OK, I am running the lodestar with PHD through the camera relays and proprietary cable. Not a hardware issue - just a crappy plugin driver for CCDSoft. Hunter http://orionskies.com

Cliff - thanks. If it clears up enough tonight, I am going to try and run PHD guiding through the proprietary cable instead of the GPUSB. That should tell the tale. Hunter

Thanks Chris. Yea, that's the issue - no dither. To use dither with PHD, you have to get nebulosity, and I really don't want to go there. I have CCDSoft, and I wish they'd get a driver for the lodesta

Thanks Chris - that's exactly what I did last night. I fired up an old version of PHD and ran it through my old GPUSB. At 780mm fl, it was flawless, just like the old days. If you're interested, here'

Chris, No problemo - I should probably go to Maxim anyway. That's too bad that SX won't get a working driver. I mean, how tough could it be. Hunter http://orionskies.com

I am using the proprietary cable that came with the lodestar - there's no other option, unfortunately. Tracking resumes when I unplug either end, as long as I interrupt the connection to the lodestar.

Help! I am using a lodestar guider through CCDSoft and it will take images, but when I plug the guide cable into the Mach1, all tracking stops and I can't get it restarted until I unplug the guider fr

Sorry Ray, I've been away for a couple days. Before I bother you personally, I notice something in this note. You say I must have had the mount unparked already, which may be true. I am sure I have th

I dunno, Ray. I'm not that sophistocated about it. The old driver works fine. Hunter

Ray, I have seen this, I think. I opened the advanced tab and made sure that set tracking rate is checked and sidereal is selected. Is this what you mean? If so, then I have had this selected all alon

Ray, I don't know if this is something particular to CdC or if it's a charachteristic of the new driver, but when I connect to my mount through CdC and the driver starts up, it ALWAYS has tracking off

Thanks a bunch, Ray. I amagine you'll be monitoring these two groups pretty heavily for a couple days. Hunter

Ray, Will this driver install over the old driver, or do we have to de-install the original? Also, will it retain the old settings, or do we start from scratch? As to ASCOM - it seems that since I hav

Thanks guys. I appreciate it! Hunter

Good afternoon, I haven't posted here for a while because my Mach1 has sort of faded into the background as it works for me. I am solely an imager and to this point have use a modified DSLR and guided

There goes reality getting in the way again! Economics is my boogeyman, no doubt. There's always lottery tickets, I suppose. Thanks anyway, Roland! Hunter issue more however, it correction to a than $

Not very well. I have searched for a couple years now, trying to find a QUALITY corrector/reducer for the C9.25 without avail. Celestron, Meade, Antares, etc. all make their versions and all of them s

Roland, Hope against hope, but is it possible that you have a reducer/corrector in your armamentarium that will work with the C9.25 better than the generic Celestron SCT reducer/corrector (read - flat

Thanks Roland. As you know, it's all in the mount! ;-) Hunter (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212774565x1200812037/aol? redir=http://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html? ncid=emlcntusdow

Here's my shot of it on October 30 - taken with a Mach1GTO (just to stay on topic!). http://tinyurl.com/5b7hrq Hunter these two comets during to "freeze". I some capture well. to brighter. september,