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Thank you for the reply and for the pointers to those handy resources. I'm probably guil;y of trying to do too much too soon and losing precious clear sky time by making silly errors rather than being a bit more methodical but was hoping there may be a glaring error thatwould be obvious to the well trained eye. Its all a rather steep learning curve as most, I'm sure, have found out previously not helped by the rather fragile state of windows and various drivers but fingers crossed for some more nights trying. Thanks again.

Hi folks, Having spent the last few months accumulating bits and bobs for my set up I'm now sat at the bottom rung of what appears to be a very long ladder! I have, at last, got everything talking to one another but am hitting a rather large obstacle when it comes to PHD2:- Having set up, balanced and polar aligned with Polemaster I have fired up PHD but the calibration seems to go awry very quickly. I'm guessing there is a very basic problem in settings somewhere but I cant seem to track it down. I'm using a QHY 5L II on an ST80 piggybacked on to my WO90 and HEQ5 pro using EQMOD and either NINA or APT. The graphs shown below are what I seem to be getting so I was wondering if one of you goodly peeps wpould mind casting their knowledgable eye over the images and offer any thoughts? Many thanks in adavance, Ian

I'm having exactly the same problem Julian. Any news on this at all?

Your perserverance really paid off there. Top stuff.👍

Do pidgeons count? That's about as much as I can do with all this chuffing cloud!!?

Hi Fabian, How right you are. Apologies now for the impending worst skywatching spring ever experienced. :-))

Guys and gals, To all of you can I say a big thank you. Some, if not most, of the shots on here are superb with even fairly basic kit and have rekindled my interest in astronomy. Having bought a second hand ETX 105 I've had some great nights observing prior to the winter clag setting in but after a stroke of luck the other day Ive managed to grab an HEQ5 Pro with a William Optics Megrev 90 for 600GBP. Can't wait now to get my hands on it to have a play. Needless to say, expect a load of help requests over the coming months. Keep those photos coming though as its always great to learn and be inspired by other peoples work. Cheers, I ( Very,very newb!! )