The quest continues to get rid of elongated stars
While searching for a solution to the elongated stars in my images online, I stumbled on a Cloudy Nights thread where a gentlemen realized that his QHY5 guiding camera had a…
Hopefully, it looks like flexure was the culprit.
2 days ago, I reverted back to the piggy-back installation and did a 4 minutes exposure with autoguiding enabled. I no longer had elongated stars in my images. However, with…
Still stuck with Elongated stars.
Tonight here is what I did to try to fix the elongated stars in my images following the changes I've made on my setup: Tightened the Guider focuser tension screw…
Currently stuggling with elongated stars
After installing the main OTA and the guide scope side-by-side using a tamdem bar, eventhough my guiding is now a lot better, I have now elongated stars in my images.…