Ad Astra Observatory

I went back to the unguided well one more time, this time positioned post-meridian-flip.

I was losing a lot of images (because I failed to rebalance the scope after the flip), and I needed to try out the ST-4 with the new mount anyway. Another gleaming success story.

The ST-4 literally needed no custom configuration (I just used startup parameters!), and the G-11 tracked beautifully, even though the camera was definitely not lined up with the mount’s axes.

The 2 hours of clean data is definitely a big difference over the 1 hour’s worth I’d been getting before, and the mount is definitely allowing Veronica to live up to her potential. I see now that I was definitely mount-limited before… not anymore.