The graph is showing "relative magnitude" of individual frequencies. You need to be looking at the the total top-to-bottom PE in arc-s. You should be able to look at the actual PE curve that was captu

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Brian, I think he is referring to them as "experimental" because the text says that "automation software has not been written to fully accommodate these features", hence they probably shouldn't be use

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Hey Brian, I think you (and Ray) are both saying that the reported p2p for RA is not removing drift, and that is why it reporting such a high p2p. And I agree, the log data seems to indicate that. To

Hey Brian, So you're saying PHD2 is not removing RA drift when calculating PE? I can't say I've ever noticed my measured PE change based on changing PAE or RA drift. Maybe a question for the PHD2 foru

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 11:43 PM, Marc Blank wrote: I wanted to know about the pronounced RA drift, and whether it was expected given the encoders. That’s what I don’t understand and was hoping for gu

>I think more important would be things like "should PHD2 to be set to the Lowpass2 algorithms" or some other algorithms, and things like that. It seems like PHD2 was working way too hard "overguiding

You're reported HFD is 14" (!), and PHD2 is reporting guiding RMS of 1", so basically an accuracy of 1/14th of your guide star - that's actually pretty good :) You need to get tighter guide stars (non

>I changed the few things that differed from your recommendations. What did you change? Are you still using hysteresis on RA? You should be using lowpass2 >The RA peak-to-peak is hugely higher than th

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Thanks Karen. I'll leave it at one sign up - my wife will just have to go without :)

Hi Karen, Maybe a silly question, but don't think I saw explicit guidance: Is this one sign up per household? Or can I, for example, sign my wife up for one too :)? Steve

Hi Howard, Unfortunately re-flashing the firmware didn't help. The flashing process completed successfully - got all the way to Done... and popped up the Keypad Controller Post-Load Checklist screen,

Thanks Howard - will give that a try and report back!

Hey, When I powered up my AP1100 mount yesterday evening the keypad failed to boot - all I get is a single flashing red square in the upper left hand corner. It had been working fine the previous nigh

That's crazy :-/. I dug a 3x3 pit myself and put a 12" sonotube with some rebar in. Rented a mixer from Home Depot and had it done in half a day. I'd recommend doing it yourself, or at least getting a

Hi Ray, >That's not going to work because you can't guarantee that SGPro won't issue a slew after the meridian. That's fine as this is exactly the expected and documented behavior for SGP: If the moun

MinMo in PHD2 is set in pixels (or fraction of a pixel), so will vary depending on your guiding image scale. And RMS in PHD2 is reported in both arc-seconds and pixels, though sometimes people seem to

Guiding was definitely a lot better than before. This is using the 115mm, right? To understand whether your guiding is seeing limited or not, and to help determine what MinMo settings to use, you shou

Just one comment on your GA run: You only collected 19 samples - that's not a lot. You can either reduce the sampling period (say, 2s) or increase the time you let it run. Basically if you want to use

@Nicolas, to clarify: The GA run shown here was done through the main scope, not the guide scope? So the guide scope connection is not the cause of these DEC jumps...? Of course, guide camera connecti

>in case you are wondering the GA was from the main imaging scope but now guiding is being performed w the small guide scope For these tests it really is best to keep everything the same (i.e. don't s