My MaxIm has backlash set to 0 on both axes. I might play with the Dec setting there to see if that reduces star trails at high elevations.
Your guider software should produce a tracking graph which will tell you what's happening. You could be having a calibration issue, or too high aggressiveness, or a bunch of other settings that are not optimized. Singling out backlash and pursuing it is probably not the right approach.
Rolando
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Dodd <mike@...>
To: main <main@ap-gto.groups.io>
Sent: Thu, Mar 5, 2020 8:37 am
Subject: Re: [ap-gto] PEMPro Dec backlash question
On 3/5/2020 1:06 PM, uncarollo2 <chris1011@...> via Groups.Io wrote:
> Backlash by itself does not produce trails. Are you guiding or shooting > unguided?
Guiding with MaxIm using ASCOM Direct (Pulse Guide).
> If you are guiding, then the guider software automatically handles any > Dec backlash.
My MaxIm has backlash set to 0 on both axes. I might play with the Dec setting there to see if that reduces star trails at high elevations.
Let's put this thread to bed. Clearly I need to learn more about what my system is doing.
