Ad Astra Observatory

Between the higher magnification of the new camera, and the fairly untested nature of Trixie, I was beside myself trying to get things to behave properly. I finally decided to give myself a break, and put up a much easier to handle OTA, and there’s nothing easier to get running right than Pumpkin.

Such a short telescope makes for wide fields of view, which means that guiding errors are harder to spot.

I don’t think anyone will have a problem spotting the guiding errors in this shot, however:

Now that both Pumpkin and Trixie are misbehaving, I can at least start building towards fixing the Rig. And Pumpkin is a lot easier to tweak.

Watch this space; we’re going into “edit mode”.