No guiding. Never need to. Only doing short exposures- like 30-60 sec stacks I emailed George several emails with pics of the images and my setup hoping that would help. Very strange that this all of

Got it - thank you

I have been guiding just fine on my AP1100 mount for a few months but the other night RA stopped responding. I have been chatting with the folks on the PHD forum and they looked at my logs. They are s

Thanks but my guiding has been fine for months. I should have stated I am in a permanent pier observatory so I do not keep re-calibrating. Also, I did try to create a new profile but since RA will not

So you mean even during calibration, the RA guiding is not responding ? CORRECT Does the virtual hand controler, in PHD, works well for both axis ? NO IDEA WHAT THIS IS Are you guiding through pulse g

Thanks, Roland. I did try the autoguider port and it seemed not to change anything. I'll try again tonight and may switch to the other serial port and see what happens. This is just very strange. Work

Also, can you tell me where I would find the communication error display in the AP ASCOM driver window? I was told that a window will display the number of transmit and receive errors it gets on the m

Yes to the planetarium program and yes to the AP ASCOM driver. They move as you would expect. In fact, I can image up to 60s unguided with no problems.

No- I just started using PHD2 a few months ago and it worked.....until now. Can you recommend another one to try or should I uninstall and reinstall PHD2? I was hesitant to do that because I was not s

I will recheck the settings but I never changed anything unless my computer went haywire. I will ask them but they are the ones who asked me about the AP ASCOM driver if its window will display the nu

OK. The PHD guys just sent me this info which is very helpful. The picture shows the communication errors window which I cannot find but need to test this. From them...…….. Ok, this is instructive. Th

It turned out not to be a cable issue or any other setup issue as suggested by the PHD2 logs. After starting out what was recommended to me on the PHD forum, I decided to basically start over. I unins

You are correct, Joe. Windows 10 and thanks for telling me that. I am primarily a Mac user so good to note this for the future reference. Bruce

I can go up to almost 60' without guiding. Is it possible to get the mount to go up to 2 minutes unguided? If yes, I am assuming it would be by getting the PE down as best as possible given all other

ok- thanks for your input

Thanks, Joe. I have excellent polar alignment in my permanent observatory. I'll give it a go and see how far I can push the exposure time.

Thanks all for the additional feedback. I'll see how far I can go next time I put the hyperstar on. I have excellent polar alignment in my permanent observatory and other than sky conditions, I think

Actually, the same as you just described. I started out using Polemaster and now use SharpCap. So, "excellent" per the definition and limits set by SharpCap.

well, let's just stick that we think alike and hold-off on the great part....at least for a few more years :-)

yes- I mention/ask about PE correction in my opening email on the topic. It was the modeling part I was missing. Thanks for confirming and the additional information.