Live from Burbank CA - The Losmandy Podcast Ep 09
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Welcome to Episode 9 of The Losmandy Podcast, talking about astronomy, astronomical gear and tips, and try to trick you into wasting another 50 minutes - BONUS extended time, waste nearly three hours watching this one, chock full of NINA and meridian flip expertise
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0:00 start
4:04 Tea Time with Tanya
13:36 Observatory Talk
17:35 iPolar polar alignment scopes (see links below for store
20:46 Some new gear we are going to test
24:45 Edward Plumer - getting into astrophotography
45:15 Why pick NINA vs other options (very informative)
52:15 Edward's gear configuration
56:40 Live NINA walkthrough of software
1:26:38 Understanding Meridian Flips - great explanation of terminology, process, how it works
1:39:12 Matching up NINA meridian flip settings with Gemini settings
1:44:18 Mapping Gemini limit settings to Meridian flips
1:48:37 Mapping NINA settings to Meridian flips
1:54:36 Calculate your settings: Max minutes after meridian
2:01:22 Calculate your settings: Minutes after meridian (earliest meridian flip time)
2:06:55 Calculate your settings: Gemini Western goto limit
2:15:21 Alternate approach if your telescope prevents you from imaging through the meridian ( Gemini east and west limits are less than 90 degrees)
2:25:13 Edward's Gemini and NINA meridian flip settings (example only: you need to set your own!)
2:26:44 The "use telescope side of pier" option explained
2:34:00 Final thoughts and wrap up
Team Time with Tanya
- Pumpkin Spice extravaganza
Observatory Talk
- Using periodic error correction (PEC) to get better tracking results
- example image here: www.brianvalentephotography.c...
LINKS AND THINGS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
iPolar polar alignment tutorial: • Getting Started 09C: P...
iPolar for purchase in the Losmandy store store-losmandy-com.3dcartstor...
Primer on using PEMPro for periodic error correction in your Losmandy Mount: www.losmandy.com/files/Losmand...
Edward's Excel worksheet for calculating Meridian flips in NINA and Gemini groups.io/g/losmandy_users/fi...
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Only just found this - what a fantastic session - well done all!
Thank you Edward and Brian for making this critical process crystal clear. I have been imaging for 3 years now and simply stopped well before, and then flipped well after meridian. Before now I did not have a mount that the safety stops could configured. I just ordered a G11T and am well prepared to set it up correctly, both for the safety of my equipment, and to maximize the prime imaging time.
Edward did a great job. Excellent presentation. Excellent power points.
I had trouble with the link to the spreadsheet then I realized I never joined the losmandy group. Thanks for putting out this info, when my mount gets here I can put it to use.
Absolutely outstanding video!! Very helpful to us noob's! Thanks a ton!!
@Thomas thanks! i think it's helpful to everyone, I learned a few things as well ;)
Edward Plumer on the software stack was *such* a solid piece of work.
totally agree
Very informative video covering N.I.N.A. 1.11. Timely video covering meridian flips, Losmandy mount Safety Limits and connections to Losmandy mounts. Thanks for setting it up. Edward thanks for taking the initiative for working on the Losmandy meridian flip issue and developing the Excel file.
Jim, my thanks to you and everyone on the Losmandy forum who helped talk through the meridian flip behavior.
Great video. I've been using NINA with my Los. Titan for some time and love it. I now prefer it over SGP. Also note that the simple sequencer is a good way to start and has many features. (probably enough features for many astro photographers). A good way to learn the advanced sequencer is to let NINA create an advanced sequence from your simple sequence.
Thanks for the kind words. I'm headed to Trader Joes for supplies now.
see if they have watered down gin ;)
Brian excellent as always. The link to the spreadsheet "Edward's Excel worksheet for calculating Meridian" gives a 404 error Not found. Is there perhaps an alternative link? Also, thanks you for adding closed captions to the YT video podcasts and your Losmandy tutorials. Being almost deaf, they are extremely valuable to me.
@Boswix thanks for the note, the link is fixed now
Great video . Brian , I noticed you mentioned using pempro. I'm curious if you had better pec results than with pec in gemini.
Hi Dave- absolutely. It’s night and day difference both in terms of results but also the intent behind the pec implementations. For modern Astro imaging you really want a high-quality periodic error correction, and Pempro is the best way to do that
Brian Valente great information. Thanks for answering.
Excellent and informative - but quite long - might have been easier to watch in two parts
@Ed - it's definitely an in-depth topic. hopefully the table of contents in the description helps navigate this
Ive just been setting up my Gemini 2 / Nina re the video and spreadsheet and see there is a Gemini ASCOM: "Nudge mount out of safety limit on slew" in the spread sheet which states "ON". Not sure if this was covered in the video ? The default in my Gemini ASCOM driver is "OFF" and if you change it you get a warning. I have changed this to "ON" in my setup.
@Dave thanks for the comment. Yes for imaging you should have it ON. it us unlikely it will come into use, but if your mount hits the safety limit and stops, having this ON will allow you to slew to the next target (or park when going to CWD). hope that helps
@@brianvalente Thanks Brian