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Couplers and Worm Error - Losmandy GM8
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| Equipment |
TeleVue 101 Refractor, SBIG ST7E, Losmandy GM8, MaxIm DL |
| Coupler |
Stock couplers and driver discs, slight mis-alignment between driver shaft and worm shaft as discovered when I took the mount back to the factory |
| Data |
8:29 total guide time in 73 samples (3 sec. exposures) |
| Scale |
9 micron pixel, 3.54 arc-secs/pixel |
| RMS X |
4.00 pixel, (14.16 arc sec.) |
| RMS Y |
3.93 pixel, (13.91 arc sec.) |

| Equipment |
TeleVue 101 Refractor, SBIG ST7E, Losmandy GM8, MaxIm DL |
| Coupler |
Stock coupler, stock drive disc, best align, TriFlow lubricant |
| Data |
5:38 total guide time in 73 data points (3 sec. exposures) |
| Scale |
9 micron pixel, 3.54 arc-secs/pixel |
| RMS X |
1.72 pixel, (6.09 arc sec.) |
| RMS Y |
4.00 pixel, (14.16 arc sec.) |

| Equipment |
TeleVue 101 Refractor, SBIG ST7E, Losmandy GM8, MaxIm DL |
| Coupler |
Stock coupler, stock driver disc, molly lubricant |
| Data |
5:29 total guide time in 73 data points (3 sec. exposures) |
| Scale |
9 micron pixel, 3.54 arc-secs/pixel |
| RMS X |
1.02 pixel, (3.61 arc sec.) |
| RMS Y |
2.83 pixel, (10.02 arc sec.) |

| Equipment |
TeleVue 101 Refractor, SBIG ST7E, Losmandy GM8, MaxIm DL |
| Coupler |
Stock coupler, loose nylon driver discs, molly lubricant |
| Data |
5:29 total guide time in 73 data points (3 sec. exposures) |
| Scale |
9 micron pixel, 3.54 arc-secs/pixel |
| RMS X |
1.46 pixel, (5.17 arc sec.) |
| RMS Y |
1.75 pixel, (6.20 arc sec.) |

| Equipment |
TeleVue 101 Refractor, SBIG ST7E, Losmandy GM8, MaxIm DL |
| Coupler |
Beam coupler |
| Data |
5:17 total guide time in 73 data points (3 sec. exposures) |
| Scale |
9 micron pixel, 3.54 arc-secs/pixel |
| RMS X |
1.21 pixel, (4.28 arc sec.) |
| RMS Y |
1.83 pixel, (6.48 arc sec.) |
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