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I don't know where my EQ6 handset is so I'd say no 🙂

Very nice and been there, done that with the offset 🙂

I am going to suggest that's a possible reason then. I say that as I suffered exactly the same and a new calibration, if PA changed, fixed things for me.

ok great and do you recalibrate every time you setup or do a new polar alignment?

They wouldn't be able to call it an Ultimate if they all did it 🙂

And, of course, you can turn that port on and off in NINA as part of a sequence anyway. EDIT = If it's one of the four ports on an advance it's all four or nothing.... other than the one Teoria mentions

If you've not purchased yet how about spending less on a mini pc to run everything locally and then use the Ethernet (or even wireless) to remote control the mini pc?

In my limited experience the guider not settling can be down to lack of calibration and/or poor polar alignment but you say you checked those?

I had no issues with EQMod either but I swapped to GSS for its newer (easier to me) interface and easier custom park positions etc. Like @malc-c maybe I've just been lucky too....

What? I'm fully kitted out in Prada....

Clothes would catch on fire within 216KM but trees at 357Km. Pedantic I know given the situation as a whole but I'd have expected the other way round 🙂

Just an observation but I wouldn't rule out the EQ6-R, in fact any mount, just because one person told you they'd had a problem..... I have an AZ-EQ6 and it's been faultless so there you go balance addressed 😃

Nice one, when you said 120 I figured it may be an Esprit, nice scopes and I'm sure you'll be happy with it.

Oh btw did I read in another post the Tak has gone? Sounds like you have something new, what is it?

Nope, I'd go same size or bigger, depending on what you buy, for sure

Some of them slot over the front so will need to be the same or larger diameter to do so. As I understand it, even if it's one that just sits flat over the end the area that lights up should still be the same diameter as the opening ie the dew shield. In other words if your dew shield is 165mm diameter you need a 165mm or bigger flat panel, at least that's how I've always understood it.

Seems to be a spate of building machines, this is mine I built a couple of weeks ago: Asus X670E-A Motherboard AMD Ryzen 9 7950x 2 x 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM Samsung 980 Pro 1TB Seasonic Prime TX-850 Power Supply Lian Li O11D Evo Case 7 x Lian Li Infinity Fans Arctic Liquid Freezer 360mm AIO Cooler AMD Radeon 6750XT GPU - not for PI use 🙂 I am over the moon with the performance of PI and get around 41000 on the Benchmark test. happy, happy days 🙂

Totally agree. In my case, though, I've had such a jump in general performance that these tools run quite quickly anyway - I did try the trial for BlurXT Just with WBPP, loading it with files that would have taken my old machine in excess of 4 or 5 hours is now completing in under 15 minutes so I can now try different WBPP approaches without having to wait days on end 🙂

To be honest the XT processes along with Starnet are about the limit of tools that will use a GPU so I wouldn't fret about it too much. I just built a new machine with a very fast processor and went with a cheaper AMD GPU as it wasn't worth spending double to get the equivalent performing Nvidia GPU just for a couple of PI processes, especially given I don't have Russ's tools. The thing that really impacted me was the speed of WBPP and that is now blazingly fast as it doesn't need a GPU anyway. BTW I only bought the GPU to dabble with a few games....

@mightymonoped wicked images!

What might be a dumb response 🙂 is that the higher you are and the further away from the obstruction you are the less it affects your view.... In my experience a metre further back is better than a metre higher. I have not done any maths to verify that, just my own garden scenario 🙂

Ah well I learned not to show my kids (30 and 23) as their response was "All that money, time and effort and you could just look on the Internet...."

Same here, I much prefer the capturing element. I even built a new machine to speed up the processing to see if it would spark more enjoyment but it hasn't much 🙂 🙂

It's almost as if it's fashionable to dislike PI...

Just to add when I say I don't care, I don't mean that in a nasty way I mean I'm fine whether it's had BlurXT or not blah blah. If I see a process that works well with or without using these tools I'll maybe do the same, that's what I mean 🙂