PHD LOg - 1st attempt guiding

[iapa]

Hi,

I managed about 20 minlast night and was looking at the logs with PHD2 but I cant figure out wuite what it means

Is this reasonable? lots of room for improvement?

[wornish]

Cant give any feedback as you haven't posted a link to the log !

 

Have you tried using the PHD Log viewer .

Can get it here :

http://openphdguiding.org/phd2-log-viewer/

[iapa]

oops, I pasted screen copy of the calibration from PHDLOGVIEW - seems to have not worked

Original posted edited to include

[alacant]

Hi. It's difficult without the other section of the guiding but you maybe able to assess yourself; it's probably better to look at the images you produced as a result of the guiding rather than the guiding. If they're OK then you can forget the numbers. HTH. 

[Ken82]

 We cant tell much from your calibration only that it looks like you have some backlash (the grouping of blue at the start means your mount wasn't responding to pulses )

looks like you never put focal length and pixel size into PhD ?? This is done in the brain part of PhD under guiding . You must do this before a calibration . 

 

[iapa]

Duh - I had put the FL/pixel size in for earlier attempts. I started from scratch this time.

I thought it was 'push here dummy', plug it in, switch it on, and go LOL.

Weather forecast rubbish for next week, so, pack it all up and wait again.

[iapa]

2 hours ago, alacant said:

Hi. It's difficult without the other section of the guiding but you maybe able to assess yourself; it's probably better to look at the images you produced as a result of the guiding rather than the guiding. If they're OK then you can forget the numbers. HTH. 

Focus was rubbish, but in that session I was really wanting to get guiding sorted. Having said that the starts were round and no trailing at 10mins in the region of M81

Attached RA and DEC charts

[Ken82]

You have no focal Length specified  so phd can't figure out your Pixel Scale. Which means The Graph isnt true . You could be 5x worse or better for example . Need to Start again im afraid 

[iapa]

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[alacant]

22 minutes ago, iapa said:

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No, I should be fine: you are satisfied with your snaps apart from the focus so just enter the focal length and pixel size into your existing setup. I think it's brain-camera-pixel size and brain-guiding-focal length. Now hit Calculate in the last menu and calibrate anew. HTH