Trying to explain strange drift

[graemlourens]

Hey Dave.

Very possible, i am waiting for good weather and then will check on solid ground.

Really hope i can nail it next time, so when i then invest 3 hours in driving to a dark site, i don't mess it up with something trivial

Regards, Graem

[graemlourens]

Hey guys just a quick update.

I can confirm its nothing with the mount, and everything with the ground probably

No strange drift anymore.

Furthermore my first time also with guiding yesterday, and works out of the box, perfectly, 100% keeping images, nothing at all was wasted, i am seriously impressed by the mount & autoguiding combination.

Attached is a PHD2 guide screen, looks pretty ok? (no PEC done)

Btw funny anectode:

Between images (5 seconds 'wait' ) i was shining down both OTA to see if my new dewband work

and i was always surprised that suddently PHD lost the guidestar until i figured that out I had to reset PHD 2x .......

Stupid me.

[Pompey Monkey]

Looking good  graemlourens!   I had all kinds of problems with my heq5 until I stated to autoguide. Now I only have to worry about how stable the ground is, not to walk too near to the telescope when imaging, wind, clouds, iso, exposure, light pollution.... lol.

All I would suggest is to raise the integration time to two seconds or more - at one second it is possible to start chasing the seeing conditions.

PS - I can't stop the text from being Bold after copying your username!

[Thalestris24]

Hi Graem

Do get the latest version of PHD2. Also the phd2 drift align tool is very good and easy to use

p.s. PEC doesn't improve guiding

Louise