that is super clever, well done! i will have to try this too

fwiw I'm happy to offer my input on any logs or questions regarding PHD. I have been a regular contributor on the PHD forums for the past few years, and keep in contact with the developers. I am fairl

PS that period between the jumps averages about 565 seconds. I don't know if that period means anything for your mount but it does seem rather regular 532 561 576 594

Hi Ron Here are some observations: 1. your calibration steps look about 2x the size i calculated. you might try creating a new profile via the profile wizard and make sure you leave everything at defa

Ron do you happen to have a guidelog with your calibration run in it that you can post?

wow that's interesting! I hope you'll share the details of your setup and results either here or over at PHD Generally we (over at PHD forums) have seen the smaller the image scale, the less impact mu

Planewave cdk14 is about 10k right now

indeed it should be a good test! as I mentioned before (and i just saw a few more confirmations of this) it looks like a 10-15% improvement in guiding accuracy (i'm talking PHD2 multi-star specificall

Hi Lee afaik pressure doesn't really make much of a difference for model accuracy. Temperature is the real variable there Brian

Shailesh you can do a simple comparison 1. Take a 5 minute sub (or whatever longer exposure) with encoders on. 2. Next disable the encoders in APCC 3. Take another sub of the same length 4. Compare tw

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Nice job Geoff! the jet with the right-angled bend always threw me, i always think it is some sort of reflection Brian

Hi Andrea In my experience APPM does not work that way at all, but it's much easier. You define a set of points in the sky, run the model, sit back and it finishes. You only get one shot at the model

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I don't know if it's better/same, but USB is definitely easier for us

It sounds like a good idea... but you will get a handful of fails around the bright moon if you are going to go through the effort of building a large model to keep for a while, my experience suggests

FYI we have a 400 point model and have been using it for months <khursh@...> wrote:

we received a number of motor stall events on our AP1600 Our sequence aborted when it wasn't able to slew. We parked the mount, restarted things, and they worked okay for the rest of the night is ther

Although I wouldn't recommend it, our first setup polar alignment was several *hundred* arcmin off and APCC was still able to correct it reasonably well.

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>>> Right now the scope is in park 5. I moved it there using the APCC telescope control buttons. When I power up tonight, I am unsure what to do based on your explanation. Can you give it to me anothe

Hi Mike generally you want the intersection of celestial equator and meridian. you want to avoid low altitude and near the poles exposure time doesn't matter as much - a few seconds is fine regarding

1.0x is the best guidespeed for AP mounts not sure where 0.5x recommendation came from