First tries on PHD2: unsuccessful

[barbulo]

Hi everyone,

I´ve tried autoguiding with PHD2 with no success. We had just a few clear nights here and I didn´t like wasting them.

Using a 8x50 guiding-scope with an ASI224MC

These are the settings I used:

And attached are the latest logs:

Thanks in advance for your help.

PHD2_GuideLog_2021-03-21_193722.txt PHD2_GuideLog_2021-03-24_131225.txt PHD2_GuideLog_2021-03-25_194206.txt

Edited March 26, 2021 by barbulo

[michael8554]

You have the Guide Rate on the default setting in EQMOD.

RA Guide Speed = 1.5 a-s/s, Dec Guide Speed = 1.5 a-s/s

Needs to be at least 8.0 arcsecs/sec

https://github.com/OpenPHDGuiding/phd2/wiki/EQASCOM-Settings

You have a lot of Dec Backlash, you must take that up before Calibrating - pulse the mount north until you see the star move, then Cal

https://openphdguiding.org/phd2-best-practices/

Guidecam isn't well focused 

HFD = 4.38 px

Use the HFD reading in the PHD2 Star Profile window to get that to the lowest figure.

In fact, read as many of the PHD2 Help Files as you can before you try again.

Michael

 

[barbulo]

Thanks a lot Michael. I’ll try all those next time.