Lupris

Hey, its me again

A quick question, is there something different to control the mount via laptop?  I got the cable to connect the mount with my laptop and this week i finally have clear skies again.

Like how do i start the tracking of the mount? via ascom eqmod?

okay, so no problems later, good to know

Yes, but i looked the scale on the mount and read it. I wrote it wrong, my bad. Sharpcap only said, i have to move the mount up, i was looking at the latitude scale after adjusting and it was at 51.3, thats what i meant. But the "problem" is solved, now i know, that sharpcap does it different

8 minutes ago, david_taurus83 said:

Sharpcap has no need for your latitude. Are you sure it wasn't tell you to move the mounts latitude adjustment up by 51 minutes or seconds? BTW, if you can get the result to under 1 minute then thats good enough. Sharpcap is very accurate and is the best digital method available imo.

My polar alignment was 4 secs off, according to sharpcap, "excellent"

1 hour ago, teoria_del_big_bang said:

I have never used sharpcap but I assume the software it uses will take into account the rotation of the guidescope around the Ra axis and account for that. But whatever is not the issue of the scope not moving.

yes, but i may be a problem later.

I'll take a look into the Guiding.pdf, thanks for that

If i have clear skies before the cable arrives, i'll try it with the st4 cable again

I'll try again as soon as the eqdir cable arrives.

A point to mention is, my LAT is 50.06, its set on the mount itself, but if i polar align with sharpcap, it says i have to move it up to around 51.3. Is that normal, because the guide scope is higher than the polar scope in the HEQ5, right?

9 minutes ago, kens said:

You wont hear a thing when guiding. You'll only hear it moving when you are slewing.

Oh okay, so i misunderstood it all the time, good to know. Now i understand, thanks

wouldnt i hear the mount moving? i mean its quiet loud, or does it make almost no noise when moving just a few pixels?

But even if it was to small, i should've moved right? but it doesnt

Okay, i have to try that out next time, big thanks!

I'll let u know, once the cable arrives and yeah the clear skies thing

1 minute ago, teoria_del_big_bang said:

Did you move the mount to another bit of sky other than Polaris, wait for mount to stop and then start sidereal tracking using the handset ?

Ín the east, so yes, i move the mount away from polaris. do i have to control the handset myself for sidereal tracking or is that a utility option in the handset?

12 minutes ago, teoria_del_big_bang said:

Okay so for these tests you still have the handset to control mount and the only USB cables to computer are the main imaging camera and the guide camera and then the ST-4 cable goes between the guide camera and the mount ST-4 sockets.

Are my assumptions correct ?

yes, thats correct.

The cable will be delivered by tuesday next week.

And i need clear skies, looks bad so far but lets see, the weather apps are not reliable lately

Just now, teoria_del_big_bang said:

I am assuming here as you are using the ST-4 cable between guide camera and mount you only have the main camera connected to computer and you are controlling mount with the handset.

Yes. But i bought a EQDir cable, to move the mount with nina and phd2

1 minute ago, teoria_del_big_bang said:

Silly question maybe but before starting guiding have you slewed the mount with the handset to a star and started the mount in sidereal tracking ?

The mount must be in sidereal rate before starting guiding in PHD2 (I think anyway).

 

does it have to be star aligned for that? i just near the star?

7 minutes ago, teoria_del_big_bang said:

But I thought the connect button was greyed out when selecting "On Camera" as there was actually no connection to mount.

if you refer to the screenshots, i just forgot to connect the mount using the "on camera"

And the more reliable way to move my mount via phd2 is, to connect the mount with my laptop with a EQDir cable?

The RA and DEC (red and blue) lines are showing in the graph, but the mount is not moving.

I tried pointing the Scope around Polaris and then somewhere East, both did not work

I attached the phd2 files

I bought a cable to connect my mount with my pc, do i still need the st4 cable then?

phd2 files.rar

Oh, i forgot to connect the mount this time. Normally i do.

1. I connect camera(Zwo asi camera) and mount (on-camera)

2.I press "begin looping"

3.I select a star

4.I press "beginn guiding"

Then it tells me how off my RA and DEC is, but the mount is not moving at all. The star is just moving out of the screen like normally

7 minutes ago, Merlin66 said:

On your screen shots I don't see you connecting to the mount?

 

Hi Merlin,

you mean the Aux Mount? I thought on camera would be enough, if i want to move the mount via phd2.

I tried to use the manual direction buttons under the Tools menu but nothing happened.

Should my mount move when i press "start guiding"? Because its not doing it.

Hello, I'm new to astrophotography.

Yesterday evening I set up my equipment and aligned it with Sharpcap Polar, all good deviation of RA DEC is under 10 arc sec.

I would like to control my mount with the ST4 cable using a guide camera.

But even the manual attempt in Phd2 did not work, the mount simply did not respond.

I can control the mount with the hand controller without any problems. I'll add a few pictures of my setup in Phd2.

Equipment:

HEQ5 Pro Synscan Goto, ZWO Asi 120mm Mini Guide Camera, APM 60mm Guide Scope.

Im totally fine, by just using the hand controller for quick slewing, but if i connect everything in n.i.n.a, search for a target like M33 und press slew, nothing happens.

I hope someone has a solution.

greets Lupris