Took a trip out to Animas this weekend to visit my setup at
DSP Remote. After a year of being in service, I renewed for another year and wanted to install a rotator. So far my Takahashi focuser on the NFB has held up quite well, and I didn't feel like springing for a fancy focuser with rotator built in. But after a year without a rotator, I saw Pegasus introduced the new Falcon V2, and I ordered some time in February, but only got around to installing it just now. The trick with figuring this out remotely meant I had to have someone at DSP take a photo of my imaging train so I could inspect the order of the parts I had connected and look up their sizes. This allowed me to get some off the shelf parts to connect the Falcon without needing to resort to a custom part. In all, I was able to remove one 20mm spacer, and install the rotator and two 10mm spacers for a total of 40mm. I had enough draw tube length to accommodate for this additional 20mm without any issues.
A very tiny modification to my Nina sequence to rotate the camera when slewing to the target and I'm good to go.
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