NGC5371 - Nice finish for my C14 test subject (Phil Hoppes)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: NGC 5371

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NGC5371 - Nice finish for my C14 test subject

Still working out the kinks in my C14 setup but making a lot of progress thanks especially to folks on this forum, CN and the Astro Physics GTO group on group.io. With this project I feel finally the basic functions are all working and now I just need to dial in refining what I can do. I was looking for a nice galaxy that fits my FOV nice and travels across the nights sky in an advantageous path to all of the things I need to debug. NGC5371 fits the bill nicely for that. After just taking a few subs it was easy to see this is quite a beautiful galaxy to boot.

Still trying to zero in on the best way to recover from some slight mirror flop on meridian flips. I have a Pegasus Cube Zero as my focuser and what I think I need to do is I believe NINA has a DIY Merdian Flip plugin that I have installed but never used. What I think I need is when the AP1600AE does a flip, right after the flip I should kick the Cube CW for maybe 500 ticks and then kick it back CCW to a TBD value that will zero out the flop and position it close to what is needed to start an AF function. Last night it tried to do an AF after the flip but there was too much shift for the AF to function. It did recover as it took some Green subs that were ok but not great and then on filter change it did an AF again and this one worked. The timing was such that only a few subs were questionable and after the AF that worked everything else was fine. All part of the process, right?

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	9767560
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RA (center)	13h55m38s.662
RA (top/left)	13h54m53s.888
RA (top/right)	13h54m46s.150
RA (bottom/right)	13h56m23s.103
RA (bottom/left)	13h56m31s.703

Dec (center)	+40°27′56″.15
Dec (top/left)	+40°42′36″.14
Dec (top/right)	+40°14′19″.80
Dec (bottom/right)	+40°13′18″.84
Dec (bottom/left)	+40°41′33″.52

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