I have just ordered a RoboFocus from Jerry Smith at Domepage [States] and believe it or not it has already been packed and shipped - same day! How efficient is that. The Robofocus is for automatically focusing the Sky 90 using Maxim DL and Larry Weber/Steve Brady’s FocusMax [freeware] software. It doesn’t look like a trivial exercise to set this all up, so when I’ve eventually found out how to do it, I will write an article on the subject.
At the same time I downloaded PoleAlignMax - so I might also get improved Polar alignment on my setup.
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March 1st, 2008 at 8:10 am
There is an article about FocusMax in AstroPhoto Insight, Feb/Mar 2008 (Vol 4 Issue 1), on page 31. If the clouds and rain ever go away again, I will be using the tips in there about creating better VCurves on my own system
March 1st, 2008 at 8:14 am
Oh, and the latest FocusMax updates can be found here:
http://download.dc3.com/
and there is a Yahoo Group for FocusMax here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/FMaxUG/
March 1st, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Hi Steve,
Thank you very much for bringing that to my attention! I will check it out immediately. Do you use this on your 8″ reflector? Is this with the FeatherTouch focuser and the Celestron stepper motor by any chance??
March 1st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I use Feathertouch+Microtouch+FocusMax on my C8… essential now I have the Hyperstar on it
March 1st, 2008 at 9:24 pm
I did all the initial Hyperstar work with the C11 with manual focusing!
March 1st, 2008 at 10:23 pm
You are a sick man!