Hello all,
I need some advice on a guiding issue that is driving me crazy.
Two days ago I went out and was able to guide quite ok. I had to redo the calibration 2 or 3 times because it would fail with the message "cannot reach guidestar after 21 iteration possible mount or backslash problem" but in the end, it started guiding
Now last night, same gear, same location, same target ... I spend 3 hours doing calibration, it was driving me nuts, I changed settings like guiding pulse, size of the box to 64, swap DEC RA combination of all of this and it kept failling and then ... Bam ! it started guiding to my great relief. I enabled the logs hoping someone could look at these and maybe find some explanation.
Here is a screen capture with the settings that I had to use to finally have the calibration working. I usually use the default setting without issues.
-> my PA error was 12"
-> I balanced my mount properly
-> I use a Sirius mount (HEQ5) with a belt mode
-> I tried calibrating on different part of the sky without success
I see that I am not the first one to post about this issue. Has anyone come up with a definitive answer on what should be done to correct this ?
P.-S.
I would love to see PHD integrated in Ekos instead of being a standalone software, after all that is one of the main reason I love Ekos so much, it is all integrated and you find everything in one place in a consistant manner. but I think that the PHD community is vast and experienced and PHD has been in use for quite some time by a large amount of people. When I ask questions about guiding most assume that I use PHD and are quite at a lost when they try to help me on the internal guider. Having PHD integrated in Ekos would take advantage of the common knowledge out there. My two cents.