Seb When i first reviewed your PHD logs, it appeared to me your polar alignment was quite off. All your corrections were in one direction You said you thought it was the wind, but i have my doubts abo

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Hi Sebastian I meant things exactly like what Roland said - he suggested it was DEC imbalance.

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PS i just found your PA run sorry i missed that the DEC is a little bit concerning here. this is without any motor running and 3 second exposures, and yet the DEC looks remarkably uneven, especially w

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HI Sebastian I suggest you take this up with AP in their forums encoder mounts like the Mach 2 require some basic correct setup, and i'm not sure yours is there (i'm not suggesting there's anything wr

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Hi Sebastien Please upload your guidelogs for this https://openphdguiding.org/getting-help/ Screen caps aren't enough information, but a quick glance looks like you have pretty bad polar alignment whi

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Hi Eric I use APCC and APPM extensively for unguided exposures on my AP1600 I use SGP exclusively for imaging (I keep saying i'll switch but it's been over a year) I use just the defaults and enable m

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Hi Jim try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJdvABx0zpA

Ray i think that comment refers to USNO-SA2.0 USNO-SA2.0 is a subset of USNO-A2.0

>>>Oh, Pete, did we forget to send your valium? 😆 nice one Karen lol

it's an internal drive. I forget exactly how we configured it, but OnLogic has people you can email/call and they are really helpful. I think we just told them what we wanted and they made recommendat

My setup is a 256gb M2 for boot drive, and 1tb SSD for imaging drive. I use Dropbox to automagically send my lights to me as they are saved, and the next morning i move them out of dropbox. So far so

+1 for OnLogic we have had zero problems so far with it at remote obs, can't report the same for many other components ;)

Hi Marty Just to confirm, you should enter the unbinned image scale, and then choose your binning in APPM I'm not sure what you did in this regard Brian

>>>What is APPM? Astro Physics Point Mapper. it's part of Astro Physics Control Center (APCC) software, it's for building a sky model for more accurate pointing and tracking. https://www.siriusimaging

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HI Jil i have excellent results with Pinpoint. we do unguided imaging at 0.63" so APPM is vital for what we do yes it costs a bit and it's not free like ASTAP, but given your requirements i think that

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Hi Anis I think there is an option you may have missed, i park in position 3 all the time via SGP see bottom left

thanks Dale - great info

You might try getting a fresh copy of APCC installer

I know this post is a few back, but when I start APCC i auto start the ASCOM driver at the same time I usually run into problems if I try to start the ASCOM driver separately i use APPM with APCC all

Hi Bruce we do only unguided on our 1600ae with CDK17 at ~3000mm focal length/ 0.63" image scale. For us the model is essential to do unguiding. here's an example: https://www.brianvalentephotography.