Hi newbie here,
I set up my new HEQ5 last night to get to grips with it, I polar aligned it via NINA successfully and thought I would have a go at the Pinwheel galaxy through my WO Z61, well I found it, centred it (using plate solving) and took a few test exposures using ASI533MC Pro, firstly at 30 seconds and 45 seconds all was fine, but at anything over a minute and there were various star trails, I checked eqmod and it was in sidereal mode and stated it was tracking. I then thought I could use PHD2 on my guide scope and AIS120MM Mini to clean things up, but it wouldn't calibrate and eventually when it did it appeared not to be able to make sufficient adjustments to keep things guided and then it just gave up. I eventually went on to image at 45 seconds for multiple subs and the result when stacked weren't bad, but anyone got any ideas why I can't get it to track properly either without PHD2 or even with PHD2 (I haven't adjusted any setting in PHD2), the scope is balanced in both RA and DEC.
In anticipation,
Phil