Sounds like a good plan. All bases covered. Roland

Make sure you use pavers under the feet, otherwise they will slowly sink into the grassy soil. Rolando

Yes that is why it's called restore I should have known better. ok, when I am going back to Roland's post today he does not want logs. He want screenshots. So it seems my steps are to 1) make sure

I'm looking primarily for how the mount itself tracks so I can determine the health of the mount. Once it is established that the mount works correctly, and the user doesn't have to send it in for

IMHO if using a great quality portable pier or tripod for your AP GTO & scope, a better surface is very solid ground (grassy field) rather than a large concrete or cement foundation due to the heat

Yes, you are 100% right of course. Best to turn off guide corrections. Roland

Nicholas wrote: yes last night that is what I had done was uncheck guide mount output in the guide screen in the brain function. I also recalibrate by using the auto restore calibration in the

Just a few minutes is all I need. Roland

Both of the logs you posted on the CN thread showed actual GA runs (it shows the GA findings in the logs at the end of the run). Did you also disable guiding in the brain? Did you reenable it

Nice collection of scopes and mount. Having a strong steel pier is of course the ultimate for stability. The ATS portable piers are probably the most solid piers you can get next to steel or concrete.

yes last night they were set to zero.

yes last night that is what I had done was uncheck guide mount output in the guide screen in the brain function. I also recalibrate by using the auto restore calibration in the same screen.

There are several ways to disable guiding. I posted the steps that I did because I want to be consistent with Roland's messaging. As for how MnMo works, it essentially ignores any

Well, after GA is done, won't Nicholas have to translate to appropriate MnMo settings for guide scope. I believe his guide scope is 160mm to 165mm focal length. I know how to translate but can

thank all so much. I have a lot to work with here and can thus refine the testing procedures to make it usable for analyses.

My experience with the Losmandy HD, folding tripod has been mixed. Much depends on the surface it resides. My own thoughts on mounts: AP 180 f/7 on the 1200 mount was rock solid. 48" x 10" AP pier.

For a bit of perspective, I have had several AP mount and refractor combinations that have worked just fine for visual use. By "fine" I mean the ability to easily and accurately focus at high power

This obviously doesn't disable guiding, and if there is a spike movement greater than 20 pixels, or the guide star drifts more than 20 pixels during the test then PHD2 will still issue a guide

Thanks Roland. As soon as I get clear skies again I will post a screen shot of the unguided tracking graph. Andrew

Sounds perfect! And if he can post the Dec backlash graph, it would further illuminate things. Rolando