Monthly Archives: February 2009

QHY5 guide cam

Filed under equipment

QHY 5 1/2'' chip

Wednesday the 25th-02 my QHY5 guider camera arrived.

*on this link a update about the qhy 5, you can now use ascom !*

I wanted to give it a try to see if it would work.
after installing the stock drivers from QHY’s own website. i was only able to try the QHY 5 in HDcap software.
but for autoguiding you need to run the camera in PHD guiding, Maxim, guidemaster etc.
after trying alot of different configurations ( and 3 days later ) i still didn’t had the camera working in the guiding software.

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R200ss update

Filed under Random

This weekend i went to the Robtics store ( www.robtics.nl )

i have bought an Moonlite focuser ( motorfocus ) with an Baader MPCC.
i hope that the MPCC will perform good, but i will have to try that out, coma on youre photos ruin it.