Hi Mojo PHD2 will lock onto any clump of noise and hunt around the sky trying to guide on it. I'm not sure what issue you are having, but i image in the san fernando valley (the worst) and i have no

I'm really appreciating reading about Roland's work to get pointing models into the keypad. I've been doing a lot of imaging from home, LA County, with a Traveler, and an AP180EDT

Rolando, Thanks for the additional information. That was my assumption all along. The mount isn't doing anything unexpected it's responding to the input being issued. It's exactly the same scenario

When you are in counterweight up, the mount moves according to the safety protocol. There are two ways to move a mount. First is to simply issue a timed move. Example: I want to move 15 arc sec, so I

Brian, Thanks for the clarification on SGP. Just one more reason to start using it routinely. I've only been using it to interface with APPM up until now and it's been fairly straight forward to

"So you are doing several quick keypad models in the course of the night - about every 1.5 hours." Not exactly. I simply move the mount by 1.5 hours, do a short drift measure, move the mount again by

Joe SGP Direct Mount dither does not require moving back to CWD first. It moves a specified amount of time in a random direction, for example 0.10 seconds -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio

I need to try out SGP direct dithering. When direct dithering using BYN it works fine when the mount is in counterweight-down position. When the mount is in counterweight-up position and BYN triggers

OK, I'm following you. Thanks. So you are doing several quick keypad models in the course of the night - about every 1.5 hours. For a meridian flip, then do a quick keypad model and maybe another

Vincent what time of the year does your section of France go on daylight savings time or do they change clocks? -- TJF MOBILE

You would need a model for the path that the object takes, one on either side of the meridian. For some objects you may be able to start the scope under the mount and image all night long without ever

Vincent, just use UT time, so you never have to adjust for summer and wintertime, just a little calculation in your mind,simple. Geert Vdbulcke Belgium

PHD can record the star centroid and you can watch the drift to see if you have a good model or not. Rolando

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 09:35 AM, uncarollo2 <chris1011@...> wrote: Right now we have not integrated plate solving, but this may be added in the future to make the cycle faster. Remember, this is just

UPDATE: i poked around on settling with direct mount a bit, the settle at parameter is kind of irrelevant as the amount will always be 0 however you can use the settle time and set if to a few seconds

I don’t have any experience using it so I might be wrong. But, I think the pixel value for settling is ignored and it just waits the settle time if you have that turned on.

I don't believe settle has any impact since there is no guide star to settle on but if you go the other route of using PHD, i would set the settle extremely high, like 5 pixels for 0 seconds, so

Hi I woulk like to know what are the good time zone for my location, i live in west of france (Latitude : 47.15 north, Longitude : -1.4167) so west of the meridian... I dont' understand

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 09:42 AM, Brian Valente wrote: i've used Direct Mount for unguided and it works great for dithering. you don't even need PHD at that pointLinda & Brian, I am assuming that

Thanks for the insight, I went there and adjusted settings, this will be better. Thanks again. Leon