Test: CGM DX mount on a tripod dolly
08/21/24 -- testing out a new Proaim Lineo Portable Video Camera Floor Dolly as a mechanism to easily move the mount in and out. Removed the rubber feet from the Meade Vintage Field Tripod and removed the adapter for spiked tripod feet from the Proaim...which allowed the Meade tripod feet to fit securely braced inside the dolly...which provided opportunity to really lock the tripod legs so that the whole mount is secure and free from vibration. Set up the LX10 with the dual-narrowband filter with the SVBony 405c and the 0.63 Meade focal reducer. Ensured the mount on the dolly was level... then performed an initial rough alignment using the cell phone compass... this produced an initial polar alignment error (shown in PHD2 running on the Odroid XU4) as ~53' (not bad for a rough guess). Initial testing was stymied for hours at first from problems with the Gl.iNet gl-mt300a (Azure) wireless mini router which connects the Odroid XU4 telescope control computer to the local wireless ne