[Aavso-photometry] How can I beat the FLIP?

[Brad Walter]

It seems to me that binning is going the wrong way. I need either a
larger spread of star light or smaller pixels, not larger ones. 

-----Original Message-----
From: RBissinger at aol.com [mailto:RBissinger at aol.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 6:06 PM
To: Brad Walter
Subject: Re: [Aavso-photometry] How can I beat the FLIP?


Brad,

Perhaps you could bin 2x2 or even 3x3...that might help as well as
defocusing.  I've had the same problem and the only way I've gotten
around it is to put the scope on the "wrong" side of the mount when I
start observations and let it swing past the meridian without doing a
flip.  I avoid having to do a flip at all costs.

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>Brad Walter
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