and doing PulseGuide through EQMOD Ascom driver. Took a bit of experimenting with the settings on Maxim DL and a bug fix to EQMOD before I got this working, but once I had it working, this was the result. This is a 3 hr exposure (18 * 10 min exposures) with equal darks. 50 4 sec flats were taken with 50 bias frames to go with it. The clarity and details are far better than my previous attempts.